White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-07-06
WHITE CLOUD, KANSAS:
Thursday, go: July 6, 1865
Volume TX.

Volume TX.
The present issue commences Volume
Nine of the Chief. This, for Kansas. is
an unusually long life for q newspaper.
Look over ths list Of Kansas papers. and
how many will you fnd that have reach
ed their ninth year? Not over two. at
most, beside the Chief. We have seen
dozens and scores of papers start up all
around MS, flourish for q brief season, and
then go down. A number of these were
started for the svowed purpose Of running
the Chief out yet they have gone to the
shades, and of some of them we have even
forgotten the names. Our paper has
passed through some terribly discourag-
ing times, enough to dishearten almost
any one but we have kept it going. and
now find it established on 6rm basis
thanks to the friends who have stood by
us through all those long. dark years.
Since the first of December. 1859. the
paper has not missed q single regular
issue.y This shows it to be q bona tsde
and reliable institution-not an enterprise
started up to advocate some temporary
hobby, or to grab at fat job that lay
within its reach, then to 60 under, leav.
ing its patrons the victims. This, to sub
scribers and advertisers, is sufficient re-
commendation for the Chief, without
entering further into detail.
Our paper was established just a.
Walker and Stanton entered upon tbeil
official duties, and before the ection o.
delegates TO the Lecompton Convention
ere the Free State party participated in
any of the elections. 1t has constantly
acted with the Free State and Republican
psrtiss-when the party had no enemies
to fight, and divided among themselves,
upon men, we have, of course, had on,
choice, like all others. The Chief has
never been the exclusive organ Of any
politician, nor has it been in any wise
owned or controlled by any person save
ourself. 1t has never received one dollar
bonus from any politician or political
party and has never advocated, for pay,
any measure which it did not believe to
be right or just. We make no preten.
sions to extraordinary ability but we
take satisfaction iu saying that what.
ever we have presented to our readers as
our own, has been our own-such as il
was-and not pilfered from somebody
else. And we take farther satisfaction
in saying that We have upon every occa
sion spoken out plainly just what VI
thought. We have endeavored to leav'
no one in The dark as to what we meant
or as to how we stood.
As to the number of our readers, VI
can form no estimate. We think tha
very nearly everybody reads the paper, i
they don't subscribe for it-so it is al
the same to advertisers, a. if we had /.
subscription list of thousands. OF on'
thing We are sure-if We say anything
against an individual, be be the man II
the moon. Satan, or the King of the Can
nibal Islands, be is just that certain te
get hold of copy of the paper and reai
it, within one week Afterwards.
With regard to our future course, W,
have only to say that it will be exactl,
as it has been in the past. tThose VIII,
wish to invest. with the experience of th'
past before them, may know what the,
are going to receive. We never 60 abou
ths country drumming for subscription
or other patronage. The style of the Chic
is we'll known, and we are thankful TO
the favors of all who pstronize us, feel
ing ASSUMED that they do so with thei
eyes open. We will only add, in conclu
sion, that all who wish to subscribe 70
or advertise 10 paper that is bound Il
60 ahead, unless prevented by some IN
foreseen calamity against which none cal
provide, the Chief is the institution wher
they will get their money back. w
now splash away. with an eye fixed o.
Volume 25. as another place to take
look back. andago in again.
This is more egotism than we have in
dulged in during our editorial career Q
thirteen years. and probably more thai
we shall sling for thirteen years to come
but it is all truth.
CoaxDfratOrx Sentenced!