The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-01-21

J + Davis do do Joel Davis do
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TENNESSEE
Press ASSOCIATION:
LEBANON, Tenn, Jan. 1st, 1871.
To the Editor of the BoIiUar Bulletin:
Sir-For a number of years past a few
members of the Tennessee press have per-
severed, in the face of obstacles almost in
Vulnerable, in the attempt to organize and
keep alive State Press Association, which,
thanks to their untiring zeal, has succeeded
in preserving at least a semblance of life
and organization. 1t is now proposed to
take immediate and vigorous action toward
making the Tennessee Press Association
what it can and should be: an ex tensive,
| fourishing and influential fraternity, EN-
bracing in its membership every respectable
journalist in the State, and recognized ev-
erywhere as one of the powers that be. As
a means to this end, the Association, during
its session IN the city of Nashville, on the
thirteenth of December ult., instructed me
to address you this letter.
Its object is to endeavor to arouse that
esprit du corps which, as journalists proud
of our exalted profession, you must feel, and
to invite you, cordially and earnestly, to be-
come member of the Association. A COM
mittee has been appointed, which will, at
our next meeting, report a Constitution and
BY Laws; officers will then be elected; and
everything possible will be done to make
| the Tennessee Press Association an actual
active and permanent organization. Such
societies exist in almost every other State;
and here is no reason why the journalists
of Tennessee, equal in ability and influence
70. those of any commonwealth, should
not be associated together in a compact and
homogeneous body, whose status shall be
the most elevated and whose power shall be
irresistible.
AS it is, we are wasting our strength-if,
indeed, we are aware Off at ALL Like the
reeds in the fable, we are disunited and
consequently weak and impotent; like them,
we might be, did a bond of sympathy, fra
ternity and organization unite US, of irwin
chile pOwer-a power which would compel
respect, and be of such dignity that no petty
legislator would have the efrontery, as las
been the case in our remembrance, to sneer
at our demand for simple justice as an un-
necessary gratuity proposed for the benefit
of "thcm printers"
In addition to these questions of selfoin-
terest, there are social reasons for the per-
petuitY Of our Association The newspaper
men ofthis Stat ought to know each other
better They should be as familiar with
each others faces as they are with each
others papers They ought to come togeth.
er at the capital of the State at least once a
year, for the interchange of ideas and the
cultivation of that fraternal feeling which
can not exist in the absence of personal
acquaintance.
The Association is intended to be strictly
non partisan, and is open to every reputable
member of the Press in Tennessee who is
either editor publisher or proprietor of a
periodical publication The next meeting
will be held in the city ofNashville, Friday
February 3, 1871, and you are urgently So
licited to be present and assist in the Der.
manent organization. In addition to the
business meeting of the Association. which
will be Of the utmost importance, there will
3 be, during the session, public entertain
ment, the programme for which embraces
. an Grafton by Col A. J. Kellar, ofthe Mem.
phis Avalanche, an Address by Don. Cam.
eron, Esq, Of the Jackson Whig and Trib.
une, and a Poem by Dr. r. L. G. White. of
| the Lebanon hefalO. 1ne extended repu-
tatiOn for talent and elOquence Of the high
est order possessed by Col. KelIar, and the
forty years experience in newspaper life of
MIR. Cameron (whO will address the Associ.
d alton on "The Best Method of Conducting
b. a Country Newspaper, insure an instruc.
tive and agreeable entertainment
Surely you spare at least one of you1
number for a day or two, to attend a meet
ing of as much Importance and interest az
g. those ofOur Association can be made; and we
i again sincerely and heartily urge you to meet
with Us on the first riday in February.
l am instructed by the Association to ask
[. Of you a written reply to this communica
ton, giving us an assurance of the attend,
ance of at least one member Of your estab
lishment at our next meeting If but one
d can come, he can bring the names Of hi,
e colleagues We desire that our roll shall
embrace the name Of every member Of the
press In the State of Tennessee.
Respectfully and fraternallv,
K. l. =. WHITE,