Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-10-24
Journalism.

Il pa tAcdh JO"i
debased, its supporters fail to follow
its lead. The Eaton REGISTER under
the editorial management of Isaac
Morris is a failure, and is so consider
ed by his own political friends. Its
support is being withdrawn by the
reading community, and it no longer
deserves the confidence of its party.
The result of the recent election i'll
Preble county abundantly proves this
fact. The Iiadical Republican major
ity in the county, under tie lead of
Mr.. Morris, is being whitfield away
year after year,, and will soon reach
nothing. 1t has already lost to its
party the Clerk and Sheriff, two of the
most important offices in the county,
OH a direct vote. The balance of the
Radical ticket barely escaped defeat.
And how could it be otherwise under
the lead of a paper outwardly relig-
ious in its tone, but inwardly hypo-
critical in its purpose. For instance,
one third of the Register is devoted
to h affairs of the Methodist Church,
one third to personal abuse, and the
other third to hypocritical filings on
temperance, rum sellers and tiplers.
The late Conference and its sayings
were represented as revelations from
Heaven in favor of Gen. Grant and in
condemnation of Greeley, as if the
Lord thus commissioned the saints to
bear Testimony for an Incorporate and
sporting man, and against a moral and
temperate civilian in the Presidential
election. Perhaps Mr.. Morris believes
in such special revelations, but unfor-
tunately for the success of his paper, |
the people look upon it as down right
flunkyism-a peurile effort to mislead
and deceive the religious portion of
the community. What a prostitution
of religion to serve purely selfish mo-
tives. This can never win, and
as a journalist the Register ought to
know it. Unusual in journalism, the
Register attempts to play the spy and
arrogantly sets itself up as a Waterman
over the private affairs and conduct of
its n~eighbors. Scarcely a number of
that meddlesome sheet can be issued
without containing some invidious
comment On the private character of
those in opposition to its teachings,
either in their ;eligious or moral de-
pertinent. 1t seems to gloat over the
least m~iSgivings on the part of the OPP
position, and delights to parade them
before the public with sinecure moral
comments. as if the people were inte-
rested in private scandal. In this the
Register plays the spy in the affairs o
its neighbors, but hypocritically con-
ceals the waywardness OF its own re-
ligious or political friends.
Again, the Register blows hot and
cold, at least twice Il year., on tempe
rance, saloons, dram drinking and
good order generally. Most of the
year it arlaigns the saloon keepers of
the county before the bar of public
opinion, as the most wicked and God
forsaken devils in human shape that
e debased society by their n%efari-
Gus business, demons already damned
and only awaiting the fire in store for
them. But a short time before the fall
elections these very men, dram-drink-
ers and all, by a singular deal in ledg-
erdemain are netemorphcsed into
very decent men, with good moral in
stincts and with great hopes of their
final specification. Now this gloss
is too thin to catch the whisky vote or
to mislead the outsiders, for they nat
urally inquire into the inconsistency
of such fnessing. 1t is plain the
Register cannot act so inconsistency
and maintain it's prestage as a we'll
toned newspaper, with a reading and
enlightened community. This much
we have said by way of correction,
without intending to detract from our
neighbor one 1.-THE of what he is emit
tied to as a Journalist.
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