Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-24

abbreviated shape the most lmpor-
tant dispatches OF the preceding
week we will endeavOr to make
our local columns full and varied, so
that they may be a faithful chronl-
Gle of events transporting in the city
and county, and constituting MS
tory Of the noteworthy incidents
that enter into the life and memory
of a people. Our miscellany OF
nrose and poetry will be carefully
and critically selected, with a view
To interest and amuse the many
minded readers who look into the
newspaper as into q mirror reflect
ing the thoughts and deeds OF the
world. The markets IN which our
people are interested will always be
accurately reported. At all times
in the general conduct of the paper
the sanctities and courtesies Of life
will be observed in dealing with
the facts that we shall be called to
record, and our object will be to
publish a paper Mt to be read by the
most fastidiOus, and in any pres
ence.
To advertisers it is well known
that the chief recommendation of
paper is the scope or its circulation
and the number and character of its
readers. As 10 these the WING
AND TRIBUNE can give perfect sat
isfaction by the most reliable evil
dence. sIts circulation is double
that of all the other papers in the
CITY combined. 1t is the only one
that is wholly printed and edited at
home. Knowing as we do that a
resort to "the patent outside" is al
ways the result of necessity, we sell
dom say anything in regard to its
use, but we have a right to allude
to this marked difference between
the WING AND TRIBUNE and ali its
Jackson contemporaries. They are
"patent outsiders" and patronage
extended to such papers goes to the
support Of printers who live in dis
/ tant cities, and all things being
equal or nearly so, the preference
should be given to the newspaper
that is printed nearest home, and
that contributes most to the sup
port of our own people. Our object
/ has been less to make money than
to make a good paper, and in order
/ to do this we employ force of edi-
tors, compositors and clerks larger
| than the combined force of ali the
/ other offices in jackson.
| As directors of a public journal
| we expect neither TO lead popular
opinion absolutely, nor to follow 1t
implicitly. We shall aim to inter
pref the needs, the aspirations and
the sentiments of Tennesseeans, TO
reflect their history, aHd as far as
our influence extends, to shape the
policy of our State, county and city
governments, so that the greatest
good to the greatest number may be
realized as the result of law and
Justice applied to the infinite vari-
ETY. of human concerns. In word
we are anxious to make the WIG
AND TRIBUNE q paper that will be
a companion and instructor to the
legislator, the farmer, the mechan
ic, the merchant, the professional
man, the old and the young, and &c
all who may be interested in the
education, morals, business and pol
itics of Tennessee. We believe
that the problem as to whether re
publican government is to continue
to exist in this country viii bC
decided for all time at the Presiden
tial struggle of 1876 and we are
, fighting the preliminary skrimishe!
of this great battle now. The air il
electrical and startling events Grove
upon us with amazing celebrity day
after day. Under such circumstan
ces every man who cares for hi
country or for the future of hi
children ought to keep pace with th'
J times and to this end should reaC
regularly at least one reliable news
paper. To this end subscribe fol-
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: success and perpetuity were nevel
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drouth nor fire has ever caused
us to diminish the amount of eul
reading matter, or prevented thu
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