Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-31

abbreviated shape tSe most impor-
! tant dispatches of tbs preceding
week. We will endeaYOf to make
our local columns full and varied, so
/ that they may be a faithful chrcni-
Gle of events transporting in the city
/ and county, and constituting q his
/ tory Of the noteworthy incidents
that enter into the life and memory
| of q people. Our miscellany of
DrOse and poetry viii 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 paper ut to be read by the
most fastidiOus, and in any pres
ence.
To advertisers il is well known
that the chief recommendation Of 4
paper is the scope of its circulation
and the number and character of its
readers. AS to these the WIG
AND TRIBUNE can give perfect sat
I 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
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 all 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, eompositoFs and clerks larger
than the combined force of all the
other offices in Jackson.
As directors of a public journal
we expect neither TO lead popular
opinion absolutely, nor to follow it
| implicitly. We shall aim TO inter-
pref the needs, the aspirations and
| the sentiments of TeBnesseeans, to
reflect their history, and 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 WING
AND TRIBUNE a 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 to
all who may be interested in the
education, morals, business and pol
tiles of Tennessee. We believe
that the problem as to whether re-
publican government is to continue
to exist in this country will be
decided for all time at the Presiden-
tial struggle of 1876 and we are
fighting the preliminary skrimishes
of this great battle now. The air is
electrical and startling events crowd
upon us with amazing celebrity day
after day. Under such circumstan-
ces every man who cares for his
country or for the future of his
children ought to keep pace with the
times and to this end should read
regularly at least one reliable news
paper. TO this end subscribe for
the WING AND TRIBUNE, which
has never missed a single issue since
it was founded. Fear not 10 make
the payment in advance, since our
success and perpetuity were never
better assured. Neither hard times,
drouth nor fire has ever caused
US to diminish the amount of our
reading matter, or prevented the
paper from appearing atits appoint
| ed time.