The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-04-22
MARYVILLE.

SOMETHING ABOUT NEWSPAPERS IN
GENERAL AND PSEUDO ORGANS IN
PARTICULAR.
MARYvILLE, April 10, 1874.
To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:
have been reading your very in
teresting paper of 8th inst.y and am
so pleased with its honest and out
spoken course. that [ have. concluded
Unjust have it for the next twelve
months.
would not give a cent for a pa
per Il care not what side of politics
It pretends to representDthat is afraid
20 speak the truth at all times and
under all circumstances. I am sorry
to say we have no such paper in this
Congressional District at present
che Sweetwater Enterprise excepted.
Why IS it thusly? Have the tax
payers earnings again been manipu-
lated for the purpose of carrying the
elections? Or is it possible that
Democratic Journalists of this dis
trict are afraid to speak out IN school,
hest they should offend some. one?
IF you continue your present
course, and the people can just get
TO see your paper, you viii have a
larger circulation in six months from
to day, in Blount county, than any
other newspaper
I believe it is generally under
stood in some localities, KRorUiLle
for instance, that the Democrats are
to run no one for Congress in this
district the present canvass, from
the fact that the present prospects
are not very flattering for a success.
This proves at once that we have
bad managers, He is a bad farmer
who would neglect field of corn
because the prospects were bad in
early spring. When the corn comes
Ep badly in the spring. the good
farmer at once musteTs all hands,
goes TO work, replants and cultivates
his land, and often has much bet
ter yield than if he had had no re-
planting to do, and his lard is in
much better condition than if he had
neglected its cultivation on account
Of q bad prospect in the spring.
Now let Democrats go to work, and
r if our crop is too thin, replant, and
thoroughly cultivate the soil, and our
labors will be rewarded with a sur
prising yield this season, besides
preparing soil for heavy yield here
after.
When a man sets himself up as
journalist, and does not wish to
dabble in politics. he has perfect
right to do so, and should be patron
ICED. But when a man sets up as
journalist and politician. and is too
timid to defend to the last, the party
10 which he is attached, and to which,
fin ali probability he is indebted for
a living, should not be patronized,
but should be treated as a drone.
All such, are drawbacks and dead
heads, and should be dropped at
ence. Whenever an editor finds
shat no is laboring on the wrong
side of politics, that he is doing a
great wrong by longer running a
paper in the interest OF any party,
he should at once change his course,
and explain to the readers Of his pa
per why he did so that they may see
the error of their ways and change
also, provided the condition of the
country can be bettered by these
changes When a journalist sees the
error of his ways, and makes the
change himself, but will not, or does
not explain the why's and where
fores to his readers, he is doing his
country and readers, great injus-
tiee.
But the editor WHO claims to be-
long to a certain party, and is too
timid to defend that party and its
principles, and to wage war upon all
official thieves of all parties, should
. be branded as q political sponge,
and turned ont to Craze on the town
commons, for a living. Or, if he has
accumulated any thing by his journ-
alistic avocation, he should be in
tlicted for obtaining the same, under
false pretenses. SAHE PHYX.