Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-17

abbreviated shape the most impor-
tant dispatches Of the preceding
week. We will endeavor to make
our local columns full and varied, so
that they may be faithful chrOni-
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 a people. Our miscellany of
prose 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 3 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 fit 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 TO these the WING
AND TRIBUNE can give perfect sat
isfaction by the most reliable evil
dence. .Its 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 right to ailude
to this marked difference between
the WING AND TRIBUNE and all its
Jackson contemporaries. They are
"patent outsiders" and patronage
extended 20 such papers goes to the
support of printers who live in dis
tant cities, aud 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 tn 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 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 TeHnesseeans, 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 WIG
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
| itics of Tennessee. We believe
that the problem as to whether a 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 skrlmlshes
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 single issue since
it was founded. Fear not to 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.