Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-14
Northwest.

As there are hundreds of copies
of the Advocate, paper published
in New York, taken in this country
as the exponent of the new party
called the Nationals, it may not be
out of place to give the paper and
its editor slight airing.
The Irish World in arecent num-
Der devOtes considerable space to
the ventilation OF the Advocate, and
in the course of its article says its
editor, a man named Shupe, is
without means, education or inf1u-
ence. The paper was started at a
subscription price of fifty cents per
year, which was shortly reduced to
twenty-five cents per year, a sum
much less than the cost of the paper.
The paper has no legitimate adver-
Using, and it is plain that there is
something rotten about it, and the
Irish World has discovered the rot
tenness and ventilates it.
Three-fOrths of the Democratic
party of the United States are be-
levers in the greenback and are in
favor of the policy and platform
usually announced by the Green
back party. The Democratic party
now has control of the legislative
branches of the government, and
will have the executive in 1880, I'M
less some faction or party can be
brought into life, upon a platform
that will steal enough Democratic
votes to let the Republicans sue
coed. The Advocate attempts to
1Fa ri a ,oa,u norfxy no IF on 10 rlxy on
posed to the Democracy, although
pretending also to be at enmity with
the Republican party. Theiridea is to
make a new party with platform
identical with that Ofthe Democracy,
thus splitting and dividing the
Democratic party while the Repub-
licans, maintaining their organiza-
ton intact, will elect their President.
Shupe is running the Advocate at a
weekly loss of about three thousand
dollars, and being a poor man it
assumes an unintelligible aspect.
The Irish World shows, however,
that Shupe has been in secret con-
sultation with John Sherman, and
that the Advocate has Endorsed
some of Sherman's financial mea-
measures. Summed up, the AdVO-
cate is a Republican scheme to
divide the Democratic party, and
is kept alive by Republican money.
1t is claimed that the Advocate
has a weekly circulation of over
five hundred thousand, by reason
of its low pTice-twenty-fve cents
per annum. Now, any one at all
acquainted with the business of
newspaper publishing, is aware that
a journal could not be sustained at
these figures. No wonder Mr..
Shupe, its reputed editor, was sued
the other day by one of his Office
boys for wages due. 1t is claimed
by him that the advertising more
than pays the entire expenses. A
single glance at the advertising
columns of the Advocate will at
once d;spel this idea. 1t is a mat
ter of establishment to us that any
one can look upon Mr.. Shupe as a
true friend, with all these facts
staring him in the face. The truth
is that the Advocate is run at a
ruinOus loss by parties who are en-
deavOring to break down the great
Democratic party. This Mr.. Shupe
is simply employed at a salary of
twenty dollars per week to run the
machine, and from all we can gather
he is a complete fraud and not de-
serving the patronage he is re-
ceiving. \ man who will not pay
his own common debts can hardly
be regarded as a true friend to the
working, or any other class. We
did not intend devOting so much
space in discussing this subject, but
as there are a number of individuals
in Henry county who look upon
Mr.. Shupe and the Advocate as a
sort of Savior, at this time, to man
kind, it might be as well to let
them see where they stand. AS
stated in these columns before, all
the reforms asked by the laboring
classes can be found in the Demo-
cratic party; there is, therefore, no
earthly use in indeavoring to build
up a third party.