The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-21
THE DEMOCRAT FOR 1879.

The generous patronage the New orlean
! DEMOCRAT has received from the people OF
the Southwest, and especially from those OF
Louisiana. encourages its proprietors to re-
newed efforts to make IL more than ever the
LEADING NEWSPAPER OF THE SOUTH
The New Orleans DEMOCRAT Is the only
paper in the South which receives the tele-
graphic dispatches of tho
NATIONAL ASSOCIATED PRESS.
now conceded to bc far superior, both rs 70
the quantity and Importance OF the news, 10
the New York Associated Ffess. upon which
nearly every paper. ''ittle or big, In this
section depends for It's photographic news Thus
1 the people Of New Orleans, and indeed OF the
South. are supplied through the DEMOCRAT
y with intelligence which they can obtain In no
other paper. This feature Of the DEMOCRAT
alone commcnds II to popular favor in every
direction.
The DEMOCRAT now prints moro reading
matter than any other journal In New Or
leans or, indeed, in the South. Nevertheless.
after the first of January the quantity will be
GREATLY INCREASED,
and Il Is our determination to rival the great
Journals Of the West In the variety and yuan
tity of matter each morning furnished our
readers
Our COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT
under the control of Col VIM. Seymour, Sc
well known by the public Of this city, Will be
extended and made SO complete that 1t will
meet every need and wish Of the business
community.
While the DEMOCRAT has beto the recog
nized organ of the Democratic party. 1t has
been the only really independent newspaper
printed in New Orleans for years. II has sup
ported and defended with all its earnestness
and ability the principles Of Democracy, but
n has never hestated to attack abuses in the
party, and by this latter course 1t has arrayec
against II every ring politician In the state
\ Looking solely to the masses Of the Demoe
racv for approbatinn. Il has attacked ever!
ring and monopoly in this city, and though
its simple silence could have commands
large sums of money in the way Of bushes
transactions from the monopoies, it has Mt
tackled them with all its capacity and with
out an exception arrayed them all against II
The past course Of the DEMOCRAT Is
guarantee OF It's future policy. 1t will STAN
by the people and by the great principles G
the Democratic party 1t has no interest Il
Individual leaders and politicians. 1t is allie
with none OF these 1t is simply Tor the Dem
ocratic party and the reform of abuses in q
out Of the Democratic party.
And now. notwithstanding the tremendou
power Of rings and monopolies, sustained
millions of capital, which the DEMOCRAT ha
fought and which have moved heaven an
earth to crush it, we point with pride to Til
Endorsement IL has received from the peop
of this State. indicated by the growth OF i
subscription from few hundred to over fly
thousand daily In the State swelling on SUI
DAYS to nine thousand, and not unfreauent
to twelve thousand.
The DEMOCRAT for 1879 will be the mo
newsy and attractive Journal In the Sout
and we solicit the people OF this and o
nephboring States to continue and extel
the favor and patronage they have alrca'
awarded ii.