The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-04-18
AS TO NEWSPAPER LyFLUENcE

IS To Ne WSPAPBR INFL CENcE.
Some of our esteemed contempt
raries of the press notably among
whom are our amiable and lovable
neirhbors of the Chronicle and the
TriBuns-are complaeently strok-
ing their beards--thOse that have
such parasitic appendages to their
faces and congratulatIng their rea-
ds-S On the mighty influence they
exerted over the late Legislature in
securing the passage of sundry laws.
One of these esteemed neighbors
claims that it was largely due to its
influence that the horror of public
executions, the danger from toy PTS
tolls and the corruption OF gambling
were abolished, and the bio kade in
litigation removed by the passage
of the act for the relief OF the Su-
prene Court. Our other amiable
and esteemed contemporary is con
tent 10 rest its claims for heft in leg
islation upon the passage of an ap-
propriation of $4,000 to be expend-
ed BY appointees of the Governor,
some time in the future at Boston,
that city famed for its culchured
male and female beauties, as
s.speetaclsd they wnR itu umbrageous Common"
No doubt our neighbors are entitled
to all the merit they claim. Far be
IL from US to rob them of an iOta of
fame in these matters We cannot
take the credit 10 ourselves Of hav-
ing thrown the weight of The GA
zETrE. specially, upon the affirna-
tive side of any of the measures re-
spectively claimed. About that time
call of our ability" was brought in
to reauisition in retarding the pass
ace. and for at least a generation
killing. an absurdly ridiculous and,
10 the best interests of education, an
abominably ruinOus measure recon-
mended for adoption by the Govern
or and introduced by q bill in the
House. Strange TO say, the fight
against this monstrous proposition
looking 10 the admixture OF the
races in the management Of the pub
lac schools of our State was unac-
eountably left 10 THE MoRRIsTowN
GAZETTE. Not a metropolitan, town
or village journal raised an objec-
ton 10 IL, outside of Morristown. If
silence, at any time, is supposed TO
give assent, certainly here was in
dication that the recommendation of
Gov. Bate that the legislature ere
ate a new Office to be filed by n ne
gro as assistant superintendent OF
public instruction, was endorsed by
every newspaper in the state, ex-
cept THE GAZETTE. 1t had that ap-
pearance. we say, though we are far
from believing that such was the fact,
and a good way for the Governor to
test the real popularity of his recon-
mendation, with the press and people
of the State, would be to incorpOr-
ate it in his platform for reelection
in 1884. But from whatever cause
Il was that The GAZETTE was left
without the potent help of any Of
its contempories in this fight, we
point with journalistic pride to the
happy effects its powerful remon-
STRANGE against the passage Of the
bill had upon the legislature. 1t was
meet, and n happy coincidence, that
this blackberry jam bate of the Gov
ernor to sweeten the tooth and catch
the influence of such political heavy
weights as Ed. Shaw of Memphis,
Squire Yardley of Knoxville and
Buck What's-hIs-name Of Nashville
should be introduced by n repre-
sentative Berry from Williamson.
IL Ia with the profoundest pleasure
we announce its death in the House,
with scarcely = nourner, and, pat
ting it, trusty broseh with becoming.
modesty, we claim that IL was TIE
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