Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-11-26

1923 1885
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For more than three score years the srAuN.
TON SPECTATOR has been TO an extensive pub.
lie as familiar ss a "household word" The
history Of the central section of the great VAL
ley of Virginia is its history. With the excep-
ton of two other journals In the state IT takes
It's rank In years Of existence, and in casting a
view over all the country from I:aryland to
Tennessee. west of the Blue Ridge mountains.
1t is entitled to wear the honors OF age In asso-
citation with It's esteemed contem3orarIex-
What eventfnl years and times it has chroni-
cled Coming into life during the quiet and
P'ie administration OIL Monroe, 1t has steadily
moved evenly along the pathway of true Jour-
naiism, a representative organ of O noble race
and the champion of correct and sound princi-
ciples. Before the formation of the great no
litical paroles of which Henry Clay and An
drew Jackson We're the opponents. II was an
active and Jealous champion of the people and
the peoples rights. Receiving inspiration d.
rectly from the founders OF our government. it
has maintained the true theories and the high
purposes which established civil liberty and
liberal rule on the American Continent. It
has witnessed the rise and fall of great parties
1T has passed through the scenes of trouble
which came upon all the country, and now, as
In the day of its birth and first active life, its
supreme devotion to right, to justice, TO good
goveEnm ent, and the advocacy of substantial
and liberal progress, guides its aims and con-
socrates its motives.
The mission of q newspaper is one of great
responsibility. 1t exerts an almost supreme
control in the family, in social life and in bus
mess affairs. for good or evil.
The cultivation of proper literary taste, the
promotion of agriculture. commerce, and man.
ufactures, and the advocacy of measures of
of those who conduct the columns of the
SPECTATOR. Education first and foremost is
the groundwork of all advancement, and upon
this basis, the chief as we'll as the minor pur-
suits and objects of mans existence are found
ed.
Platforms are in these times, considered the
proper mode in which to present claims for
public recognition and support. The SPEcTA-
TOR retains it's Old and time-honored princi-
Piles and purposes. Under the benign infiu-
ences of new national administration, which
will recognize the equality of all sections of
ated purposes. the SPECTATOR will maintain its
place in the public arena, with high hopes of
present and future usefulness, which shall he
worthy of its past history.
In the details of journalism are many inter-
esting features. It is a question in this day
which epgrosses the minds of editors most .ha
chart under. which they work, or the attractive
and entertaining subjects which can be gath
cred by effort and industry in the daily round
of toll. Correspondence. news. reviews of
books and standard publications, thorough
market reports, are some of the details but
not the least. in making up a readable and
lively paper. Then the local department, IL
not first in Importance, is the first read, aad
eliminating attention so essential to the infu-
ence which it exercises on all minds, especial
~ the young. The fact of the prominence Civ
en- 1t. makes it OF first importance, and in pro-
sressive journalism it has already taken that
rank.
The SPECTATOR will labor to merit enlarged
patronage in its subscriptions, and in It's adj
vertising and job printing departments 1t
feels that there is no more to do than to invite
a cordial cooperation of old and new and
young friends to Its aid. Now is most desi-
rabie time to commence with its regular week.
1t can serve the purpose entertain
ment and instruction.