Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-02-04

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1928 1885
Stanntpp Spertatnr.
For more than three-score years the STAUN-
TON SPECTATOR has been to an extensive pub
lie as familiar as "household word" The
history of the central section of the great Val
lev of Virginia is its history. With the excep-
t,on of two other journals in the State it takes
its rank in years of existence. and in casting
view over all the country from L:aryiand to
Tennessee, west of the Blue Ridge mountains,
# is entitled to wear the honors OF age in asso
citation with It's esteemed contemp oraries.-
u hat eyentful years and times 1t has chroni-
cled Coming into life during the quiet and
pure administration of Monroe, II has steadily
moved evenly along the pathway of true jour
nalism, a representative organ of a noble race
and tn eHam pion of correct and sound princi-
ciples. Before the formation of the great po-
Iitical parties of which Henry Cay and An
drew Jackson were the opponents, it was an
active aad jealous champion of the people and
the peoples rights. Receiving inspiration d.
rectly from the founders OF our government, 1t
has maintained the true theories and the high
purposes which established civil liberty and
liberal rule on the American Continent. 1t
has wltnes ed the rise and fall Of great parties
it has passed through the scenes of trouble
in the day of it's birth and nrst aatiye life, its
supreme devotion to right, to justice, to good
goyernns ent, and the advocacy of substantial
and liberal progress. guides its aims and con-
socrates its motives.
The mis- ion of a newspaper is one of great
responsibility. 1t exerts an almost supreme
control in tn 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, End tne advocacy of measures of
true progress, are the chief cares in the iabers
of those WHO conduct the columns of the
sFEcrAro4 .,dncation FIRST and foremost is
the groundwork Of all advancement, sna upsp
this basis, the chief as well as the minor pur-
SUITS aga 90; oats Ct mans existence are found
ed.
Platforms STE. IN these times, considered the
proper mode IN which to present claims ror
public reoag ition and support. The SPEcrA-
TOR retains is Old and time hopored princt-
pies and purposes Under the benign influ-
ences .pfa new national &C All istgat.on, which
will recognize the equality Of all sections of
this great country, and. ad herring to Its enunci-
ated purposes, the SPECTA TOR will main tain Its
place in the public arena, with high hopes of
preseli aaa g4sGra usefulness, which shall be
wo-thy GIFTS CAST history.
IN the ie:ai;s of Journalist are many inter-
estlns rea:af.ss II is q question In tnis day
which engros-es the minds OF edi crs most, Inc
chart under g hich they work, or the attractive
and entertaining subjects which can be gath
cred by taul' nd 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, If
not FIST in Importance, is the first read, and
still continueg TO claim that conetant and dis
eliminating at ention so essential to the inf1u-
ence wbi: Ii it exercises on all minds, especial
ly the young. The fact of the prominence Civ
en- 1t. ma es II of first Importance and in pro-
gressive journalism it has already taken that
rank.
The SPEcTA TOR will labor to ne crit enlarged
patronage IL rs subscriptions, and in its adj
vertising d: d job printing departments. 1t
feels that there is no more to do than to invite
cordial cooperation OF old and new and
young friends 10 its aid. Now is a most desi-
Fable time 10 commence with its regular week.
ly visits ami to realize how efficiently and
faithful il o. II serve the purpose of entertain
ment and in II uction.