Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-16

TIE COMMONWEALTH has just appeared
In q new dress and greets its thousands Of
readers in every part of Kansas with q bright
face and the compliments of the season. Ar
old and successful newspaper gathers
strength with its years and influence and
grows moro youthful and vigorous, better
able to promote the public welfare, as it in.
creases in age and power.
TIE C0MMONwEALrH looks back upon it
somewhat extended career as the leading pa
per of the state with emotions of pride. II
has been faithful chronicler of the events
in every county in the state and no person
can hereafter write history of Kansas with
out dilgent reading of its columns. It has
recorded the birth of every new county estab-
every new development, the appointment OF
election of every prominent officer, q full
and fair report of the political conventions
of all parties, and the biographies of hundreds
of prominent men.
The COMMONWEALTH has constantly given
q large space to the opening of new coun-
ties, the extension of the line of settlement,
the building of new towns, and the encour-
agement of immigration. We have seen the
the state to the western boundary line, and
the population of Kansas quadrupled. This
generous policy will be continued in the
future.
The circulation of The CoMMoNwEALrHw was
never before so large as now; its business
never so good. We have not been given to
Boosting; never have employed a circulation
liar, and have been content to jog along in
our own way, but wherever you 60 in Kan
sas you will find The COMMONWEALTH.
Ithas always been the purpose of HE CON-
MoNwEALTH to elevate, to build up, not to
tear down. The older we grow the more of
good we see in men and in parties and the
less disposed are we to lend our influence to
those partisans who would defame and vilify
all persons who do not agree with them. We
are disposed to give credit wherever it is due.
The republican party was our first love. The
COMMONWEALTH is republican and has al
ways been republican paper; no other pa
per in the state has published SO many col
umns of republican facts, or arguments, or
exerted an equal influence in the election of
republican state officers and senators and i'll
keeping the party in power.
Hereafter as heretofore The COMMON
WEALTH will work for the whole state of Kan
sas; what benefits one locality benefits ALL
We are not dependent upon party patronage
for support: our constituency is the whole
people of Kansas.
The COMMONWEALTH has been under its
present management nearly eleven years.
On the 7th of March, 1875, we paid $4,000
for it, then thought to be very high price.
1t could not be bought now for $4,000. The
interest on the latter sum. at fifteen per
cent, would be less than the annual income
of our business. After a newspaper expert
ence OF about quarter OF a century it is not
probable that we shall change our mode of
life or enter upon any new line of business.
We cordially thank our friends everywhere
for their confidence and support and hope to
give them better paper every month and
every year.
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THE LEGISLATURE.
The COMMONWEALTH will, as usual, give
good, readable report of the proceedings of
the legislature, leaving out all that is merely
routine and giving only the Il after that every
Kansan desires to read.
Those who do not take the DAILY COMMON
WEALTH regularly bat who wish to have it
during the session of the legislature can
secure it from the commencement. January
10Th, to March 9Th, which will probably cover
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WEALTH, feel like giving the above an inser-
ion we shall be gratifed, but we do not
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