St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-31
shadows the curtain will be rung up and
the carnival will be on.
OUR FIRST YEAR CLOSES.

To-day closes the first year of the
GLOBES career under its new manageme Mt
When assuming control on the 1st day of last
February the present management outlined
a policy for the GLOBE which has been
strictly pursued. 1t was then announced
that the GLOBE would be made first-class
newspaper which would be a source of
pride equally to ourselves and to our
patrons. We congratulate ourselves that
we have lived up TO our promises. Our
policy has been to make the GLOBE essen
TALLY local and Northwestern newspaper.
While not emitting to give proper atten-
ton to the collection and presentation
Of foreign news we have acted upon
the principle that an ounce Of home news is
always worth to home readers a pound of
foreign news. We have aimed to be care
full in culling our news matter, and, as far
as it is possible for a newspaper to do so, to
reject everything of a sensational character
and to publish only that which was OBJ
tanned from absolutely reliable sources and
that which legitimately belongs to newspaper
enterprise. We have, moreover, endeayored
to present the news fairly and without an
attempt to color or tinge according TO indi-
vidual feeling or partisan sentiment And,
T.. all hQx
steadily pursued the course Of edit
ing our news matter-tO put it into
readable shape, to make it crisp.
bright and entertaining, to cut out surplus
age and unnecessary yerbosity, and while
aiming to present the facts of each and
every occurrence contained in our telegraph
reports, yet to present it in such form that
the business man while running over his
paper at hasty breakfast could take in the
news at glance without being compelled
to wade through column after column of
heavy matter to find out what is going on
i'm the world around him. And the same
general idea OF terseness and fairness which
prevails in the news columns has been
adopted in all departments Of the paper.
The GLOBE has aimed to deal with all
questions of a public nature in the spirit
of candor, independence and impartiality.
1t has its own opinions, and never hest
tates to express them when in its judgment
occasion requires it. At the same time
the GLOBE does not conceive it to be the
province of newspaper to impertinently
parade its opinions on every occasion, or
to pose in stilted attitude as dictate
rial censor of all human events. 1t pre-
fers to get down among the people and
discuss With them in a spirit of justice
such topics as are uppermost in the public
mind. 1t has been the ambition of the
present management to give an elevated
tone to the paper, and make it what it
claims to be, the reflection of the best SEN
timent in the Northwest
We felicitate ourselves that we have sue
ceeded in our purposes, as our hopes in the
way Of patronage have been realized
beyond our most sanguine expecta-
tons. The increase in the GLOBES
circulation in all of its editions
daily, weekly and Sunday-has been a
marvel. Commencing with the first month
of its present management the increase in
circulation shot forward with rapidity
unparalleled in Northwestern journalism,
and each successive month has gained on
the previous one until the close of the first
year finds the GLOBES circulation not only
doubled and trebled, but more than quad
rupled over the beginning of the year.
We reason from these facts that the PEG
pie of this important section of the United
States are satisfied with the GLOBE as
newspaper and an exponent of Northwest
ern sentiment and an advocate of North
western interests. We are profoundly
grateful to the people whom we serve for
their appreciation of our efforts. The first
year has only fairly inaugurated the policy
we outlined in the beginning of our manage
ment. Now that we are fairly on our
voyage with smooth sea and favoring
wind, we expect to have fair sailing for the
future. Our energies shall be strained to make
the GLOBE more and more popular with
each succeeding year. Our ambition shall
continue to be to keep the tone of the paper
to an elevated standard. We shall keep its
columns clean and bright. Personal jour
nallsm is not in our line. SANDER. back
biting and journalistic blackguardism shall
be excluded. The GLOBE will continue to
be family paper which gentleman can
take into his home and read by the fireside
as readily as in the shop or in the Office.
AS the first year closes with such crafty
ing results to us and with such encouraging
prospects for the future the GLOBE again
tenders its thanks to its great army of pa
irons who have so kindly contributed to its
success.
\ JUST TRIBUTE.