The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-15
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER Is. 1858,
ANNOUNCEMENT.

AMMO
We have sold the Worthington AD.
VANCE to Robert McCune, Sr., i veto
ran Journalist, veteran Republican
SPEAKER aud veteran minister. This |
10 no sudden determination. Every |
steptoward this transfer has Deen care.
fully considered and deliberately fur. |
thered. For year or more, we have
been In correspondence with MIR. Nc
Cune with view to bringing about
this result. and We extend congratula- |
tions to all concerned, and to the pub |
lie, that ~ contamination so devoutly
to be wished" has been attained. As
Othello says, We ''have done the com.
Dunity some SERVICE" but We believe
we have done them no greater favor
nor kindlier act than to bring Mr.. Nc
Cune to succeed US in the ADVANCE.
The paper is we'll established and on
. good-paying basis. We have put
some OF the best years Of; cur life into
It, and it Is an unqualified, unquestion.
ed success. 1t is no vanity in Us to
claim whatever credit attaches to the
building up of the Worthington AD-
VANCE, and. in leaving it, We did not
wish to see it fall into unworthy hands.
We have some pride in seeing it con-
tinued under the same name and in see-
ing it remain the county paper of No.
bles county. With these ends in view,
We opened communication with Mr..
McCune, and the result is as above sta.
ted. He Is now IN possession. and is
tho editor and proprietor of the AD.
VANCE.
With Mr.. McCune, we edited the To-
ledo Blade in its palmlest days, speak
ing every week to an audience of half q
million readers, and either of US ought
therefore to be abundantly able to
handle the ADVANCE and to make it q
success. In fact. success has long been
assured, and Mr.. McCune has only to
take up the thread where we drop it,
and push on to still greater triumphs.
We leave in the Office full files of the
ADVANCE, the only complete record of
Mobiles county extant. We arrived in
Worthington on the first passenger
train that reached the place, on the 10Th
day of April, 1872, and from that day
to this, Wa have played more or less
important part in its history. IAN of
which saw and part of which I was,"
~ Senator Benton says in his ''Thirty
Years. View" We have issued 765
numbers of the ADVANCE, never miss
ing an issue in all these 765 weeks;
coming out always on Thursday, bright
and breezy even in the midst of grass
hoppers, blizzards and 40-day block
. AIDES. The sheets we have issued dur.
ing these years, if spread out and laid
one upon another, would rear a mOnu-
ment Ito our persistence, at least rs
high as Trinity Steeple, New York, and
tower fifty feet above it, looking down
over the Bartholdi Statue as at a mere
light house in the harbor.
This, naturally, would be our oppor
tunity to say much that ought to be
said, to pay our respects to friend and
fought good fight, we have kept what
we believed to be the ''faith." in spite
of social and almost in spite of human
ostracism, and henceforth there is laid
up for US a competence and an inde-
pendence ut least 1t was said of Wen
dali Phillips that for thirty years he
was social outcast and a political 1sh'
maelite," but he triumphed long before
his death. In a small way. in remote
corner, this is true of the ADVANCE ed.
itor, and we feel sure that every cause
which we have advocated will ultimate
ly triumph, because they 60 to make
up the great Cause of Liberty and HUI
manity.
A distinguished friend to whom We
wrote concerning the sale Of the AD-
VANCE, says, in reply: "You quit Wor'
thington master of the situation, and
surely the Lord has prepared you q ta'
ble in the presence Of your enemies. -
This is true. We are not run out"
We do not ''go out In haste nor by
fight" Everything is deliberate, or
derly, fully matured, long contemplate
ed and according to our will and wish
in every aspect. The man to succeed
u, the time to make the transfer, the
price paid, the mode and time Of pay.
ment, all are exactly as We planned it
and wished it to be.
There will probably be various rea-
sons given for the sale of the ADVANCE
by those who are good at ''guessing."
Why should we quit such good thing?
One reply 10 sufficient. As announced
heretofore, va have long wished to en-
gage In literary pursuits OF moro con.
genial and enduring character. We
quit the ADVANCE for something bet.
ter.
For our successor. We bespeak con-
tinuance of the patronage and favor of
all the ADVANCE friends, and especial"
ly do we bespeak the favor of all our
misguided and mistaken foes. We
have before said that We believe Mr..
McCune to be ''pure gold all through. {"
and now there 10 no reason why men of
all creeds and parties should not pat.
ronize the ADVANCE, and make it twice
a. strong ss it has been in the past