San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-10-04
THE "OLD RELIABLE"
Some Reasons Why the San Marcos
Free Press Should DO Preferred.
Interesting to Readers, Advertisers, and
Those Wanting Job-Prlntlng Done.

will have reached its SIXTEENTH
YEAR. Fifteen years IS quite n
long term. 1t is an important pc
Rod in the annals of our town /;
and they are recorded in the sue
cessive volumes of the FREE PRESS.
We have them all at home, bound,
save for the last two years. They
tell the story of San Marcos and
Hays county for the past fifteen
years. For veal or woe they will
be inseparablc in history from the
FREE PRESS.
The FREE PRESS, therefore, ought
by this time to be pretty well
known. Yes, the people of San
Marcos and Hays county know it.
We appeal to them if it has not
been true to the best interests of its
constituency from "the day of
small things" even down to the
present. They know, and we are
willing they should answer. They
know the struggle it has had to
maintain against adverse circum-
stances, and that the fight was sue
cessfully made, while most Of the
newspapers of the adjacent counties
have repeatedly changed hands or
fallen to the right and to the left.
They know the various little news
paper enterprises which have sprung
up from time to time in the wake
Of the FREE PRESS on the alleged
ground of its lack of political ortho-
doxy, only to perish speedily and
ignominiously. And they know,
after all has been said, that we have
kept to the line of Jeffersonian
Democracy, on which we started,
during all these years.
But our object now is not to in
dulge in "reminiscences, bnt to state
some reasons besides those above
indicated why the FREE PRESS
should still have the preference in
this city and county.
READERS SHOULD PREFER 1T.
Because it presents from week to
week the largest amount of choice
reading matter. Its selections, both
prose and poetry, are uniformly
superior, being derived from extern
sive reading and careful thought as
to their adaptation to the time Of
publication. The same high stand
ard Of excellence is sought to be
maintained in its editorial depart
ment, nearly every issue containing
carefully considered editorial on
some pertinent topic Of interest,
with shorter notes and comments
on passing events. A presentation
of the leading items of local news
is also aimed at, but not to the OK
clusion of the more important de-
partments we have named. The
FREE PRESS can have no rivalry
with the class Of home papers which
devote all their space to local items,
descending too often to the gossip
of street corners and bar-rooms
on the zone hand, and of street
yarn-spinncrs and back-stairs title
tattle on the other. The FREE
PRESS holds this sort of stuff as be-
meath the dignity Of a public jour
nal, and cannot conceive how any
well-regulated mind can enjoy pc
rusing a newspaper thus made up
almost from beginning to end.
Again, readers should prefer the
FREE Press because its matter is
pure and elevating, everything be-
ing studiously excluded alike from
its reading and advertising columns
which would be unfit to be read
aloud in the family circle. Further
more, the FREE PRESS is devoted
to the general education and moral
elevation of the people, and what
ever favors these great ends. Ed
itorially it scorns to indulge in
indiscriminate putting, gives praise
only where it is deserved, and does
not hesitate, however regretfully, to
criticise or condemn, where its par
amount duty to the public so re-
quires.
Nor does it seek to evade or tenn
porize as regards any question of
public interest. On the contrary, it
is always ready to show its hand,
and always on the side of the peo-
pie generally. 1t assumes no su-
perior wisdom, but claims the simple
privilege of expressing its opinions,
conccding the right of others to do
the same. Its mission is to hold up
the standard of morality, education
and political principle, and to lead
off on all the lines of human rights
and advancement.
ADVERTISERS SHOULD PREFER
1T.
The steady publication of the
FREE Press by the same proprietor
for Lcarly fifteen years must be
conclusive to thinking people that
1t has solid, reliable constituency
behind it, and Of course circula-
tion of great value to advertisers.