San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-11-22
THE "OLD RELIABLE"
Some Reasons Why the San Marcos
Free Press Should be Preferred.
Interesting to Readers, Advertisers, and
Those Wanting Job-Printing Done.

In few months more the FREE
will have reached its SIXTEENTH
YEAR. Fifteen years is quite Il
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 inseparable 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
ANONYMOUSLY. 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, but 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 IT.
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
a 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 ex-
clusion of the more important de-
partmeutS we have named. The
FREE .REss 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 one hand, and of street
yarn-SpinncrS and back-StairS little
tattlc on the other. The FREE
PREss holds this sort of stuff a be-
meath the dignity of a public jour
nal. and cannot conceive how any
well-regulatcd mind can enjoy pc
rnsing a newspaper thus made up
almost from beginning To end.
Again. readers should prefer the
FREE PEFss because it, matter is
pure and clcvating. everything he
ing studiously excluded alike from
it, rcaiing and advertising columns
which would lie unfit 20 le read
aloud IN tine family circle. Further
more. the FKEE PREss J. devoted
O. the general education and moral