The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1891-03-13
TRIUMPHANT JOURNALISM
GREAT REJOICING AND SOUND
ING OF TRUMPETs.

A Sweet Tempered Contempory
Lives Whole Year---A Marvel
anda Revelation--Newsp aperdom
Stands Aghast.
Our lovely and loving and sunny tenn
pered neighbor has liveJ for the very
long period of twelve months and re-
CARDS it as matter for great rejoicing
and exultation.
From our experience and the heights
We occupy, We may be permitted to ask,
@What is it all about?"
Why should the mere matter of living
one year, with twenty one years ex-
perience in journalism, = be an event for
the sounding Of so many bugle blasssg
Is it because it tops all previous rel-
crds-and did all former attempts,
ode in the bornin n
We are reluctantly led to think 80 from
what is said. We quote
"The New Capitol entered the field without
any hope of life.
Was that really true and for what pur-
| pose then did it enter the field
A scratch Of the head must have con-
WINGED our sweet tempered neighbor
that that admission. if true, wouldn't
fall with much force on tie ears of busi-
ness men, So it attempts TO correct it
with the next breath in the following
feeble way
4aITa wing rnatavial and ,naobfra,y ,,roo,oilaA
by anything in this part Of the state we felt as
| sured of success
without hope of life' it "felt sure of
success" hades of Prentiss what is it
we hear? Are there then, indeed, such
things as Giving without life" and sue
ceeding without success ?"
Perhaps there are. Some newspapers,
like some men, are fearfully and won
derfully made.
at has never solicited a subscriber"
Subscriptions have simply poured in
| pell nell, hurly burly, and a whole
string of clerks have been kept up late
at nights recording the names, aud the
stream of dollars have swollen both our
National banks to their present proper
lions.
We know all about it and have heard
the same story many times before.
Some have been pitiless enough to say
that the greatest effort is made at disso-
luton and that the dying swan sings
sweetest.
at has never solicited an advertisement since
its first ISSUE"
Advertisers run and pant to get in and
rush headlong over one another for the
privilege.
We understand all about it.
policy"
That, of course, is intended to be un-
derstood as something rare and excep-
tional in newspaper annals.
Don't tread on me coat tail p
at has never asked any man If he was Eatisfed
with its policy. 1t has never asked any man
whether he was pleased or displeased.'
No, never Then what did that whole
column Of slush and gush mean. less
than month ago, about "The course of
the New Capitol endorsed -" What
leading citizens say of it?" etc etc. We
| remember, for instance, our good friend
Bob Clark, saying that it was the great
est newspaper on earth" and its editor
the greatest newspaper genius" or words
to that effect. We quote from memory.
What was the meaning of all those ebu
litions of gueto and buncombe from SO
many happy and dual.tuned affinities +?
We don't object to il, because the taste
of men differ, and we are glad they do
differ, but why the denial of its every
day doings?
81 has one rate for its space"
And yet did it not begin It's "life," that
life which was without hope" but "as-
sured of success" by undertaking its
"ugly rivals" and doing the city print
ing for less than one quarter the rates
allowed by law?
Its daisy and no mistake.
But when it shall have weathered the
storms of a quarter Of a century and at
tended at the birth and death and buri-
al OF as many ugly rivals" as we have,
it will have cause for graduation and ex-
cuse enough for reviewing lis history in
trumpet tones.
The BANNER does not rest on gush nor
slush, nor sandy foundations, but is like
house builded on rock, aud in its
day has weathered real storms; is not
frightened at mere whiffs: is accustomed
to loud talk, and is not forgetful of the
fact that it has seen many newspapers
go to wreck and line the shore, and ex-
poets to see as many more.
Hewing to strict line of policy and
being directed by some degree of consis.
ktency and Judgment, caring nothing for
the plaudits nor censure of the moment,
entirely obiiyious TO the bray and
buster and professions of other journ-
ais, and appealing directly to the con-
sciences of the people, The BANNER ex-
pecis to live on forever.
Summer streams rush furiously along
with great noise and clatter, but their
careers are short lived and soon ended,
while the great depths move on noise
lessly, grandly majestically, forever.
The BANNER is not unlike one of these
great depth that swallow UP the little
rivulets.
That has been its history and will be
its history.
1t is in better shape to day. eptwined
deeper in the affections of the people,
with stronger financial underpinning,
than at any time since its birth, which
occurred on a bright, beautiful and au.
spicious May day morning in the year
1866, now nearly twenty-five long years
ago.
If we were disposed to We have a
right to crow and could crow long and
loud and Justify as any other newspaper,
so here goes: