The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1892-12-06
Stand BY Your Colors- Rewards
Are Due Your Army,
That Has Fought Your Battles
and Has Help Win Victories.
It is tho Duty of Every Demo
crat, Whether an Official or
{ Private, to Stand BY
the Press,
~. n : :.
The Promulgator and Defender
Of Democratic Prin-
ciples.


We do not wishto be understood as
complaining of q lack of pat
ronage Of our political friends /;
they are doing nobly. We feel
that it is the duty Of every Democrat
in this county, in this, Circuit Court
district, in this Congressional district,
in this Appellate district, to sub
scribe for the Democratic papers
within these several Districts,
pay their subscriptions in advance,
and thereby hold up their
hands. We have just emerged from
hotly contested political struggle,
aud we do not think it presumption
when we say the efforts of the
Democratic press, especially In
the race for Judge of the Court OF
Appeals, saved the Democratic party
from defeat. If we have done this, if
we have given our time, our talents,
and our money, to the dissemi-
nation of our doctrines, and have won,
to whom can we go for support save
to those of like faith? We believe
Democratic place too high an estimate
and are too much in love with our
Acountry-saving doctrines to be mis-
Y sided by soft smiles, and by sweet
AZ, tuned sentences, as are in order
NJ n our political foes who bid'for your
patronage in order to fatten and equip
1 ic vi mother struggle.
PlnooEpre are many reasons why Demo.
Io1asfs should patronize their journals
ley are of the same blood, color
and Falkland without this support
success would be utterly impossible
Just here we are reminded of an argu-
ment on this very subject by one Of
our political friends. "A Republican
journalist solicits the Democratic pa.
trenage, and because the Journalist iE
clever and smooth talker, 90 &c
A few months roll by; an ele6Sion is to
be held. The Democrats have placed
their gold in Republican, pockets and
have made them fat. The Democrats
have their nominee, the Republicans
theirs. Does the Democrat who has
contributed to Republican success
draw help at this juncture from his
smooth adversary, nay verify
lie has placed club in the
hands of the enemy to be used as q
missile of destruction. They have ne
kind word for you; they will trump
up detrimental charges against your
candidates, and if it is not good fol
their business to publish them, they
find their way into journal of like
faith and order, though it be a hun,
bred miles away. And as to theil
suffrage, a vote for Republican ne
gro is pr bile to vote for Demo
cratic whfsoE.dan, exon if there be nc
politics in the position sought. AND
yet they have the audacity to ask 6
share in Democratic patronage, and
we regret to say mauy good Demo
Gratis who love their party allow
themselves imposed upon for fear o.
retaliation.
The Democratic press of Mt. Ster
ling have the circulation; they cover
the entire field, so far as this terri.
tory is concerned and it is the duty o.
every Democrat to so place his pa
tronage that it will not rebound and
batter down his own interests, smit.
ing him in an unexpected moment
What we have said applies to Ee.
publican journals everywhere, just the
same as at home. We do not claim
that Democrats should boycott Re.
publican journals, but we do NEAR
that their first duty is to their owr
journalists. After this has been com
piled with, if advertising with the Re
publican paper is remunerative in
vestment, all right; but their frs
duty is to those papers which are il
sympathy with Democratic principles
Republicans have adopted this meth
cd, and they are right. Democrat
should do The very same thing.