The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-03
VERY TRUE.

The Greenville News had very
timely and true editorial il recent Is
sue on People and Newspapers" 1t
is so truea and timely and expresses our
ideas on this question so correctly that
we cannot help reproducing IL here.
The editors of newspapers as rule 10
this State are not office seekers nor
Mace hunters and we believe they have
written and labored honestly and con-
stantly for what they believed to be the
best interests Of all the people. In
many cases they have been abused and
nisrepresented by the politicians ana
place hunters when they saw fit to crit
icise or disagree with these citizens.
The honest editor can afford to take
this because he knows he has been un-
selfish in his labors and many times
his expressions and advice have been
contrary to what he realized and saw
was popular. But it will all come right
in the end.
The man who is honest in what he
does and does the right as he sees 1t
will stand when the willy politician Is
forgotten. Here is what the News
says:
"From every direction We see the
warning coming that the people Of this
,i,p n a
NEWSPAPERS; that whichever way the
newspapers 60 the voters VIII go the
other and that the more the neWspa-
pers say against Governor Illlman the
more zealously the people will be for
him.
"We hope, this claim has no founda-
ton in fact. ii IL has, the Intelligence
and patriotism Of our people are less
than we have given them credit for. 1t
is hard to imagine that men who nave
any sense or any love for their State OF
pride in her or care for their own inter
ects will allow themselves to be gov
erned in their political action by cause
less spite. Certainly the newspapers
have wronged nobody, betrayed no
trusts. They have, generally speaking,
stood very sturdi!y and manfully
against overwhelming popular sentl-
nent and proclaimed what they be-
lieved to be right to their own loss.
The people Who vote one way merely
because the newspapers talk the other
way will simply be iudulging in the
idiotic performance of cutting of their
noses to spite their faces. We can re-
spect a man who believes that Govern
or Tillman has made a good governor
or should be given another chance or Is
entitled to the continued confidence
and afection~of the people. We can
argue with him, and if he continues in
his opinion until election day we know
his ballot has some reason, thought,
purpose and proper sentiment behind
it. We may believe that man to be mis-
taken, but We can feel that his mistake
is an honest one. When, however, a
man votes simply to be voting against
the newspapers we can see no sense or
propriety in it and can only regard
him as prostitutiDg the ballot entrusted
to him by his country for the gratitica-
ton Of very base passions and preju-
dices unworthy of a man.
"Let the newspapers continue to do
their duty as they seeit. There should
be no low, scurrilous personal abuse of
anybody, but there should be fearless
statements of all facts bearing on pend
ing issues and the relations of candi-
dates to the public and honest argu-
ment and deduction from them. Let
nobody be frightened by the cry of
abuse and persecution and the spite
of voters. Our part is to do our duty to
the public, to tell the truth as we un-
derstand it and to leave the response
bility with the masses who do the vot-
ing.
"The Greenville News believes that
most of those who raise these cries
have purpose in it; their idea is to be-
little the influence of the press, to
arouse feeling against it and and to in
duce cessation of its attacks on the
present administration. We believe
that they SANDER the people. We have
,undiminished faith in the common
sense, conservatism and patriotism of
the white people of South Carolina.
Whether we are right or wrong about
that, we believe the newspapers will
continue their work Of speaking for the
best interests of the State regardless of
consequences"