The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-10-13
In a New Dress.

When the subscription price of the ADvo-
CATE was changed last February from two dol
lars to one dollar year, the proprietors prom
ised there would be no change in its standing
as first class county journal, and that during
the year some Improvements would be made.
The high character of the paper has been main
tanned, nd-today it appears in an entire new
outfit-type, rules and heading. For young
eyes the old type was good enough. In fact
few county Journals had clearer impression,
but the proprietors of the ADVOCATE recognize
that among its many readers and devoted
friends are a number whose vision is failing,
and who can not read with satisfaction any but
clear print. The impression today is not as
clear as it will be few weeks hence, but If
the paper is compared with other Journals. ITS
superiority will be readily seen.
Almost the entire plant has been renewed,
except the presses, which have been purchased
in the past few years. New job type has been
purchased. also some new machinery, and the
continent of the office is not excelled by any
in the state, outside Of Baltimore, and equaled
by few. With the renewal of type. and the
additions, the Office is better prepared than
ever to meet the wants of the people in print
ing of all kinds.
No county journal in Maryland is published
at a less price than the ADVOCATE, and upon
none is the same amount of care and labor be-
slowed. As county journal 1t constitutes a
class TO itself. as none undertake to be more
than chronicler of local events. They are
made up of miscellany, local and editorial
matter. while the ADyOcAE in addition gives
the ;mnortant state and general news 1t does
not give the news in detail, like the daites,
but il boils down and summarizes. and its
readers are given all essential matters. Its
news is also more reliable than is given IN the
daily press They live mostly on sensations,
and much of the news is written TO fill out,
with startling headlines, and edited with the
specific purpose of making the paper SELL
What Is presented today, in the most sensa-
tional character, is tomorrow denied altogether
or so greatly modified as to entirely lose public
interest. Today war in Europe is imminent;
tomorrow the war cloud is gone. Startling
alleged interviews are given today, and to-
morrow the interviewed repudiates it in part
or entirely Great disasters today are reduced
10 very ordinary ones tomorrow. And so 1t
goes day after day with the daily press, and
the conservative public take with many grains
of allowance the contents of the city daily.
The ADVOCATE does not deal in the sensa-
tional 1t gives the mere facts of the events
of the week, with such details as the character
ofthe events warrant. The news is condensed,
and its readers do not have to read column
to find out what can be Just well given in a
small paragraph.
As TO the financial results of the reduction
IN tho price of the ADVOCATE they cannot be
ascertained until another six months roll
around. The net gain in subscribers has been
considerable, but at its present low price 1t
should have fully FIVE hundred more. Let
every subscriber try to procure another and
the circulation of the paper will be doubled.
Now is the time to do it. The long nights are
coming on and there will be more time for
yoading, and there is no better reading for the
family circle than clean weekly newspaper
that gives the local happenings, the state and
,ess.ss -.seus,-S-=sress proceedings, m
teresting and instructive articles of a varied
character, poetry and stories and editorials ON
the questions of the day. This the ADVOCATE
does, and the proprietors will spare no effort
to keep up its high character and TO improve
il as much as possible.