Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-03-28
The Truth. BE II SPOKEN.

N ~@sA hNSAaJ party paper
works TOR the party success, no matter
how big financial load it may carry;
no matter how euterprising it may be.
there is always large following Of its
own partisans ready to cut its throat
and scuttle it. under the impression
that the paper is built up by the par
ty. II the paper prospers. it prospers
largely IN spite of the party. To win
success nowadays in newspapers. merit
must be the controlling factor.
ut is satisfaction to all bioh
minded journalists to know that the
day Of political subserviency and par
ty slavery is passing away. Indi-
vidual partisans bolt, kick, sulk. aid
the enemy and all that, and prosper
apparently at times by their very err
ratio course. But party paper is a
party slave. 1t is the newer of wood
and drawer of water sos DAYS in the
year. And its editor, if he is Impair
tial, earnest and true, is the party
mat, on which to wipe your feet. If
by industry, hard work and breaking
down of health he builds ND a news
paper by merit, the more certain he
is OF party opposition. jealousy, envy.
backbiting and unkind treatment.
And II he is new conner, God help
him. If not, he will have a hard row
to hoe
And yet there is pleasure in be.
ing loyal to ones principles; a re-
ward III personal self respect and the
con seriousness of duty honestly done
according to ones ability with sim
certify of motive and purpose. Let
the party editor reflect that his high
est reward will be his own conscious
ness of duty done. Success will come
IN business methods and in making
newspaper the people want
The above extract from an editorial
IN recent issue of the State Journal
contains vast amount of truth, aud
we propose to employ it as a text for
few broken remarks of personal
character.
The Herald has for fifteen years
been steadfast, firm. aggressive.
In the heat of the campaign
and during interims between cam
paigns 1t has fearlessly upheld, main
tanned, advocated, and defended the
principles of the Republican party.
1t has never been equivocal, has not
catered to individuals, nor been the
plant tool of sycophants. Time and
again it has been 'rebuffed, decried,
DETAINED. Repeatedly it has, because
of party fealty, defended its bitterest
enemies-men who have slandered
its editor and who have upon all oc-
casions resorted to methods to iniure
it financially. which, had these meth
DDS been exnosed. would have placed
those men behind bars.
1t has been the bulwark OF Protec-
ton in this Valley, has always advo-
Gated measures which have been
abundantly proven to be best for ma
ton, state, county, and city. Some
times its warnings have been needed
and again they have been treated
with contempt.
We write advisedly of the Herald
while under the management of our
predecessor, having been constant
reader almost from the time of the
first issue. Mr.. Reilly gave TO it the
best years of his life and a devotion
which left him physical wreck, and
the result is the fact that Berkeley is
Republican county.
Taking charge nearly three years
ago, at the inception of the Cleveland
panic, we have had a rough road to
travel. Many former supporters and
now earnest friends have been COM
PEELED because of the financial strin-
gency to withdraw their patronage.
Others have taken their places and
today the Herald is read by more PEG.
pie than ever before. This increase
in circulation has been a heavy bur.
den to carry because OF the inability
of patrons to pay. and because Others
who were able have not paid theil
dues.
But we did not start out to write o.
that. There is a class of men-not
large but, like Gen. Grants cayote
very noisy-who have felt constrained
to say all manner of mean things
about us. They are of that class who
boast of the work they did for the
party-sometime, the Lord only
knows when-and who expect puff
every time they walk down street
If they are not noticed each week they
broaden their phylacteries and mag
Nifty themselyes-in their own minds
And if we, perchance, say something
nice of real FRIEND, they are MORALLY
offended.
There is another class-good men
in the main-who feel that they dc
their whole duty when they pay their
subscriptions and take their adver-
Using and job work to an opposition
paper. They do not seem to realize
that it is to the Herald they must look
for favors and that were we inclined
to make the matter public we could
forever blight their political prospects,
for be it remembered the Herald has
host of true friends in this Valley
and word ofWafning to those friends
would put a quietus upon the as
pirations of all such individuals.
No more hearty and earnest support
was ever given anyone than that ac-
corded us by the leading men of this
city and county. With few excep-
tions they have done all that the most
exacting could ask. But for them it
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