Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-05-05
THURSDAY, MAY 5. 1898
A REPENTANT SINNER.

The Jasper Democrat Of last
week acknowledged that it "has
occasionally imposed upon its
readers" the editorials of Henry
Watterson las its own production"
and that is sufficient proof Of the
point we endsavOred to make,
Going a step further, it attempted
to sum up the NEWS as containing
nothing except ready print, Let
us see II this be not also false. In
the News of last week there were
Two columns Of original and clip>
ped editorial set in solid primer,
unlike the Democrat, which uses
leads lavishly to kill space" All
the clipped editorials we used
were credited, not filched, Mr..
Democrat. Besides the editorial
there were six columns and a half
Of sOlid BREWER news, local and
correspondence. Let US see what
the Democrat had for tho same
week, Three columns OF rot, miss
named editorial. Mr.. Havron en-
deavored in the first place to dis
cuss the "War Situation" but OF
course who would read what he
had to say knowing how limited is
his knowledge of the subject,
Then he shot off at a tangent 10
the Civil War;" and tried To make
some comparisons. Then he start,
ed oil into Il long windod editorial
on The Democrats Prosperity
and of course the people believed
it referred to the Jasper DemOcl al
and wouldn't read it rs a matter OF
principle. And lastly, the bal
ance of his three columns of editor
ial in loaded primer wac devoted t.
'Cussing" and discussing the New
for lts stand for good morals anC
due credit for editorials borrowed
Three columns of long primer 10
calls completed his paper, and Their
was nothing else in it but adyertis
ing, fake" or otherwise, Or, il
other words, oneehalf his pape
was ready print, and half the bal
was the advertising aforesaid,
Our advertisements ara no
truck" Everyone Of them i
"alive" and paying, and no sOone
does any one of them reach tn
limit of insertions but what it /
at once removed from our forms.
But the Democrat runs its advel
tisements on and on until tn
people are SO tired Of seeing ther
that they are ready to vomlt,
But let US take it from anOthe
standpoint. We will acknowledg
that we haven't got a blamed lin
in the w"ole paper worth reading
aud that the Democrat is the cpl
ONE, the spark, the scintillatiOr
the effervescence of SequaGht
Valley intelligence, and can writ
better editorials than Uncle Charl
Dana could when in the zenith (
bis fame, and even then the deJ
people wont read the Democrs
but leave it untouched in the POI
offices and silently steal away
delighted beyond measure to hav
escaped alive from the might
froth and presidential vapors thi
continually escape from that d
minutiye sheet. But on Contral
behold the pleased expression
reader of the News as be sees Il
doings Of the entire neighbOrhoC
reflected in our columns, and aga
behold the cyclOnic aspect of b
COuntenance as be calls for n
News and is told there is none.
is his frst impulse to raise 3 rack
and we consider it a complime
tu us and our paper for him to
80. That he should not able
command readers for his "Philli
les" is the viper that is gnaWil
at the breast Of the illustrious &c
tor of the Democrat. Fancy /
rage when, after devotiDg a who
week to the composition of |
editorials that are supposed to d
eide the destiny Of fate and ma
he can get no readers. Il is 81
awful TO contemplated What
waste Of the powers ola great mi
in a diminulive body, which is
small that il will occasional
hook an editorial to help out {
exigencies OF a massive minGl