Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-02-09
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEB. 9, 1898.
U s~ALuTAToRY.

THE OPTIC, to-day, appears under
new auspicies. Since the spring Of
1879, or nineteen years ago, this paper
has been under one continuous man
agement, making it the Oldest paper in
New Mexico.
Circumstances, which seem to be
beyond human control, have compelled
the editor and proprietor, so long d.
recting the course Of THE Optic, to
surrender the helm to other hands.
The trust has been accepted by a
combination of the leading business
men of Las Vegas; aud hereafter the
paper, inseparable from the history of
Las Vegas itself, will be under q man
agement, new as to business affairs,
but old as to its acquaintance with all
the material and social interests of
this city.
We do not think, in the language 0
Holy Writ, that he who putteth on his
armor should boast himself as he who
layeth it aside. The one rrancing
into battle may be gay with gliding
and Haunting plumes; but 1t is the
victor, with shorn crest aud battered
armor, who can claim the renown of
the uay. The new management Of The
OPTIC desires to say, however:
There will-be but an emphasis of the
oid-time claim, THE OPTIC for the
town and the town for THE OPTIC. The
two have been heretofore inseperable.
Hereafter the union will be more in
innate and indivisable. No town "a
succeed without q representative
paper, no paper can succeeded
without the support OF its town. Paper
and town are in the same boat, and
each must look to the other for mutual
aid and support. On this point The
Optic has no anxiety. The past is
merely an earnest of what the future
will be-. Las Vegas has always been
the best town 10 New Mexico, ia its
support Of its newspapers. Unfor-
tunately. Of recent years, the support
which could have been good for one,
was not enough for two, ard papers
and town alike suffered. This trouble
has been removed and the new motto
OF The OpTIc is "One Paper and sOae
Town"
THE OPTIc will continue ss the
peoples paper, the proud distinction 1t
has ever borne. No citizen, however
great his wealth and influence, can
control the ut,erance Of the paper; no
citizen, be he ever so humble, shall be
denied access to it's columns, If his
cause can be shown TO be lst.
The Optic is for all and against
none. Its financial matters are in such
shape that it is perfectly indie
pendent in all respects; and its interest
in the community opens it to the re-
dress of the grievance of the most hum
BILE and obscure. Neither are there any
old friends to reward nor any old enc
mics to punish. The best good of all,
and the washing of dirty linen in the
owners own back yard, are the cardi-
nal articles of faith on the part of the
new management.
Politically THE OPTIC shall be indie
pendent. Its object is the best good of
New Mexico in general and of Las
Vegas in particular. When political
combinations seem 10 endanger eth
er or both, The OPTIC will oppose
them. What seems for the greatest
good Of the greatest number, The
OPTIc will advocate with all the ability
at it's command. At present, there Is
but one question which has crystalizs d
itself into q national issue. This is the
free coinage Of silver, All other