The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-10
WHY HE TAKES THE JOURNAL.


To the Editor OF the Indiana polls Journal:
take the Journal, first. because / am a
Republican and believe that a strong, in
fiuential Republican paper should be main
tanned at the capital. even If 1t be at some
sacrifice to the Republicans of the State,
but in this case l am not required to make
any sacrifice, for am busy man. and
want to get the current news of the day
in the most compact form possible: and this
is what / get in the Journal every day. I
do not have to read columns Of thin stuff
and stew it down, but L find it already
edited into the least possible space. And
then 1 do not have to hunt through pages
Of miscellaneous, crude stuff among adver-
tisements for it, but 1t Is so classified that
can at once turn to il. Life is too short
with busy man TO afford to get the news
at this expense.
/ take the Journal because of it's indie
pendence of party servility and because of
its loyalty TO party discipline and party
unity. While a question is a debatable one
it is free lance. but when it has been
adopted as party measure ii is loyal to the
party. whether the unity has been reached
by concessions on its part or on the part of
others, or by concessions all around, as is
most apt 10 be the case. No man can be
a useful citizen who starts out to have his
own way In business or politics or in social
life, regardless of the interests and opinions
of all others. Get together. then work to-
gether, is the maxim of wisdom in any de-
partment of life.
1 take the Journal because of its loyalty
to the State of Indiana. while supremely
loyal to the Nation. Whatever interests
Indiana has a friend in it. hence. in a de-
gree that is found in no other paper il is a
State paper, while not neglecting the local
interests of indianapolis. Even In its local
columns il caters for the State. for In
dianapolis belongs TO us all. Her prosperity
Is the prosperity of all. for we all have
stock in her; her schools are our schools;
her streets are our streets, as much as her
Statehouse and her monument. and her
benevolent institutions are ours and the
average out-of-town man has only con-
tempt fer the legislator who proposes any
thing that would cripple the city merely
that he may please some narrow country
jake.
OF course. 1 take our local Republican
paper, which has the good sense to be a
good local paper and does not aspire TO be
a metropolitan paper. giving us news from
every place but home. IL looks well after
our local politics and after home affairs in
general. No good Republican in our county
can afford 10 do without IL. any more than
he can AFFORD to do without his State organ.
But the Journal has charms to me and
my family that are not all in the line OF
politics. Its inimitable way of pumping
guests in the hotel lobby and getting opin-
ions from public men has charms TO hasty
readers. and so has its way of dishing up
the cream of the sermons preached in our
capital. The Monday paper has charms 10
a large class OF readers while the Sunday
Journal Is little library of literature that
no family can well AFFORD TO do without
Up-to-date preachers are glad TO pick il up
when resting on Monday from the labors of
Sunday, while the labOring man feaSts upon
il while resting on Sunday. The better one
gets acquainted with 1t the better he likes
IT, a BUSY NAN.
Kokomo. Ind, June 8.