The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-08-26


In time of peace he is a peacemaker
and hard worker-a leader.
"There is not money enough in the
world to influence or buy one hair in
his head. As say he is leader, and
he is leading us to prosperity. Under
his administration we will continue to
enjoy prosperity :.
A well known business man of
Gardnerville said to the writer this
week. 81 am Democrat, but assure
that | will not support the paper
which is forcing itself upon this field.
But, he added, had hoped you
would remain independent We ex-
planned to him that the journal that is
really Independent, as all newspapers
are that have legitimate place in
journalism, is that one which, having
satisfied itself as To the policies and
the leadership that, according to its
wisdom, are best calculated to pro-
mote the public interest and welfare,
gives its elf with sincere earnestness
to the support of the men and the
principles of it choice. But the So
called "independent" in the forces of
politics is a creature without fixed
principals of any kind-in newspaper
life, just the wild ASS colt upon the
highway of journalism. 1t is the
ole llxr Of gttnh t,an1.Ai1 vanity
that to see itself quoted as an auth
GRITTY by one party or another it read
lily resorts to the grossest injustice
and while posing in affected friend
ship, uses the stiletto of the assassin
with a cold-blooded brutality that the
honest and hard hitting partisan
journal would scorn to resort to.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS has given you
its reasons for believing Parker re-
presents plutocracy, antithesis of
democracy, and that the country will
prosper best under Roosevelt. And
for those reasons it will give the lat
ter its sincere and earnest support.
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A newspaper, as general rule, IN
town the size of Gardnerville, finds
more difficulty in suppressing ''newso
than in publishing it. For the benefit
of some people in Gardnerville it may
be stated that there are anumber of
things that newspaper man sees and
hears that cannot be counted news
items and cannot be published as they
really happen. There are several
reasons why it would not do for a
newspaper man to publish everything
that he sees and hears. If he did it
might cause tears and heartbreaks,
business failures, murders and suicides.
A newspaper man, as rule, is the
receptacle for all the gossip of the
community. In his ear is poured the
troubles of every Mr.. SO and So in
the community-family jars, the indis-
cretions, the goodness and meanness
of almost everyone is poured into the
receptacle. Often it is the case that
these things are told him in the hope
that he will publish them and thus dis
close the skeleton in the closet of some
one against whom a personal grudge
has been found 1t would surprise and
shock the public, generally, to know
how often newspaper man is taken off
to one side, and how accurately and
carefully the misdoings of some one in
the community is portrayed, and how
eager the informer is to have his
story appear in print. How he would
gloat over seeing the article with far.
ing headlines, spread out to the pub
lici How earnestly he asserts that it is
all true, that the party referred to
is not fit to live in the community, and
that people should be warned against
such one; but he will not dare to
stand sponsor for it, and will insist
that if it is published his name must
not be mentioned!
Nevada used to be Republican in
the days of Jim Nye, but it went
astray with the silver craze. Now the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, edited by the South
wOrthg formerly of Niarara Falls