Year: 1877

To the readers and patrons OF the
ARGrs:-In assuming the manage
ment of your paper, we take pleasure
in making a few necessary eXplana-
tions regarding its business, pros
poets, future policy, course ofactlon'
&c. In the first place, it will be de-
voted mainly ard especially to tho
hest interests of the Lower Sound,
not to the exclusion or neglect Of
other localities, but without any
particular solicitude or supervision
over their affairs. As a political
newspaper, while in sentiment and
teachings our aim will be to make it
a fair exponent of Republican princi-
Piles, it will be of the broadest and
most liberal type of Republicanism;
where its chosen party is wrong, 1t
will be brave enough to be INDEPEN-
DENT of party. Particularly will
this be the case where local politics
are in question; or indeed in the dis


cussion of any problems wherein ma
tional political interests are not di'
rectly at stake. Candidates for posi-


tions of public trust will receive our
assistance solely in view of their per-


sonal qualifications, as claims upon


us for support, for Offices to which
they may aspire. President Hayes
and the policy of his administration
we warmly endorse, believing that
the best men of both parties recog-
nize in him q statesman and compe-
tent pilot out of national difficulties,
the unqualified support of whom,
their duty as patriotic citizens, de-
mands of them. With these simple,
hensst declarations of political prin-
ciples, we pass to details.


We desire the people to feel that
the ARGUS is emphatically their pa
per; that it will stand by and defend
them under all circumstances, and
that in any case whore fraud or
double-dealing is being perpetrated
upon them, swift aad impartial ex


posure will be guaranteed regardless
of involving any party, sect or creed.
as moral paper, the influence Of
which will always be cast unreserved-
ly on the side of all that is noble and
eIevating to society, we expect to
maintain pure record. Whatever
Of the great natural and artificial re-
sources of the Puget Sound country
still remains undeveloped or un-
known to the world, it will be the
object of our earnest labor to unvsil
to an extent limited only by our abil-
ity. In preparing for our readers
weekly collection of spicy, interest
ing and reliable news, no pains-or
reasonable expense-wilI be spared.
Having come to Port Townsend with
the ayowed determination of build
ing up permanent and lasting busi-
ness, we would begin-as all sensi-
bic architects ought--with a firm,
deep-laid foundation. To this end,
we will commence at once taking
each week, the very latest important
and reliable Eastern news; and our
arrangements for the publication Of
the same are such that the reading
public all about the lower part of the
Sound can obtain it through our col
umns sooner than through any other
medium. The cash out
lay necessary for a proceeding of
this kind, will render the publication
Of this paper hereafter much more
expensive THANH it has hitherto been;
but we ieel warranted in making the
start, through the belief that our
friends will appreciate the increased
value of the paper, and patronize it
to the increased extent that such
value would merit. Besides this, in
order to make our paper more desira-
Bile and interesting to business men,
esneciaIlv To mill owne-s .,d