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Texas Journalism

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
September
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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A Texas journalist, who had been summer-fallowing himself on a stock ranch for a coopte of years, suddenly assumed control of a country weekly, and In the tirst issue after lie stnick the qusrter deck, he published a small aud unpi-etentious card, 10 which he said: "The former editor of this slieet is practically and politically dead, but The 8aussge still survives. It is just as well, thougb, and a miglity sight better, as 1 ain a hossat (.(lililí', and sling one of the most caustic and ftuentestquills west of tlie Ked River. 1 have a record behind rae which doeen't need a new coat of whitewaah every spring, like tliat other editor which recently peyunked and drawed out of the game. "At gitten up obituarios I'ma tossel top, and i f thcre's any hitch in the program I can generally furnish a fresh eorpse on short notice, and at the usual slight. advanee on cost of insertion. 1 me ely Ihrow this out as a íeeler to the opposishun, which, ] hear, is a niassing its torees agin me and my paper, and, by I he frecklefaced, bou legged, cock-eyed gotis of war, there'll be a power of hi;h prieed opera musió doating in the air, if any of tuem try lo clime me. "Jf Hiere is enny corte house ring in this Bweet-scented focality, 111 get n to it, sure as you're a toot high. If there is to be any munkying with tho frce-born, untrammeled country delegates to the next eounty couvention, JL'll be there with my face washed and hair combed back of my earg. 'Tve licked many a good man, and I've been licked once or twice in my variegated career, but I've always noticed that thern íellers who whipped ñie were not the same nicn afterwards, and drooped along for a while like a sun-struck tomato vine, and tirially droppea into the grave with a dull thud, having kinder ouHived their usefulness. "I want it distinetly remembered that I'm in from llic back couuties, and aiu't up to the corte eliket of thestrawberry blonde or the pulpy dude. If í make auy miscues it will be more an error of the head than the hcarl, but for all that I piopose to run a jam up, sizzing hot, nifty liitle paper, and move along with the best kind of' liarinony, but if hannony bucks and tries !o do ftny sort of dirt on me, harmony wHJ have to git off the track and let ine glide right iuter the confldence of the public. "If this journal says anythiug out of the way and grieves auy ruottle-faced tenierfoot, remember I'iu the man he wanta to sec about it. There ain't no back staira or back windows to Ihis sanctum sanetoriiini. I'm always in. l'm ever on the tripod, and now with these few brief remorks 1 cordially invite everybody's cooperation and subscriptions. The tone of Uie paper will be pure in sentiment, chaste in expression, and typographically bang up and delirious."

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register