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il It Si!'irtC’f',)lt;?Xtthisthisthatthattheas awarding committee.sill-iter-r tothis sses . illsA Mission.—'The |oor old resurrected penny whistle newspaper eon-1 i cerii in the basement has a mission.— J no1 It is to defend public plunderers and pin criminals. That seems to have been o‘ii, j its only object, and it became apparent j from the start seven years ago. Ithas copied from the records of the county a few things occasionally of no particular importance, but it has never given circulation to the wrong doings of public officials, or anything that would be of auy benefit to the community. Where its usefu 1 ness comes in is when the Intki.iugk.vckk ex-| poses some fraud in the public administration of affairs. It is here only that the poor old resurrected penny whistlenewspaper concern in the basement shows any signs of editorial activity, and then it is inserted at so much per line.For example, the Intmi.muknckr week before Just mentioned the fact that the Horse Thief Detective Society of this precinct, at their lust meeting, h/ul serious misgivings as to the honesty of James T. (.'oupor, shcrift’of Madison county, mi account of his allowing so many horse thieves to escape from tho comity jail, which cost the county forty-seven thousand dollars or thereabouts. The poor old resurrected penny whistle newspaper concern in the basement was forthwith called into requisition. It said, among a great many other child-like say lugs: i t ' ]!u| the |.fO]iie at large prefer io believe in Urn cllhilcwy ami intiwily lt;l' Mr,.his. T. I'iMijier null) charges tr the cunt vary come from some moreivpiitalile Kmirlt; e than i-itticr ailercnti il or il Ci'A-alci! jo-iltfeiit organ.Now that is very weak talk, and will do very well for school, children, but. for sensible people it is nauseating.Jns. T. Cooper has been charged with robbing the county of money—it so appears In di He rent language on the county records. And tho idea of the poor old vesuriecled penny whistle newspaper concern in the basement talking about a “more reputable souri’t;'1 is alarmingly amusing. Why, that paper has never had any other reputation than a deadbeat and bilk.It has exisleti principally upon its being connected with secret societies and the church, all of which it has j ;h-1 shamefully betrayed. Jt lias always been looked upon as a kind of social pauper which was hard to shake oil’.And it is a notorious fact that fora money consideration it could be made to repeat anything. More reputable, indeed,On the other hand the Intki,i.i* lt;iicxci:n has the endorsement and support of every decent and honest man in the community. Its success proves it.tiouwe1 it-vas hall-1hournoito eentThethisCiias. II. Ttxnonx, whose place of omJhnQmpcsu 14 Min Ivtti t.tiiv’v-■
Newspaper Details
Edwardsville Intelligencer
Edwardsville, Illinois, US
Wed, Sep 15, 1875
Page 4
Full Page
Clipped by
Hayner P.
IL, USA 03 Nov 2023
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