243:"In politics we continue neutral, and shall not be devoted to any political party or faction, but shall at all times and under all circumstances free to discuss matters of public interest on their merits. The field being so efficiently and capably filled by the metropolitan journals, wherein party politics is a specialty and wherein every faculty is afforded for fulfilling their mission, the village paper may well remain content to let them do the heavy work of the craft. It seems to us the village newspaper can devote its energies to better advantage by giving attention to matters of local import—affairs to which the community can feel an interest."
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Its reputation as a high-quality newspaper was well known, both in respect to reporting and technical achievement. H.P. Moore himself was selected by his peers to become
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