Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-03-06
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Tho wrirers or tse Eondoa Timss.
WHO THEx ARR, AND WHAT THgv DO.
Mr.. Golden Is at present the subject Of
much angry discussion IN England, A
movement having been made 70 besioW sub
stantial compliment On the shape Of gift Of
several thousand pouuds) upoa him for his
recent valuable services IN connection with
the French treaty and other important pub
lie scts, and in consideration Of ais Losses In
American railway stocks, the Times questions
his financial sagRcity, denOunces bis unpro-
itable investments and doubts the propristy
Of q testimonial tl-r
The friends Of Mr. Golden are naturally 10
dignant and pronounce the course Of the
Times the culmin tion OF cool baseness and
perverted truth, and blow ct the power and
influence of Mr.. Golden by men who mea-
sure the virtues Of public man by the magni-
tude Of his income or the size Of his house.
The papers are mainly against the Times and
for Ne. Golden, and the testimonial is likely
10 be secured TO the great reformer.
One Of the curious features Of the newpa-
per warfare excited by the affair Of Af, Cob
den is the bitterness of the Times contempt
raries The London Star and Dial, for IN
stance, permits aeorrespondent to denounce
the 'sThunderer" and its editorial writers 10
unmeasured terms. The editors Of thai pa
per are organized conspiratOrsi they fFe
shots through " "loop-hOles Of security and
from the acasemate Of Thugs" Printing
House square Is filed with ''cOndOttieri;' and
the Times fires "its infamous artillery" as well
as its "dWarfed intellectual manhood win per-
mit-and much more 10 the same effect. Il
is a revival OF the famous warfare Of the
Eatanswil Gazette and Independent. The
Stars correspondent is the living representa-
tive Of Mr.. Pott. he winds mp, however,
with the following account of the writers Of
the Times, comprising facts that are not
generally known:
First on the list stands the name of John
Thaddeus Delano, who may be called the
editor-in-ehief and, therefore, the suggester
or approver Of all the subtle basepess aud
scandalous personalities that degrade and
disgrace the Times He It is who selects,
moves aud instructs the mechanical in el-
lect Of the Times-directs the trained Sbirri
to the mark-and counsels the exact force,
weight, size and quality of the malignant
matter to be manufactured for each special
eass. The rest have neither power, volition
nor free agency Of any kind in discrimina-
ting the principles, policy, purpose or persons
to be served or scathed by their instrument
tality. They are ordered to their post, and
whether the work be o shield or sssassinate,
they must do it or depart. They take their
fee and 60 their way-seHd up a shower of
! fireworks to gloriiy some favorite notabiIity
or pOise, with cool aim, the deadly rife to
MAIN or murder the marked man This is
the daily occupation Of the secret Council of
Ten presided over BY the Doge Of Printing
House square. There is q corporate respon-
sibility for the results, though It may be in
possible to say which Of these hands held the
rife or dealt the blow. The Rev. Thomas
Mozeley is supposed to be the surest hand
/ for q well roised aim and a raking fre. Geo.
Webb Dasent, D. C. L., is coDjectured to
have ready pen for loose subjects, and oc-
casionslly 70 do very ill-natured thing in a
very good natured Way-Whilst Alexander
Knox does double duty to the state and
Times by distributing police court justice as a
metropolitan stipendiary, and serving as one
Of The Times SbiTri in his leisure hours. The
Right Honorable Robert Lowe, pronounced
to be one Of the most conspicuous failures
in the House of Commons is another of the
fash writers Of the Times, willing and ready
enough at call 10 serve the interests Of his
masters by any amount Of abuse that he may
be instructed to shower upon any one Of the
political friends or colleagues be has just
shaken hands with in the lobby of the House
of Commons. All these men are members
Of the Reform Club, and, of course, from cas-
ual co tact or occasional intercourse, come
not unfrequently into possession Of small
scraps Of information that serve as sparks Of
fact to fire whole blazing column Of IN
scrupulOus inVOctiTe or Misrepresentation,
whenever it serves the policy of the Times
to disparsge or blacken public man."
The Times deigns EOreply to these attacks,
but the fact that it is so heartily abused sug-
gests the idea thsbthe Star and its company
are perhaps tread up" in certain kinds Of
American newspaper literature. The Eng
lish press is usually 80 correct and civil that
tits surprising to 6nd it waging war Of ex.
pletiyes.