Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1866-12-28
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A BIG ROW IN TIE NEW FORK
HERALD EDITORIAL. STAFF.


The departure Of the managing editor OF
the New York Heald on long and ven
turesome journey, rendered several changes
necessary in the editorial staff; but, beyond
this, there are other reasons and deep
moving causes that have tended lately to
almost an entire reorganization Of the forces
Of this journal.
The principal of these causes was the
combination Of a certain class or "ring" Of
editors, reporters and Others, with the secret
purpose Of fleeing Mr.. Bennett, ST., in Z
most uneTateful and even criminal manner.
This clique, led by a former correspondent,
who had been placed in a responsible
position in the editorial room, was COM
posed exclusively Of Western journalists,
who, in order to furnish the Western press
with news, stole the material Of the Her.
ads special dispatches from all parts Of
the world, and used the telegraph for the
speedy transmission Of the stolen property
10 the newspapers Of the West. Although
they received a large sum for this journal
istic plundeTing, the proprietors Of The
papers receiving the benefit Of their dis
honesty could well afford it, considering
that Mr.. Bennett pays on an average three
hundred dollars, in expenses and salaries
Of correspondents, for each dispatch, good,
bad, Indifferent, interesting or otherwise
that he may receive.
The members Of this ring" however
bent on money-making, were not satisfied
with the large returns thus gained over and
above their individual salaries, but looking
TO still greater profits, sought, by the accu-
mutation Of powerful elements, TO gradually
work onward until they might have perfect
control Of every department Of the estab-
iishment, thus aiming TO make stupendous
fraud on Mr.. Bennett and, moreover, to be
supported and perpetusted by his genius
and liberality.
With this design they began a systematic
and continuous decrial Of Eastern journal
lists, and one by one, through the employ
ment Of insidious means and artful men
dacity, they succeeded in ousting good
number of them, filling their places with
" trustworthy" men from the West.
But a number Of shrewd employees the
establishment, foreseeing the end TO which
the plans Of the "ring" we're conducting
them, set 10 work 10 ferret out the causes
the melting motives TO this indiscriminate
war upon Eastern Journalists They sue
ceeded finally in obtaining indubitablt
proofs Of the nature and extent of the enor
nous swindle being perpetrated on Mr.
Bennett; and, accordingly, after having
made all their preparations, and having
procured written evidence of every charge
presented the papers setting forth the
whole fraud to Mr.. Bennett himstlE The
result was the discharge of the entire
ring" and the repression of the boosted
Western enterprise " in the Herald edito-
rial rooms.
This exploded swindle was probably the
largest and most remuneratye ever at
tempted. One member Of the "ring y
alone is said to have cleared from it over
four thousand dollars in as many months,
and the other members Of the delectable
cable have probably acted upon the prin-
ciple Of go thou and do likewise