The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-12-09
From = RecOnecJtOals "a a busy Life Ia
the New YORK. Ledger.l
Mr.. GFeeley'S Account of His News
papers.
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TRIBUNE.

presidential elect on which it did not
throw away by its own dissentions;
and, being now united, regarded its
success as inevita bic. You Wings,
said DIR. Duncan, of Ohio, one of its
most effective canvassers, achieve
great victories every day in the year
but one-that is the DAY OF e'ec-
ition." 1t was certain that a party
which had enjoyed the ever-increas-
ing patronage of the Federal Govern
ment for the preceding twelve years,
which welded that of most of the
States also, and which was still backed
by the popularity and active sympathy
OF Gen. jackson, was not to be ex-
PEELED from power without the most
resolute, persistent, systematic eXeT-
tions. Hence it was determined in
the councils of our friends at Albany
that new campa ;gn paper should be
issued, 10 be entitled The Log Cabin
and | was chosen to conduct it. No
contributions were made or sought in
Its behalf / was to publish as we'll
as edit ii; it was 10 be folio of good
size; and it was determined that fl
teen copies should be sent for the full
term OF six months (from May l to
November y for s..
L had just secured q new partner
(my fifth or sixth of considerable
business capacity, when this campaign
sheet was undertaken, and the imme-
diate influx of subscriptions frighten-
ed and repealed him. He insisted
that the price was ruinous; that the
paper could not be afforded tor so
little; that we should inevitably be
bankrupted by its enormous circuia-
ton, and all my expOstulations and
entreaties were unavailing against his
fixed resolve TO get out of the concern
at once. | therefore dissolved and
settled with him, and was left alone
to edit aud publish both The Aet0
Yorker and The Log Cabin, as I had
in 1888 edited, but not published,
The Neto- Yorker and The jefferson
ian. Having neither steam presses
nor facilities for mailing, | was
obliged to hire everything done but
the headwork, which involved heavier
OUTLAWS than | ought to have had to
meet. / tried to make The Log
Go BIN as effective as | could, with en-
cravings of Gen. Harrison's battle
scenes, music, &C., and to make it a
model of its kind; but the times were
so changed that it was more lively
and less sedately argumentative than
The JeferSontdn.
Its circulation was entirely beyond
precedent. | fixed the edition Of No.
at 10000; but, before the close Of
the week, was obliged to print 10
900 more; and even this was too few.
The circulation ran rapidly up to So
900, and might have been increased,
had | possessed ample facilities for
printing and mailing, to 100000. With
the machinery of distributiou~by the
news companies, expresses, &c, now
existing, | guess that it might have
been sWelled to a quarter Of a million.
And, though l made very little money
by it, gave every subscriber an extra
number containing the results of the
election. After that | continued the
paper for a full year Longer; having a
circulation of 10000 copies, which
about paid the cost, counting my
work as editer nothing.
The Log Cab n was but an incident,
feature ct the canvass. Briefly, we
Wings took the lead, and kept it
throughout. Our opponents sJrug-
gled manfully, desperately; but wind
and tide were against them. They
had campaign and other papers, and
good speakers, and large meetings:
but we were far ahead of them ia
singing, and in electioneeripg EN-
blems and notices which appealed to
popular sympathies. The elections
held next after the Harrisburg nomi
nations were local, but they all went
our way; and the State elections
which soon followed amply confirmed
their indications. In September.
Maine held her State election, and
chose the Wing candidate for Gov
ernor edward Kent, by a small ma
jority, button very full vote. The
Democrats did not concede his cleo
ton till after the vote for President,
In NOvpmber. Pennsylvania, IN DC
tober, gave a small Democratic major ]
ity; but we insisted that it could be
overcome when we came to vote for
Harrison; and it was. In October.
Ohio, Indiana, and Georgia, all gave
decisive Harrison majorities, render
ing the great result morally certain.
Yet, when the choice of the Presiden-
tai electors was ascertained, even the
most sangulne among US were astOun-
ded by the completeness of our tri-
umph. We had given Gen. Harrison
the electoral votes of all but the sew
en- States of New Hampshire, Virgin
Ia, South Carolina, Alabama, Illinois.
Missouri, and Arkansas-60 in all
viii our candidate had 234: making
his the heaviest majority by which apV
President had ever been chosen. New
York, where each party had done its
best, had been carried for him bv ~
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