The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-20
A POLITICAL saMArl AND PRESS BULLY.

Horace Greeley Is the bully OF the press Yet like
the bully of the public school, he does not relish be- ng
hit back. Mr. School Bully is always sell-conscous OF
his own importance and must ever lay blows around on
tho small boys But when they turn on N aud eraul''
him. Mr. School Bully TO cover. and makes faces
and lays sneak traps to 60. them into disfavor AT head
quarters.
Tho tactics OF Mr. Press Bully similar to those Of
Mr. School Bully. Mr. P. D. characters that would
10 to confer on IL @. as PlebIscite degree) hits
tho little boys in the face and stands his
ground with an appearance OF brav2do. He hits
the big boys behind their packs and runs 10 cover
for grimaces. His Is the Tri,une Office, whore,
surrounded by little Gordon OF ickspittes Jour Man
hatauese for the cocfney phrase ''ioady, he Is by
them "seb-boyed, IKE the mastn VINO bafks best ID
his kennel. lie Is therefore II wond seem, only
like the bly -choolboy bnt the bully house dog But
le, US keep TO figure number one.
That il precisely tho lsure most liked by that press
bully Of late public opinion has been placing
''nough.s before It, II. O. is getting reduced to
nniissimal deem in his own party. bat figure num-
Der must be kept NJ nevertheless. so hs portrait
10 advertised premium for Tribune subscribers; his
speeches the Convention hrce day until he found
that all the members away when he rose 90 whine.
like plsstudinaran at dipner table are immensely
,sns that lie taes OF votes fairly scorn and are never
carried ana the cenios which tho astue city editor sup
presses 10 the Independent while the Rccolecsns
or Busy Llen that first rejected by the shrewd
manipulators Of the Wesly Diinns, because of their
egotsns. 40 into the Legsr. Yesterday paper con-
tanned hrs address before troo hundred people at the
opening Of the American institute aud which accord
lng 10 All the reports "imperfecty heard be-
cause of The nosc made by the workmen 10 another
arc az bad % his fellow delegates in The Convention.
Tho Same paper also contained one OF his vsp'd dead
lesters that waggSh clerk OF the Post Oice has
unearthed aud which was a no pos bic iatcTlsi TO
ANYBODY, aud which letter hspr " for the one 70 whom
addressed the latter never got tue issue o. the
day before contained card denying that u was II Gs
oolored Calico that Secretary Nc aoch was trying TO
WASH
Ills that latter "carir which really furnishes the
to this article II shows how the bully Of the press
shrinks from blowsfrom tho very BIND OF fou blows
Ills paper lad charged Ihuriow Weed with being
responsible for The Caco cr Calico 10 qge-ton Every
shrsrd politician know az ones bow laughably absurd
tbs was Mr. Weed rotortoi, in substance, that when
Callicoa vas laI heard Of !. was as poor Greeey's
pr0ios wherefore The bully Of The rres- hits thus In
The very "bresdb askctn bluboering out card from
Which the follow IL extract:"I do not know how
70 deal with such csumpcs according 10 the received
all tese nnpnia'ioas are oaseiess, AMI Their suthoss
Ia getting thus excited tho Bully OF tho Press forge,
that il was be who gave the nrst foul blow II thsrs
vas any 'immessursbe agocd mathematical adjective
for such Ttibss. nopnl 'e' about those premises OF
the press u consisted 10 charging Thurov Weed, who
was always anCalilcott man,iwith befrsndnE hins
Ssd te,rendsi the CAIcou whc he was in Albany In
distress had again sizns1 his papers" But the Bully
Got h aud he 0ed 20 cover 10 call names and mako
there was no logic intended 10 he put into the jobs
sonisn proposition that hs who Kills fat oxen shsuld
himself be fat" But there is world OF logic IN
the idea that he who tgbts must expect " BE- fought
nth ana 70 10 fought against with the weapons
,ha1 he usss and n he gives foul bows 10 have thsr
maid back Therefore the editor prows around the
iungles Of personality must cloiho himself Ia the hide
Of Inc rhIrocsros and not In The shvsus and sensitive
akin OF the antelope. -
seperal hing dvs-sixlhs Of the boya big or rle
whom he Bully OF tho Press hits have hsd their caices
hardened by hundred pitched public bkilss and many
| Of thsm no, only 40 no, care for the wild blows and
oovsrdIy OF Mr. Bully, but Pat did at Don
nybroot Fan h The head OF their adversary sirone
cfAok wherever sppoars, aud are glad 70 have bit
intcrtocutory notorety with the political lshnael o.
| 1891 whose baud hsvns been against everybody, ha
| come TO bsve sverybody's hand against him.
| Its the head Of the antelope they hit II " sens
uve below " thia tklns Il IL skie thai uk