The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-21
The New Democratic Organ.
Ftom the ~. Y. Trtbnne.

The Hon. Mark M. PomerOy, the great De-
mocra,ic editor and statesman of the West, has
honored us with a copy of his ''nsw national
daily paper" the Democrat. We are glad to
have an opportunity ofcongratulating Mr.. Til
den and his friends that they are about to have
an organ that will force the fighting" We
have been convinced that the disgust which the
pure Democracy OF New York felt for the Heraid
and the n orid would take expression in this
form. II was impossible for great party,
party of lusiy, Jealous, aud bold men, TO forever
follow the uncertain leadership of the Hcraid,
or to find comfort in the endless columns of
twaddle which the hangers on of the Mauhat-
tan Club daily distil into the New York IV0rid.
They have yearned for a leader like Pomeroy;
and now POmeroy comes among them, a Saul
among Democratic prophets, and raises the
banner of true Democracy in New York.
Mr.. Pomeroy informs us that his paper will
be ''red hot" that it will be ga true, reliable,
out-andOut Democratic daily paper" that it
will he "the sharpest, plainest, most readable,
best edited, and most interesting daily paper
ever issued in America" and that ''it will per-
sstently and uuhnchingly advocate the equa-
lity of States or another war;" He also assures
US, that in arranging this platform, it is "with
a full knowledge OF the wants of the people,
their sentiments, and demands" The differ
eucs between Mr.. POmerOy and the other De-
moci attic editors is that he is sincere. He
claims to be a Democrat, and nothing else
A periodical writer recently made a sensation
by publishing the history of "rhe Wczsdest
Man in New York"-Mr. John Allen of
Water street. What Mr. Allen is to New
York society, Mr.. POmeroy is to American
journalism. He is the "Wickedest" edi-
tor in the country, and doesn't claim
TO be anything else. Mr.. Allen makes his
living by harbOIiug prostitutes, selling red
hot" liquor, having ''Ted-hop' dances, aud
generally furnishing his guests with q fred
Mr.. Allen is beloved d-nizen OF Water street,
and on the high road to fortune. Mr.. Pome-
roy proposes to publish "red-hOt news
paper" He will do justice to the virtues of
Wilkes Booth; he viii tell rs of the loves of
Grant among the Digger Indians, and about
Buffers enormous larceny of spoons, and will
illustrate the toTments of the 'g0rilla Lin
coin" as he ''roas's i'll the lowest hell" Mr..
John Allen, if he were to start newspaper to
rival POmeroy, could not more aptly SUIT the
ID M cratic taste. 1t is all very we'll for those
curled darliDgs of the Manhattan Club, sod
den with the fumes of Mr.. lrlOw's cham
pagre, to write their rhetorical ribbles about
the Constitution and tha laws; but the true
hearted Democrat, the Democrat who goes to
the polls and assists in swelling the great
Democratic majority of New York, wants just
such teaching as Mr.. POmeroy proposes to
! give him.
The only difficulty with Mr.. Pomeroy's en-
| terprise is, that about nine tenths of the De-
mocratic party cannot read. He is, therefore,
| very much in the position of Goldsmith who
went to Holland to teach English, and upon
arriving there found he could not talk Dutch.
! This is one reason for the confidential circula-
tion of the Word, although another is that
even if the masses of the Democracy could read
! the World, they would not be able to under
| stand it. MIR. Pomeroy will meet this difficulty
by printing abundant illustrations. We shall
| nf ir,ia of
cation; of Butler as ''the Lowell Shyster,''
'spooD- thief" and ''bank robber;" of the
"gentleman" Booth in all the glory of his
patriotic virtue; and of "Abe' Lincoln in all
the merited agony of eternal punishment.
There are few Democrats so ignorant that they
cannot understand a picture; and by this
means the Wickedest Editor in America will
tenets of their faith.
The advent of Mr.. Pomeroy is matter that
more Immediately concerns the WOrA, the
| Heratd and the hTpreSS than it does the Tri-
bune. Al the same time, it is an event in New
York journalism. 1t was something to know
that we had Mr.. John Allen in Water street,
and that he represented phase of metropoli-
tan society. 1t is also something to know that
We have Mr.. Brick Pomeroy in journalism,
and that he leads mighty and well-disciplined
party. AS for the World, it serves no pur-
pose either useful or ornamental, except to
print the ineXhaustble letters OF George T.
Curtis and the interminable speeches of Mr.
Tilden. 1t would be a sad thing for Mr.. Curtis
not to have an organ; and Mr.. Tilden in the
agony OF unreported speeches is subject toe
dreadful for contemplation. But what will be
their loss will be the gain of the party gene
rally. The Herald is not in so much danger
MIR. Pomeroy has great genius, but Mr.. Ben
nett if the pinch comes, can teach him how
to make paper $50 Enthusiastically Democrat,
that people will know what it means the frs
reading"
The Presidential CGntest-The Degradation
Of the Party PreSs-SOme Specimel