The Van Buren press., 1872-09-24
Ths Old Granny and Nat. Hill.

comets and other natural wonders presents to
US also strange things in the party organ
business. We now have an old granny OF a
newspaper. controlled by a few, in the entire
Interests of a few. published at Little Rock,
called the Gazette, and which aforesaid old
granny presumes to be the organ of the Re
form party of Arkansas. That it has no earth
ly claim to this high prerogative, is demon
! stTated by its conduct in seHmgits circulation
Z 20 tie infamous speech of NAT. HILL. 1t pre-
( tends that the printing of the speech was
& purely business matter, for which it was
duly Paid by Hill, lout OF the Grant fund.-
But how about the gratuitous loan OF its cir
culation, Now We have been and are now
| in full sympathy with this Reform movement,
and the Gazette has been carping at the action
of the State Convention ever since its adj
iournment. Even at the Committee meetings
| it had It's man there to demonstrate by facts
and figures that" Joe Brooks " could not car
ry the State. In this manner it proposed in
its antiquarian simplicity, to aid the Reform
movement. The Journal OF Little Rock has
/ been and is now a consistent advocate of the
present Reform movement. 1t is inspired
with a feeling entirely consistent with our
success-and to il, is now due the name and
position of the organ of the Reform party.
Let the GGtette go. 1t has served its time and
has shown its unbounded love for Grant mon
ey in the Nat, Hill speech matter. II it
loves money so well as to loan its circulation
| to Nat. in order to get a twenty dollar
job then the people cannot longer rust it as
! their watchman on the outer works. We do
not care to make fight on the old hulk. IL
is not worth the powder. Let it he discarded
as all useless things and let us address our
selves to other sources Of power. Many and
cogeHt reasons can be given for this, but we
prefer TO allow them to remain unwritten,
unless the would be organ desires to stir them
up.
That our readers may see that we do not
condemn this act of the Gazette with preju-
diced eyes, we copy the following from the
Daily Helena World. of September l4th, un-
der the Editorial control of the Democratic
Conservative Executive Committee of Phil
| lips county. lt is pungent and speaks to the
point
TaE GA2ErTE SUrrLENENT.-- The Weekly
Arkansas Gazette, of the 10th September, r,with
an immense supplement, conspicuoucly head
ed, "Ptodse read and gire to your heighbor,'
! Is before us. Upon close inspection OF this
appendage to that journal we found it to be
a vllainous harangue made by the notorious
| Nat. liill. in Conway county, ON the Goth Of
| August last. We turned it over and over,
| bottom side up, and looked and wondered,
and still the wonder grcw,how this thing was.
| 1t occurred to lis that Nat Hill, or Jack Nc
! Clure had perpetratCd fraud upon our.la-
! zette friends-had by some craft or cunning,
made the Gazette the vehicle for the dStribu
! ton of this vile document, We felt indignant
! that our esteemed friends of the Gazette had
| been SO foully dealt with. But our indigna-
ton in this respect, did not last long. We
were soon undeceived. Another glance re-
| vcaled the mortifying fact and event that the
Arkansas Gazette had sold its columns to Nat
| Hill, to be used as conduit pipe through
which he could squirt his billngsgate and
! filthy compound of iallacics and msrepresen-
| tations all over the State.
| 1T is no defence to the Gazette to say :" the
| publication is made by us as pure matter of
business, it hayin. been contracted and paid
| for, as any other printing" The address does
not appear as job work. 1t appears as a sup
plement to the paper, and is as much a part
! thereof as If the same matter had been insert
cd on either page OF the paper. And, as il to
add insult to injury. the readers and support
ers Of the Gazette, are asked 10 "please read
and give to your ncighbor." The thin at
! tempt of the Gazette to vindcate its course,
serves cniy to aggravate the crime which we
charge 1t has, in this particular, committed
against its own party and against the people
| from whom that journal draws its " meat and
drink" If the Gazette were an independent
newspaper, the case were far different But
| 1t is n party organ-claims the leadership in
our party atiairS-is the advocate of reform.
and of Brooks for Governor--has been con-
sistcnt opponent Of bad men and their dan
ycrouS political hereSes, and yet, in view OF
all this, has, contrary to principle and precc-
dent for paltry pay, lent its columns. and its
circulation to disseminate through the State
a false. scurilous and bought harangue by an
unpIincpled scoundrel and tool against the
national ana state ticket at the head of its
own columns. And yet il calls this "busi-
ness and Job work. We suppose the ac-
tual cost of the Job was about twenty dol
| lars and yet for this, it lent its columns, its
! extensive patronage and wide circulation to
man who j., by the words Of the Gazette
working in the direct interest OF tho pres
ent corrupt federal and state administra-
tions. seeking opportunities for making
political mischief -" sowing bad seed and
tarcs -" the emissary Of those who may reap
profit as the fruit OF his labors, and is
working in the interest OF the Radical party
Of this State and deserves to be regarded ac-
rs a gratuty or for pay by party organ, is
totally inlefcnSihlc. TO say the least it casts
suspicion on the integrity and purity of its
motives.
Upon the plea Of the Gazette, that this sup
plement was issued as a matter OF business
and job printing, we have just right to con-
clude that If it were applied to, and paid by
Price or Mcclure, for the publication each
week of a huge supplement advocating the
election of Grant and Baxter and opposing
the election Of Greeley and Brooks. the APP
plcation would be agreed to, and that Jour
nal thus become the instrument Of laying be-
fore its readers, for Republican money, dec
triUcs a. fatal to liberty and happiness as the
secretions of the Upas trees are to human life.
And yet its managers would have the audac-
I ity TO attempt to screen the cnormity oftheir
conduct with the transparent veil of Job
| work
We shall deliberate maturely before making
up our mind to accuse the Gazette publicly Of
corruption, or to charge that radical filthy
ucre procured its publication and crcula-
! ton Of llills speech. but we are now prepar-
ed to say that its conduct in this matter ought
| to work forfeiture of the respect and conf
dencc It crce enjoyed throughout the State
and destroy its influence forever.
ILLINOIS A special to the st. Louis Times