, 1872-12-31
WASHINGTON.
Things Topmost---The New
York Tribune.
Cuba and Our Country-.-Tallzs
with Senators Fenton and
Anthony.

WASHINGTON, Lee. II, 15t2-
have been amused q: the interest taken in
the mooted sele1tion OF 7Ir. Colfa1 for the
editorshu OF the New York Tribune. I am not
En- admirer OF Mr.. Colfax, hut think am
capable Of doing him justice in what he is good
fo-. lie has been 8 nimble parliameutarian,
ard the posse ssor Of an ostensibly boyish ma
ture, which, coupled With long term in Con-
gress. has made quiet people throughout the
country believe IN his integrity, responsibility,
and morality.
fills IN coshoPoL1TAS,sN.
The New York Tribune IL partly owned by 8
c1odhopper sort OF named Sinclair, and it is
s singular instance Of the difference between
cacts and Impressions that Sinclair was alwsya
able to have more potency in the Tribune when
he wanted it than Mr.. Greeley. Another
owner Of this paper WAS pill-doc-
tor in Massachusetts,, AMI it has been
said that the elares of these two obscura per-
s22s actually made minority of tho Tribune
Company. Like :aarv Of the pi1l-do--3rs, Aver
lately got notion that ne ought to como to Con-
fress. He began to be querulous hbout Gree
Ny's position in the campaign, because it an
Keyed him [:Ayer) vncAhe wanted 4 nomination
for Co1E1cs. :: :4c,.ell. Mr.. Sinclair adhered to
atr. Greeley :, $ Eineerity,-perhaps suppozing
that to have i l.- ::-:end President would be as
good thing as =; have him editor. But no
sooner was Gree al. aud while the sound
Of tie ciods up3s 5 cofiin-lid Tcro fresh on the
car, than Mr.. Sinclair undertook an ArSonau!ic
expedition 70 discover q grea. man to wear the
Old boots OF Hora?c. Consulting the farming
constituency as he supposed them to feel, Sin
clair preferred Culfax to be the coming man.
4 DIFFERENCE.
No f,ya men 1ifTcret7 sn Y1,1ch "a C-1fo1 and
Greeley Greelcys very injustice had boldness
AID nobility about il. 70 WAS 30 thoroughly
Impressed with his own convictions that he was
sf:eu unjust to persons as formidable in theirs.
Ee was the nearest approach to seli-ma?e man
which we had. Tie color Of his face and # his
hair showed animal flush and strength. and lie
could call 9 man La to his face Gs we'll as on
paper. sheri1an-Congrcssma ac-
co7ding to NarmotL's count, from Louisiana
told me of q visit Warmoth enc, made, at the
head.of large delegation, to Greeley, in order
TO get the Tribune enlisted On the Warmoth eide
Greeley, all alone, would turn to Warmoth and
''Eo-: much money did you have when you
wen: to 1-cui:i:ns: 1t las bee4 u good thing
Tor vca. rcckoa."
Then he would turn to Sheridan .rd say:
Whe.e did you carpet-bag FROM"
Warmo1n got hot and tried to buster it cut,
cut the old man was King Of the situation.
Now, want two Witnesses to define any such
qualifications in SCHUYLER Cclfax. The smile on
his face is probably s;nce-e enough. God forbid
that l attempt to estimate the moral value Of t.
mans Emilei But the directnees, ,:,e uci:iye-
ness; the greatness: the rcb.e in7r,, 'cnce. tile
originality, Of Mr.. G7cc!eys life. can 10 repro
6,ced IN this country, but not by Nr. Sinclair's
nominations.
GREAT CHANCE THROWN AWAY
regard the New York Tribune. under notlo
ownership, as the most valuable newrrapc:-
property On the globe. It's weekly circulation
was always sham; and. t. keep up
that sham about turnip-sced ard sorg hum,
daily we're elvaya wasted. The daily WIS c,,l-
Dssal infant running along By .iae Of +l..>s
1ncorrigiblo weekly. II Greeley and Colfaz
we're to perambulate together. tho former would
what the daily should have been, and
the latter what the weekly was. Tho time las
passed by for the 3sow York Weekly Tribune to
plaster this country all over with it's superficial
gasconada and artificial simplicity on the ques-
tion Of farming. Tho time has corne for the
Daily Tribune to stand erect and be itself, aud
K1r. Colfax was not asked to New York to edi:
the Daily Tribune, but to be the makeshift for
tile weekly. In his hands, the daily would never
have been the creature OF positive men:
The magnitude Of this question touches every
hearth and school-houee in the land. The times
tnat are upon us are Of the sort to make even
men afraid The President has been reelected
by mighty majority, and every let and
moth in the air claims to be q part OF the VIC
tory. The men who supported the editor who is
dead did it with Observation-Disclosures in the in
terests Of the nation OF which we are part but
Te accep. the Presidents reelection With all
fidelity, and propose, without sacrificing any por-
tion Of our individuality, to study him for the
good that may be in him, and not to make this
country facsious.
circumstances, than to SEQ pih-doctors aud
such people running away from the
dead candidates grave to find popular
boys to wear those great boots and flourish the
>so1$ 1.r- .lA1
which vas never meant to be taken up by suck
inGs with al the confidence OF King Carrot.
IL EoI DEs AFFA1REs.
have said that the New York Tribune affords
the best chance in tho world to make great
newspaper, and il requires few words to prove
as much. Th5 influence the news has LII our
time requires mind us well rs enterprise to ac-
company it. The New York Herald recently
sent Alr. Stanley to find DR.. Livingstone, and
the man did hie worls well; but how much diff
fetent would the result have bccn if the cor
respondent had shown so1no previous training
and discipline, go that he might dignity the
news. The New Yo-':: Tribune has never made
but one elective venture in the news and that
good salary. to live hero aud watch affairs.
Through his ofce came that development Of en-
tc-priso during tlo F-anco~prussan war by
Tutch 9;et: the I'7tu"e CLIPPED the winge Of every
sentiments. Tho stockholders of that paper haye
only to keep such facts in mind, enlarge their
capital. and double their enterprise, and the
daily Tribune ccn become the most formidable
Eapcr in America. Tie real facts are, that the
abl.3t newspaper men in this country arc now in
the West. What Western man, possessing .
controlling interest in tho New York Trihst,e,
would set to work. with indecent haste ener
Greeleys death: to take up plausible POLITICIAN
somewhere, and make him m editor. only for
TIE purpose Of recovering the circulation Of the
Weekly New York I1;:,tae?
4 CHANCE.
It is rrnored that the Tribune has been pur-
chased for ono 1aillion OF dollars. Now, the
first thing for the men to do who have bought
tho paper is to get another half million, and
spend it in the hex! eighteen months, and ex-
pect no dividends for y couple Of years. Such
opportunities ~ this seldom occur. The reading
population tributary to New York is the greatest
IN the globe. It Is five times that Of Paris, and
tlrce times that OF London. The circulation OF
The CHICAGO TRIBUNE at tho present timo is not
far from that Of tile London Times, which is not.
as many think. q hundred thousand subscribers.
but nearer thirty thousand.
lAkE MEN.
The people OF this country who arc not in poll
tics, and who want their newspaper to be
to them true adviser, enterprieing
townsman, and manly individuality, ought