The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-12-26
CONTROL OF THE NEW YORK
TRIBUNE.


After considerable commotion among
the shareholders of the capital stock Of
the Tribune Association. william Orion,
President of the Western UAioa Telegraph
Company, little over . week ago,
bought fifty-One shares of the oAe hun
dred into which the capital stock Is d.
vidcd. Samuel Sinclair and Whitelaw
Reid, each representing party, stood
ready to buy con trelling interest, bat
each failed to obtain the shares. In the
saleeto Orion Reid and Hay sold out,
and Sinclair sold oil except one share
which hs retained by rsqaest. Reid left
the sdit"rial coAtrel, but ceAsentad, as q
pers nal favor to Ortea, to retain the po-
sitiOn durisg the week.
Aa eff'rt was made to get Colfax for
Editor in Chief af the Tribune, but il
proved unsuccsSslul. Various causes Of
tbs fallurs have been given, bat the real
Ons is nost likely that gives by White
law Reid, at the time Edit"r in Chief Of
the Tribune. He Asys the real Glitch
was that Orion wanted 10 make the Trib-
uHe the organ Of the Western Uaien
Telegraph Comsany in lie hostility to
postal tslcgraphy, and that Mr.. Colfax
would not be = party to any such ar
rangement. This is just Is Night have
been and as we expected. Orton has ali
along opposed postal biography and
would intepd to maks tho Tribune the
orgaa of the WtstsrA Union Telegraph
CompaRy in ospoEition t. postal tele-
grapay. and Coifax c"ulS net be made a
party to any such arrAagsmsat.
Failing to OBJ xia CsIfax for Editor in
Chief and having toe great load to car
ry Mr.. Orion wisely sold out, as the fol-
lowing dispatch from Now York, Dscem-
Der 90 1, will show
William OrtoH. after considerable uego-
tiatioa, has res"ld to Whitslsw Reid ifly
shares out of the 7ribans Association for
a large advance o. the price ut which he
asst week purchased it He retains one
share, and it is farther sRreed that he
shall be elected vae ot>the Trustees OF the
association, thus securing it the benefit oil
his Influence and BUSINESS ability.
The Tribune, in an sdit"riAI announcing
he proprIetorshIp,ha has he following: we
propose continuing our old hartl. aga uSt
injustice aud iXnorAncs Under the same
r publican banser WHICH Horace Gree
ley upheld 80 ssnHtly and 40 l0Ay, and n
the same policy ct candid Jade pc ndep3e
WHICH 1t wa one Of his latest acts 20 re
afirm,over his e~n sigma urs. in 'hese col
umas Naturally We shall prafeT To sup
port, as far as p"ssIble, an administration
which processes ths party nams. Such an
ad kai nisIra ian will rscsivA from rs
tr"nk anG cordial approval If every &C
tloa performed in accordance with its
principle. But the Irib"ns is nnbndy's
fiicIal advocate. Our party aymp lthies
are not strong sa0uKh to overcome our
independence or muzzie our heusss utter
ance J"
From the announcement Of she Tribune
l. may be expected to coat inue to bat
tie against injustice and igaerancs uader
tho satne RepublicsR basnsI so stnutly
and 80 long upheld by Horace Greeley.
and OH the same policy Of . candid inde
pondence which it was one ef bis latest
acts to reaffirm. It will probably give
the administration partial support and n
less vigorous support b "A heretofore
to The principle of protection. It will re-
quiie time however to develop what
the 7rib@as will be under its new
pr"prie'ors and management. That it
may prove profitable and useful institu-
tinn and great power in the land for
good is the desirs Of all.