New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-18
WRONG NOTIONS ABOUT Mr.. GREELEY.
From TIE Golden 40e


Among the popular fallacies concerning
Horace Greeley few which we Will point out and
correct thought to be deficient IN business tact or
executive On the contrary those who have been
long and intimately associated IN business with nm,
oil affairs Of money and property his g0vernanoe Of
THE TRIBUNE great institution OF which he is not only
the beginning OF It's history and particularly during the
last dozen years been signal executive success Mr.
the pecuniary as with the editorial management Of his
paper. To preside with skill over such an establish,
inent-invOlying, such office Goes, daily control
md direction OF hundreds OF enpl0yes-eIs Into ex-
faculties No better tribute be paid TO the success
with which Mr. Greeley gets along with his associates
than the fact that the same men remain year after year
an the same Stations with little change almost
among the feudal retainers OF a medieval lord Tie
IL the same man who helped Mr. Greeley more than
50 years 10 get out the first copy OF THE TRIBUNE
Tie foreman IN tue compOslDgroOm did the same.
Thus, heads of departments have remained al their
posts for third OF century, and both are propTieors
AK these men whether Mr.. Greeley understands any
thing about businessi There is not papermer in
Hanayunk who understands the paper-Inarket better
sea an i've m Geeey in
finance he is great believer IN thrift, economy debt
philosopher sone pay as you CO., Inc only reason
ness tact and administrative Judgment OF the same
Another current absurdiy about him is that while
be lie an honest himself ne IL surrounded by
terle Of knaves. Mr.. Greeley haDtually associates
with tho best men and women Of ms time. Editors,
lawyers senator's judges, governorsfrom all parts OF
and with whom Lie eats and drinks OF course, Dews.
paper Office keeps an open gate to al Corners and as
many schemes and charatns and rogues enter with the
rest saluting bm ana RECEIVING al return hs
iInadnes that Mr.. Greeley has not q disciplined and
penetrating instinct for character makes as great mis-
take in supposing that when he goes 10 sleep in
church, he does not hear the sermon We have known
MIR Greeley to sleep thrOu III long speech, and then
its close rise and reply 10 it, point for point In like
thrOu gh the gentle oblivion which some
kefuness OF scrutiny which detects the scoundre at
glance. In this sort Of insight lac reminds US Of Abr
Another of the aacies IL that ne given to blunders
We do not say that Mr. Greeley is free from laundering
But 1t must DC remembered that the editor Of daily
paper IL necessarily frequent blunderer No matter
who the Is he publicly prints HIS opinion so5 times
year, lac viii inevitably DO wrong eOmetimes-nay,
often. Another person may wait till his JUDGMENT OF
case rpens but an editor must express his Judgment
without waiting. Accordingly, he says today what he
must unsay tomorrow. This is the exgency Of his pro-
The foremost In II not free from the law
which concludes all its votaTes in this common inrmity
Oi misjudHnent. But put any other man on such
Tostfum THE TRIBUNE, and bid him speak six days in
The thirty years, and count his bunders during
that timel Who wOnld have done better than Mr..
Greeleyi Nay, VINO could have done 80 wellf Then,
20 virtues side" He has never Numbered INTO en-
the public treasury with graEpDg and grabbing hands.
lie has never rpped BY happy accident into the County
His chief plumbers have been against himself and not
Another Of the popular caprices is that he is not
safe This is vague and indefinite indictment. If 1t
In his handstbat he would have policy today and
another tOmorrow-nothing could be further from the
truth. Mr. Greeley u a. steadfast IN his intellectual
judgments he is In his moral cOnvctons Fckleness
docs not belong to his nature His sincerity his
estDess his straightforwardness-a ,these qualities
patent as the sunshine TO all who know
him well enough to know anything OF the movements
Of his mind lie would be safe prudent as con
serVatye President sat in the Executive chair
bs Administration would deal preemnenty with the
business interests and practical development OF the
country be would have the grandest cabinet that the
Iation could produce and his ministers and all their
DGerofcers would expected work about 10 hours
out OF The 2undoF the tIeless example OF thelr chief
who Of the hardest working OF the sons Of toll"
We have thought tit 10 notice these fellacles to-day
slall from lime time correct other misjudneDts
concerning Of the best known yot least undersood
al American statesmen.
4 SOUTHERN OPINION OF Mr.. GREELEY's
PROSPECTS.
sb al rom Y,irak ker run kodg Deaonaa EdGoT Of
Hr. Greeley takes well here. Our best men
haye been 10 cQnsUaIlqn with me, and We al agree 10