New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-10-24
An Impending Crisis.


The rumor that q great change is to take
place in the management of the Tribune right
after the Presidential election, is too prob
able not to be generally credited. The share
holders, it is reported, have become seriously
alarmed at the rapid falling off in the circu-
lation Of the paper in consequence OF Mr..
Greeley's salto mortale and his personal or
ganist's wild somersaults, and have deter
mined to put the edtorship into more trust
worthy and steady hands, to avert ruin,
which otherwise would be inevitable. Most of
the subscriptions for the weekly issue, which
it is asserted, constitutes the real treasure
of the establishment, expire with the close
of the year, and unless a complete change for
the better is effected before that time, crisis
is impending in the shape Of another tidal
wave, which will make q rather clean sweep
of those disguised readers, who thus far
have still chung to the paper for the only
reason that they have paid for it. All this
might have been expected, and it is easy to
imagine the dsmay and indignation Of the
shareholders at seeing their journal reduced
to the degrading part of serving as speak
ing trumpet to an individual, who. in his
cravings for the Presidency, has turned
traitor to them and to their party !; has made
that once powerful organ the conduit OF all
the vile SANDER that he in his criminal folly
is pleased to hurl at the heads of his former
allies through a mouthpiece afflicted with an
incurable moral inirmty, consisting in the
complete absence of a sense oftruth, honesty,
ings with which they look to day on the ruins
of the building which formerly was the sub
iect of their well-founded pride, must re-
semble those of the oM ner Of stately man
sion, who, after letting the same to a tenant
whom he had known before as thoroughly
respectable and gentlemanly person, at once
finds that it has been converted into Il gamb-
ling house, rat pit, or liquor saloon. just as
easy it is to picture the veXation of the sub
scribers, especially those of the weekly,
large part of whom live in rural Districts or
smaller cities, all Of them Republicans of
course, who for years had been accustomed
to look forward to the Tribune as their chief
source of political and general information,
as we'll as Of entertainment and recreation
after the labOrs of the day. How bewidered
and confused they must have been, when
they were told that the party with which
they had always voted, and looked upon as
the party of progress, liberty, and justice,
had outliyed its usefulness, and an end must
be made to its rule that its foremost men,
in whom they had been taught to trust I'M
plcitly, were gang of swindlers, forgers,
and robbers, and that on the contrary,
the men whom they had always seen de-
nounced as the worst set of traitors, thieves,
and scoundrels who ever trod the ground,
were the only true and honorable men, the
patriots who are to save the country from
ruin! How perplexed they must have been
when they were virtually asked, not only to
abandon all their old associations, but to
make war upon them; in short, to remove
all their convictions, their ideas Of right and
wrong, for the great object of towing Mr..
Greeley to the White House! How utterly
dissatisfied they must have grown, to find in
the place Of those fine, elaborate, and in
structive articles--perfect in form, noble in
their tendencies, and dignified in tone nothing
but either coarse pugilism, vile vituperation
and defamation of every active and prOmi-
nent Republican, Or glowing eulogies on the
murderers of negroes and Union men!
Certain it is that the present Tribune has
played its part. Mr.. Greeley and his per-
sonal oroanist have OyerdOnc their work to
such degree by running its credit, that it is
no longer power either for good or for mis-
chief. Its shrieks of despair and its cheers
over imaginary victories, which it uttcrs in
turn, are laughed at alike by sympathizers
and antagonists, and it will need Il man Of
more than ordinary gifts to lift it once more
to its former height, and to regain the lost
ground.
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