Connecticut western news., 1872-06-07

with the Courier, in 1929, he continued to write in the editorial department of the Courier and Enquirer and in the autumn of the same year, he became an associate editor. In 1881 he commenced series of l articles on the banking system of the Uni ted States, Sustaining the opposition of Gen. Jackson and the democratic party, to the recharter of the United States bank. He ! remained in this position until 1882, when 8 difference of political opinion with the sen for editor, Col. J. w. Webb, led to his re- l tirement, and in October of the same year, he issued the first number of a new journal called the New York Globe. This contin- ued precisely one month, during which time it was devoted strenuously to the cause of Jackson and Van Buren. MT. Bennett then purchased part of the PennSyl0G- nsaa,, daily journal in Philadelphia, and became it's principal editor. He continued this publication until 1884, when he return ed to New York, and in May, 1885. issued the first number of the New York Herald, with which journal his name has since that time been identified.
 The Herdld was started as an indepen- dent penny paper, and was published from cellar on Nassau street. He began in the humblest way, wrote his own wrappers, sold papers oyer the counter, received and cfcu WIOlo bli6 duNCELloCLAcuLo. hO was several times on the verge of ruin, but man. aged to get the paper out until it became self-supporting. He had learned to distrust men and politics, and the one motto and end of his new paper was success. He had
 learned that this could best be secured by catering to the taste of the greatest number, which unhappily in New York, was of the unprincipled class, and so admirably did he succeed that for many years the name of the New York Herald was synonymous with all that is unprincipled in journalism. B.-nnett's abuse of men in New York in vnlved him in many difficulties, and on one nccasion he was horsewhipped in h" street for personal article which appeared in the early days of the Herald. Mr. Bennett did not rely on this characteristic alone to g;ve circulation to his paper, but at the same time his enterprise prompted him to make it a vehicle of news. fresh and reliable, while it's market reports made it necessity to the whole mercantile community. Thus he obtained for the Herald wide circula- ton at once, and it soon became in many respects the leading journal of the age. As it increased in age it grew in decency and responsibility, while with its increasing means is showed increased enterprise, till it's ubiuuitous correspondents were found in every part of the world. In early life democrat, and probably always so at heart, Mir. Bennett made his paper independent in politics, inclin;ng always to the side that he thought most likely to win and alternately supporting and criticising the measures of all parties. With all it's recklessness of principle, there has been reliableness in the facts 1t publishes and a sagacity in the predictions it utters which has made the Herald sought by men of all parties. It has been motto with Bennett, never to prophecy but day in advance and hence he is less liable to mistakes than those who venture to foretell the remote future. It was not till Bennett was twenty-eight years of age that he exhibited his remarkable tal- ent for journalism, and that was when act ing as Washington correspondent of the New York Enquirer. He had acquired style of writing at once light and gossippy, yet racy and piquant, and his letters to the Enquire, were eagerly read and copied into other papers, and gave their author wide reputation. Of late years MT. Bennett has done little or nothing in the way of manag- ing the Herald though his name has stood at the head of it's columns.