Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-12-13

Tie founders and leading spirits Of the
three great metropolitan journals, the
Herald, Tribune and Tunes, have passed
away. We copy. in another column, an
interesting analysis and comparison Of the
characters Of the three. 1t does not praise
too highly the marked qualities Of the three
men, nor does it say, as it might, that there
are none to I'LL their places. Yet that seems
to Us to be mournfnl truth.
The Tunes has indeed done well, especially
for the last year or 50, thanks to the oppor-
tanities which came to it for greatpublc SER
vice in the overthrow Of Tammany and a.
the leading Republican paper of New York
after the detection Of the Tribune, and ct
the fearlessness, independence and vigor
with which its conductors accepted and tsl-
filed the task which fell to them in each of
those emergencies. But no constant reader
Of the Times under Mr. Raymond, can fail
70 SEQ that the paper never needed him more
than during thepast year In boldness and
independence, indeed the Times has been all
it could have been if he had remained at it,
head, and it fully deserves its high place and
prosperity. But there would have been u
ring TO its leaders, a tone to the paper, and
9 senias in its management, ifhe had lived
through the fight on Tammany, which be
il remembered to his honor he began, AID
through the last great political campaign,
which we have not found in it.
Bennett Of the Herald, had become old,
and as an individual had passed good
denl oat of public notice before his death
aud in some respects his son seems
to make good his place. Yet the young
er Bennett, without the immense resources
and prestige which his father handed down
TO him with the Herald, could hardly
have made the paper what Is. 1t is saying
much for him that the paper under his con-
tro. sG>tains Its old fame for enterprise as
newspaper, and Tor the kind Of indepen-
dsnce ior which the Herald has the original
patent kind which relieves its editors Of
al care what the course of the paper was the
day before or i to be the day after, which
indeed almost removes one editorial column
from any dependence on another. Then,
By enterprises like the sending Of Stanley
after Livingstone, be keeps the paper and
himself as thoroughly before the public a.
any other in the world. He is a better
yach;sman than writer, We guess but as
there il no need that he should do any
writing, that is no matter He can carry
on, though ho never could have created. the
Hrald
Up to the late political eampa ign, 80 dis
n-trous TO him and to the Tribune, Mr.
Gresley was more to the Tribune than either
Of the Others to his paper 1t has been said
that he ,rds the Tribune : and il was almost
50. His individual reputation was worth
everything to the Tsi5Hnc and the tremen-
dous falling of in the yigor and interest Of
its editorial page, 50 generally remarked
when he left its control for time. shows
that his personal presence and work a. a
writer was Of the utmost value 10 the paper
His political course greatly weakened his
hold on the confidence Of thousands
of the Tribune readers, and we great
ly doubt, if, with his utmost efforts
and with unimpaired health and yigor, even
be could have regained for the Tri5-ne it.
old standing But, however that might
have been, it !. plain enough that there is
no one now on tie paper that can take his
= D.
Of very little consequence to anybody but
himself, and the Tribune must call TO it,
head some greater name and greater genius,
to become again what it has been in the
past.
Talk as We may OF the superiority Of i'm
personal journalism the career of these three
papers show. how largely the connection Of |
well-known editor with Il journal gives in |
tsrsst to its columns, value to its opinions.
and strength to its leadership. American
readers like 10 connect with their paper
some individual. To know, or think they |
know, that some one well-known and res
pected mind controls its course, give for |
them special interest in its opinions Thus |
6Grper Weekly Is worth more, because |
heo. William Curtis is known as its editor, |
than It would be If it was iustas good as il is,
without him. The Springfield ReD,lbl,can as
Mr.. Bowles' paper the World as Marbles. |
the Ere1ing Post as Bryant's, the Cincin- |
natl Commercial as Halstead's. and 50 on. |
are thought more Of by their readers than if |
no personal interest attached to the editorial /
page. AND II remains to he seen how suc- |
es~iully the momentum and force of q great |
Journal, ss machine, can bs made TO sus-