Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-02-19
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! NEEDLE AND MUDDLR.
The New School OF JOuTnalIsm-HOW
+ Horace Greeley was Rnined-The
( IagO or the Press.
= Especial Correspondence of the Pitts
burgh Commercial
New YORK, Feb. 4, 1873.
1t seems as if the deplorable wran-
gle in which the associates of the late
Horace Greeley are now engaged
= would never terminate. That " foul
: deeds may smell above the earth "
, the curtain is now raised to enable the
world to witness for itself the mon.
i strOus deeds that
PARALYZED A GREAT BRAIN.
The tragic death of the great editor;
his last will and testament, and the
discordant elements of the Tribune
! Association have been a prolific theme
for the entire journalistic fraternity !;
and yet the public know literally no
thing of the intrigues and deceplions
which were practiced by horde of
uncOnscionable knaves, who for pc
riOd of two years, held before the eyes
of the late lamented" the dazzling
prize of the Presidency. Ever since
HORACE GREELEY THwARTED VIM
H. SEWARD
at Chicago, he looked forward with
unabated hope to a Presidetial nomi-
nation. He never neglected an oppor-
tunity to appear before the people,
and hence half of his time was spent
in travelling throughout the country,
addressing his audiences on every
conceivable topic.
Mr.. Greeley's protracted Journey
| ings were a constant source of anxiety
to the principal owners of the Iri-
1 bune, for the reason that the editorial
management of the paper was invari-
ably under the control OF persons not
I" to the manner bOTn.'. It was on
the Tribune that
THAT POTENTIAL PARSONAGE IN
JOURNALISM,
the managing editor, first made his
appearance, in the person of John |
Russell Young, now Paris correspond |
ent for the New York Herald. Mr.. |
YOung's advent on the Tribune was |
an important epoch in Mr.. Greeley's |
life. He (Mr. Greeley had for years
been more or less under the curb Of
Charles A. Dana, who was actually |
Ine backbone of the Tribune. The |
Tribune Office was the
OASIS IN HORACE GREELEY's DESERT |
OF LIFE.
His sanetum was his home. He had
absolutely no other attachment, or
place of attraction, and strange as it
may seem, among all his panegyrists,
there was but one who told the world
of the cankeT that was eating at his
heart, the panacea for which was con-
slant, unremittiDg mental labor. An
editor who had possessed his conf
denee to an unlimited degree, said:
Nevertheless, to the few persons
who intimateiy-that is who inward
ly-knew this mans greaI-minded,
tender hearted and child like nature
who knew his many points of ex-
treme sensitiveness to the touch of
other hearts: and who knew his hab-
itual contact for thirty years with al
unspoken yet manifold sorrOGC that
deeDeRed into anguish to such per
sons it is not at ali remarkable that at
last, under an unlocked for cOnjunc-
ton of private grief and public trial,
the nervous vigor even OF a powerful
mind should have been overborne,
and that the great gladiator in wrest-
ling thus unequally with his last enc
my, should have been dragged through
a delirium of reason into a paralysis
Of life"
THIS UNsPOKEN YET MANIFOLD
SORROWn
Horace Greeley bore with the patience
of Socrates, yet it developed an ele-
ment of eccentricity in his mind
which only those persons intimately
acquainted with him could under
stand. Dana's autocratic assumption
of Mr.. Greeley's prerogatives finally
produced a rupture, and Dana was
forced to retire. Sydney Howard Gay,
who succeeded Dana, was neither
syeophant or fawner. He could not
be played upon by political tricksters,
and he failed to encourage the Presl-
Dental aspirations of his chief, hence
his administration was short lived.
s. Russell Young, clever disciple of
Forney's from the Philadelphia Press,
was the next to assist Mr.. Greeley,
which he did to his entire satisfaction.
Mr.. Young's career was brief but bril-
liant.
HIS ABRUPT RETIREMENT
from the Tribune resulted from his
own duplieity. He began by seizing
every pretext that offered for the dis
missal of tine old staff, and every va
cancy brought arother of FOrney's |
disciples from Philadelphia. Bureaus {
were established in distant quarters !
of the globe for those who could not
be dismissed, and the veterans were :
ordered, in true military style, to pro- {
coed to :heir far off destinations with {
out delay. To the remOnstrances of his j
associates regarding his lieutenanI's {
course, Mr.. Greeley was deaf. He {
discouraged attachments of every
kind, and advised his decapitated ed |
tors to "go West" Young soon es-
tablished
AN EDITORIAL RING. !
and like his veteran patron, attempted ,
TO run two papers (both daily), the .
Tribune and the Philadelphia Post, of ,
which he was principal owner, which
proved his ruin. The Post. which ,
was known by the "Ringn as the ,
" Baby" took nourishment from the ,
tribune. Its squeals disturbed the
Associated Press and they demanded
Young's scalp. Mr.. Greeley resisted !
their demand with one of his ohaTae-
teristic editorials but they were in
exorable, and Mr.. Greeley was incon-
solable at his loss. Whitelaw Reid
succeeded Young. The means where
by he secured the position
THROWS LAGOS LITTLE GAME CON-
PLETELY IN THE SHADE,
of which more anon. Young and
Reid had been Washington CORE
spondents- Their meeting was like
two Thomas cats on a garden wall.
YOuBg's aqdaeity proved not match
for Reid's mendacity; beside, Reid
had while in Washington put mon
ey In his purse" Reid, while CORE
spOndent of the. Cincinnati Gazette,
together with Horace White, who
then performed the same duty for the
Chicago Tribune, did, with unerring I
accuracy, prophesy as to the inten-
tions of the Ways and Means Com
mittee regarding the taxation on whis-
XIV. Whether the information was
communicated TO their