Liberal Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1???, 1873-05-24
THE PARTY AND THE NEWS
PAPERS.

tial election about newspapers without
a party. The drift of the public
concern in this regard seems to have
changed, and the trouble is now about
party without newspapers The notion
that newspaper which is not a party
organ is like ship without a ruddsr
j. relic of the paleozoic age OF
journalism, but 1t was found desirable
and thought to be particularly cute.
to revive it for application to the inde'
pendent press. The newspapers in
cluded in this category have not exhib.
tied any special alarm at the terrible
state of things which was predicted as
a result of the independent position in
viii ch the late election had left them
They have, without single exception
steadily progressed in prosperity, in
creased their usefulness, and found a
wider field of lnAa nc, in the unbiased
and unconstrained expression OF
opinion. Now, however, an Admipis
tration paper comes forward and
acknowledges that the shoe pnches Oh
the other other foot As the ndepend-
ent press fourd no occasion for alarm.
and refused to be Wiped into a servile
position, while their indepf n9enee and
freedom were at once profitable, congen
al, and popular, the scare was trans
ferred to the party. The Washington
Republican, an or an of the Admins
tration at The Capital, has sounded The
alarm. Commenting upon certain ut
terenccs Of Congressman Scoield, in
which he expressed the opIpion tha I
the Chicago Tribune, the New York
Tribune, the Cincinnati CommeIc cioi
the Courier Journal, and the ST Louis
RcpuJican-only FIVE papers--'were
able 20 put tie whole Republican party to
its trumg s, the " Washingtop Rfppbicoa
confesses that one of tae dangers that
threatens the party at the present tim"
is the loss OF its newspapers. 1t points
out th&t the New York Times has ut
terIy failed to fill the place as party
newspaper which was vacated by the
New York 7r1bune and says, further
that, ''in whatever direction We turn
We ind that the newspapers that form
erly stood by and sustained the pariJ
have either assumed an attitude o
hostility or are cold and Indifferent Il
it" ] be Republican is determined
that it shall not be misunderstood, ar
!; desires to impress upon the party th'
full significance of the situation, for j
rereats; at 1t is plain to any oae wh'
, ever pays the slightest attention to the
subject, that the Republican party i
losing its newspapers day by day. anc
for the most obvious reasons in tn
world" 1t may or msy not be tha
"the most obvious reasons in the world
to the Washington Rtpnb1ican are th
same that would be cited outside tn
party; but the fact remains, attested by
leading Administration organ located
at the lookout of the political citadel
that the newspapers are z radualIy losin
their loyalty to the party, and that tn
change is fraught with significance an
danger-to the party.
In reproducing the article fror
the Washington Republican, and th
views of Mr., Scofeld-who further
says that eve 1.-THE party] can
afford to keep up the effort" agains
what is pleased to call ga powerfu
press syndicate" y The Nation con
cludes that no party can maintain it
self with the whole intelligent press {
the country arrayed against it for thre
years. The Nation also says, that, if tn
:, editorial statement made by the Ae
:; s ministration paper be true, "then it
,r certain that movement has begu
spontaneous, unforeseen, long before
Presidential election, and on the hee
of disastrous defeat, which is lay'n
the broadcast and strongest foundatie
= for future party, by drawing to itse
g the sympathy, if not the support, of Il
le entire intelligence of the PEOPLE"