Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-17
a MORRIRUND PAPER.

i n mOkk1huND - FAfER.
The decadence of a great newspaper
is a sorrowful thing to contemplate =
In its sadness 1t is akin to the spectacle
OF strong loving friend sinking da,
by day into the jaws Of death will
consumption. We all recollect tn,
New York Tribune of the past. How
from day to day and week to weel
through It's columns, Greeley, God
win, Dana, Ripley, Fry, and those 9th
er intellectual newspaper athletes, whit
made that paper Justly famous, hurlet
their hot shot into those twin relics Of
barbarism. slavery, and democracy
until they crumbled to pieces abon'
the ears Of their supporters, has passed
into history. But the day of the Tn
batne giants has ended, and the era o.
the squirts has been inaugurated.--
Fabius Maximus Greeley has gone te
his reward, and Varro Whitelaw Reid
is in command. And 10 comparing
Reid to varro we have done injustice
to varro, for history records that Han.
nibals victim at Cannae had been Z
good butcher, ia his time, even II he
was an atrocious failure - . comman-
der. The men who wrote the famous
leaders OF the Tribune in times past,
whose reverbations rs-echoed around
the civilized world, hsve been succeed
cd by Reid, who wears an immense
mustache and q velvet cost, and who
has never written anything worth re-
membering, and the inspired black
guard, John Hay, whose principal con-
tribution to literature is 'Banty Tim"
which concludes as follows:
$50 my gentle sasslles tAar'a my answer. 4
IL a srnped IMP % dsssSs 1 u % ior NE that day,
You may fesolnts hin the cows come home.
But II one Of you touches that boy,
He'll raaale hts hash In he'll tonight,
Or my names not Tilghman JOY"
The balance Of the editored staff Of
that paper is unknown to the general
public, but judging from their style
aud verbosity, we should say that they
had graduated In journalism In wri-
ting Patent Office Reports, and that
they got pay for their editorial produce
tions by the rod measure. To the ex-
tent Of their ability they are now try
ing to prove that al which Greeley and
his compeers taught was wrong in the
ory, and therefore pernicious in its
logical conclusions. They are in the
main the fellows who ran that paper
during the inglorious Greeley cam
paign, and careful reader Of it then
aud now win not wonder that its
treachery and stupidity drove Greeley
to madness and death. s
We have its issue of the I'd instant
before US, and submit below one of its
principal editorials written in the Pc
culiarly sportive and brilliant style
characteristic Of the modern Tribune
folk. Let the reader scan 1t carefully,
and thcn IL no cvor liked Greeley, let
him be profoundly thankful that the
sturdy old journalist is dead and in
his grave:
"a lady Of a very economical turn of
mind not long ago illuminated with
her presence . Rhode Island clam bake.
With her came six-yesr-old son, who
likewise illuminated the occasion by q
marvellous and transcendant power Of
absorption of CLAIMS. The saltiness of
this delicious food naturally aroused
in this young gentleman an urgent
thirst, which, as the Warehouses
phrases it, he proceeded to "squench"
with ice-water. No mother animated
by the instinct of economy could, of
course, endure for . moment this wick
ed waste. With dignity in her port,
wrath flaming in her eye, she intimated
loudly to that degenerate boy that hav-
ing paid for his dinner of CLAIMS she
was not a-going to have him occupy
available space with ics.w water. When
one reflects what an invaluable Con.
gressman this snoble woman would
make, her ineligibility to that Office
seems almost more than one can bear
calmly"