Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-12-24
SUSPENSION OF AN "ORGAN."

The Daily Republic, recently started in
New York as the special organ of the Admin
istration, was compelled, for want of patron
age. to suspend publication on the 18th in
stant In noticing the demise of this parti-
san sheet, the Tribune of the 18th, indulges
the following racy comments, which, by the
way, embody some wholesome truths as res
poets the usefulness or influence, in this en-
lightened day, of partisan newspaper:
Yesterday morning The Republic loaded it.
self to the muzzle with Outrages from Arkan-
sas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Ala
bama the Court Of Oyer and Terminer, and
the Eighteenth Ward, discharged them all
with one tremendous report, and simultaneous.
ly disappeared from view. Whether it had
blown itself out of existence or only died of
exhaustion it would perhaps be impertinent
to inquire 1t is enough to know that when
the smoke of the explosion lifted, the New
York organ of the Administration was dis
covered to be shattered into hopeless frag-
ments.
In some respects it was good paper. Its
facilities for obtaining news we're not extern
sive, but it made the hest use of such as 1t
had, and it was able to command the services
of several clever and experienced journalists
who understood their trade. Its appearance
was attractive, and if it was never Brilliant it
was certainly better written and better edited
than many journals which have achieved
fair measure of success. Representing the
temper and policy of the Administration wing
of the Republican party, it naturally looked for
support from the Presidents friends in this
city, and had strong claim upon that gov
ernment patronage which is supposed to be
valuable to every newspaper in the first hard
months of its existence. And yet it is gone,
after brief but not uneventful life of precise
ly ten weeks and one day. Even oficehol-
ders seemed to take but languid interest in
it. 1t is poor life that depends upon the
sympathies of politicians, or the generosity of
those who happen to be united only in a sell
fish struggle for place and money. There
are inded two or three achievements in the
record of The Republican which will be re-
membered. It discovered mure murdered
negroes in the South than all the other jour.
mails put together, and it was the only news
paper in the world which published inteli-
gence of the death of Queen Victoria and the
consequent turmoil in the streets of London.
But it was upon its party sympathies, after all,
that it founded its chief, if not its only title to
consideration, and its failure, therefore, con-
veys lesson which politicians with more
money than brains will do we'll to learn.
The trade of politics and the profession of
journalism are too incongruous ever to be
pro6tably combined. Ofcourse upon all pub
lie affairs good newspaper will have decided
opinions, and so long as politics depend upon
principles it will generally hold more or less
friendly relations with some political party.
But when it consents to become the mouth
piece of partisan organization it destroys
its own future; it throws away its influence
and puts obstructions in the way ofits proper
work. In these days of advanced and ad-
vancing journalism there is no place for par
ty organs. But The Republic was even worse
than party organ, for it was personal Or
gan. It was founded by the friends and
associates of the President, to promote his per-
sonal fortunes to tell whatever stories would
favor his plans to keep back whatever would
interfere with them. A little curiosity, of very
mild type, was therefore felt for while in its
utterances; but when it astounded the world
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financial views, and was officially repudated
in consequence, all this ceased. The Republic
ought to have given up the ghost the next
morning it had no longer the faintest excuse
for living.
One Of the persons connected with it is said
to have remarked to reporter that this cat
astrophe was "the death knell of Republican
ism in New York" We cannot vouch for
the story, but it is so characteristic of the
spirit in which the paper was established and
conducted, that it ought to be true. In the
theory of its founders there we're no Repub.
licans, no patriotic citizens, no safe honest good
men except those who took care of the Gus.
tom-houses and applauded the Administra-
ton all day long. Criticism was treason !;
advice was impertinence; objection was an
outrage, and decent protest was "cam-
pagin lie" The kind of Republicanism
which such talk represents had its death.b blow
on the Sd of November, and we are rather
surprised that its organ fingered so long after