National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-10-23

OF It's opponents. II LhuSs AofC Aetusio
merits of its own and prove its faith by
work. Setting down the October defeats
to the third-term agitation, civil service re-
form and similar matters is, as the Graphic
says, ''to show lamentable ignorance of
the real condition of things"
THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE
REPUBLICAN, PARTY
Nearly twelve months ago THE Ma
TIoNAL REPUBLICAN printed the first ar
ticle that was published in the country ar
raigning Mr.. Louis ]. Jennings, the editor
of the New York Times, as false and faith
less to the principles and policy of the Re-
publican party. At the time the course of
this journal was approved by some of the
more sagacious leaders of the party in Con-
gress and in the State of New York, as we
learned from the letters and communion
tons which came to us; but in the general
newspaper press, and especially among
Republican journals, it met with very little
sympathy or support A large number Of
them were friendly to the Times; another
class, who knew nothing about the actual
condition of affairs, attributed our structures
to jealousy-as if we could be jealous of
the TImes-and another portion were afraid
to take sides in the controversy. Time has
abundantly justified the judgment of THE
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN. Since the date
of the publication referred to we have seen
the Times drift further and further from
the Republican party; we have seen its
subscription list decreased nearly one half
and we have seen it supplsnted IN New
York city and State by a new journal-the
RepUbIic-which Is to-day the authorized
organ of the party in that section of the
country. Hany further evidence were re-
quired TO sustain the correctness Of the
Judgment we then formed, it is to be found
in the following article from the New York
World of Wednesday last. In an editorial
that paper-the organ of Tweed as long as
Tweed was a power, the organ to-day Of
the pugilist Morrissey, who has stepped
into Tweed's place-says: Grants Wash.
"ington organ reads the Times out of the
Republican party for confessing: 1. Its
corruption is uncleansed; 2. Its credit
"mobilierists are unpublished or promoted;
''3. Its salary grabbers made but half
"hearted restitution; 4. Its Sanborn con-
"tracts were swindles; 8. Its cabinet Off
"cer was disgraced; 6. Its party machine
"is ridden by Ben Butler; Z. It's recon
" struction has ruined the South; 8. Its
COURAGE mill is Attorney General Williams
"cheating the North; 8. It's tolerance Of
third term is ruin to Grantan his psrty.
"And, adds this organ of all that was dis
loyal in the North in the days of disloyslty,
this instigator Of draft riots, which rejoiced
at every victory of Lee and at every defeat
Of Grant and the loyal commanders of its
country, 1--WE have already commended the
"candor Of the Times, and hope that it viii
''maintain itself in its open and now public
contention with the corruptionists, the
third-termites and the President of its
"party in spirit of dignity and with ade-
"quate moral courage"
Thus the Copperhesd organ of New
York pats on the shoulder the unnatural
lied editor of the Times in his public con-
"tention with its party and the President
"of its party" 1t is q sweet and tender
alliance. The successor to Henry ]. Ray
mond makes himself so acceptable to the
bitter and unrelenting foes of the great
journal which Raymond founded that it
finds for him and for it room for columns
of the most gracious eulogy. 1t is really
difficult to believe that articles Of the char
acter indicated in the above list could have
appeared in ''the only Republican paper in
New York" But the record stands, laid
bare by the merciless hand Of the World.
In it we have the portrait Of Jennings and
the Times printed in colors that cannot be
blotted out. We rub our eyes in astonish-
ment, and think it must be all mistake
that the sagacious World has been thinking
of Mr.. Reid and the Tribune, and con-
founded the two papers; but the Times, by
its silence, confesses judgment, scknowl-
edges the thinning TO be accurate in all its
details. 1t is to be hoped our contemporary
and the unnaturalized editor will find CON-
fort and consolation in this Endorsement of
the World. The certificate of character
which it gives him was sorely needed.
The only difficulty in the way is that it
will provoke the Jealousy of the Tribune
and invite it to greater efforts in behalf of
the Democracy, and in that way deprive
the Times of whatever advantage might
have come to it from Its newly-born sd-
vocacy of Democratic supremacy. The
Tribune is better and stronger paper than
the Times, and can render more service to
the Opposition, because its editor is an
American, who understands American
politics and the geography of the country,
which Mr.. Jennings does not
To the Republican party. however. one
great advantage viii come from this ex-
posure and Endorsement by the World of
the Times. 1t is shown up in its true light
to the Republican party, and those who
were slow to believe in its infdelity and
treachery must at last acknowledge that it
is a mere pirate, whose captain and crew
ehould he shot at ciObf