Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-14
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Chicago correspondence Of the New York sun.
q somewhat puzzling fact in political
journalism here is that all thealeading pa
perss though tercely at war with each other,
are supporters of the so-called Peoples
party. The Tribune is so because Mr.. H.
White is stanach Democrat, while the
Times and the itinots St6G:s Zeitause are
30 because both Story and HeisiIg are aim
ing at the post 81 cictatorisl leadership.
In this way the Republican party has for
It's Organs only the Inter-OceQn, the Erea-
ing journal and the Post and Mail, all
three papers of little influence and small
circulation. Tie IRter-Ocean Is a mod
erately liberal publication, evidently gain
ing ground; but scarcely able yet; / should
think, to make both ends meet. II Is read
by respectable people, but is poor in tel
egraIns and news generally, and rather
dull, though its sole proprietor
and editor, Mr.. Palmer, does ali he
can to Improve the paper. The Eressing
Journal and the Post ard Bdd are taken
by the public simply because there is { DE-
sire 10 read an evening PAPER but neither
Of the Journals seem TO have the slightest
pteterss 10 literary ability. Very few know
By whom tho Post and Mail is edited, orto
whom it belongs; while of the Ecening
Journal all that is known is that it is ed
tied by a Mr.. Shuman, a very quiet epd
honest map, and Is owned b. the Hon. III.
Wilson; predecessor OF Mr.. Moran in Lon
don, ard now resident at Geneva Lake,
(somewhere in this State, not in Switzer-
land.) Seeing that gentleman once, and
being told that he had been Secretary of
the American Legation In London, L scsrc5-
" could believe It from ths intense rough
ness of his manners and appearance.
was told that he came back from England
as he went there-"a man that can make
the incest round with his cup on the table
cloth of any elegant table,"
The three leading papers Of Chicago
would be a most Interesting subject of
study to any man who could spare the
time for il. The Tribune is undoubtedly
respectable, probably honest, and certainly
well managed, for It gets nearly all the ad-
vertisements. Yet, it is not read, and can
not be, for its dizziness is beyond descrip-
ton. Such profits as the paper has de-
rived in the nine years management Of
Mr.. White, came through the advertising
department. The only really ably con-
Quoted column in that paper is its musical
review, written by Mr.. Uptoni a man
whose knowledge of music entities him
10 a much more cultivated place than
Chicago. Mr.. White himself is a reg
ular sphinx, never speaking a word, with
a constant smile on his lips, and with
evidently no end Of money in his poe
ket. he started as penniless reporter on
the paper; was sent to Washington. got on
some committee there; received there va
uab.e information, upon the strength Of
which he speculated in whisky, and return
ed to Chicago with greenbacks enough to
buy the controlling interest in the Tribune,
and set aside the inflated old Governor
Bross and ice Medill, its founders. And
all this he did as quietly as the Trappist
performs his devotion. He Is said, how
ever, 10 be itan OF good disposition, and
some ability as a writer.
The Times-but everybody knows what
the Times is: filthy, sensational, unscru-
pulouS publication, owned and edited by
the same old man, of whom no one has
ever vet said good word. That il is full
of information cannot be questioned. That
no New York paper gives such an amount
of special kilograms from every part Of the
United States, is also beyond doubt. But
outside Of these kilograms and of news mat
ter, everything is filth and rascality. Pay,
and you can have anything you like said
in the Times The old and handsome
Storey, with his prOfusion of white hair,
and his white beard trimmed to a triangle,
is as cold as marble to all the attacks the
outside world. He seems to delight in being
an object of general hatred. Everybody is
afraid of him, everybody buys his paper to
see other people abused; consequently,
everybody pays him, and that is all he cares
for. He seldom condescends to fight any
one seriously. He merely gives pokes and
kicks The only man of whom he makes
an exception is his rival and neighbor,
Hesing (their offices are opposite each 9TH
err. Of abusing the man he is just as lit
tie weary as Hesing is of paying him back.
If Mr.. J. Medill, upon taking hold of the
Tribune, should be able to enlist talent and
life in his staff, he viii have the best chance
in the world of killing off each of these
two newspaper braves, and of giving the
Garden City an honest, well-informed
daily Journal. But he will have first of all
to send all the old maids away from the
1,-ib1Tuo office