National Republican., 1874-05-29
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY, TIE
TIMES AND THE WORLD.

) Two years ago the National Republican
? Committee, the Republican Committee Of
s the State of New York, the party leaders
1 in different States of the Union. and a large
= number of gentlemen who felt patriotic
, interest in the welfare of their country, who
! desired 10 see Republican ideas and princi
3 Piles perpetuated. united In an effort to es,
tablish the New York Times as trustwor.
thy Republican journal, to increase its cir
/ culation and make it. what it had not been
since the death of Henry j. Raymond, OF
+ some value to its owners and to the party.
The task was an exceedingly difficult one
for the reason that the course of the paper
since the death of its founder had been 50
weak and vacillating, so absolutely stupid
and ignorant that the people had no conf
dence whatever in it. To commend it to
the readers of the old Tribune, to make
the generation which had been fed on the
sinewy English of Horace Greeley take it
and read it in place of the old journal, was
one Of the most difficult works ever under
taken by a party. A variety of causes, how
ever, combined to favor the effort. Mr.
Greeley accepted nomination from the
Democratic party. The Tribune, of course
followed his fortunes, and began to as
sail the men and the measures it
had been defending for more than
a third of a generation: The result was that
the Times, Notwithstanding the heavy load
it had to carry in its unnaturalized English
editor, who knew nothing about our poll
tics, less about our history, and still less
about even the geography of the country,
was as 1t were pulled out of the grave into
which the blunders and mismanagement of
Jennings had sunk It. In q night as it
were the circulation of its daily edition was
trebled; running up from next to nothing
to about twenty five thousand. Its weekly
edition, which could be put in q single mail
bag, was sent up to over one hundred
thousand. The concern was, in a word,
placed upon the high road to prosperity;
advertisements began to crowd upon it, and
the country Republican press wrote it into
a notoriety and political position to which
it was in no sense entitled. The unnatur-
allied person who edits it contrived to OBJ
tain little stock in the concern, to sow dis
sension between Mr.. Jones, the publisher,
and Mr.. Morgan. both of whom own large
interests in the paper. Since then he has
had the low cunning to keep these two gen.
tlemen inimical to one another, and by
casting the votes on his stock always on
the Jones side to retain the position for
which he has not single qualification in
the world
We have made this explanation. not by
way of an attack on Jennings, but 10 give
the public some insight into the manage
ment of the Times, and to account for what
may seem its eccentric course upon most
questions which affect the Republican
party. Jennings is not, in the first place,
citizen of the United States, and, in the
second, he is not a Republican. He is a
mere adventurer, and, if he were compelled
to leave the Times tomorrow, would re-
turn to London, and, in all probability,
write another book Hbeling America and
American institutions. He is q vain, con-
ceited snob, and is silly enough to believe
that the Republican party cannot possibly
exist without his assistance. The repeated
'fsnubbings" he receives from leading men,
bers of the party in Washington and New
York has set him fairly wild; hence the
attacks upon the party and the party policy
which from time to time appear in its
columns. A, recent article, evidently from
his pen, and written under some such cir
cumstances as these to which we have
alluded, and which conclusively shows his
lack of fealty to the Republican party,
drew forth the commentator of the New
York World yesterday in the following
words: can article from the Times, repub-
'lished in another column, is worth read |
'fng. 1t discusses the late election of Mr. |
eaton as Senator from Connecticut; ad- |
Units that calling him a copperhead and
Bourbon is played OUT reminds the Re- |
publican party thst State rights are real and |
righteous things which cannot be stuffed |
away and covered up with old glory, the |
'fbattle-fag of freedom; confesses that
reconstruction at the South is shocking |
failure, disgraceful to the Republican |
''party and the republic; denounces the
''civil rights bill as sentimental nonsense,
'fand warns its party that when Mr.. Eaton
land his party raise these questions, loyal
''howls and groans will not put him down, .
'tnor be echoed from the Times Office"
The article which elected from the cop
perhead organ of the Democracy the above |
eulogium was entitled t'The Republican |
Party and the South" It was, as we said,
written by the unnaturalized editor himself
and closed as follows: ''Nine years have
passed since the close of the war, and is
'South Carolina better governed than she
twas thenf She clearly is not so well
governed as she was under purely mill
'tary rule. The same must be said, D1u-
''tdtis nautandis, of Louisiana, Mississippi, |
Texas and Arkansas. Now it is folly to
suppose that the Republican party, as an
Organization, will continue much longer
'to look on with perfect satisfaction at this
great failure The leaders of the present
moment may not pay any attention to the
subject but if they do not other leaders
twill arise who will see that justice is done,
'Last week we all witnessed the United
Estates Senate engaged for about twenty
'four hours at stretch In passing bill
"for the benefi. of the negro merely out ef
'fs sentimental sort of Difference to the
'wishes of deceased Senator. Respect
''for the dead is incumbent on Us all, but
Legislation should be based on careful
''snd wise regard for the welfare of the
Giving, not upon mandates, real or ficti-
''tions of the dead.
''The negro has had very fair amount
"of protection. It is important before going
''any further to find out what use he has
''made of the freedom given to him; in
''what way he has exercised the vast politi-
zeal powers with which he has been en-
''dowed; what sort of government he has
''helped to get up in States where he is
most powerful; whether, in short, he at
this moment stands in need of protection
from the white man or the white man
stands in need of protection from him. If
Mr.. Eaton intends TO raise these ques-
''tions depend upon 1t he will obtain an
audience, and he cannot be suppressed by