The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-03-16
THE GREAT AMERICAN 30
MANIA.
FARAN, MCLEAN AND THE YOUNG
ROOSTER.


CAUSE OF THE GROWING OF THE cINcINNATI
ENQUIRER - SOME SKETCHES - PERSONAL
AND IMPERsoSAL.
lie GRAND HOTEL, CINCINNATI, March 10,
1S75.-"Mr. Gilmour," 1 calculated to the
handsome proprietor pere of this handsome
hotel, ST want to know what You think of
our Queen City of the West by this timer"
Every WELL" be responded, ''if you hadn't
quite so much SCOT in the air and SCOT in
Your newspapers. In all my experience
of many years in Baltimore, never saw so
much dirI-throwing in the press as L have so
far seen here. Your papers are lively, put
one or two certainly care very little Tor the
decencies of good society"
"To what Journal or journals 90 you re-
fer?" IneeklY inquired.
specify. The readers can see for them
selves"
GiImour is a Jolly gentleman who knows
the proprieties OF life as we'll as any man
does. and re Is discriminating, too. Having
resided here all my days, this view oil the
case had never suggested itself 10 me. AZ
once 1 undertook an Investigations hope
an impartial cne-Of the status of
TIE vIRTUoUs PRESS
OF Cincinnati. Ny examination was con-
duc;ed without partisan bias or prejudice,
and was, 1 think, pretty thorough. Will
not stop to 90 into detailed analysis, but
give only results; nor will upon this occa-
sion. for want of space, 60 over the whole
field. The poor old Gazette need not be
handled by me while Charles a. Dana lives.
Dana's New York Sun paragraphs OF the
- truly good" Deacon Richard Smith sufhce
as criticism on the blessed old Gazette.
Yet the Gazette has good qualities. IL makes
a pretty successful effort to be decent,
whatever may be the private al
fairs in connection with canal
leases or the peculiar personal
idiosyncrasies of the beautiful blonde who
presides at the helm-the Truly Good''
Richard. And might dismiss the twilight
Times for similar reason, that L do not
take up the Gazstte for dissection. \ very
Apollo OF beauty and John Bunyan OF
goodness is Josie Barrett of the Times. he,
100, like dear old Truly Good of the
Gazette, is affected with
WICKED PARTNERS,
chiefest OF whom is our bland and innocent
archbishop, Alex. Sands. Other wicked
men also surround him, and he is unhappy.
Major General Murat Halstead, of CORY
Gravolette fame, is a thousand years old
and celebrated his mighty centennial
among the "little people of Iceland"
. short time ago. Halste2d's Commercial
was once heather sheet, but has shown
signs of Christian civilization of late years.
Being one OF the quartetJe of eminent
Journalists who conformity gave birth to
the Liberal movement" IN 1872, associs-
ton with the good and great, from New
England TO the Ozark and Bloody Ground"
gave it tone and encouraged the CoIlmer-
cial to amend its ways. The reform is not
. complete, but
While yet the lamp holds out 70 burn,
The vilest sinner may return,
or rhyme to that effect.
After all nv dissection, investigation,
overhauliBg, L have concluded that the
real
wICKEDEST PAPER
of the Queen City is the concern on Vine
street known as the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Upon this occasion can only outline its
depths of degradation. This great "organ''
of the democracy of the West (as it egotisti-
cally claims to be) is issued from a small,
three-stCry dingy edifice OH the west side OF
Vine street, a few blocks north of the FASH
iOnable Fourth street. On one side is an inn
mense beer saloon and dance-house on the
other, a small frame shanty through which
leads the way to the more imposing back
building of the Enquirer concern-a club
house and liquor saloon. These three adj
juncts of the Enquirer are its real self, while
the sheet issued in the front
part forms its ideal SELF The Enquirer
anu pTOpTlSLOrS QudIleTS III
the gambling and are convenient
both to the faro-banks and the dram-shop
This of course accounts tor the
HIGH TONE
OF the great ''organ." The paper itself, as s
financial investment, has always been &
failure. 1t is always as impecunious as {
panic tramp" and barely ekes out miser
able existence from all its sources of supply
"Johu Mclean, don't make a dollar out o.
the concern" remarked an attacht
occasion. but" he added, she
makes his own money in New York anC
other places" L couldn't divine whether
the speaker intended 10 convey the idea thai
Johnnie interviewed the Bengal tiger a.
John Chamberlain's, or . AT al
events, the Enquirer is as poor as Jobs COB
bier. 4 prominent lawyer of Third street Is
said to have instituted suit against the es
adjustment in order to collect the bill for
work done by the Enquirer's Indiana cor
respondent during 1864. That correspond
ent is said TO have done good service, anC
vet was compensated in dribs II
the extent of only a few dollars
1t is reported that he was put off upon vari
Gus pretexts till the year had expired, and
when his account, which was computed al
the lowest rates paid TOR first-clsss work by
all metropolitan dailies making any preten
sions to responsibility, was presented, the
bOastful and magnificent "organ OF the
Western democracy repudiated. But then
you know, it is the famed Reputation or
gan, and was simply consistent. Before
get through with This biography will try
and interview both the attorney, who rep
resents the CORES pendent in prosecuting
his claim, and the correspondents himself
When the correspondents bill had becom
big enough TO repudiate to advantage, th
festive and risky
HOUSE OF REFUGE CONVICT,
'fPickaway," formerly, as dubbed in tn
Enquirer Office, "Wildrake,') was EN-
ployed to do some dirty work in your state
He is said 10 be good in looking after "snal
thieying." Perhaps bis early education az
counts for that. But the meanest part of tn
character of that wildrake, present Indian
correspondent Of the Enquirer, is his lat
hr1ltal i1aa-ra linda rd his alnla AZ a