The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-07-28
NEW YORK's FOUR GREAT JOUN
NAILS.
The Herald. The sun, The Times, The
Tribune,-How and by whom Man
Editors Register:

The Herald. The sun, Inc Times, Inc
Tribune, How and by whom Man
aged.
Editors Register:
New York may well pride itself as
having within its borders, the four
greatest journals in the world, the Herald
the san, the Times and the Tribune.
The Herald is owned by James Gordon
Bennett, who stepped into an immense
fortune without any effort on his own
part. Since the death of the elder Ben
rett, the great paper has branched out
more Briarean than ever. "My father"
said James Gordon, ir., "made the
Herald a great paper but l intend to
make it still greater; there is not money
enough in New York city to buy the
Herald" The young proprietor's name
stands out boldly as editor, but 1t Is very
doubtful whether he ever wrote line tor
his paper. He has plenty of talent but
1t does not run in the Journalistic !lne
The good things of the world, its wine
and It's horses take up most OF his time.
Still Bennett never torgets his charge
He gathers around him the best talent,
rewards it munlfcently, and reaps a
q golden harvest. He is notorious
dictator" rs young men suddenly come
into power generally are, and his wishes
are always understood even when only
half expressed, owing to the brightness
of his employees.
The Herald has made one great i'm
provement in dropping the personality
standard which made 1t so conspicuous
under the elder Bennett. The best jour
mails are apt to lose much OF their power
when individusized. The broader the
verge OF thought and the view, and the
more expansive the diction OF editors
the stronger their hold on popular opln-
ION. Only gladiator IN journalism has
the courage of dealing SINGLE handed with
men and measures, yet the old Scotch
man did this and very often pandered to
the degenerate tastes of newsmongers,
lovers of teuds and factions. Hence 1t
MAS that the cowhide was held over him
more than once. But the Herald grew
under this system. Where one dropped
It for being abused one thousand sought
!, TO see who was abused. Bennett,
withal, was superior judge OF the public
taste, none better except Horace Greeley.
But Greeley took higher flights than
Bennett.
To day, the Herald has perhaps the
strongest staff in the world, not even ex-
ceptipg the London Times. Mr.. Connery,
lis managing editor is, | believe, Ford
ham college man, worthy representa-
tive OF the better class of University men
who have, within the last two decades,
done 50 much to purify our newspaper
literature and mould it into scholarly
method. John Boyle o Reilly, the poet,
and editor of the Boston Pilot, Is another
of the same class He comes from TRINITY
college, Dublin, an institution which has
Given US some of our best editors. Har-
ward, Yale and Georgetown colleges
have also given us q Bsyard, Taylor
Stedman and Randall. George Douglas,
of the Washington Capital and Pitts.
burgh Leader, and who has just received
mis- A. NJ. from Georgetown college, l
lock upon him as one of the most brilliant
Young journalists of the country.
To return to the Herald, John Russell
Young. Nerdhoff, O'Reilly, o Belrne and
John p. Foley are all men OF culture.
Foley made his mark Ms managing edltor
of the Baltimore G0zette. de always
appeared to me to understand what L
consider the great secret IN safety con-
Quoting \ news paper and that IL, to
know lust what TO leave out. Hart
succeeded Foley when the latter went 70
the Herald but there is an intellectual
descent from Foley to Hart and the
Gazette feels il.
THE SUN.
The New York Sun is the most in
luental journal in America and It's CIR
culatIon rs the largest in the world, ex-
cecIinc by several thousand that OF the
BsrnIG There is nothing small aOou.
the paper. 1t has always been the
strong champion in the cause OF right
eOusness and terror to evll-doers.
Csmpaigners know tins and dread It's
power. Always above suspicion, 1t COM
mands universal respect, and honest men
take it as n medel in forming their pollti-
cal opinions. You might as well try to
overthrow the Andes mountain by mere
volition AS to influence the Sun one
mll.ionth part of hairs breadth. Grant
was afraid OF its power. SAID ms son, u
:. ir., to nae, some years ago: "hr. Seiby,
much rs l like you l shall consider my
self bound to desplse your friendship tue
moment YOU are 80 unfortunate as 10
ale mn with the New York Sun; its
the most disreputable paper we have
DO YOU resd it? "Yes, or | glance
overit." The "old man" used TO study the
, editorials. Blaine does the same thing
today. IS witness his Woodstock oration,
plagiarism No wonder that Gath
saws OF Blaine. "he is powerful man 10
save cheese parings; most OF what he
knows was caves. dropped and picked up
on the fly"
| know that "Boss" Sheppard hated the
Ntn. Murtagh, of the National Rep"5t
can turned pale when ne read 1T ne
looked for the hand writing on the wall.
Bsbcock heard the great paper, trem 6led
and believed, as the devils do. The
whisky thieves, the Washington ring, the
Chsndlerites and the Mortonites, the
lar villains in high places would have
given Comstock lode tor Danss lite.
The Sun never does its work insidlous-
"; it is fesrlessly brave, tt but not
an unjust Judge, never inconsistent free
of b,gotry, CONTENDER of snobbery
Hon Chss. A. Dana, is the chief OF the
editorial staff. n great and good man,
forcible, vigorous writer, as his work
shows, You will never find in his edi'
| -, that vspid liouditv which char
scterizes SO many of our journals. l look
upon Dana as the clearest headed poiiti'
| clan in America.
The literary department OF the paper
under Mr.. Haywood is kept up to high
standard. Sometimes his humorous
paragraphs and administration poems
are richly grotesque, but always SOLID anc