New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-12-01
.IOrRN1LISM IND JEALOCSH.


ing false news in relation to the great sale OF
New-York Central stock. and which spent
nearly a week in denouncing it as a conscious
dissemination of lies and a venal tool OF stock
jobbers. because it printed an important piece
of intelligence which no other journal hap
pened to get hold OF, were really sincere III
their disgraceful course--or as sincere as those
can be who allow their statements to he nc
tated by feeling rather than reason. If on the
first publication of the news they had devoted
to the notification of it a quarter oil the
time and energy which they wasted 10
abusing us for printing 1t. they wouid
have been spared a great deal OF mortimer
ton. embarrassment and dlsered't. bu'
malice blinded them TO their own interest.
They could think of nothing but the impair
donable offence of TIE TRIBUNE. One paper
made fun, in its editorial page OF 1.-THE people Ia
oval Street, who allowed themselves TO be-
"lieve story published in The TRIBUNE to
1.-THE advantage of Mr.. Jay Gould, notwith-
standing the distinct denial Of that story
made by Mr.. Vanderbilt. upon some alleged
faction of whom it turned; while in its iinan-
cial column il continued, up TO tine very day
of the official announcement of the sale, TO
call the story "a hoax and very clumsy
hoax, too, invented for the benefit OF
clique of spcculators--a trick to " fool
the public, which should take lis place
with other yarns from the same source, and
needs no further mention" Another paper,
still more reckless in its hates, began by de
claring that the report was fabrication,
made out of whole cloth - "there Was no
combination, no syndicate, no proposition to
buy Central at 1907; and TO this view of
the matter it steadily adhered. The day be-
fore the official announcement it published
long editorial harangue upon the "prostitu-
ton - of TIE TRIBUNE. callins the story
"a wild table, "false," fraudulent" "pre-
"posterous,r "stock -jobbing fabrication,'
ETC., etc, and accusing this journal of enter
ing into conspiracy to gull the public. A
third paper waited until the very day of the
sale. and then described the story as an il
famous bear operation. A fourth contentcd
itself with q general denial of the report as
preposterous stock jobbIng canard. An
evening paper, whose financial reporter
had acuteness enough TO discover and sense
enough to say that the story was true, never
thcless allowed itself TO imply editorially, the
day the bargain was concluded, that the re-
portcd negotiations were collusivc, and that
THE TRIBUNE was an acc0mplice in scheme OF
frank robbery Another evening paper
called the report a cock-and-bull story;
and third, after day or so of deliberatlon,
pronounced it "beyond question colossal
.'lie." Semi-Solomon waits till all is over
and the sale completed, and then solemnly
observes that "TnE TRIBUNE has since the
-.lo 4 al fhot tla nm
" true" (,) and that it loves the public an
" explanation of its course
The extraordinary conduct of several New
York papers in relation to the Stewart grave
robbery was no doubt influenced 10y amnesty
toward their competitors. There was such
feyelish desire in the breasts of certain editors
not only to surpass hated rival in enterprise
but TO do him an injury and offer him an IL
suit that they were incapable of exercising
ordinary discretion in any case which called
this feeling into play. Ii The TRIBUNE
asserted that the body of Mr.. Stewart had not
been found, that was for such hearty haters,
a reason for maintaining that it had been
found in spite of all evidence to the con-
trary. If The TRIBUNE denied the reported
Arrest of the robbers, nothing would persuade
these worthless that the robbers were not
in custody. They shut their eyes tight, and
saw nothing but the distorted images born of
their evil passions. THE TRIBUNE. almost
alone of the New-York press, told the plain
truth about this affair from the beginning and
refused 10 credit the sensational stories which
were daily spread before the public while the
excitement lasted. Others might have seen
through the transparent falseh0ods if they
had not been blinded by envy and malice. A
still more conspicuous illustration o. the mis-
chief arising from the indulgence Of hatred in
journalism was afforded at the time of the last
Republican State Convention of New York,
when Republican paper OF this city was SO
insanely eager to prevent the nomination of
Mr. Cornell that it went on day after day
assuring it's readers-and we dare say it
persuaded itself-that he would not and could
not receive the votes of the Convention 1t
declared that those who predicted his success
were only "playing game of brag," and
that the absurdity" of claiming for him as
many as 225 votes Cess than a majority
must be at once apparent 10 those who have
"eyen superficial knowledge of the situation"
The more Mr.. Cornell gained the louder this
paper shrieked that ne was losing support"
AT 1 o'clock on the morning OF the eventful
day. its correspondent at the Convention teie-
graphed that Mr.. Cornell was practically "out
of the field" A few hours later lie was
nominated on the first ballot. THE TRIBUNE
had all along indicated the probability of this
result and for that outrage probably neither
Mr.. Cornell nor the THE TRIBUNE will ever be
forgiven.
Last Saturday the green-eyed monster was
rampant again. THE TRIBUNE alone pub
lishcd the Annual Report of the Secretary of
the Treasury. Other journals learned in some
WAY at Washington that copy of this i'm