Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-20
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MONDAY EVENING. SEPT. 20, 1890
COntemptible Journalism.

The New York Tribune chides the
New York Times for having conceded
the election of .Plaisted in Maine, and
sets itself up as the Republican organ
nonpareil of New York, while at the
same time it plumcs itself that it is con-
Quoted "with honest and sole reference
to giving the facts.'' Its despicable
course during this entire campaign has
proven that its management is anything
else than honest and truthful. Its sup
preston of Schuyler Colfax's presence at
Chatauqua when Garfield was there, its
refusal to publish the Hancock-Sherman
letter, after clamoring for it, its refusal
to publish the statement of the Republi-
can lawyers in Indiana that nearly all
the mortgages foreclosed by Mr.. English
were foreclosed by them for Republican
client whose trustee Mr.. +. was only,
and its treatment of the Wade Hampton
speech, are notable examples of its con-
temptible eexemplification of the meanest
style of journalism.
In the very issue in which it boasts it.
self an g honest" paper it proves the
contrary by declaring thata Democratic
Congress made persistent opposition to
the payment of the pensions of Union
soldiers when it knows that Demo-
cratic Congress voted millions more for
pensions than its Republican predeces-
SOrS. In the same issue, in republish-
ing statement that some blatherSkite
i'm V irginia " wished twice rs many YAM
KEGS had been killed rs were," it calls
this solid Southern sentiment .
though the paper from which it repub-
fishes it says the speaker was promptly
sat down on and that the ex-COnfederates,
who heard him, applauded one of their
number who resolutcly rebuked him.
Again the Tribune has been publishing 4
fac sintilc of a rebel flag cut displayed in
an Arkansas paper over IN account of 4
Democratic: barbecue and has never pub
lislled the following reasonable expIana-
tion of the matter, which has been cur
rent for weeks and which is given in this
shape to the Philadelphia Times by a
Mr.. Naulty, who is staunch Garfield
Republican and lives in the same town
where the offending newspaper is pull
liShed:
"Although am Republican and in
tend to vote for Garfield" said Mr.. Naul-
ty, "yct want to see justice done. Web
Der is Northern man and was an officer
in the Union army. He is secretary of the
Arkansas press association. He is a posi-
tive conservatist. lie is much esteemed,
and has done more in the cause of cmigra-
tiOn than any other man in the state. The
St. Louis l. Iron Mountain railroad sent
him to this city last October, when he
opened all Office on Walnut street, below
Third, for the sale of lands. He remained
here about three months. The Hot Springs
Telegraph is one OF the oldest newspapers
in the state. but it is continually changing
hands, When the barbecue took place
Wcbbcr looked over the old cuts for 4
flag. He came across the flag printed,
and thinking it was Union flag he
sent it into the composing room, and when
he discovered the error he ordered the
press to bc stopped before the entire issue
should bc printed, and substituted another
already been printed, and although the cd
itor tried to keep them back some of them
got out, and the newspapers took up the
heading and denounced it as rebel def
ance''
The Triba.,c, which under its founder
was 4 reliable ac"spaper, however radi-
cal and even rabid its opinions, has de-
generated into hireling organ, 4 stool
pigeon for stock gamblers, and a IIessian
and mcrcenary whose editorial and news
columns, like its financial departments,
are always "tO let.''