New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-04
IrU,T THE PRESS has DONE.


the magnificent victory OF Tuesday, no grateful
Republican-and the whole land is fIlied win
grateful Republicans t0-day-wlll forget the
noble work of the Republican newspapers
| There has never been a campaign III when 'he
power of an intelligent and conscientious press
showed itself great as in this There has
never been q campaign in which the RepuDll-
can newspapers, and particularly those or the
interior, were so far in advance of public
opinion, and none in which they have had
more electric success in arousing the better
| sentiment OF the country to the dangers OF a
Democratic Administration. When General
| Hancock was nominated hardly Democrat
could be found who did not sincerely believe
| that his candidate was fOIeOIdaincd to be PIcsl-
dent, and many Republicans feared it. His
nomination made q temporary truce In this
State His personal character was above re-
proach. His military record was brilliant, and
| 1t had not been proved that in civil affairs he
would be incomTeient. There was time when
! General Hancock's election seemed not impOs-
sibIe.
But the Republican press, knowing the danger
that lay in the path, went to work with grand
energy, TN iismayed by the 1873 electoral votes
voted in lump We venture TO say that there
as never been Il campaign in which the Repub-
lican newspapers, from Name to California,
showed such fighting ability and such fighting
spirit as in this. From the day the canvass
opened they put the Democratic party where it
! belonged-on the defensive. They forced the
Democratic record, in all its hundred phases
| on the attention of the country, and kept Il c
| Democratic orators and organs busy protesting
| that the party would not do In the future what
| it had never failed to do in the past. The can
dor of the Republican papers was as great as
their courage. Every issue that has arisen has
been discussed fcaressly and skilfuy. The
ability and the zeal with which the business
mems issue and the tariff question were urged
upon the country, are cases IN point. They
made clean campaign also General Hancock
was treated with the respect which his private
character and public services demanded. At
the same time, there has not been a Islander
upon General Garfield put forward by the
Democratic press, which the RcUubl can
papers, by reason Of having much the greater
supply Of brains. as well rs the truth, on their
side. have not made to reCOil upon the Lead
of its inventors The Democratic gem of
yimperation, 329, and the Democratic master
piece in campaign fiction the forged lclter
were made good for thousands and thousands
of Republican, votes by the frankness with
which the Republican papers took them up. and
the wit aud skill with which they turned them
back upon their authors The Democratic cry
for change WAS caught up in the same way,
and used with telling effect But 1t would
take Il good part of President Gartield'S term to
enumcrate the achleN ements of the Republican
press &C the inter or in this cmapaign. This
splendid engine Of enlightenment and progress
has battered the walls of the Democracy blow
upon bow, week after week, month after
month-untll they fell, and great was the fall
thereof.
1t would not be just to Omi tribute to the
most tfciont ally the Republican press has had
viz, the Democratic press Has there ever
been a time when the low tone and inferior
ability of the average Democratic new spaper
were so conspicuous 1t has not had the
decency to tell the truth when it helped the
other side, nor the skill to ,elI it well when it
might help its own side. a Democratic
statesman said dociuly not long ago: If |
ever do make Il point for my party, there
isn't Democratic paper in the country that
reached this perfection Of debility, mention of
individual newspapers may seem inyIdous, but
We cannot refrain from paying a tribute to The
NeC- York. World which, every Democrat will
admit. has been fairly earned. If The IT0rld
has told the truth in any single instance in this
campaign. it must have been by accident
or IN the absence Of the Rev. VIM. Henry
Hubert IN Indiana The exquisite trans
parency of The VoridS falsebOodS, and its
heroic persstency in sticking the closer to a le
like that about Judge Swaync the longer il had |
been found Oui, have made it Il most valuable |
Deputy Republican newspaper. No less useful |
was the feeble maignity, impaired, curiousy |
by another brokcn-dOw1 preacher, to The New- !
York Express. He ~ the patentee of the idea |
that you can best help your candidate by pour |
ing filth over the private life of anybody who |
opposes him. We must not forget, either, The |
4 Ibany Argus. which has reduced sophomOrical |
rivalry to q science, and has learned bow t. |
combine imbeclllty and imDudence i'll propOi-
ton heretofore unknown Ill journalism. There |
has been no such puere churnlng of froth and |
mud in any other newspaper Office in the coun-
try. We return the thanks of the Republican
party OF this State to The Aibdny Argus. But
that paper has been only more silly and more
than its Democratic contempo-
raries. For then record OH both heads, and |
their success in driving voters into the Repub-
can party, they all deserve Republican graft
tude.
THE SOLID SOUTH
with Solid South and thank God Solid
North really more solid than ever. the first i'm
pulse is to ask ourselves what We have gained so