Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-27

over the ingratitude Of his political
friends whom he had, by his power, placed in
Office, and unaided and alone, smarting as ],
myself, and no doubt others have, from the
perfdity and treachery OF those whom We had
80 often Helped, started, in cellar, the nrst
number of what Is now known as the New
York Herald. remember Bennett as tall,
brawpy Scotchman, with coarse features, and
a defective eye, but behind all these were the
compressed lips, which denoted tie solid pur-
pose Driven to desperation, he was deter
mined to make his power felt, and long before
he died, those who had proved false TO him
and had thrown him of, had no jnst reason to
complain of the attack he made upon them, |
for they brought them on themselves. Ben
nett spared nobody. He was soured; lived
outside of the world; struck every one who |
came in his way, and in return, he was the |
best horse whipped and the best assaulted edi- |
tor in the United States. he was not particu- |
lar as to what means he used to advance the |
interests Of the Her0ld, SO that its moral |
status was on low plan; and yet its clrcula- |
ton grew, its power continued to augment,
until to-day, it is the greatest and probably
worth millions of dollars, with an income run
ming into hundreds of thousands.
Ont Of the publication Of the "LOg Cabin"
and the political issues Of the day, Horace
Greeley stepped into the New York Tribune,
this time with man at the financial helm, and
Greeley s. McElrath have left monument TO
their memories, which will never perish.
knew Mr.. Greeley in his palmiest days
well. ] wrote for his paper; presided
at several of his lectures conversed with him
on political and other subjects: have spoken
from the same platform with him; and
| nobler, kinder, or greater heart never beat
inside of the vest of an Editor, than that OF
tall; had shuffiing gait; gentle, intellectual
stoop; was carelessly dressed; possessed mag
| nficenty broad and well developed head; had
| round face and clear complexion, with small,
tender eyes, and the voice OF child. II Ben
nett was dark, sullen, vindictive, immoral;
Greeley was kind, loving, gentle, tender. II
Bennett was narrow and personal; Greeley was
| broad and magnanimous. And SO Greeley
entered the editorial field, with moral and pro-
gressiye ideas, while Bennett plunged into the
| material elements that surround and make up
the great commercial city of the empire State,
but both papers moved forward with gigantic
| strides. Competition brought into requisition
| every available means known to man to out,
general the other in the scope Of news and in:
/ tellectual ability. Railroad trains were
chartered, steamboats, employed, sail vessels
built, the best talent secured, and thus this
rivalry continued until the old fogy ideas OF
newspaper enterprise were entirely obliterated,
and new era dawned on the profession when
the Herald and the Tribune butted heads
gallantly fought for the first place
among the newspapers of the world. In time
the Herald had the largest daily circulation,
and the Tribune the largest weekly. Perhaps
the saddest thing that my memory recalls, con-
nected with Mr.. Greeley, is the fact, that after
an interview with him in the cars at Owa-
tonna, in this State, wrote an article for st.
Paul daily, and In that article was the first in
the West 10 bring him out as a candidate for
the Presidency OF the United States. have Of
ten thought, if Mr.. Greeley bad never accepted
that nomination, he might be alive to-day to
adorn and enlighten, and cheer the editorial
profession, not only of his own State, but Of
the whole Union.
Associated with Mr. Greeley In the conduct
of the Tribune, was Henry J. Raymond, a man
of classic attainments, but great deal less
progressive in his ideas than Greeley. He
could not endure some of his chiefs 'isms;'
he was more conservative, SO he disconnected
himself from the Tribune, and started the New
York Times. Like sharp steam clipper, he
ran between the extremes of the Herald and
the Tribune, and soon built up grand estab-
lishment, and the Times to-day, is one OF the
six great papers on the American cont nent.
Raymond was short, thick-set man, MOI tall,
but of moderate height. He was a
clear, cool, argumentative - writer,
so cool, that he. often exasperated
his opponent, and hence, Greeley, in reply to
II
wrote: "You lie, you little villain, you lie. y
The Herold, the Tribune, the Times The
!. three great metropolitan papers.
"Fair Ardsnss vxyss her green leaves,
| Devy with natures tear-drops o they pass,
arieving, II inauimate nature e'er grieves,
Ger the unreturning brave. Alas!
Bennett, Greeley, Raymond, DEAD! But mod.
ern journalism moves on. Telegraphs and
telephones, elevated railroads and under.
i -
! tubes, with an army of the very best minds in
| the country, are all marshaled to eclipse the
efforts of the three great journalists who SLEEP
the sleep that knows no waking. The com.
bined circulation of the Hcrad for one week
not including Sunday. is 200; the Tribune
for the same time, 200 600; the Times, for the
same time, 17s,000.
; An element that enters largely into the make.
, up OF the great American newspaper, Is the
great American Dictionary. Noah Webster pub.
lished in New York, in the year 17g3 eighty
eight years ago, paper called The Comm; erciai
: Advertiser and Nc,v York Spectator. In 1S4s
l met Mr.. Webster several times at New
Haven, Connecticut He had broad head, a
Grecian nose, q fine, large eye; was methodical
: and dignifed; had spent nearly all his life
in the completion Of his great work, and il
was then about to go to the printer. Soon news
came that he was sick. Bulletins announced that
he was worse. The bell toled that he was
dead. In company with the printers, publish.
crs and writer's of that day, out of respect
to the venerable photographer and the pro.
fession he represented, with Grape upon nv
arm, listened to funeral discourse by the
Rev. Leonard Bacon, and then followed TO the
grave the rerxains of the author OF the great
American Dictionary, at the ripe age of 81
years. Hoe may manufacture his presses;
Conner, Bruce and johnson may send out
their type: mechanics may erect lofty print.
I,.ku u-aIz 1t.
journalism would sink into insignificance, and
the world would walk again in dark
ness.
On my way West in 1852, stopped at Chiea.
go. Then the leading paper OF that city was
the evening Journal, published by the Wilson
brothers. and established in 1S44 II was a
good paper for the time in. which it existed,
and possessed great deal OF beautiful poetic
writing, yet it was far behind the papers of
to-day. The Wilson brothers are all dead but
one. The Democrat was published by Long
John Wentworth, and still exists and John
still lives. He was noted at that day as the
man who took pencils and pen knives while a
member OF Congress, under resolution, how
ever, of that body, authorizing the same.
The Tribune was started in 1916,
and was prototype OF It's great
namesake in New York II in
augurated vim and ability in its columns and
soon shot ahead of all its contemporaries. In
lS54 the Tunes was commenced, and followed
in the footsteps of the New York Herold, and
is live, stirring paper, really the Herald of
ths West. 1t certainly is not behind any of
its Eastern contemporaries, and in some re-
| spects Is ahead. The circulation of the
Tribune and the Times is each 5000 daily.
The Inter Ocean has IL, 600 daily. The Daily
Ne.cs, penny paper, has $1,000 daily and
80, 000 weekly.
The cities in the United States which have
papers circulating over 1900 daily, are New
York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Louis
st. Paul the Pioneer Press circulates on an
average OF over 10000 daily. The two papers
that have 100000 circulation in Boston, are
i Ia md fl,n Gs,Ik; a. fha