Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-26
HOT SHOT.
The New York Press on the Langtry-
Gebhardt Affair.
Enterprising Journalism Denounced al
SANDER in Unqualified Terms.

ST. Louis, January "A The follow
on the treatment of Mrs. Lanptry and
Nr. Gethardt by the Gio5e- Demo-
crdt are reprinted In the Repubtcan
Of yesterday:
From the Heraid: Upon the
whole it cannot be thought that the
Southern gentlemen out in Missouri
honors his claims 10 be considered IA
man of the gallant and chivnlrc tyne.
II Mrs llnngtry had been treated so
cOarscly in any Eastern city as she
has been in ST. Louis--if there had
been such an indulgence of a more
brutal mob spirit toward n lndy.-the
Southcrner who believes himself the
true cavalier of the time might have
contemplated with Scorn and horror
the plebian spirit of Yankee roughs.
But, aus! the Southern gallant is very
like Il rulIian.
From Truth: II has been reserved
for a 81 Louis paper--the Gt0be- Dem-
oc,ut-.to excel the whole American
press in blackguardism. Among the
acwspapers of this country are the
most ouLorprising and the most reck
less, the most fearless and uliscrllpu-
lous, the paying and the most venal
in the world. Between the two ex.
trcmes of the journalistic thermometer
Is n very WIDE range, and almost every
degree of graduation Is marked
In question of taste, such as tina,
which impels us to denounce the st
Louis Globe Democrat in unqualified
terms, there is no room for excuse
That journal has surpassed all its con
temporaries IN the brutal indecency
with which Mrs, I.angtry has beer
assaulted.
From the lIo9d. The IpoTt
prints to-day a fearful anC
wonderful display of what l.
called newspaper enterprise in ST.
Louis. 1t Is supposed To have beer
the occasion of II verbal and gesticua
tory assault made 10y Mr. FrederIcl
Gebhnrd upon newspaper colone
whom he suspected to be its author
Unless Mr.. Gebhard got or rather dix
not get the wrong colonel by the eai
IL will Ire generally agreed Il
most parts of the civilized worl
that the offence would hay
justified an assault not restricted {
defamntory words and opprobrlou
gestures, However, IL Is not by wa
ofiustiiying Mr., slfrederck Gcbhar
for an act which he did not perforr
that the World has adorned its co
umns to-day with the picturesque +,
marks made 10y II st. Louis newspape
upon Mrs. Langtry. 1t Is bccaus
these remarks make u curious revels
ton Of the social civilization of u greg
American city.
since the editorial mind of Chicag
was stirred to its proioundest depth
by n discussion among the editors ,
the comparative morality of the /,
male members of their respective fan
lilies, there has been no treatment
amy question marked by candor an
IN unreservc SO childiikc an
so complete as the treatnler
awarded by the Globe Denpocrdt
the private affairs of Mrs. l.angtr,
People who do not run wild in wood
and who entertain conventional G
any other notions OF decency ma
find some difficulty in understandin
the prlmeval condition OF these chi
dren OF nature. For II is not alone III
casual colonies of the press who hay
no notion of privacy and no falls
or other nodesty, 4 new,
paper must not only be mad
but read. In fact II Is made
be read. And the matter which III
Horfa transfers Ia its columns simpl
because no account given OF IL could q
Justice to II, showsmot SO much thu
the ealonels of the 6Y0dC- Democrat d,
light m deiying deconcy ON their ow
account Us that they believe that
considerable number of other person
VIII buy their paper on account
thesrdeflance OF decency.