Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-10-25
Wilmington, Thursday, 0ct.25. 1883,
..Gaih- ana The ..Hera.a..

Mos, readers, we fancy, care very little
for the personnel of the men that provide
them their daily 'literary pabulum, and
we have always thought that the gossip
about newspapers and editors 80 freely
Bpri kled through the New York CORE.
spon enoe of various newspapers WAS
tathe the result of self-indul-
gent whiin OF the writer's than
serious attempt to feed readers
with food convenient for them.
In spite of this, however, we wish
to say few words by way OF justice with
regard to the perhaps best known news
paper correspondent in the country, in
asmuch as his Peninsular birth and CON
tinued iondness for the home of his
boyhood entitle him to some considera.
tion at the hands OF EVERY EVENING.
As noted in this paper few days
since, the New York Herald, in recent
issue, devoted a column to severe at.
tack upon Mr.. George Alfred Townsend,
widely known as Cath" denouncing
him in harsh terms for what the heyaid
declared 20 bs wanton libel upon its
recent editor, Mr.. I. b. Connery. Gath's
article appeared in the Philsdel phia
Times of June 18th last, and the Herald
processes to have remained silent until
Mr.. Connery asked that his good name
be defended. The whole tone of the
Herald article leads one to suppose tina,
Gath's attack had been direc led at Mr..
Connery alone, and that it was peculiarly
severe. The paragraph in question reads
as follows
oonnery,the managing editor of the Herald
Formerly, sailed for Europe last week. Ii
was never known why he WAS removed. some
say that band of guttersnipes systematically
published Ills praises In the lower range of
sheets and sent marked copies to Bennett to
excite his Jealousy. This presupposes such a
small, mean nature i'll Bennett mat | cannot
believe It, II 1t should be true the inference
nust Do that some OF the mel engaged LII
governing this world by newspapers cannot
govern themselves. Others llslnuate that
there were business charges against Mr.
Connery. man who STAYS away from his
property ten months III the year must not be
surprised II he leads others into temptation.
There ought hardly to be a man IN America
NJ TO edit the HeruM. Its editor should be
pe PAID SoO,UOU year, being expected to earn
SooU,ooO Tor the absent proprietor. The
owner evidently does not understand or re-.
Hpect bis own property.
Perhaps Gath knew what he was doing
when he said these unpleasant things
about James Gordon Bennett and incl.
dsntaLy repeated gossip he had heard Of
connery, but the ordinary reader, We
fancy, would think Bennett rather than
Connery the subject OF attack. Mr.
townsend, in yesterdays Philadelphia
l,S'es, does the handsome thing by Mr..
Connery, and renews his attack on Mr.
Bennett, and our impression of tn,
whole controversy, in the absenc,
OF any knowledge Of insid,
facts, is that the Herald would have don,
itself more credit, Mr.. Townsend less in
Justice and Mr.. Connery better servic,
had 1t confined itself to simple denia
OF any improperly on Mr.. Connery's par
and whatever defense OF Mr.. Bennett i
thought proper to make, all Of which
should have been done, too, on June 30tl
instead of nearly four months later. |
looks now as if the Herald took the oppor
tunity less to defend it's late editor thai
to ayenge its proprietor.