Savannah morning news., 1885-01-18
KELLY'S DEAD PAPER.
HOW THE FAITHFUL WE'RE
FORCED TO BUY THE STAR"
The Boss Demand that 1t Should be
Run as 2 Tawmeny Organ the Only
Reason why Mclean Did Not Buy 1t
Hard Times in Newsperdom.


The Boss Demand that 1t Should be
Run as Taumeny Organ the Only
Reason why Mclean Did Not Buy 1t
Hard Times in NewsperdOm.
Correspondence of the Morning Neacs.
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-Newspapers are
apparently not prospering here just now.
It's but a few weeks since Truth gave
up the ghost. and the star, for the time
being at any rate, has followed its exam
pie. As the latter, by keeping up its
Sunday edition, casts an anchor to lee
ward, it has basis to work on should it
be able to resume; and its suspension as
a daily newspaper may prove but tenn
porary. Nevertheless, the fact that it
was obliged to suspend so soon after the
coming to grief of the political faction of
which it was the organ, shows how little
it had to rely on outside of political pat
ronage. 1t really has had but little bona
fde circulation, that is, it has had COM
paratively few subscribers Who read it
for the news it contained, and a large
proportion of its Tammany subscribers
were not willing ones. Love me, love my
newspaper, was John Kelly's motto, and
his adherents subscribed to the. Star as
political assessment just as they paid
their dues to the Tammany association.
Subscription to the Star has been so much
proof OF political fealty that it became
species OF blackmail. Men were
obliged to subscribe who could ill-afford
to, or who preferred other papers and
could not afford more than one, to show
that they were firm in the faith This ap-
plies especially 10 CtticehOlders who owed
their position to Tammany Hall. With
them, subscription to the star was so
little matter Of choice that they would
have lost their places had they refused to
subscribe. Now that the Tammany tiger
has had its claws cut, the subscribers
from cOmpulsiOn naturally fall off, and
the suspension OF the Star follows as a
matter of coarse.
Although it thus could not have con-
tinued under its present management, the
suspension of the paper, however, is due
to John Kelly's obstinacy. 1t might have
been sold for many times its real value to
John Mclean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
who is anxious to own New York news
paper, had not Kelly insisted that it
should have continued to Ge Tammany's
organ. This Mr.. Mclean naturally would
not agree to. He did not intend to buy
of John Kelly Il Co, and the bargain was
consequently off. If Kelly should change
his mind Mr.. Mclean may buy the paper,
or what there is left Of it yet, and it is to
him that those who hope for the resump-
tiOn ot the Star as daily look.
Mclean, by the way, is a proof that a
man does not need to be good at what is
popularity called "bOOk larniug" TO get
on in the world. He entered Harvard in
br.. al T-r.4s
expelled in less than three months be-
cause he could not, or, rather, would not
learn his lessons. His recitatOns became
more and more imperfect, and patience
ceasing to be virtue, the college faculty
was finally compelled to tell him that hi.
room was better than his company. Yet
the freshman who made such a lamenta-
bic failure IN what LOngfellOw called
''leafv, blooming, blOsSOming Cambridge' :
has proved to be one Of the most success
full editors il the country. While the mal
who led the class he was expelled from
after attaining almost the highest raal
known I'D tbe college, and studying will
honor subsequently in a German uniyer
sity, is earning but s., 800 a year as pro
fessOr at Cornell, Mclean has made {
million or more and derives a proportion
ate income from that in addition to the
large profits Of his newspaper!
THE IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF THE "sTAR $
5OoFENSION
was the rise IN the price of paper and thf
1 large blIl II aiteadY owed lts paper sup
pier. lie refused 10 IurhlSh any more
/ material until paid, not wishing tt
| send good paper after bad. The rise in
the price OF paper IS said TO have caused
Mr.. Jones If the Times to propose to the
managers OF the HsFud and lVOfld lust be
fore New \ ears to raise theirrates to three
/ cents. lis proposition was not accepted
and the He}Uld management, apparently
IN spirit ot Or3Nado, answered his appea
by reQucIn9 tue prlce OF tn I elegr0nt to one
cent-poo-hal. IL Is hardly worth that
BUS neNerl1eieSs, tAe elect OF It's reduc
ti1h seems go bdNe caused a correspond
lug reduction iu the price OF the GyQVtjc
At any fate t5e latter IS now sold at thraC
cehls, instead oi HFe' ana as SO faT as {:
reading matter is concerned, it IS perhaps
the hest evening paper IN New York, al
| thousSl thaJ Is not saying much. Ine reduc
Iion VIII proDably prove profitable. Still
Ihe lact thaJ IL was oohSed TO come down IT
It's rates, after having sold so lcug ioI
i've cent?, shows that a newspapers lot
is not happy one.
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