Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-12
NiCKAYON NEWSPAPERS.
.,.,t, NEVADA SILVER KING DOES
NOT WANT THE HERALD.

NOT WANT THE HERALD.
-. however, Thinks of Buying a Large
xspaper, of Becoming Senator, and
a. suildIng Palace.
From the Washington Post.
Mr.J. W. Mackay, the Nevada million
"a indignant at the report that he
o. desire to purchase the New York
I'll He has the utmost contempt for
-t,t .naper, and thinks the report an unjust
sortion on both his taste and his judg-
There is good reason to believe
.bat tbe only thing Mr.. Mackay would
~. n purchase from the proprietor Of
-. Nay York Herald is the latter's in
- IN the Mackay- Bennett cable. The
.(,,.r king is tired of his association
,..,,b Bennett, but he will not seek to dis
~, mat association by purchasing the
H,,aId. He regards it as a poor news
-snsr. badly managed, and badly edited.
uabas much higher opinion OF some
atber New York papers. Either the
rrib,,ne or the Times comes nearer his
i1aaI ola great American journal. They
ara read and relied upon, he thinks, by
tna respectable people through
- the country. The Mackay-
IN mo he believes, would be used to more
od,,antage by their managers than it is
~ ~ ma managers Of the Herald. Instead
y; 5ssiring TO purchase Mr.. Benefits
,,,ers il is more probable that he would
plrdfer to purchase the Times and
Secure entire and exclusive control of the
cable. o4,,,.a - xUo,,,i,,..
ton for two or three days, and is staying
Of Welcker's with his lawyer, Mr.. Wood,
of san Francisco, VINO travels with MIN.
ni.nusstng the relative merits of various
nawsnaneTs with a Post reporter,
Mr. Mackay said, in casual, con-
yeyssti0nal way:
II think the Tribune and the Times are
fine best papers in America. They are
written with more ability and edited vita
moro skill than any others. Their infOt-
nation is more correct, and what they say
ran be relied upon. 1t will bear eXaminl-
ZION. They are good papers for the
country at large, although l suppose
they haven't the largest circulation n
the city. But there is little profit n
circulation, except in so far as circuh-
ton attracts advertisements, and a
4 nauer9hat is read by the greatest number
B Of RESPECTABLE and business people shout
No the best advertising medium. |
suppose that the two cents that
8 are CHARGED for one of the large metro
j poltan journals hardly pays for the
q paper upon which it is printed; and of
q course the news agent doesn't pay more
that cent and half to the publisher.
II Now the New York Times is a very
goyd paper II seems to have the conf
q lence Of respectable people all over the
country"
"Aud the Hcruldp
"On! it's not on the same level at ALL"
lin its editorials, you meanY
"m everything, It's news is little better
than it's editorials"
"Then you thtuk it is falling of from
what it used TO beW
"Oh! il never was any good"
IhaJ closed the conversation about
81 newspapers.
Among other reasons for believing that
Mr. Maekay would be quite willing to be-
come the proprietor Of an influential
newspaper is tine probability, amounting
almost to a certainty, that means to sue
coed Senator Fair, his former partner in
the silver bonanza, as United States
senator from Nevada.
Mrs. M8ckay wants her husband to be
Senator. and, as she has imbibed most
81 OF her political aspirations and ideas in
Paris, the prOprietOrship and control of q
newspaper organ would IN ner mlBQ, De
natural corollary to the senatorship. Mr..
NJ Mackey's candidature for the Senate is
81 regarded so much as a settled affair that
the electors OF the State Of Nevada are al
ready reckoning what their votes will be
worth when the two big milliOnaires,
81 Mackay and Fair, come into competition at
he next election. Mackay is said at pres
ent TO be the more popular of the two men
IN the State, but when election time comes
around, Of course popularity will have
ID it, price.
81 there are not more than about 1900
voters Ia the state, and a million dollars
spent IN buying majority would make
every vote worth from $3.50 to $500, which
8 about the present valuation. MackAy
Is supposed to be worth over fifty nil
ions. Fairs wealth comes up pretty
close, and 1t is expected that competition
VIII De keen and prices high at the next
election for the State Legislature, which
lil eject FAIRS successor to the Ulited
States Senate.
AR. Mackay is silent on the subject,
OGt II IS believed that his main object in
sldug " ashington at present is 70 pur-
.uase site whereOn to build a palace
mat Will dwarf the most magnificent
residences In the capital. Mrs. Mackay,
~ salo, longs TO dazzle the American
aPial with some OF the splendid recep-
uons "hien have astonished Paris dur
~ Her residence there. She cannot be
W VIE Of French senator, but she
-iaF pe the wife Of the millionaire SEN
rom Nevada, aud save Washington