The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-27
CLARKS0N IS ALARMED.
He Deeply Deplores the Unprecedent-
ed Rise and Development Of
Democratic Newspapers.
Popular Education Through the
Daily Press Rapidly Reducing
Republican Votes.
OF 400 900 Papers Printed Daily in Now
York City Only 100000 are Re-
publican I'm Politics.

PITTSBURGH, April 26.-The fourth annual
dinner OF the republican club in commemo
! ration of the sixty-eighth birthday of Gen.
U. 8. Grant was given tonight. 'sOur
guests absent" was responded to by Col. j.
M. Schoonmaker, of this city; 'Grant" by
Gov. James A. Beaver, and 1.-THE republican
party" by Hon. Thomas B. Reed, speaker
Of the house of representatives. Reed
spoke Of election frauds and ballot-box
stuffing in the south. The remedy, he said,
was the passage Of the senate bill enlarglng
the powers of United States supervisors
over state elections. Assistant
Postmaster General Clarkson spoke to the
toast, ''The Republican Press" "Brice
was much derided for his phrase in 1888
that the campaign of that year was to be
an intellectual one, yet his statement was
true. Political contests" said the speaker.
"are coming more and more to be fought in
the arena of discussion and in the news-
paper press. The torchlight end the red
light as political arguments are being
superseded by the intellectual discussion OF
the press. The campaign of 1892 will be a
newspaper campaign and it has already be-
gun. The democrats saw this before the
republicans. For any close observer must
have seen che marvellous manner in which
the democratic party has been strengthen
ing il, ~ its lines in newspapers and maeazines.
tured nearly all the magazines and illus
trated papers. All the nercenaries of the
press and literature have been turned into
their service. The reinforced democratic
press is a startling thing for the republican
party to face, and it must face
In New New 'SaS' York city ' IsSV@i 1,4oo,ooo
copies of newspapers are printed daily,
Less than 100000 of them are republican.
This means that two-fifths of the republi-
cans of New York City and its environments
are reading democratic papers, taking the
democratic version of things, and the young
people of the households being educated
unconsciously against the party Of their
fathers.
.'In Boston the papers of greatest circula-
tion are also democratic. The same is true
OF nearly every large city in the country.
Democracy has also pressed its conduits to
the agricultural press, and in the last three
or four years many of the farmers papers
trade. t was largely through this line
that the democrats first based their
claim that the northwest was for free trade.
and changing to the democratic party.
Even as good an organization as that Of
the farmers was utilized and the farmers
Alliance was established with all the demo-
Gratis and all the weak -kneed republicans in
the neighborhood gathered into. it's folds.
Then they were supplied with free
trade literature secretly and constantly,
Such propaganda has never been known in
America as that of the democrats in their
hunt in secret and through changing
day, and submit to you as republicans that
it il time for our party to take notice of
what the opposition party is doing by in
creasing and strengthening it's press"