Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-01
%LARksoN SCARED
At the Marvellous Growth of Democratic News
papers and Magazines.

papers and Magazines
! PITTsBURG, Pa, April 26.-At the
American club meeting to-day in honor
of Gen. Grants sixty-eighth birthday,
Mr.. Clarkson, in responding to the toast.
"The Press, - said in part: "The news
| papers of America form, believe, the
strongest intellectual force on this con-
tinent, and it is a party press that is
legal, while dependent, unselfish and
always the advance guard of the party.
| The consideration of the party press daily
grows more and more important. While
we are in state of transmission somewhat
as to political methods, political contests
are coming more and more to be fought
IN the arena of discussion and the news
paper press. The days Of parades and
physical demonstrations are pretty
plainly passing away. The campaign of
1892 will be largely a newspaper cam
paign, and 1t has already begun. Let us
be frank, and say that the Democrats
said this before the Republicans, for any
close observer must have seen with inter-
est and almost astonishment the mar
velous manner in which the
Democratic party has been strength
or magazines. In the latter days IL has
been beating us at our own game. In the
large oities OF the East they haYe cap
tured nearly all the magazines and Illus
tratsd papers. All the mercernaries of
the press and literature have been lured
into their service. The reinforced
Democratic press Is startling thing for
the Republican party to face, and ID
must fnce it with courage and wisdaH.
In New York city 400 900 copkss of
daily newspapers are printed daily. LesSE
than 200 600 OF them are Republie6ff
This means that two-tifths of the Re5H6-
licans of New York city and its environ
ments are reading Democratic papers,
taking a Democratic version of things,
and the young people of the households
being educated unconsciously against the
party of their fathers. 1 would not
abridge the latitude of discussion nor
reading, but it is important that the
young people should at least read their
own side, as well as the other. In Bos-
ton, papers of the greatest circulation
are also Democratic. New England has
largely gone from the faith of
days of the war in its newspapers.
The same is true of nearly every large
city of the country. Democracy has also
pressed us conquest 10 the AGRICULTURAL
press, ana In the last three or four years
many of the farmers papers in the West
have become advocates of free trade. 1t
was largely through this line and that of
the Farmers Alliance that the Demo-
Gratis first raised their claim that the
Northwest was for free trade and chang
ing to the Democratic party. Even as
good an organization as that of the
Farmers Alliance was utilized, and
Farmers Alliances established system
Rtically, with all the Democrats and
weak new Republicans in the neighbour
hood gathered into its folds; then they
were supplied with free trade literature
secretly and constantly. Such propa-
ganda has never been known in America
as that of the Democrats in their hunt in
secret and through changing press in
behalf of free trade in the West TODAY.
and 1 submit 20 you as Republicans that
it is time for our party to take notice of
what opposition the party is doing by in
creasing and strengthening Its press.
Our own press is loyal and 1t is viriie
and mighty in power to do, but it needs
to be increased in circulation. Republf-
cans everywhere should at least take
Republican papers first. have receutlv4
had some canvasses made on this subject, M
l give the result in one county, and ii Is
the same IN many others. There Is q
county in Illinois, near Chicago, where
$50 Republican families are taking DEM
ocratio papers and only ninety-six are
taking Republican papers. These are
significant facts.