Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-28
GARRISON. SCARED
At the Marvellous Growth of Democratic News
papers and Magazines.

Al Gne marvellous OrDWth OF DeHOcFdJic News
papers and Magazines.
PITTsBURG, PA, April 26.-At the
American club meeting to-day in honor
of Gen. Grants sixty eighth birthday 3,
Mr.. Garrison, in responding to the toast
''The Press, - said in part: 1.-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, unseiffsh anu
always the advance guard of the party.
The consideration of the party press daily
grows more and more important While
we are in q 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 q newspaper cam
paign, and it 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 astonlshment the mar
velous manner in which the
Democratic party has been strength
ening its lines in newspapers
or magazines. In the latter days it has
been beating us at our own game. In the
large cities of the East they haYe cap
tured nearly all the magazines and illus
trated papers. All the mercernaries of
the press and literature have been lured
into their service. The reinforced
Democratic press is a startling thing for
the Republican party to face, and il
In New York city l 400 900 copies of
daily newspapers are printed daily. Less
than 200 600 of them are Republican.
This means that tWo-fifths of the Repub-
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 unconsoiously against the
party of their fathers. ] 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 its conquest to the agricultural
press, and in the last three OF 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
atically, 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 prepa-
gands has never been known in America
as that of the Democrats in their haBt in
secret and through a changing press in
behalf of free trade in the West TODAY
and l submit 20 you as Republicans that
it is time for our party to take notice of
what opposition the party Is doing by in
oreasing and strengthening It's press.
Our own press is loyal, and it is virile |
and mighty in power to do, but it needs |
TO be increased in circulation. Republic |
cans everywhere should at least take |
Republican papers first. l have recently !
had some csnvssses made on this subject. |
1 give the result in one county, and it is |
the same IN many others. There is a !
county in Illinois, near Chicago, whGTg
$50 Republican families are taking Fem |
ocratio papers and only ninety-six are |
taking Republican papers. These are |
significant facts.