Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-19
The Democratic Newspapers.

The Democratic Newspapers.
Mr.. "Dull Thud'' Clarkson has been
lifting up his voice again on the sub
ject of the political influence of the
democratic and republican newspapers.
He made long speech before politi-
cal club in Boston the other night, in
which he said:
sit would be a good thing if every
republican in this county would study
'Rowell's Newspaper Directory or
any of the standard kindred works.
They would see, taking Rowell for
authority, that while there are 255
republican dailies printed in this coun-
try, with circulation of over one
thousand, there are 32O democratic
dailies printed. They would see that
while the republican dailies have, ac-
cording to Rowell, a circulation of one
million and half, the democratic dali
thousand each and a combined circu-
lation of two million and a half. The
democrats have / .346 weeklies, with a
circulation of four million and a
quarter. think these figures are all
too low in their estimates, but no
doubt they are relatively correct as
between parties. Beyond this, the
magazines that support the democratic
party have circulation of nearly half a
million, while those that support the
republican party, even by indirection,
have less than hundred thousand"
Haven't we heard good deal in the
past about the democratic party being
the party of ignorance? Hasn't George
Frisbe Hoar been intimating lately in
a magazine article that the great bulk
of the intelligence and virtue of the
country was concentrated in the repub-
lican party? The reading, thinking
people of the United States are demo-
Gratis; the day of republican domination
is over, and Mr.. Clarkson's party can
only protract it's grip on public affairs
for little while by obstructing educa-
tion with corruption. Mr.. Clarkson is
too intelligent to expect this thing to
last long, for he admits that the cam
paign of 1892 will be a newspaper
campaign.
If Mr.. Clarkson wishes to pursue this
subject any further we hope he will
revise his statistics. He speaks OF
1,346 democratic weekly newspapers
The National Democrat goes every
| week to over 3 500 democratic weekly
newspapers. What their aggregate
circulation is no one can certainly tell
but it should be more than 5 5,e99, ,e0o /;
week. The daily newspapers which
advocate democratic principles have /;
total daily circulation of more thai
100000. The aggregate circulation
of II of them is easily one-half of thi:
number. We refer to the Bostor
Herald, Boston Globe, Providence Jour
nal, New York World, New Yorl
Herald, New York Times, New Yorl
Ne,cs, New York Post, Philadelphia
Record, Philadelphia Times, Baltimore
Sun, Chicago Herald, Chicago Times
st. Louis Republic, st. Louis Dis
patch, Kansas City Times and San Fran
cisco E.ranainer. Probably the number
of newspapers and periodicals printed
every week in this country which favor
the democratic party or oppose the
republican party is more than
40, 900 900. That is much more than
one-half the entire number of people il
the United States. The total number
of republican newspapers issued is
perhaps, not much more than one-hali
the above number.-NationaI Demo
crat.
WILL friend Caraway please copy
| the above?