The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-29
COMPLIMENTS FOR MIR. GRAY
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ington Printer.
Mr.. George X. Gray, the printer, has lately
received well-deserved compliments in lead
ing editorials in the New York Stl, and Sat
tTddy Mirror. Mr. Gray has probably printed
more speeches and documents than any other
firm in the country, and room is gladly made
for some of the good words said of him. The
Saturday Mirror of yesterday contained the
following:
The New York Sun is great newspaper
and as such refuses, with Jacksonian persis-
tence, to publish any kind OF paid advertise
ment under any guise save that which should
characterize it, But this, of course, does not
bar the San from pointing out the merits of a
good thing when the public interest seems to
demand 1t. Our esteemed contemporary did
not, Tor instance, fall into inconsistency when,
not long since, it called particular attention
to modest Washington publication, whose
distribution, in Its opinion is likely to benefit
that sturdy Democracy along whose path the
Sun is always with unclouded splender sup
posed to shine. Under the head of "The Man
Who Did II" the Sun said:
zone of the most potent political documents
that can be circulated before or during the
Presidential canvass of 1892 has recently been
issued from the press of George r. GRAY,
printer, Washington. This pamphlet consists
OF extracts from the journal of the Senate
covering the history of the memorable fight
against the Force bill The record begins
with Mr.. Hoars motion on December 8, 1890
to proceed to the consideration of the re-
modelled Lodge bill, and it ends with the vote
of January 26, 1891, when the Senate, by a
majority of one laid the defeated measure
aside and proceeded to consider apportion-
ment.
'None of the long speeches against the
Force bill are reported in the pamphlet of
winch we are speaking. 1t simply presents in
chronological order the strategic and tactical
aspects OF an extraordinary struggle The
preliminary manGuvres for position, the par
liamentary skirmishes, the protests against
the limitation of debate, the energetic resist
ance OF the effort to stife amendments, the
appeals for fair and impartial hearing, the
great battle over the gag rule, the masterly
handling OF the Democratic minority, which
at last achieved victory against almost hope
less odds, are here exhibited in compilation
from the official record which makes nara
tive with movement as rapid and interest as
intense as Dumas novel.
"On every page is the name of Senator Cor
man, Of Maryland, and yet from the beginning
to the end of the debate, as far as we remem.
Der, he made no speech upon the merits of the
measure which he was opposing with all the
power of intellect and all the resources of ex-
per1ence and all the courage of honest Demo
cratic convictions. 1t was a victory of leader
ship, not of rhetoric. The leader was Arthur
L. German. This is the story of one of the
greatest services which patriotism ever ZEN
dered to this country in time of peace"
In thus advertising Mr.. Gray's wares the
Sun shows how great newspaper, under the
direction of plastic-minded chief, may
subordinate special rules to the demands of
general purpose And this instance it may
be further remarked, is characteristic of our
esteemed contemporary, which, while moving
through fixed orbit according to well de-
fined laws, is yet subject to those perturba-
tions which accentuate and give character to
the prime influences that find root in the uni
versal development Of things. But this
carries us away from the point.
What the Mirror desires to say is that, by
broader application of the principle which
has moved it to editorially advertise particu-
lar publisher for the general good, the Sun
might have called attention to other partisan
literature of an interesting, valuable, and
varied nature printed by Mr.. Gray. For in
stance, there is the silver speech of Senator
John T. Jones; the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodges
Federal Elections speech; Republican speeches
on the tariff by the Hons. William Mckinley,
j. Q. Burrows, s. E. Payne, j. H. Gear and
L. G. Houck, and Democratic speeches on the
same subject by Senators d. w. Voorhees, and
j. &. Carlisle, and the Hons. w. G. P. Brecl-
inridge, Benton Mcmillan, j. r. Williams, T.
H. Paynter, j. B. McCreary and w. L.. Will
speech on the Federal Elections bill, all of
which have been widely circulated where they
were likely to do the most good.
However, the San has done very well as 1t
is, and the Mirror congratulates the enterpris-
ing and popular publisher In question upon
the enyiable distinction which that great daily
has incidentally conferred upon him through
the Incompatible advertising medium of its
editorial columns.