Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-10

paign paper in support Of Seymour and
Blair. At the close Of that campaign a Mr..
Williams Of Pennsylvania became the pro-
Prietor and not finding it successful abandoned
The Daily Patriot was established, it was gen.
orally understood, by Mr.. Corcoran and some
other wealthy democrats. who, with a fund Of
Sl0O,00O. proposed to found a permanent con-
sentative democratic press at the federal me-
tropohs. 1t began operations on the 14th OF
November. 1870. Its chief editor was Mr.. Jas.
+. Harvey, q well-known Washington CORE
spondent Of the Philadelphia NORTH American
and q man OF really splendid ability. Mr.. Oscar
a. Harris was chief of the news department.
and the financial branch of the concern and
general superintendency of the whole, as Mr.
Hardy says, was in the hands of Col James G.
Berret The Patriot, with its able editorial
stan and under the control of Col Berret and
with ne large capital. had not very length
ened life. 1t demonstrated the fact, up to that
time. that paper not in accord with the ad-
ministration could not hope to survive very
long.
NEWSPAPERS IN GEORGETOWN.
Georgetown very early became the seat of a
newspaper press, the first Of which was the
Washington Feieralist, conducted by Mr. VIM.
A. find Co. 1t was a tri-weekly and lived
along In 1904. and subsequently. but for no
extended period. As the title assumes it was a
fede ralist. not of the Adams. but of the
Washington stamp. In June, 1904. Mr.. Rend
complains of cruel and wanton negligence
OF ms subscribers to pay up, and to hasten
their slow movements puts at the head of his
editorial columns the marshars adver tisement
70 sen MN out, presses, type and parapher-
malta, together with household furniture.
&C. On July 8, 1904. he tells his subscribers
that they have only three days more in which
70 heip him, and in default the paper dies. '
The day OF sale came. The paper was rescued
by the interposition of a friend, but it went on
III mn var - h.
noticeable features in its files is the profundity
OF sorrow displayed on accoun: of the slaughter
OF Alexander Hamilton by Aaron Burr the
paper was not only put in mourning. but heavy
inverted rules were placed crosswise ND and
down the several pages.
About the same period The Spirit of &c was
published; also the Fedtral Republican, after ITS
expulsion from Baltimore. The hid pendeni
American, published at the close of the war OF
1872 had only a brief existence. The Met,O-
potifdn, published in 1923. lived five or six
years. The Columbian, published about the
same time. shared its fate. In 1929. July Ben
)amln Homans, who had lost an Office on the
accession OF Gen. Jackson. started the Colai,.-
ban Gazette. In March, 1888. Mr.. Joshua A.
Rind purchased it and Mr.. Homs us published
an official Military and Naval Magazine
About August, 1885. Mr.. Samuel u. Langtree
and John L. Sullivan (the sou OF q very &C
compllshed lady, to whom rnmor said Mr.. Van
buren would have been happy to pay his sd
dresses) commenced the publication OF tue
Metropolitan. 1t was democratic and southern,
but not of the Calhoun pattern. 1t was sup
posed to be undertaken at the instance OF
Mr.. Joel X. Poinsett an an.i-Cal pun South
Caroiinian. previously minister tn Next o.
Langtree and OSulllvan were Welcome
guests Of the White House during the Jackson
and Van Buren, regime. and hence the ", uo-
potttdn was paper of considerable ton. Whe,.
the WfrOpOtttdn moved to Washington the
I0toMac Adcocdte. owned and edited by Thomas
Turner. took its place This paper, changed to
the GeorJe'o,cn AdrOcote, was published by
Fulton Smith. Fulton subsequently became
one OF the owners OF the Baltimore american.
MIR. John I. Grow, subsequently of the Baiti-
more Sum- became one OF the owners and edit
ors OF the AdcocGJe. Mr.. Crow, on leaving for
Baltimore. sold the .idrocate to Mr. Ezekiel
Hughes, who continued the paper some sixteen
years.
A new tri-weekly was established in 1853 by
Messrs. Rodier Settle, but its life was not
extended beyond year or two. Mr.. J. Z. Par
ker resuscitated the Potomac IAdrOcdte and tried
1t for a few months. when llr. ]. d. McGill pub
lished it as a weekly for several years. The
Alexandria Gdzefte has for nearly the whole OF
this century been established. 1t originated
with Mr.. Edgar Snowden's (sr.) father, and is
now conducted by Mr. Edgar Snowden the
son and grandson of the ri,inai owner From
this heightened history of Journalism in Wash
ington 1t would be no misnomer to call it the
grave Of such enterprises.
JOHN F. CoYLE.