The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-14
ALLIANCE WITH ]. c. B.
Effected by John R. Mclean, Who.
Has Secured Control Of
Another Paper.
Con. Boynton Discharged Because
OF His Consistency and
High Character.

High Character.
quirer In Vulgar sensationaiism
TO support Hiains.
NEW YoRK, Oct. 13.-The Times recently
printed the following Washington special:
Almost eyery person in Washington who
heard the news was surprised BY the an
nouncement that the Cincinnati CONNER
cial Gazette has asked the resignation Of
Gen. Henry v. Roynton, and that his con-
nection with that paper would cease In a
fsw days. With this news came tho report
that the control of the paper for which no
has been the correspondent had passed into
the hands OF John II. Mclean, Of the Gin
cinnnti Enquirer, and that hereafter it will
openly advocate the nomination of Blaine
as the candidate for the presidency in 1892.
and work for Foraker AZ the republican
candidate for senator in place Of John
Sherman. To those who have known
probably cheerful compliance with the
request of the proprietors OF the CONNER
cial Gazette ia not q surprise. II has been
the impression among them that he has for
months been uncomfortable in his place
and entirely out of sympathy with the OBJ
vious intention Of the management to
make the paper a rival OF the Enquirer in
catering to the taste of the vulgar sensa-
tionalism that the Enquirer: has cultivated
in Cincinnati, and in the supply Of which
It has long successfully held the field against
Ill competitors. Gen. Boynton could not
have b6en expected to enter this field by
anyone who had known him, his associates,
his work for twenty-five years, his reputa-
tion in tho country, and particularly as a
man of the incest sense OF honor in pro
fessional and private life and his unwaver-
ing devotion to the right side Of every
cause to which he lent the aid of his pen
and his voice.
General Boynton has been in the employ
ment Of the Gazette and of the combined
Commercial and Gazette since 1864,
although he did not become a Washington
correspondent until 1866. His father was
mn editorial contributor to the Gazette, and
the son entered into the service of the paper
through his acquaintance with Mr.. Richard
tDAAlOls IlOH II oCkAAAhAk = IA S0AoO.
In this town he has enjoyed the closest
confidence of public men and haB been re-
peatedly consulted by every president who
has held office since he became a CORE
%spondent. He has now the friendship
and confidence OF hundreds of distinguished
\ men, and has, by his character and an inva-
riabls assertion Of the dignity n i'm
portance Of the work in which he and his
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS were engaged, stood
as the acknowledged head of the body OF
press writers, and has been q worthy e.
ample Of what the correspondent should be:
II was perfectly natural that General
Boynton should be an opponent of Mr..
Blaine and it was owing largely to the thor
%oughneBs and accuracy n the minuteness
with which he exposed Bsalne's corrupt acts
u~lations that the newspaper conferences OF
1876, the conclusions of which MI. Halstead
approved, pronounced against Blaine and
opposed him in the republican convention.
He has not, like Mr.. Halstead, forgotten
the reasons that impelled him to release bis
support to Mr.. Blaine, whom he has con-
fronted with the proofs of his coInplicity in
some of the transactions that he has repeat
eddy and vehemently denied all guilt OF, and
he could not. therefore,, be of much use to q
nomination OF Mr.. Blaine for the presi-
dency next year. That. it is supposed,
would not be as difficult a thing for Mr..
Mclean to do, for it has been believed in
Washington for several years that MIR. Nc
Lean, while running a so-called democratlc
paper, has been all along a Blaine man and
anxious that he should be the next presi-
dent.
The removal of Gen. Boynton, which has
been deferred only because of his willing
ness to defer at the solicitation of his
friends a withdrawal contemplated months
ago, is traced by some republicans here to
a series of mistakes by Mr.. Halstead. I'm
der his notion of conducting the CONNER
cial Gazette RS q 'redhot' republican pa
per 1t lost by abuse of the south is southern
trade. When it became desirable to re-
cover lost ground Mr.. Halstead took him
self to Brooklyn. and it is understood that
his immediate necessities induced him te
borrow moEey upon stock of the paper
which Mr.. Mclean indirectly held as
collateral security, The ballot-bo,
Mr.. Halstead has been held by some repub-
Leans to be principally responsible. injured
it as we'll as the chances of the republicans
in the fight of 1889 and greatly embarrassed
the management. At the beginning Of the
present campaign the course of the papel
was very unsatisfactory to republicans, who
saw that it was willing to slur Sherman
and help Foraker at his expense and when
within the present week. MIR. Halstend sen
from New York the story about tho debts Of
Gov. Campbell, which the governor resented
by ordering suits brought against the Com.
mercial Gazette for reproducing and il
that way countenancing what he has char
acterized libels, il was believed here tina
MIR. Halstead had gone MS far us circum
stances would justify him in repeating the
ballot-box forgery blunder that resulted
possibly, in the defeat Of Foraker and, the
election of Campbell. Very earnest, anxiou,
republicans here are confident that this at.
tack upon Campbell will ~re-elect him.
Some of the former admirers of the Com
mercial Gazette are fenrful that there ia a de
termination somewhere to wreck %thatpaper
Men who have been long connected with it
have, one by one, been dropped withou
opportunity to secure other employment
and with the very least possible p~retense ot
politeness or grace. The Washington
force. including H.. j.. Wynne and Colone
Fred d. Mussey, writer's OF experience ant
skill. was ssummarily cut down. and it be
came known that the Commercial Gazett,
no longer wanted news" What it was
after was sensations, and they were to be
OF a sort 80 lurid as to throw into the shade
the most glowing stories of the Enquirer.
But even with the taste of Cincinnati per-
verted by one particularly sensational
paper. it ID not believed that the republicans
OF that city will be content with the sort of
Commercial Gazette which is to be mad,
for them, and the expectation among then
il that it will DO found Improbable, be soo1
abandoned and the sensation hunters b.
sent to the Enquirer md n new republican
paper started that will give the republicans
n paper once more that is prepared for a
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