The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-06-07


It will be curious and interesting to
watch the triang ular struggle which
is about to begin. Cockerili and Tnr-
ner are to fight against each other
and both against the World There
is hardly room for all three on a larg e
scale. We should be inclined to say
that two should go under before the
struggle came to O close. The World
has capital, possession OF the field, a
certain organization, and pa
tronage which, we dare say,
pays handsomely still, in spite Of all
losses. But it is internally wounded
by the loss of its old heads, and on
the outside it is fearfully handicapped
by the reputation of decline and de-
cay which has in some way become
attached to it, and which is the most
serious detriment that a paper could
incur.
The Recorder has the advantages of
sufficient money. youth, a swelling
reputation and skilled aggressive
management. 1t has been hurt by
internal dissensions, and changes of
management; but under Mr.. Turner's
firm rule. all that will doubtless dis
appear. The great argument against
its success lies in the enormous ex-
pense of its publication coupled with
the exceeding slowness of the business
public to give remunerative support
to new paper.
Colonel Coclxerill's PAPER has not
yet appeared, and it would be absurd
to build in advance any special the
cries of its future. 1t will have the
advantage of possessing the best and
most famous news editorof the day in
the person of the Colonel himself, and
thesvery fact that he is in the enter
prise affords strong presumption
that there is money enough there, too.
The old Star Continent is hardly worth
considering as an element of success;
the afternoon Commercial Advertiser
barely shade more. If the Colonel
is to succeed, he must build from the
basement up.
Whatever happens, it is hard to
figure out the downfall of the World.
1t has an advantage of position
which is hardly calculable Nothing
is more painful for newspaper men to
contemplate than the smallness of the
vacancies they leave when they step
down and out They are indis-
pensable today and tomorrow
they are gone and are not
missed. Whether this will be SO
with Colonel Cockerill and Mr..
Turner in the World Office remains to
be seen. If their loss is felt, the paper
has the means and the fame to
get other men to fill their places, and
in a business where novelty is the
stock ia trade, it is hard to predicate
disaster from change Colonel Cock
erill and Mr.. Turner have doubtless
done more than any other two men to
make the World what it is. Leaving
it, however. they must leave the great
prestige they have created as
heritage to their successors, while
they, lost in the veil of impersonality
which is the shroud of all that
earnest and inspired work that makes
the great newspaper of the day, must
begin almost afresh the same old
sfrl3cfyIa for eYisfance
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IF the interviews on the Presiden-
tial nomination printed in the great
fake edition of the World yesterday
have any sort of authenticity, it
would appear that Essex County is
strongly in favor of Hill. 1t is
palmer every day that the Democ-
racy of Essex is infected with
all the worst tendencies of the party,
of which tendencies Hill is the repre-
sentative.
IT is honorable to New Jerseys
democracy and discreditable to the
Republican party, that with all the
extravaganza of the Billion Congress
only very small sum was appropri-
ated for the needs of this progressive
State. 1t may be only accident, but
it looks odd that by far the greater
part of what is appropriated goes
either to Republican places, such
as Camden and Paterson, or to doubt
full ones. such as Newark, which was
not yet regarded as surely Democratic
at the time the appropriation for her
postoffice was made, while Hoboken
is the only straight Democratic city
that received any recognition.
The Doodle madness of the Billion
ties was not by any means without
method.
APPREClATIVE FlREMEN.
Excelsior Compfny of Hoboken Knows