Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-11-22
GREELEY AND RAYMOND.
fe'loscphicsi Dissertation on tho Ner.
Its Of the Two Great Editors.


There IS not parer in al this country that
possesses lie individuality that characterized
tae New York Tribune when Horace Greeley
was us editor Or The Times when edited BY
Henry > Saynona.-kansas Com,noner.
lhc das oi Srea. newspapers edited by gre at
.ators. slch a. Horace Greeley and Henry j.
raymond. has passed Chicago Tribune.
We had he pleasure # knowing both
'ireeley and Raymond. We were more
intimate with the srst named Of these
contemporary editors than with the
other. They We're able, sincere. ener-
getic, public spirited Americans. Neither
OF them was cherub Mr.. Greeley.
good man: said damn" more than once
as we regret to remember, and when he
called Raymond ''the little villain" that
cool headed mar retorted in language
which many people have forgotten. The
Two did not get along very we'll together
when one was editor of The Tribune ard
the other among his assistants, nor after
ward when they were editors of riva,
papers. though both were OF the same
party Neither Of them was an ideal
editor, or very deep thinker, or FIRST
class statesman or a notable scholar.
Gree:ey was stronger and more
stirring writer than Raymond, but Ray
mond was far more skillful editor than
Greeley. Greeley was more fervent in
mind than Raymond; Raymond was
more JUiiciors and nimble than Greeley.
Raymond, when lie was member of the
legislature, and the speaker of the as
sembly, ana tie lieutenant governor of
the state, and member of congress. and
delegate to state or national conven-
t1ons, gave evidence that he was greatly
more ingenious III politics than Greeley.
who, indeed. during the brief period OF
his service in congress, did not win dis
t1nctlon. Raymond always kept up a
close intimacy with those astute political
managers. Thurlow Weed and William
H. Seward, while Greeley was unable to
stay long in the political firm of Sew
ard. Weed & Greeley" il which, as he
said when he left the concern, he had
been Junior partner"
Greeley was more of philosopher than
Raymond. who, i'll turn, was more of
man OF affairs than Greeley Greeley
was often compared with Benjamin
Franklin. though he did not possess
Franklins scientific quality; RAYMOND
might be compared, in many respects,
with Franklin Pierce, though he was not
of Pierce's politics. Greeley had certain
eccentricities of manner and action;
Raymond was always regarded as a very
level headed man. Both of them be-
lonSed TO the antislavery school in poll
tics; but Greeley's fervor in the cause
far surpassed Raymond's. Greeley had
in his earlier years been a champion of
social reforms which We're bitterly
denounced by Raymond. who, however,
IN the latter years of his life, began to
look with favor upon certain theories of
socialism. Greeley was negligent in his
dress: Raymond Was natty. Both Gree
ley and Raymond We're founders of New
York daily papers which still exist, but
neither of which is ROW characterized by
the traits of its founder
We agree with The Kansas Commoner
that none of the New York papers now
possesses the individuality of Greeley's
Tribune or Raymond's Times. and no
one OF them can possess it. for both Of
these memorable individuals long ago
departed for tine undiscovered country
from whose hourn no traveller returns"
after II had been their lot ito grunt and
sweat under a weary life" but that is
not reason why we should despair of
the American press. We may Vet have
editors not unworthy to be compared
with the greatest and best we have ever
had.
\ true man was Horace Greeley,
strong, earnest and cood-houored be
his memory! An able man was Henry
Jarvis Raymond-clear headed. quick
witted. reasonable. temperate. genial
and highly accomplished-let his name
shine il the editorial galaxy.-New York