The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1896-10-31
THE N. o. STATES SEES A vuLTURE

I
country newspaper editor so ut.
terly vindictive and unscrupulous
as Chas. A. Danna, of the NeW
York SUM
| The older Bennett, who estab-
lished the Herald, was notorious
blaekmailer, whom prominent ci-
tizens detected by the police in
questionable resorts, leading act
ors and prima donas learned to
dread: who would cheerfully pull
his coat tails aside to invite q kick
ing that would give grounds for a
damage suit and bring his then
battling into public notice, of
whom the sharp-penned Prentice
of the Louisville journal, once
said that, though one of the elect,
he was never known to earnestly
thank God but once in his life,
and that was when sharp toed
boots went out of fashion: who
cared nothing at all for country,
prince, potentate, power or poll
tical party, his selection being
covered entirely by personal in
terest-infuenced by the policy
that promised to bring most mon
ey into the Herald exchequer.
Such was James Gordan Ben
nett, the founder,in some respects,
the greatest newspaper on this
continent, if not in the world.
But with all that, he has in the
latter time been completely
eclipscd, for malevelence and
mendacity, at least, by Charles A =.
Dana, of the Sun whose boast is
that sit shines for all"-which
may be so but its light is mostly
q baleful one. The one was char
acterizel by great business saga
city; the other is endowed with
large intellectual ability. The
one was q money getter whose
highest aspiration was to build up
a great newspaper, without any
regards to the means; the other is
"a Vulture that scars over over
forest and field, unmindful of the
beautiful picture spread out by
beneficent nature, only in search
of carrion upon which to make
it's loathsome feast.
AS between the two characters
Dana is certainly the most despic-
able. Bennett was always true to
instincts of the money maker
though not of necessity, vindictive
in his pursuit of the desired end.
Dana is only true to his Unsuitable
appetite for abuse, his uncontrol-
liable propensity for saying mean
things. Giving quasi support to
a candidate or a cause one day,
the next he heaps upon them the
most foul mouth abuse.
An evidence of this is given in a
recent editorial which is comment-
ed on as follows by the New York
Journal.
''The Journal has maintained from the
outset of this porpentous political cam
palgn that those who were responsible Tor
the REVIVAL OF sectional feeling were the
men behind Mckinley. Who has arrayed
section against section and class against
classf Is it the worklugman who seeks
relief from intolerdble burdens, large
parJ OF them the direct product of utter
dishonesty in the schemes of great cor 30
rationsf Or is 1t the trust and the mono
pJly, the gold seeker and the inancierR
is 1T Bryan or HANNAH Let their own
mouthpieces answer for them.
Yesterday morning the Sun, in an arti.
Gle on 'fhe South and Reputation, made
II deliberate assault upon the patriotism
of the States which thirty years ago test
ed their claims to the right of secession,
and, being unable to establish them, be-
came loyal states and integral parts of the
Union. The Sun assails these states be-
cause it is expected that they will cast
their UNANIMOUS electoral vote for Mr.
Bryan. because they have no silver in
teTest of their own the Sun declares that
their advocacy OF policy which involves
the base principle OF reputation will be
attributed universally and reasonably to
perVerse and deprayed public sentiment
in that part Of the American public es-
pecidlly.'
"Does our esteemed contemporary re-
gard such words as likely to put section
al feeling to sleepi We have seen at no
time in this campaign more blatant ex :
preston of sectional hatred shan this out
burst from % jodrnal which only short
time ago was endeavoriDg to organize u
para de of Federal and Confederate veter-
ans as an evidence that the bloody shirt
had been buried forever.
"Let the Sun go and shout rebel briga-
der at Simon Boliyar Bnckner, fit likes:
but its assumption that the South sup.
ports Mr.. Bryan on any other than that OF
sound democracy is puerile gibe that
arises indignation only because 1t comes
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