The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-01
THE SUN AND THE TRIBUNE.
Some Observations by an Unpreiud,ced ol

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Some Observations by an Unparalleled Oh
server.
From the Vermont Watohndn and State Journal Of
Montpelier.
When tho national canvass OF 1896 was prao.
tically opened by the declaration Of principles at
Chicago THE New YORK SUN, true to its esti.
mate OF the dominating issue Of the canvass
and having the courage of its convictions re-
spocting that issue, took up the cause OF sound
money and the national honor by ospousing the
candidacy of William Mckinley with the
promptness, vigor, and decision that are the
characteristics Of undoubted sincerity and true
patriotism. Throughout tho campaign THE SuS
struck sturdy blows, delivered straight from the
shoulder, at Organism in whatever spocious
guise IL appeared.
Tho paper was q powerful factor, II not, in.
deed, the most controlling single influence in
the East, hut more especially In the city and
State of New York, in producing the magnia.
cent majorities ut the November election.
II SUN found in the Republican platform
the only hope OF society in this nation, and the
truest exposition OF real Jeffersonian principles.
And yet, in accepting the Republican platform,
THE SUN was consistently maintaining Its fealty
to tho policies and principles, in respect Of ma.
tional affairs. which had found conspicuous sup
portors in Samuel ]. Tilden and Samuel ]. Ran.
dali, In whom 1t had been an earnest believer,
The L has stout'y m ,intuined its ante-elec-
ton stand, and in the recent municipal canvass
In New York city. among the newspapers, was
almost the sole defender of the local Republican
organization against the assaults of its enemies
and the treachery Of its friends.
Republican papers which have become some
what effcte, or rickoty In their ideas. or which
may be moved by u spirit of jealousy, may sheer
Mt THE sim nntp hn1nt ,o a 10 a,,, D...L
lican policies and denouncing party treachery
with characteristic vigor and directness; but
Republicans everywhere were very joyous when
that journal put its stalwart shoulder to the
wheel in the perilous crisis of 1896.
Foremost among the Republican journals that
were faithless found in q great emergency was
the Neto York Tribune, which seems to have
presumed upon Its ancient standing as a Repub-
lican newspaper to betray its party with i'm.
punity whenever personal pique or disappoint-
ment should arouse its resentment. Passing by
the fact-which history has regarded with venial
leniency-that tho founder of the Tribune be-
came in 1872 the Presidential candidate OF the
Democratic party. which for a lifetime he had
tercely denounced as the embodiment Of every
species of moral and political wickedness, his
successor has once and again allied himself with
the enemies of the Republican party and con-
spired to accomplish its efeat.
In 1882 the Tribune Joined hands with the
Democrats and Mugwumps OF that time to de-
feat Judge FolRer, the Republican candidate for
Governor Of New York, and to elect Grover
Cleveland by n majority of some coo. 900 votes.
In respect Of ability, experience, and character,
Folger compared with Cleveland as Hyperion to
Satyr. The Tribune was thus instrumental in
starting Mr.. Cleveland on the high road to tho
Presidency Of the nation, and its treachery to
its party at that time largely contributed TO the
disasters that befell this country under the Cleve-
land Administration Again. in the recent mu.
nicipal ELECTION in the Greater New York,
the Tribune consortcd with the dircst enc
mics of the Republican party to defeat its
candidate for Mayor and his associate Off
Gals, although the candidates were, in
every respect, the most eminent among their
fellow citizens in their fitness for the Offices to
which they had been nominated. Its recent
apostacy and its continued efforts to break up
or disorganize its party in the city and State of
New York have earned for it the fatal caressing
and adulation of the Mugwump and Democratic
press. the inveteratc and malignant foes of the
party and its principles, in all parts of tho
country.
THE SUN is. prominently, the great national
paper, standing up vigorously for American in.
terests. at all times and the world over, be-
friending and championing the cause OF every
people contending for their rights and their
liberties against their oppressors. Republicans
as a party, and Americans as n people, have in
The Sun, among the newspapers of the country,
their ablest and most conspicuous advocate.