The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-31
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edit a campaign paper. This was the famous log cabin and hard cider cam paign. in which General Harrison was | called the Log Cabin and Greeley entered with it into the campaign with all the ardor and enthusiasm of which he was capable. It was weekly paper and had an immense success. It furnished the keynote of the campaign. Its circu- | lation rose to nearly 100000 copies and might have been larger had there been more. This paper set the tune for the l campaign. It was a campaign of tre- mendous excitement, of mass meetings and torchlight parades. of brass bands | and noise and banners and uniforms and | campaign songs.
 The chief issue of the contest was the desire to turn VanBuren and the Demo- crats out and to put Harrison and the Whigs in. The Log Cabin published many of the songs that became widely popular as electioneering material, some of which, were from the pen of the edi- tor himself. It was in this paper that appeared the famous song:
 Van. Van, Van is a used-up man, | For Van Is used-up man.
 l And also:
 Tippecanoe and Tyler too.
 Some time before this MT. Greeley had taken wife. The story was told that | the union came about in this way: Mir. lady for his paper. In reply the young | editoS wrote that he regretted that he | must decline the contribution as 1t did not square at both ends" and so did | not meet his notion of what poetry 1 should be The young woman, after puzzling over the letter for some days, l concluded that the letter was a pro- posal of marriage and wrote her accept ance. MT. Greeley. not willing to wound | her feelings, took her at her word, and so got him wife. This story does not correspond with the facts of history, but It serves to iliustrate the atroeious qua!- ity of MT. Greeley's handwriting. Moth | ing could be more appalling to a type setter, unaccustomed to his peculiar chir- RRepn R dood as 9 rseeixs exsaSgaGy eSay fTsW SeW l composi!Lr on being set to work upon one of Greeley's editorials. If Belshaz- gar had seen this handwriting on the I than he was"
 On the 10th dny of April, 1S41, appeare l the first issue of The New York Tribune. that journal to which our editor gave since his death has been chiefly ds- uhguished by bearing us its motto rounded by Horace Greeley" The pa end of the week the editor found that | his receipts had fallen more han S4OO l short of expenses. But his pluck com 6ined with the hostility of The New York Sun, which went so far as to use force against The Tribuncs carriers. served to help the new venture on to the road Of prosperity very rapidly, In seven 1 WtShS us SuDScflpJl0n HSt had grown to u,0O0. At the same time is advertising | columns had increased to thirteen in | number, paying an average of cents a me. Soon after this a weekly edition | was lssue1. which soon came to be the I most widely circulated paper in the | United States, being read by hundreds or thousands of people all over the coun- | try. The influence which the paper soon l that which any other journal of equal circulation ever exercised in this coun- | try: The Tribune came to be the polit- 1 ical bible of the Whig Party and it was about the only bible a large portion of | that useful party ever consulted. Hor- | ace Greeley was both law and gospel to | the regular readers of his paper; when ever he raised an umbrella they invari- | ably turned un their trousers.
 | Those were the days of coarse and di- rect personalities in the newspapers and of coi uover sy-a past master in scur- l lllity. It seems to have been a favorito | pastinlc with him and James Gordon | Bennett, the editor of The Herald, and to hurl at enc another such playful cpl | ttets as william" unqualified william, 'Mnmitlgatrd scoundrel,' liar" 'bas' rascal" ard other equally compiiment- ary terms If one should look through the editorial columns of these papers | when they were engaged in one of their frequent sqnabbles he would find them ley mighty interesting leading"
 But We must not assume that he was engaged scielY or mainly in pSrsoaal a mighty leader of his party. And this because he Was q wise, shrewd and dash ing writer upon all the current topics oi and his English had a directncss, clear. ness, vlrility and nervous power tha admirably adapted it to the needs of I political newspaper editor Probably nc man in America has ever aqIlled hin as writer of nervous prose such a. peculiarly suits such requirements. II the discussions of the slavery question an opponent of the Mexican war as q critic of the Kansas Nebraska bill hC was usually stanch champion of his party, and yet he never hesitated tC criticIse the acts of his party when he thought, the course of that party to l., wrong. He criticised Lincoln severely during the war for not pushing the con test harder and bringing It to d speedy close, but lt ter he had the mAnlinoss to i write: But thar divinity that shapes our ends was quietly working out Tor us larger and fuller deliverance than had dared to hope for. leaving to such sh hort-sighted mortals as 1 no part but to wonder and adore"
 After the war was oVCr Mir. Greeley be- came cne of the bondsmen of the ex- President of the Confederacy. for which act he was severely criticised by those hre-eaters who were determined at all hazards to hang Jeff Davis on a souI
  him. Events have shown him to have been both generous and wise. He was never at a loss how to meet criticism either of himself or of his country George William Curtis related in th' present writers hearing the followins incident in illustration of Greeleys read mess of repartee; When in Europe ir 1855 Mir. Greeley was talking in a public place with friend. What Americs needs he said, Ifs a d-n good lickin'! You re right. sir" here spoke up ar Englshman who overheard the remark "she does need licking" As l wal sayin." continued Greeley in his shrill squcaky voice, hat America needs is a d-n good lickin'. but the difficulty is there ain't nation on the face of the earth big enough to give it to her "
 Of Horace Greeleys nomination for the Preside ncV hy the Liberal Republican and Democratic Uartia this is not tho place to speak, He survived that dis astrous campaign only a few short weeks. driven into his grave as some thought by his disappointment at defeat and by the mcrciless caricatures ol which he had been made the victim, He will be remembered not for his mis- takes nor his eccentricites. but as the founder and editor of q great paper.
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