The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-01-03

by the election of John Bell were wei
maintained, Joseph Gales was callce
to the dreamless couch of the dead
His great work was done, and he wa:
gathered to his fathers before he couIC
witness the lingering death of the
great national newspaper to which he
had devoted his life, and by which he
made American journalism honored al
home and abroad. His surviving part
ner and brother-in law, Mr.. Seaton
continued The struggle, but the paper
was Dowerless, as conservatism was 6
stranger in the fierce passions of civi
war, and Mr.. Seaton retired from it OF
the 3lst of December, 1864, and soor
thereafter the great National Intelli
gencer was only memory.
EDITOR DUFF GREEN.
The first of the great editors of the
country to inaugurate violent and de
famatory partisan warfare was William
Duane, of the Philadelphia Aurora
that was the organ of jefferson as
against Wa~ invt. y, :: i .A'"ms. Its
criticisms OF buln WashuE2l,n "nC
Adams when in the Presidency were
vituperative to degree that no self
respecting ,urnal would initiate in
this age, but Jefferson attributed his
success over Adams in 1900 very
larg' ly to Duane, who retired from the
AURORA on the removal of the govern
ment to Washington, and accepted 8
lieutenant colonelcy in the army from
Jefferson.
The next editor of this class TO a..
tain national fame was Duff Green
He established the United States
Telegraph in Washington on the ac
cession OF John Quincy Adams to tho
Presidency, and violently assailed the
administration anil advocated the
cause of jackson with degree OF
fervencv and reck klessness in painful
contrast with the dignity and cuur'
tesy of Mr. Gales. Of the Intelligencer
that was acc, pied as the organ ol
Adams When the breach came be-
tween Jackson and Calhoun, Green
supported Calhoun, and a new organ
for the jackson administration be.
came necessity.
The Globe, under Mr.. Blair, contin.
ued as the organ Of the Van Buren
administration, and after the election
and death of Harrison its leaders and
its editors bore a conspicuous part in
alternating Tyler from his Wing asso.
ciates. | doubt whether in the history
of American journalism any one editor
was as great political leader as was
Francis p. Blair Thurlow Weed ap
preached him in that line but covld
hardly he classed as his equal, aud
certainly not as his superior. From
the time of his connection with the
Globe until Mr.. Polk, in 1915, was
unfortunately persuaded to dismiss
Blair from the editorship Of the ma.
tional organ and substitute Mr..
Ritchie, of the r chmond Inquirer
Mr.. Blair was even more potent rs .
Democratic leader than either of th>
Democratic Presidents who were So
greatly indebted to him for their sue.
cess. No administration measure was
adopted without his approval, and nc
national policy of the party and nc
national candidates were accepted
against his protest.
Gen. jackson was yet living, in
feeble health, in Mr. Folks own State
and he earnestly protested against
changing Mr.. Blair from tue position
Of Democratic oracle, but Virginia had
very shrewdly directed the Democrat
ic National Convention Of 1914 that
nominated Polk. IN "Father' Ritchie
as he was then called, WHO had made
the Richmond Inquire for many Years
the great organ of the Mother Of Presi
dents, was brought to Washington and
installed as editor Of the Globe, whose
title was changed to that Of the Wash
inaton Union. With the retirement
of Mr.. Blair the importance of the ma
tional organ persisted. The Union
under Richie, soon ceased to command
the respect of the Democratic leaders
and while every President until til,
great rebellion of 1861 had his organ
they steadily degenerated in public re
spect and influence, and during tn,
last generation the leaders of all par.
ties have ceased to look to ashington
for political direction through the
party journal.
| very we'll remember Daft Green
who, after his political course had been
run and he was well down at the heel
came before the Pennsylvania legis
laturc over forty years ago, when !
was member Of the house, and per
sonally appealed to the members to
pass his fiscal agency bill 1t was
regarded by some as a huge joke and
by others as the widest of financial
dreams, as, under the powers of his
charter, he could have financed the ma
tions Of the world. 1t was generally
accepted as harmless vagary of the olG
mar, and it was passed solely becaus,
of the general sympathy felt for him
none dreaming that the franchise