New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-16

holders Of the corporation were still
welded TO old ideas and We're inclined to
seek in a return to the old ways. under
some other leader. the papers nilita-
ton from the staggering losses which u
suffered as result OF that disastrous
campaign. But nothing could have been
more gratifying to Mr.. Reid and TO his
friends. or more strlkingly have demon
strated the place which he had won I'm
the confidence and esteem Of the public.
than the way i'm which friends rallied To
his support, and financial resources were
placed at his disposal sufficient to put
him in control of the establishment and
enable him to carry II trlumphanty
through the trying days Of the panic Of
1873. Instead Of retrenchment, expansion
was the order OF the day. The whole
motive Of the editor and his associates
was to make The Tribune better paper
than ever before. regardless Of cost. And
that policy. at once audacious and saga
cious. was splendidly successful, the pa
rer rising TO greater influence and greater
PROSPERITY than ever before in It's history
How largely that achievement was due
to the personal labOrs Of Mr.. Reid him
self only those who were assoc9ted with
him at the time have ever fully appre-
ciated. He displayed then In It's supreme
development what he had already pos
sessed in a high degree-thc genius OF
work. In order TO waste no time In trav-
cling even a mile or two TO and from
home, he had a sleeping room ntted up III
the tower Of the Tribune Building. adJoin-
ing the composing room, so that ne couii
spend the night close by the scene Of
duty. For fourteen, sixteen, even eighteen
hours a day he toiled at his desk, writing
leaders, debating correspondence direct
ing typesetting and press work. super
yislng the departments OF puphcatloh
circulation and advertising and Impress
ing his own ambitious ana indonitaple
will upon every detail of the great ana
complex esta blishment. IL used TO be sald
that Mr.. Greeley often wrote the whole
or nearly the whole editorial page. but
he did little else than write. Mr. held
was writer, printer, publisher, circulation
manager, all In one.
An epitome Of the political history OF
America would be involved In "A recount
ing OF the influential activities of The
Founded I'm the days of Henry ClaYs
brilliant championship OF the American
system" the paper always continued the
foremost advocate Of protective tarl1.
When others wavered or were fearful lts
voice was ever clear and undauhted
against the craze OF greenhack Imitation
and fat money, and later against the no
less pernicious heresy OF deprecldteu
silver coinage. The scathing cr'uc Oh the
iniouities of carpet bag Reconstruction
In tho South, II was equally vigorous III
condemnation of Ku-Klux savageries, OK
renudiatlon and of the tissue ballots
fraud When IL was sought to perFert
The result of the Presidential election or
1915 through an orgy OF bribery and per-
iurv n WAS The Tribune under Mr.. Reld s
direction which vindicated the righteous
seating OF President Hayes by an uhah-
swerable exposure Of the "clpher uis-
matches" negotiations through which un-
scr,nuIous tricksters had sought To com
Dass defeat of the popular Will In the
raho Initiation of the South. the develop
mont Of new Western states, the promo
tion of American industry ana commerce.
ths honorable settlement oil foreign coh-
,roversies and the cultivation OF peace
and friendship with all nations the re-
oons,ruction Of the American navy the
,,,,aar+aking of the isthmian canal. the
progress of literature science anu ar,
and the intellectual. moral anu s'G'ai
o,a,,a,ion of the standard OF common NE
The Tribune took sympalheuc iiteres'
and often exerted commanding ihHu-
ence.