The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-14
WHERE THE NEWSPAPERS STAND.

The New York World mas Oeen investigating
the attitude OF the leading newspapers OF the
country on the Panama tolls issue. and out OF
1a5 of these on its exchange list it finds l07 sup
porting President Wilson and only % opposing
him. That paper in its issue OF yesterday said:
To the high credit of American journalism, an
overwhelming majority of the Leading newspapers
OF the United States, without regard to party
lines. are stanchly supporting President Wilson
on the Panama tolls issue.
Most Of the Democratic press would naturally
be with a Democratic President, but among Mr..
Wilson'S strongest supporters are Republican ana
Progressive newspapers OF commanding influence.
In New York City only the Evening Mail and
the Hearst papers are opposing the repeal. The
World, the Evening Post, the Sun, the lines. the
Tribune, the Herald, the Press, the Globe and the
Brooklyn Eagle favor the repeal OF the coastWlse
exemption clause. In the State press the percent
age in favor of repeal is quite as emphatic.
With three or four exceptions all the leading
Southern newspapers are SUSTAINING the Presi-
dents policy. On the Administration side OF the
issue are the Louisville Courier Journal, the Rich
mond Despatch, the ichrnon News
Leader. the Baltimore Sun, the Charleston News
and Courier, the Chattanooga Times, the Louis
vile POST, the Knoxville Sentinel, the Savannah
News, the Raleigh News and Observer, the Mobile
Register, the Macon Telegraph, the Atlanta Con
stitution, the Atlanta Journal, the Florida Times
Union, the Nicksburg Herald, the New Orleans
States, the Columbia State, the Macon News, the
Memphis Commercial Appeal, the Fort Worth
Record, the Galveston News, the Augusta Chron-
lCte and the San ANTONIO Express.
In the East the Springfield Republican, the
Boston Post, the Boston Globe, the Hartford
Times, the Providence Journal, the Boston Tran
script, the Boston Advertiser the Hartford Globe
and the New Haven Journal Courier are on the
side of the President.
Although some of the Eastern Progressive
newspapers like the New York Mail, the Philadel-
phia North American and the Pittsburgh Leader
are in favor of the coastwlse exemption, the great
Progressive papers of the Middle West are
strongly on the side Of treaty obligations. These
include the Chicago Tribune, the Kansas City
Star, the Detroit News and the Detroit Tribune.
There are a few papers in the Middle West
like John r. McLean's Cincinnati Enquirer, the
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, the Kansas City
Journal, the st. Louis Globe Democrat and the
Detroit Free Press which are against the Presi-
dent, but most of them are on the other side.
The Chicago Inter Ocean, the Chicago Record
Herald, the Chicago Journal, the Duluth News
Tribune, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the St.
Louis Republic, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the
Illinois State, the ST. Paul Pioneer Press, the
Topeka State Journal, the Sioux Falls Press, the
Milwaukee News, the Des MONIES Capital, the
Milwaukee Free Press, the Nebraska State Jour
nal, the Omaha World Herald and many others
are firm for repeal.
In the Rocky Mountain States some of the
Republican papers like the Salt Lake Tribune and
the Salt Lake Herald are sustaining the CoaStwise
monopoly, but others like the Idaho Statesman
are quite as ardent on the Presidents side.
Most of the leading Pacific coast newspapers
and some of the New Orleans newspapers are
prominent Eastern newspapers that oppose the
President Philadelphia has the largest percentage,
but the Record and the Public Ledger are up
holding the Administration regardless of Phila.
delphia's traditional attitude toward any sort Of
a subsidy or rebate.
Out of 1876 leading newspapers of the United
States on The Worlds exchange list, we find 107
supporting President Wilson and only twenty
eight opposing him. We believe that this cleav-
age of newspaper sentiment is fairly represen-
tatve of the cleavage in popular sentiment. This
sentiment shows that the East, the Middle West
and the South are overwhelmingly against grant
ing ship subsidies by breaking treaties and that
the chief measure of support comes from the
Pacific coast
The Pittsburgh Post takes the eninently SEN
sble view when it remarks that when Republi
cans glory over carrying one OF their strongest
districts it rs evident that they take it as a sur
prise AS a matter OF fact the Republican party
in this country now is in a frame of mind where
it is disposed to be very thankful even for small
favors at the hands of the electorate. In this
connection we should state that the article under
Spirit of the Press" IN Sa ulrday's issue Of thi.
paper, entitled A Republican District Gone Re
publican" should have been credited to the Rich
mond News-Leader. the credit line having beer
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