Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-01-10

founded and occupied by the government. In
the meantime Benny had married Miss Margaret
Markoe and soon there was a family for him to
support.
Bache decided to publish a newspaper with
O bookshop on the side. The Federallsts already
mad their organ, Fenno's Gazette of the United
States He approached Robert Morris on the
subject Of patronage for his proposed newspaper
but Morris tried to dlssuade him. Next he con-
suited Thomas Jefferson, who seemed friendly
enough, but soon afterwards aided Philip Fren-
eau found the National Gazette as the organ of
the Republican elements.
Undlscouraged, Bache went ahead and in the
fall of 1870 established the General Advertiser.
dedicated to Truth, Decency and Utility. 1t had
several competitors, most of which were exceed
lngly dull but prosperous. Bache wasn't much of
a writer but he was a good newspaper man In
the sense that he got most of the news such az
there was and printed 1t.
But great events were on the way. Hamilton
and Jefferson, though ellow-members of Wash.
ington's cabinet, were at opposite poles as to theo-
rles of government. The feud between them in
creased. Under various pseudonyms they attacked
each other In Fenno's Gazette of the United
States and In Freneau's National Gazette.
66aNo IA II IdUlQlY-ETOWlnR
discomfort with the Federallst regime and the
rule of George Washington, the Virginia aristo.
crat- Then the storm Of the French Revolution
broke and Republican enthusiasm was rampant
In America. Citizen Genet came to America
and Bache became his friend and the Advertiser
his mouthpiece. Genet failed in his effort TO
override Old Washington" by appealing directly
TO the people and Bache shared In that failure.
But ne lost little power In the years that fol-
lowed when Americans were split into two fac
t~lons-English sympathizers and French sympa.
thizers.
When John Jay went to England and negoti-
ated his infamous treaty" Bache scored a ire
mendous newspaper scoop. While Washington
was trying to keep the provisions OF that treaty
dark, Bache obtained a copy of 1t and gave It
widespread publicity. There was tremendous ex-
citement all over the country. But DESPITE the
shrlii cries OF Bache and the Republicans that
the Federalists had sold their country to Eng.
land, the treaty was ratified.
Then the French Directory, with its bluster
ana Its corruption, played ~squarely into the
hands or the Federalists, who almost succeeded
In emDroiling America in a war with France.
Bache's resistance had a great deal to do with
averting that. During this period of violent
poltlcal conflict he became one Of the most DOW
errul men In the country and one of the most
bitterly hated. Even the mob, once Republican
ana JacoDine, turned against him. He was In
constant danger of bodily violence. But through
IL all he persisted In fighting for what he thought
were the principles of true democracy, the prIn-
ciples which he had learned from the lips of his
During this period also he had re-
his newspaper the Aurora and on the
'front.' page of 1t he placed fairly and squarely
In the middle, the fine sign of a rising sum-"
When John Adams succeeded Washington MS
President. at first Bache praised HMM q left.
handed way, to be sure, by contrasting him with
Washington. But the editor of the Aurora was
soon at outs with the new President and his
ways. So he carried on his war of
against Adams as he had against
Washington. But the yellow fever which swept
Philadelphia every summer at last did what
none OF his enemies had ever been able TO do
[ silenced Benny Bache. On September s. 179s
ne caught the yellow fever. For FIVE DAYS no
himself down to his office to get ont
he Aurora On September 10 he printed his last
ssue and In that he called John Adams a liar.
lie fought the Federalists to the last, for he
at midnight.
AS for Bache's place In American history. Fav
1t In these words In the ~epilogue of hts
'ook 1T was Benny Bache who led this Second
revolution, that broke Federalism and the sEpp-
ish alliance. He had not the genius Of Jefferson.
n that of Washington, or that Of his grand.
ather. But, like them, he loved his country. and
o him, as to them, life was really worth living
My when he could stir the people. when he
ould merge himself into the warm mass Of
into their passions, into their desires
lore than those other men, he suffered: for q
hort u,yHarfun NTH fn%~o4 T. Ao wlo sLx- 1
that finally blooms into the Joy of sue.
ess. Benny Bache had dIed-and died too soon -
by Western Newspaper Unicn.