Year: 1879

In the exposure Of misconduct at tn


City Hospital the REPUBLICAN has hat
the leading share. The first intimatioI


OF misconduct in that institution wal


found in its columns Of Wednesday last


and though no names were al that time


mentioned, the public was not long and


was remarkably correct in guessing who


the guilty parties were. On the follow


ing Thursday more particulars were
made public, and uneasiness took posses


sion of the minds ofthe principal actors
in the unsavory programme. The Demo
cratic papers were so far interested that
as usual, however, when charge is made


against Democratic city official, they
denounced the reports as tissues of lies
from beginning to end, and vigorously
denounced the REPUBLICAN for giving
publicity to the reports as if such g
thing as the betrayal Of young girl
by a high city official in public insti-
tuition, was thing to be Kept quiet and
the lights turned down upon, as in the
case of the election contest before the
City Council. that fraud, dishonesty
and crime might be shielded. On Thurs
day the reporters Of the REPUBLICAN
struck the right track in their hunt for
news and the whole affair opened up
before them. They were at last reward
ed with greater budget Of information
than they had bargained for. Locked
up consciences and minds flew open at
their approach and they revelled as it
we're in the luxuries of an exciting ar
ticle which they knew would stir the
community from centre to circumference
and unlike many other sensational ar
ticles, ,dishsd up for the public in sensa-
tional papers, here was one that requir-
ed no establishment to make it reada-
BILE, no imagination to give it color Of
truth.


The broad facts lay before them and
the great thing was to decide what was
proper to use and what to bs kept back
or picked away for future use. A care
full discrimination brought out the
main expose in the REPUBLICAN of Fri
day, day in advance of all other pa
pers in the city. The results of that
exposure are well known. While
there were some faint murmerings and
threats by parties whose toes were
pinched, congratulations from Demo-
Gratis and Republicans alike poured in
upon us for daring to attack an institu-
tion thought to be so impregnably en-
trenched behind official authority thai
nothing short of treachery could effect.
The common saying that "Love laughs
at lock smiths" was more than veri-
fed. 1t is not necessary for us to al
lude in detail to the exposures that
were laid bare to the eyes of our indus
trious and active reporters, for they
were laid before the public through
the columns of the REPUBLICAN on Fri
day, while other papers were calling US
liars and slanderers. On Saturday
other papers, yes, even the sluggish
"Gazette," came trudging along inthe
footsteps of the REPUBLICAN, and their
readers were treated TO rehash of what
had appeared in their more enterpris-
ing contemporary the day before. 1t is
true that those papers that have fol-
lowed the wake of the REPUBLICAN have
hunted up and dished out some NOR
sells o:the uusavory expose which We
had no desire 10 publish, but after all
the main credit Of leading of and ap-
pssriug first before an astonishsd pub
lie, belongs 70 the REPrBucAs.