Year: 1874


(possibly fatal from that well known and powerful
newspaper, The Meria Texas Ledger. The formula
laid down by this dependent journal is verbatim as
follows: "No paper claiming to be independent has
any claims whatever to be styled Democratic
From this it follows that newspaper to be Demo
cratic" must have opinions of its own; must be
merely register Of the opinions Of others; must be
only the mouthpiece of Committees and Conven-
tions; must be ready to avOw and to disayow che
same principles with equal facility; must defend
every decision of the caucus Democratic, no
matter how un-Democratic it may be; must eat dirt
when it seems expedient to do SO. as If 1T were q
tOothsome delicacy; must not only dsavow a con-
science, but strenuously uphold the wickedness OF
having at all i must print lies in types almost
too large for the purest and most important TRUTHS
and must stand by the party though the party may
be staggering under an avalanche of its own follies
and mistakes. Such is party organ when 1t IL
nothing better; and such sacrifices it must make
for the sake of lucre or of some shadowy notion Of
consistency. We need hardly argue against the I'M
morality of such self-surrender We shall be better
understood if we tell these poor puppets OF which
the number is becoming few, that merely as amatter
of policy their sef-debasement is utterly suicidal
They are not only in the way of making nothing ~
their course but they losing their own standing
as Democratic newspapers with the Democracy
itself. The next thing which may happen to them
may be accommodation from the party which
they have served with such thick and thin DEVOTION
A kind Of independency will be forced upon them
when it will do no good; for they will have no
friends to toady at last.


Mayoralty candidates grow plenty in spite Of the
weather. In fact, some of the newspapers seem to
have special malice in prematurely announcing men
A. al hafn tbair
sides Messrs. William Butler Duncan, Henry G.
Stebbins and Recorder Hackett, we now hear OK
Abram S. Hewitt, who certainly has admirable ad-
ministrative faculties, and of John Kelly, whose
living monument is revived Tammany. Even yet
the noise and confusion great, that We find 1t
difficult to hear with any great distinctDess, tho
clarion tones that are to propose the denomination
of Mr.. Mayor Havemeyer.


An advertisement in THE TRIBUNE the other day
treated in the briefest and most business-ke way
change in the conditions Of the transportation
problem, which may do as much as the Changers
and Congress together to settle 1t. Inc baxter
steam canal boat having made success1ui trip 10
Buffalo and back. and being likely TO Do soon ioi-
lowed by sister craft, advertised for freight With
steam navigation on the canals, railroad tyranny
through onehalf the year at least Is likely to remain
a mere figure of speech and not very effective ono
ut that.


An awful story Of the waste which haste makes
comes TO us from Burlington, Iowa. He was a care
full Jehu and anxious to get his vehicle and fair
fare over the railway crossing before the train
backed down, he caused lovely Summer hat to
bounce ruinousy against the roof Of the hack, while
at the same moment set of false teeth came flying
from the window. What made it worse was that
the train did MT come that way at all. We are not
told how much he charged for these extra comforts
and diversions; but something handsome no doubt
the passenger had to pay for this healthy lift.


Dreadful are the dangers Of navigation. 1hs Fro
PENN Dispatch announces that the scow Florence
OF Conneaut, Ohio, with . cargo Of gypsum from
Canadian port called yesterday at the outer pier.
her crew being in q famished condition" Think Oh
being upon the Wild raging billow " seow VITA
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