| Show CROKER AND THE NEWSPAPERS P W MEX IN Lf L STATES or else elser F r H where W re haTe hare been en accorded the newspaper note noto notoriety SS that has fallen to Squire quiro Richard Richaed r of Tammany ball hall and Wantage Vantage Few therefore arc in a atter better position to realize the power of the press for good od or evil It is pleasant plea ant to see Mr II Croker rise in fiL biH place and give ghe credit r t where credit is due In a signed d statement published in the New York Telegraph Mr Croker says The and all the rest teSt seem to have bave for forgotten forgotten gotten just wha who was the real cause rause of de do frat fat This ThiR cause was the newspapers of the city tiro 0 exceptions all were opposed bitterly to Tammany Tamm and were for Low first last and all aU the time In tins this connection I want to say that even if the Republicans are ue 8 not willing to concede the victory to 10 the newt ne nepa papers pa peTS I am If the Republicans had nominated a Republican for mayor a member m of the inner circles of the Republican organization and if he had been supported by the newspapers as was wasLow wasLoW wasI Low I w he would have been elected The did net nt contribute any v appreciable number ef of votes v tes to tow LOW and had they been eliminated or had tad they voted for Tammany hull blaH it would have baw made not the tho slightest lightest difference in the thi result rest t It was he the papers that did it and there is it no room for argument bo beyond end that This is i straight talk from a chastened and aDd sub subdued subdued subdued dued politician po ill It is easier mr for a defeated man m to fit fig figure Ii ure uro out the reasons aona f fr Q row tha thi th b a vic vie victorious victoriou lan to say 88 with certainty what the main contributor to tel his lui success was wa The reason for this is the babel that surrounds SU success 98 always Hundreds of ot voices are Saying saving I made you and out of the con confusion confusion confusion fusion of tongues tOD the finds it hard bard to detect th the true rue t notes Dotes Besides the beaten man has more time timer for calculations and he lie is in mask malt malti r i g them When lun Mr Croker r says the newspapers defeated him he lie si truly They spoke to hundreds of of ot Ne e Yorkers Y evary evory day dy ad they spoke Q PS s vigorously T as 8 strong men could make them thc Had the theD j D ok r 0 newspapers supported Tammany as s they supported Low Tammany would have been in power in York City today There is good Rood reason for this power that thatis thatis thatis is in the press Aside from politics p there janet always be honest differences the great newspaper is always alwa the champion of right It Ii does ea not aide side with the strong against a tho the week wi with b the rich against the poor with the class against the mass Q It first endeavors to learn which side is isit right it and net then follows or leads that side until the fight t tia is ia won W n Great is is its ita power rarely does it that o |
