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Show m pora of is mm Sfaken Seriously on w Parly Affairs. IEK GIVES ANSWER: MlIAT IS A DEMOCRAT?" jp of flic Newspaper Shops Shows Sonic Papers J3e-I J3e-I coming Inane. to The Tribune. jf'l'ORK, July 7. The monotonj' feather politics lias been enliv- j jaring the P:lst- fpw Ja'R lj-v t,ie jjon started by the New fork '"What is a Democrat?" H is $np to note that in connection jjj fvinjiosinni of the ' World 's, Jv hfiB Colonel William .Jennings .jjcen n contributor, but Joseph l has also contributed to rue lis-j lis-j g two-column editorial. Of the double-leaded editorial sent, jir Pulitzer is not signed, bin it fjhe far marks of the great jour-i'offn jour-i'offn wortv, and I hope who know fox of the World know thnt if (Klilzer had not written this nn-conundrum nn-conundrum the World would in printeij it at this particular M. Kor from the strategic point rilwasa mislnke in the. World Pulitzer to answer this partic-jiestioD partic-jiestioD .T'Pt al tn's particular miilo it is easy for the World ,lejun" at .Mr. Bryan's defini-(Hi defini-(Hi Democrat, it is equally easy JHr Democratic newspapers to JMfon" nt the New Vorlc World 's fKfo lis own (juestion. "What is IBtjv iu which the count rv press Hr'ectitDg even " with the 2sew 'Ktld has been to ask. '' What is lunatic newspaper?" and soiw jEtc cone so far as to suggest Eis "all things that the New ; dd isn't." ilowever. this clcfi-Wkuly clcfi-Wkuly fits the New York World. Jflwt severe indictment that, has is rained against, the New York a that it is Democratic eleven fia the year and Republican the Mth in the year when it can do harm to the Democratic, party ii the months just previous to i Suggests ail Analysis. Il'of these things suggest an anil an-il f be newspaper situation as it lire in the nirtropoliH today. A in ago a number of New "York Sii: gave William Oullen Bry-, A the poet, but the publisher of Iwllya Time.;, head of the New res club and the American I'ub-IjSBociatiun, I'ub-IjSBociatiun, sincn deceased) a at the HoM Navarre. Just as hvt drawing in a close Louis Re", business manager of tho It Times, turned to the guest of ike and inquired. "Mr. Brv- J" 10 aEK you jusr. one qnes- Kilh it," replied the guest of jKjBryant, can you over get in (pjnper an tiring that you are interested in can von get lWt T you want it i " lr Visions of bad reporting, 'Ki comPs'tion. bad edit-fp4 edit-fp4 proof reading, careless correc-ttumrrable correc-ttumrrable Hashed across the tie veteran publisher, for with won of sadness, accentuated import of the latest wedding JIB, m. aend'-'d, vhere ho had P "is man" and whre bis fBiffi as w?n as the names of Bg.w.guests of the evening, had aB'Jed. caused him to explain: Mfoft I'H be blowed if can." mfs Newspaper Endeavor. MMt many publishers and BmFla? nrf newBPaU? have offered of hS, CCrlCCTf The story is told found the UB?errftv of nSif I wTuYW WUh the -clamatiSn'Wc 1 2 U ,llaVG a Paper of mv own " a4 nor m tins respect. In fact Mr P.fli? inrhl";odrk,liSfflrSl;,9-tart ?" ' Yo k S,n V ,t'on1n' Papor when the New York ? 1Jo tfP,',1 G.rover Cleveland and sun Sico ?h?VQ m'?n-v' eccentric things Mncc that time, but nothing one-half ho eccentric as that. But olS-lin"" $ll time, old-school Democrats who"' had "ZZ ,r?ai1 nn3thK except a Demo I WTc''' UxQ! ,ivcs b(Ited hCir f ,v?rk Sun' w,,ich bad been of t ,tc npwsT'?Pcr from the time lo the World in swarms and drove An. just as the New York vorld walked into the circulation of the Now J ork Sun when ,t bolted Cleveland, so walked into he Democratic circulation i ot the World when that paper bolted Bryan in 3806. Hearst undo.ibtcdlv , lost lurizo sums of money in that cam-o,?mi, cam-o,?mi, bcpailff leading advertisers would have nothing to do with him and his Brviinitc sheet, but he gained such a- lead in circulation that, sav what lliey may nbout the man and his methods, meth-ods, nevertheless he haB been n fo'ree and n power to be reckoned with ever since. Hearst Sheets Conservative. Perhaps the most interesting thing that can be said about the Hearst newspapers news-papers is ihnt since the election last fall, when A r. Hearst was defeated for Governor, the New York World of coursc once again refusing to support he Democratic nominee, since the election elec-tion of Governor Hughes the Hearst papers, have, been comparativelv conservative con-servative Just, why this is no man seeniB to know, but Mr. Hearst has summoned sum-moned to his- side men like Bradford Al crrilU formerly at the hoad of tho New ork World, and Justin -McGrnth, lormerly Albany representative of the ISew York Times, and they are getting out a morning newspaper which if sen sationnl and radical is Bcnsational and radical largely in the reckless use of illustrations and head-lines. "liven Arthur Brisbane, who aspires to be known as the Voltaire of America and who is as much an institution during dur-ing these latter da.ys as Horace Groclev was forty years ago. has toned down his editorials, though occasionally it must bo acknowledged I hat he still takes an occasional radical highflighl. as Willinm f. Dovcry would sav in tho Evening Journal. The best thing that can be Faid in this connection is that Hearst moves in a mysterious way his newspaper news-paper wonder? to perform 'and that it is impossible to even venture a guess as lo what the future may bring forth here wherber the Hearst publications will be found supporting the Demo-erotic Demo-erotic nominee for President or the Independence League nominee- for President one year hence. The enemies of Hearst say that his publications arc socialistic and anarchistic, forgetting that the socialists and the anarchists represent two diametrically opposite i schools of economic thought. Herald Not Taken Seriously. The New York Herald never has any editorial column and hence never c.ierts a serious influence, in matters political. Once- in a while it will fly off on a tangent tan-gent by putting a name like George i Dewey or President Roosevelt at the head of its editorial columns a sort of nine dnj-s' political and newspaper wonder. Rut tho Herald always takes good care to pick a man who is not a candidate or who is an impossibility. What would happen if the Herald should actually lind itself some dav I "picking a winner" it is difficult to oven imagine. Probably James Gordon i Bennett on the other side of the water would indulge in some picturesque swenr words about a "white elephant ' on his hands" and "break even" by cabling the sixteen committees now supposed to have control of the edi- . torial policies of the paper to "support Sf?-Ul-r m-OXV ,1,irinK f h remainder in "n-asJs wel1 known represents KPtf'i Mr :MorKa does not care to Iho in Wn ihnt 1,0 iK interested in WnPnP Lr a"y JTore than he 'cnr08 i0 Harnr, ,t,iat c 1h interested in 3'9 weWy, and undoubtedly the Wall Streot are difficult, to analyze, but in ?hlJ say fc,mt itfl editorial views MoinJ a.,n ,rePresent the views of Mr. Tn ffi A hu8ine nssociatcs. SfP t I t hwever, it is never W fn t?tot0ke,.th0 Niy York Sun serious-b'n serious-b'n fLmui p-0ht,,C9' TI,ere is so much lo ,iTV,L,'he. y..o veiled irony, I sarcasm hidden invective concealed be-tvjecn be-tvjecn the lines of the editorial columns Svrn ?l,rPr tha,s,'ines for all that Ta? 3 Ci'2V0r dltors who write the h ?nr;a,S, f that Publication would hesitate to know what to do at. times n- y-?3M to,.vote at all in accord-Send accord-Send fJU',atcS ,T,f the Sun-Con- Times Influence Subsiding. frS'n Ule ?clv York Tmes passed from the control of the George .fones estate and into the control first of "The 5ndnhLrTraSik 13'?",ier' Syndicate" and later under the control of Ochs. then under the control of Hoick, lately w!fi! ItcP.,d' ,lk. '2 necoming almost witbout political influence. An excel lent newspaper it undoubtedly is from Lho news point or view pure" and simple sim-ple hut when 1 1, coniC3 U) poHitjcB it is slowly sinking to tho level of the Aew York Journal of Commerce. For awhile the New York Tribune was in torcsting if for no other reason than tliat it was apposed to represent the iews of Wlufeinw Reid, Embassador ? (-,j0,iH of St- .lames, but since j u- 'innonnccd that he had severed sev-ered his connection with the paper and turned it over to his subordinates it is without oven this saving grace. Besides Be-sides t.lus there are perhaps a rto7.cn ,i PnP0rs in Greater New York controlled con-trolled by powerful families and power-tul power-tul corporations, but it is probablv fair to say that they are without gbncral political influence. |