Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1880 — An Outrage on the Press. [ARTICLE]

An Outrage on the Press.

The outrageous manner in which members of the press were treated by the managers of the Republican menagerie recently on exhibition at Chicago will cause many [of them to remember their visit to the Garden City on that occasion with anything but pleasurable emotion. Several hundred editors of weekly newspapers went there for the purpose of witnessing the sessions of the convention and writing up a report of its doings for their papers. Their indignation and disgust knew no bounds when they found the doors closed upon them. Some 700 tickets weie voted to the “ veterans, ” and any bummer, who saw fit to go and register himself as an ex-soldier, found no difficulty in getting into the convention. But the editors of the country press, to the number of 500 or 600, who were legitimately entitled to seats in the hall, and who had too much manhood to play the bummer, were unable to get inside the building. Tickets were being haw ked about the streets and sold at the very doors of the convention hall—sold openly and unblushingly, by negroes and unclean loafers. The members of the country press have rarely been subject to such an outrage, and they will be slow to forget it.