Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1884 — A Party Organ in a New Role. [ARTICLE]

A Party Organ in a New Role.

[Chicago D iiiy N; } The Blaine managers in Ohio were all broke up last Friday morning over the appearance in their own particular organ, the < ommercial Gazette, of a column of reading matter, upon the fifth page devoted to a scathing analysis of the Mulligan letters in the interest of the Independent Republicans. The article was, of course, paid for as an advertisement, but this did not lessen the force of its damaging arguments. Perhaps the cluelest thing in the whole article was the preface, which, commenting upon the fact that the Independents have no organ in * inuinnati, went on to say that “the Com-mercial-Gazette is for Blaine, not because Mr. Halstead or Mr. Smith have changed their opinions of the candidate, but because the Commercial-Ga-zette is a Republican organ, and must be for the Republican party, right or wrong.’ The transaction was a curious one at best, and entirely con trary to all the traditions of party organs. It was a great scheme for the Indepeu dents, who in no othei way could have reached so exactly the public they sought. It also shows that the CommercialGazette was sorely in need of money, and for the sake of it was willing to put a heavy emphasis upon tne first half of its name.