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1851-1921 By Elmer Davis Originally published 1921 |
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THE victory over Tweed was such a success as no American newspaper had ever scored before. It raised the prestige of The Times to a height that had been unheard of even in the most prosperous periods of Raymond's editorship, and gave it a world-wide renown eclipsing that which The Herald had won by its lavishness and eccentricities, while establishing it solidly in the favor of friends of good government in the United States. In the year after Tweed's fall The Times received still further accessions of influence and prosperity through the defection of The Tribune from the Republican party. At that time, only seven years after Appomattox, partisan animosities burned with a fierceness such as Americans of a later generation can hardly realize, and even in the case of newspapers which as purveyors of the news were as good as The Times and The Tribune, a large if not a predominant part of the constituency valued the paper as a political organ rather than as a vehicle of information. When Greeley split off from his party and accepted a presidential nomination not only from the Liberal Republicans but from the Democrats suffered in 1866, and suffered as The Times considerably more. In 1872 The Times could and did advertise itself as "the only Republican morning
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