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1851-1921 By Elmer Davis Originally published 1921 |
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Hall's observation when The Times first published the figures from Connolly's books, that such an eminent Republican newspaper might be able to keep itself busy investigating the corruption in its own party. To the scandals which flourished in Washington, invisible to the somewhat too longsighted eye of President Grant, the editors of The Times could not be blind; and seeing them they could not fail to condemn them, even though their Republican principles made them sometimes delay such condemnation rather too long in the hope that the party would do its own housecleaning. Unfortunately, the party was not so minded; and The Times, which had always maintained a measure of independence unusual in its day, was compelled on occasion to express itself with a frankness which met with disfavor from more extreme partisans.
So the chief interest in the history of The Times in the thirteen years between the overthrow of Tweed and the campaign of 1884 lies in the struggle
of its editors, continually more difficult and finally
hopeless, to reconcile their principles with their
party allegiance. To one who studies the evidence
of that struggle in the columns of the paper for
those years there is apt to be suggested the simile
of a loyal wife doing her best to get along with a
scandalously dissipated husband. The Times had
not exactly married the Republican party to reform
it, but it did what it could to bring the party back
to the strait and narrow path, and without success.
Its reproaches were dignified; they never sank to
the level of nagging; perhaps, indeed, they were too
dignified to be effective, as The Times's readiness to
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