XXI. GODKIN, THE MUGWUMP MOVEMENT, AND GROVER CLEVELAND’S CAREER 458 XXII. GODKIN’S WAR WITHOUT QUARTER UPON TAMMANY 476 XXIII. OPPOSING THE SPANISH WAR AND SILVER CRAZE 496 XXIV. CHARACTERISTICS OF A FIGHTING EDITOR: E. L. GODKIN 519 XXV. NEWS, LITERATURE, MUSIC, AND DRAMA 1880–1900 546 XXVI. HORACE WHITE, ROLLO OGDEN, AND THE “EVENING POST” SINCE 1900 568 INDEX 581 ILLUSTRATIONS William Cullen Bryant _Frontispiece_ _Associate Editor_ 1826–1829, _Editor-in-Chief_, 1829–1878 FACING PAGE Alexander Hamilton 26 _Chief Founder of the “Evening Post”_ William Coleman 102 _Editor-in-Chief_, 1801–1829 John Bigelow 264 _Associate Editor_, 1849–1860 Parke Godwin 440 _Editor-in-Chief_, 1878–1881 Henry Villard 440 _Owner_, 1881–1900 Carl Schurz 440 _Editor-in-Chief_, 1881–1883 Horace White 440 _Associate Editor_, 1881–1899, _Editor-in-Chief_, 1900–1903 E. L. Godkin 494 _Associate Editor_, 1881–1883, _Editor-in-Chief_, 1883–1899 Rollo Ogden 548 _Editor-in-Chief_, 1903–1920 Editorial Council, 1922 570 CHAPTER ONE HAMILTON AND THE FOUNDING OF THE “EVENING POST” Of all the newspapers established as party organs in the time when Federalists and Democrats were struggling for control of the government of the infant republic, but one important journal survives. It is the oldest daily in the larger American cities which has kept its name intact. The _Aurora_, the _Centinel_, the _American Citizen_, _Porcupine’s Gazette_, whose pages the generation of Washington and Adams, Jefferson and Burr, scanned so carefully, are mere historical shades; but the _Evening Post_, founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton and a group of intimate political lieutenants, for the expression of Hamilton’s views, remains a living link between that day of national beginnings and our own.