A Criminal Newspaper

New York, 1895

The only reply the Standard is able to make to the Long Island City Herald's exposures of Boss Youngs, who, by the way, is said to have a mortgage on the Standard, is to call the Herald a pauper newspaper. This is comical, for the Standard itself has been on the verge of dissolution for some time, and has only been kept from giving up the ghost by appeals to charity. The Herald cannot be accused of trying to swindle the county to raise money to meet the demands of creditors, a charge that can easily be proved against the Standard by the word of every Supervisor. When the Herald was owned and edited by a scamp it did have financial troubles, and was sold out under a mortgage, but the purchaser was the mortgagee, Mr. Dodson, who has since conducted the paper respectably and profitably, and the Standard can lay claim to neither distinction, for to attempt to swindle is a crime, and nearly every Republican who had a dollar to spare knows how urgent has been the demand for it. The Standard is a criminal newspaper.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 3, 1895, p. 4.