"
It was powerful in its simplicity, its merciless raillery and irony; and
only at the very end did it contain passion. There, in a few eloquent
sentences he arraigned these professed reformers who were growing rich
through the boss-system, who were trafficking with the bosses and were now
engaged in wrecking the hopes of honesty and decency. On that day the
_News-Record's_ circulation went up thirty thousand. The town rang
with its "exposure" and the attention of the whole country was arrested. It
was one of the historic "beats" of New York journalism. The reputation of
the _News-Record_ for fearlessness and truth-telling and
news-enterprise was established. At abound it had become the most
conspicuous and one of the most powerful journals in New York.
XVI.
MR. STOKELY IS TACTLESS.
Howard, riding in the Park one morning late in the spring, came upon Mrs.
Carnarvon. She gave him no chance to evade her, but joined him and
accommodated her horse's pace to his.
"And are you still on the _News-Record?_" she said. "I hope not."
"Why?" Howard was smiling, glad to get an outside view of what he had been
doing.
"Because it's become so sensational. It used to be such a nice paper. And
now--gracious, what headlines! What attacks on the very best people in the
town!"
"Dreadful, isn't it?" laughed Howard.
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