The Penny Press & Mr Gladstone
| The Daily Telegraph not only made itself by acting as the apostle of Mr Gladstone, but made Mr Gladstone as well. Gradually the strain of jubilant panegyric was echoed. Even the Standard, though opposed to Mr Gladstone's politics, had no sooner become a penny morning newspaper than it hymned in a minor koy, with frequent variations of censure or condemnation, Mr Gladstone's glories. The r penny press was springing up everywhere m the provinces. It was, in the main, Gladstonian. I do not doubt for a moment that, had this remarkable personage lived in an age in ; which there was no press at all, he would, by dint ef his prowess as a debater, his mental grasp, and his other magnificent qualities, have risen to a high place, perhaps the highest. But if. Ijie press in England has any influence, Mr Gladstone himself must' admit that the penny, .press was the foundation of the unprecedented ascendancy he eventually acquired. — Society in London, by a Foreign Resident.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 137, 29 April 1886, Page 3
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