An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

He joined the Republican Party. The newspaper had been losing $40000 a year. He often played in the chess room where Carl Schurz noticed his aggressive style.

He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected Congressman from New York. Joseph Pulitzer (/ˈpʊlɨtsər/ PUUL-it-sər; April 10 1847 – October 29 1911) born József Pulitzer was a Hungarian-American newspaper publiJoseph Pulitzerr of the St.