no less, that this was a bit like shelley silver owning today's "new york times," our host, arthur salzberger jr. shouted out from the back "the party's over." it's alien to our culture today. here's another example. the most anti--lincoln, most race it paper in the new york was the daily news, no relation to today's "daily news." if lincoln became president it warned in one particularly vile article in 1860, we shall find negros among us thicker than blackberries swarming everywhere. typical racist rant of the period. who was the editor of the daily news? he was the brother of the mayor of new york city. so think about that. that's as if marjorie tibbin who is mayor bloomberg's sister and serves as the commissioner for protocol instead had beaten out jill abramson as editor for the "new york times." it just is totally alien to the relationship between the public and the press today. when len con sought re-election in 1864, his campaign manager was the publisher of the "new york times," henry raymond. before that sounds unusual, the publisher of the democratic paper, the new york world, was t