The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1866-06-08
FINDLAY, OHIO, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1866.
Che alaafutk asffsrsunian
HOW BEcAMEFAMoUs As AN ED.
ITOR.

was also my 1flcn0. MANY were TIL
discussions we had; Tor always liat
insisted that Johns editorials wer,
not spicy enough; that he was no
radical" enough; did not keep NJ
with the spirit of the age; was lit
tie sold iogyish," in fact; and SO thci
discussions invariably ended witt
some remark like the following:
"Now, John If / was editor of th.
i"Uniontown Buglc," l could make il
-well--at least rs good a sheet as
any in the State"
| (That swell" dear readers, will
tell you privately, meant that
thought 1 could beat any man in tn,
State editing paper
l met John one day--in fact, that
meeting is one ! am not likely to for.
get, for more reasons than one, as YOU
Twill see il you follow me through the
/ following "thriliing adventure" as
Sylvanus Cobb would say. t
was fastening "down town." one
sultry day in August. My eyes were
fixed upon the pavement, my
thoughts upon-but that's q secret,
even fl ON you, reader--when John
came rushing round the corner, and
the bystandcrs witnessed scene OF
"grand and lofty tumbling'' that was
not down in the bills. at last sue
ceeded in gaining my equilibrium and
my breath; while John recovered
his beaver--not improved, most as
suredly by the contact with the dirty
water in the gutter.
"iou are just the man I am in
search Of"
"Well, you succeeded in running
against me quite soon enough fol
lpractical purposes" answered, wip
ing the dust off my clothes.
81 tell you ! was in desperate hur.
ry to see you"
81 think you was" / dryly respond
ed.
81 want you to edit the Bugle foi
a week, have to go TO c., on
business.
This announcement would have
taken away my breath, had not the
previous encounter already done 50;
for, in an instant, imagination pictur
ed the long editorials" the spic,
columns of "locals," and the laugh
ter-provoking "funnyisms," tha
should render the next Bugle tn,
"ne plus ultra of newspapers.
hastily assured John that I was
ready to accede to his proposal; ant
following his footsteps mounted three
36hn wheeled round the big chair
and thrusting pair of scissors int
my hand, pointed to a pile of eN
changes, and then rushed down stairs
| called TO him, but received reply
from the second landing:
"You'll find everythinG--ask Tho
foreman and his voice died out ii
the distance; while / re. entered thu
sanctum, humming, 81 am monarch
of all survey"
! was settling in my mind whetheI
| should head my first editorial, sou
Country as it il" "The Great Rebel
lion" or" "French Interference" wher
"Copy?" sounded in my ears and thu
"devil" stood grinning at me, evi
dently enjoying the start with whicl
had greeted the first sound Of his
voice.
l hastily cut out the first iten
which my eye CHANGED to light upon
an anccdotc of the times Of Charlie
the V, and returned to my writing
/ had hardly finished the first lin,
when the door opened, and this tim
the foreman entered
1--WE want copy for the inside" ht
said, "the outside is already made
up," and he handed back the anecdot,
that / had just sent to the compost
tors.
think I must have looked blank
| knew felt so--for the idea that
particular kind of copy was require'
for particular side of the paper wa
\ something entirely new to me.
u hcsitated q moment, took up pape
and cut out an article headed, "Ou
Country and her Wants" not noticin:
that the paper was rank Democrat
sheet, and the article one abusing th
Republican party in general.
| had barely reached aparagraph i
my "leader," ere another call cam
for "more copy" and more copy
was for the next six hours. The da.
closed; but / could not say the sam
of my leader--alas it had only reach
ed its fourth paragraph--and allo'
me to say right here, that that wa
all it EVER reached, for the next da
was publication day, and had tn
modification OF seeing the paper 60
G press without a "long leader in m
' best style;" in fact, there was not
line OF my writing in its columns.
y The chagrin which this thougl
caused was nothing, however, TO whit
r. was to follow. leave IL to the In
agination of the reader 10 depict m
4. feeling when, upon the damp sheo
u / read the different articles i had s
ne lected. The first as ! had alread
Il. said, was an article against the a
nd ministration; the next an equal
up abusive one against the Republics
a. nominee for Congress--a favori
ne man of the party, and a particul
iy friend of mine, as the numerous stun
10, speeches Of last autumn would prov
H. There was paper the most intens
u. ly Democratic, liz one could jud
~ from its contents, issued from a X
:" publican office. l laid down the 7
per, and as a sense of my radiculo
4 tnns;t;on oyerhalanced every 9th