The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-11-15
A Lively Notice Of a Llye nIan.
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A dispatch from New York to a West.
ern paper, Friday, intimated that Mr..
Mhltelaw Reid, the editor Of the New
York Tribune, contemplated q foreign
trip Tor q year or more. Mr.. Reid has
been the virtual editor Of the Tribune for
three years, but coming more prominently
before the publlc7in that position since
the candidacy Of Mr.. Greeley. The Sen
tinel wishes TO honor itself and honor o
distinguished man by adding word Of
testimony taken from actual knowledge,
TO the very general verdict Of praise which
has been borrowed by the press. In his
conduct Of the greatest Journal oil this
country, and probably the greatest in the
world, Mr.. Reid has met every emer.
gency and anticipated every possibility OF
endeavor, with a steadlness OF perception
and q SdgGeity neusr ereeIled By Bennett or
Greeley at their best Indeed, siic6 he day
he assumed The eeeoutive deSt Of tic Tribune,
ar. Reid has been tbs Iri6uRs-suo.
Sesting 10 policy, directing thS manage.
UssHt and ScrutiHisin1 eo6ry detail Of il
cast machinery. Probably no one man
ever carried SO easily go prodigious task.
Mr.. Greeley rarely knew what was going
on in the Office, and Waa just as much sur.
prised ut the great achievements Of the
paper In the European war; the great fires
and the innumerable other news victories
OF the Tribune, as the remotest reader
Those who watched Mr.. Reids course
saw a young, sell. contained, rather reserv.
ad man antor tho f1a1A auuiput n otaF
many Of whom were twenty-five or thirty
years his senior, and all Of whom were
older in the service. 1hey SdD him gradual.
ly By the exercise Of 7n0tchleaS diScEetion,
diSar1n criticism and trdHJ0rm TinGJ into
GdtercntS, and enemies int0 etLlogiStS. II Is
hardly possible to make the reader Of q
journal like this, understand the perplex.
tiles and vexation necessarily encountered
in the conduct Of q great press like the
Tribune, which has in its dairy prepara-
ton as much brain.work as is required in
q year Of an average administration. The
Tribune, above all papers in the land, was
in Mr.. Reid's early administration, the
most difficult to manage. A venerable
gathering Of Mr.. Greeley's old time abo-
lition campaigners infested the office, and
because they had fought with the
"old gentleman" the battle OF free.
dom" they iancled themselves forever
the guardians Of the I'ibunSS destiny.
These interminable nuisances Mr. Reid
met and conquered; the Woman.su suffrage
hosts he met and routed, and the friends
Of tue noble old paper owe him a debt Of
gratitude for that. The columns Of the
paper, for the last three years, attest his
keen sense OF selection. It Is the glory Of
General Grant that he put the rightman
in the right place. 1t Is the pre.eminent
characteristic OF Whitelaw Reid to know
men and place them where their energies
have the fullest play-as mark his trans.
lation Of MIR. w. F. G. Shanks from the
fnconspicuous place Of general writer to
the ehiet Of the city desk, where, In
three months, he routed every journal In
the metropolis, forcing the Tines to give
up the pretense OF city department and
abolish city news from the paper rather
than copy from the Tribune. This
is one case in scores, which Jour.
nalists can appreciate perhaps better
than the general reader. TO Whiteidw
Reid the tuOrLd Is iade6tsd for tho best
1c0rk Of John Hay, tcrittr inc0mpdrdblv
more graceful than Irving, and irider
than Hawthorne. If he had never put the
metal Of another achievement In the
ceaselesS forces of the Tribune, Mr.. Reid
would deserve well OF journalism, in Sc
curing that rare man, from his legitimate
higher calling oil literature Equally for
tunate In retaining Mr.. John Il. G. Has.
sard, one Of the 1rtbUne'S earlier lights,
Mr. Reid secures the sblest journalist and
most spotless gentleman that ever gave
dignity TO noble calling. II Is further
his triumph that In profession made up
oil diverse minds, he has been able to pre-.
serve so perfect magnanimity of man.
agement, that such able men as Doctor
Ripley, Charles T. COngdon, and Nosh
Brooks, can consistently serve one who is
their junior in years and experience.
Mr.. Reds personal characteristics are
not legitimate subject for discussion
here-but the Sentinel can testify that he
b oil that becomes q man and j0urRdk-
ist Of such maStertul mind and attainment,
that we look toith SOn,e apprehension on his
temporary dbSence from the paper that he
has done so much to build up. -,
We have heard much comment of an
adverse sort on the management OF the
Tribune during the campaign, and while
there are some things which, we think,
It would have been wiser to have left I'M!
done, there was nothing LEFT undons that
tho most fertile mind could suggest In the
way Of making the paper what It's present
editor has made II from the first, tIe best
tlited and most complete epitoue Of DC nt.rS
Of The day, published in tbs or any other
country. .