The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-07-13
HERALD "REMINISCENCES.
Bennett - A Mysterious Dependent
What he said of Walter SCOtt--Gree

| Bennett "A Mysterious Dependent -
What he said of Walter SCOtt--Gree-
ley.
Monadnock, the well known London
| correspondent of the N. Y. Times, con-
tributes column of "reminiscences
Bennett and the Herald, having in 1887
been one Of the editors of the paper
We clip the following:
In the Office sat an old man who had
suffered prosecution for his opinions,
and who found an asylum there as long
as he lived. He was an English infdel,
a disciple of Rev. Robert Taylor, and
among the things lie did not believe
| was Sir Walter Scott being the author
OF the g Waverly Novels" Scott had
been III the same solicitors office with
him, IN London, and was dull fellow,
he said, quite incapable of writing the
novels, which, he averred, were written
by Scottish Professor, who was
obliged to leave the country and live
concealed on account of some dreadful
crime.
The editorial rooms were lined with
pigeon-holes. Mr.. Bennett was an I'M
wcaned reader of his exchanges. Moth
ing escaped one of his eyes at least
for both did not seem to look in the
same direction, and you never quite
knew whether he was really looking at
his paper-and everything he wanted
to save was marked, cut out by the I'M
believer i'll Sir Walter, and then filed
away in those pigeon holes. What a
stock he must have accumulated
He could put his hand on every
politicians record and bring up ugly
facts whenever they were needed, but as
time went Oh and the battle vent in his
favor, he must have lost much of the
bitter cynicism that marked the early
portion of his career, and the bomb
shells slumbered IN his arsenal
Few men have worked harder than
Mr.. Bennett. He was early at the
office and stayed late. He wrote one
or two columns a day, and directed,
planned and sketched out work fo1
others. He detested all sorts of hum
drum, commonplace and spinning out
of articles. If thing could be said in
ten lines, he did not want twenty
If any ambitious bicgrapher wishes
to write a full account Of the early
career of Horace Greeley, with view
to "a good Consulate say, in the event OF
his election, he should not neglect the
pages of the Herald Greeley was as
conspicuous lion as Bennett, with a
difference. Bennett displayed his &c
centrcities III print, and for purpose
personally, he was quiet, reticent and
irreproachable | never heard lisp OF
any scandal about his private character.
Mr.. Greeley was always moral and re
ligious; that is, he was extremely moral
in his conduct, though very dIsreputa
bic in his associations and if he swore
hard at the printers who could not
make cut his handwriting. he took his
turn at reading the Bible and leading
in prayer at the Graham Boarding
house, in Barclay street, with fervol
and junction. MIR. Benefits handwrit-
ing was very neat, even elegant, but to
one unused to it nearly as illegible as
Mr.. Greeley's. 1t was small, fine, and
made of slight touches and curves, not
unlike the characters of photography
and totally different from the popula,
idea of his character
The two men, both successful Jour
nalsts, were curiously unlike in char
acter. Bennett was conservative
Greeley always d radical. Bennett was
precise i'll his attire and conventional
in manners; Greeley was very much
the reverse. Bennett was cautious and
incredulous; Greeley the most trusting
and the most easily deceived of men
and ready, by the constitution of lis
mind, to be the victim of every schem
er. Bennett was, perhaps, too hasty il
denouncing all reformatory measures
as huinbugs; Greeley has been the dis
ciple, patron and advocate Of almost
every Socialist doctrine.