New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-20
NEWSPAPER TENDENCIES.
AnDRFss ny WHITELAw REID.

OHIO STATE EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AT GIN
ClNNATI-THR ADDRESS PRECEDED BY REMiN-
IsCRNCKs OF ONO EDITORS AND PRINTERS.
lpY TELEGRAPH THB TRIBUNE,
CINCINNATI June 19.-The meeting of the Ohio
Press Association tins evening held in the Sum
mer resort on the Hill, where Theodore
Thomass concerts given. On the platform
were l. +. Mack. of The SaHdasky Register. who
presided Charles Foster General Hlckenlooper,
Murst Halstesd, Richard Smith, members OF
the City Government, local committeeman, etc.
Whitelaw Reid delivered substantially the same
address as At Rochester, interspersed with frequent
local illusions and prcfaced by the following:
Flrst Of all my best remembering for three
years succession my brtnright as an ONO euitoI. ~
Is something cou never forget put you HISu' h''o
done {. SLY.
We fancy thos, us who were contemporaries them that
W. were tolcraby Young. bGtin our secret hearts IL
does h4ter every OF sui TO he spok n OF as he
" Young Editor" Il is twrnty-one years tins
printed The head O the edtOT al columns ID my Ola
paper at Xcnis, and, hoding up TIE soeet asa Ian,
o,bsr ,vHs ISttIe nny OF us then realized
maj he typr, we were using then would have some-
Thing 10 q wi the our names should look now:
vii those iha are len or a. OF the country editors OF
90 a. mi d.y nave at least served our apprentice
ship for good or m Somehow or another. we have at
Iemem6cf a smanish, solid prosperous-looking
exchange OF those d.ys which edited the county
ior tSousn me Bucyrus Journal editor
known ID. X. Locke. eAJOui ptlhiot
and red rot Republican, ne "as soon 10 O'I'' ga ~
me Rev. Petroleum V. Nasty" Then a. now, me
H""iIS but Tue youngest son Of editor had gone
down e Columbus and trying u see whether there
Make s"OG eaier Wner for he State Jo,paG
at a salary OF sl2 a week Toerab.f fair work he Ud'
moves ana to reading his long transatoDs al extremely
unreasonable hours 20 sleepy-heaGed lllenHs NON ne
no,,5 Ills chief then lad no alarming wcaE-
fn. yay NJ
b. was ready wander away FROM ms diminished
Editorial ~ any hour. day night. Tor the chances
saloon. and thai tendency at least mas survived tne
pres ana The gazette All twenty years nave wrought
In those DAYS Inc state journal thought rather
putting airs Tor ~ had not ony IA Two edoiS lieu
aud Howcls but itindulsed the luxury OF puohsher
who ran two papers, botn da'' anu ne ~ T Inc
them we'll that presently he became head o. tne
Washing branch the great house that placed the
oaDs; aud Governor Henry COOK oil the Dstict u
Their, was lively Local" then on The Clerelond
Pgigdedier. He had been trdmp.ng " jour- ana
scattered over Oho from the River to the lakes
struggling pspcrs had gwen up tle ghosl, ana
TINS jour had moved ON unpi1d hnse,i' ana win an
eversw cling array OF unpaid board bils behind Lim
Al last be "srusE it at" and back lie came on
MS Old tran among US through southern ono, whee
every p that Charley Browne had left unpaid was pald
by Artcmus Ward Poor genial reckless Browne.
an ead new snw hun AFTER he left on o. for tue career
by which he to be remembered WAS heh over a"u 'no
in Richard Smith had only la'cly ceased to
be Associate Press agent, Hud ne was stl the CONNER
cia aud 1.nc editorO The GGeettc On the next lock
The C-AA.grc.a was making lntermnabc talk about ls
wonderful Iulr-cy nGer press Potter was SIM active
but young Fellow named Ha.stead',, VINO h S
for been the "SclssOrs' OF tbe
establishmon coming TO tue mont. He had
already learned secret Of making gooa
newspaper flr he was lnyentmg special trans
from Columbus or special dispatches iron,
Nenia o. cu4u.r MIN 20 gel INTO me tOH'WeFct4t
in lime for tLe midnight editions, one uf ahcdi o. me
G0-se whole columns % clippings from The latest New
Pau TAYLOR mad already secured for that grotesque
produtt ON o. those day, me DoHir htchy It"es q
and si.rbuck wisely administering the uu-L
Kindly old Fellow. hc dldu't watch the world with
no1ie editing but never think of him without Giau
tuae. engaged me % write Ilm "a CoumDuS
special every a y for 10 a week when was more uan
CAD 10 let the loo.
Of all the agricultural fairs.
lie 10 army apprenticeship DctOIc us
ing the dignity and dollars OF our Dayton war
wick Nichols mad rivals then N siringncid
lie had not yet starved mem al! OUT
on the Kansas Road. That had led hun to The United
But truce 70 these "reminiscences, sign that
growing old. Let me only say how gad
and proud l TO fluid place kept for me
among this younger generation of ohio country editors
Young old. all agree in this we are al proud
that were born here proud OF Ollo's soiieis proud
o. ON, statesmen: proud that she las held the Whue
House for twelve years and TO thlnk mat through one
party another, perhaps she Is 10 mona u LOT
at least four more; proud OF her wealth IN
great names and great resources pfOuuest
Of all the noble generous people The naneess masses
WHO make the noble stale the gracious moef Oh az al
At tue banquet which followed the address,
speeches were made ny Richard Smith. Charles
Foster james FITZGERALD. Murat Halstead, Ben. EgSes-
ton and "a large number OF others. The company did
not separate I'll. long after midnight