The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-08-29
SPOILED NJ SUCCESS.

haps the career Of "Brickp Pomeroy
exempliGes this as well as anything in
the world. "Brick" began life in the
State Of New York. Ife drifted west,
sometime in the SOS, and settled at
Horizon, Wisconsin, where he acquired
notoriety from three things-unlimite
amount of impudence, coarse, frontier
wit, and a predisposition to quarrel
with his wife. She left him, and he
went down to Milwaukee and secured
Il position on one Of the Milwaukee
dailie= as local editor. Here he sound
ed the depths of cheap wit, and pro-
duccd lot Of articles on the mule, the
horse, the elephant, after fashion then
somewhat in vogue, and which still, in
some small measure, unhappily afilicts
the bucolic press. About the breaking
out Of the war he went to Lacrosse,
where he married rev wife, and took
control Of the Lacrosse Deuocras
Here be- struck into that ansi-war idea
which made him famous. lie built an
Office and opera house, one Of the finest
in the country, and gained national
circulation. In the hight Of his pros-
perity he came across woman in
Cleveland with 100000. lie con-
eeived the idea that it would be- good
notion to marry her, and with her
money 60 TO New York and start q
Democratic organ for the nation. So
he came home 70 Lacrosse and tried TO
induce wife No. 2 to quit. She couldn't
zee it, and thereupoa be began 10 quar-
rel with her, and finally drove her of.
She instituted proceedings for divorce,
without obtaining much satisfaction for
time. "Brick" had made large part
Of his reputation by abusing Ben. Bat
Ter. As soon as Ben. heard Of the row
in ''Brick's" family, he rendered his ser
vices TO Mrs. Pomeroy, free. He took
"Brick" by the neck and made him set
tie. He agreed 70 pay his wife Sl0,-
900. He borrowed $4,000 Of his new
wife, and gave that to his old one, se-
curing her on the other 81 200 on his
opera house and printing Office in La
Crosse. Then he went 20 New York
and started his daily paper. lie never
knew anything of business, and he
plunged in without regard to expense.
In few months he bad spent his third
wife's fortune. Then he quarreled with
her and she left him. He then Joined
the Tweed ring, borrowed 100000 of
them, and spent that, and kept on until
he owed nearly ever. body on the At
lantic slope In the meantime he had
married another woman. He absolute
y ran ashore in New York city, when
he packed up his traps aud moved 70
/ Chicago, where he started what he said
WAS 70 be the greatest greenback paper
Of the nation. Here be developed his
presidential mania, and started out 70
become the workingmen and green.
hackers candidate for President. To
do this he organized greenbaclS clubs
all over the west, the members Of which
subscribed to sort OF oath, pledgine
personal fealty to Brick" In the
meantime he fell in love with his lady
proof reader, drove wife No. of, and
married wife No. s. During his New
York career he had been so busy as tc
have lost sight of the fact that wife No
, held mortgage on his Lacrosse
property. II fell due and was fore
closed. The business men of LaCross,
were indignant at the way she hac
been treated. No one would bid against
her. so she secured property that cos
$50, 900, and was paying handsome
rent, for $4,000. Bricks politica
aspirations, and the necessity that h,
felt Of carrying out the style Of great
man, soon told on his newspaper enter
prise in Chicago. He then went bacI
to Lacrosse, and found q rich farmer
who had a son-in-law with Journalistic
aspirations. "Brick" induced them {.
think that heaven had ordained and Sc
apart this young man as busines
manager for a great daily paper. Th
old man furnished the money, Brick
rented his old Office from his No.
wife in Lacrosse, and went back t
Chicago to move his establishment +
the scene of his early triumphs. Hi
necessities at that time were so grea
that after he arrived there he had I
have $4,000 sent him by telegraph,
release the claims of his creditor
When he arrived in Lacrosse he too
! half the money which the old man ha
paid in for the presses, and spent it i
fitting up the office The style is som,
thing gorgeous. Two thousand dollar
were spent for Brussels carpet alon
I The composing room, the press roo
. and the folding room are carpeted wit
! heavy body Brussels. So are the stair
Q The boy who writes the tags for Il
mailing department does so at FrenC
1 walnut desk that cost over 5000. \
: sultan's seraglio is fitted up for the I
s vorite in any more costly style than
the editorial room for this crack brain'
6 lunatic. The most expensive carpe
anywhere in the west can be four
It there. Pictures and oil paintings ado
the walls. He has two shorthand I
porters employed. Here he walks Il
floor and harangues the nation, viii
u the reporters take it down and work
up into editorial. He has daily G
culation of about 1000, and week
J. circulation Of 10000. He viii run
Il gorgeous style until the father-in-law
e his partner gets tired of chipping
when the thing will collapse inglo
% ously The workingmen's candida
:. for the Presidency viii probably Ell
e his days in some cheap job Office, site
/" ing type for living. Peoria Illisaoi
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