The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-01-03

which held nation for AN audien
r. and which won to him princely f
= tune in few years. OF course sucl
sudden elevation would be caIculat
TO make any head of small calib
dlzzy, and everybody knows th
Bricks head isn't shaped right f
sense.
such, however, was the nation
reputation of this subject, that peop
bought his books entitled "Sense
and " Nonsense" and Saturda
Nights" and some were found WI
read them, and strange as NAV seel
now, there occasionally appeared
man who thought he had detecte
some merit in them. Of all the cr,le
waste of words and paper and ink
these books give the saddest examples
we would rather search the haystacl
1or a needle, than to take upon our
selves the task of finding proper ide.
or sensible expression, or an ennobIine
sentiment in all this mass of slip-sho(
Jumbling together of words.
If there had been streak of "sense,
i'll Bricks Uranium, he could have
seen that the role of panderinp to an
eXasperated humor, could be PLAYED
only for Il season-that it is not in the
nature of men to stay mad ALWAYS.
and that coarse billingsgate would
pail frighttully on cultivated ears
when pushed too far. He would have
pocketed tie fortune he made out of
The passions of the people and the dis
tempers of the times, knowing well
that such programme could not last
because it was essentially and intrin-
slcally wrong, and would surely react
upon him upon the sober second
thought of his patrons.
But the greatest mistake he made
lnd the most glaring proof of mental
weakness he gave was in pulling up
rom La Crosse and removing to New
ork City. Here he came in contact
It once with journalistic giants, in the
presence of whom his pigmy propor-
ions speedily exhibited themselves.
he half a million that he made in
~ Crosse by doing the cursing of the
outhern people, and affording an es-
ape valve of their smothered wrath
galnst the Yankees melted away in
w years, i'll the vain attempt to cope :
18th men of brain, experience and
'al genius. His paper steadily re-
ograted until it finally flickered out |
together, and he wound up four or
We years career in New York, with
le half a million that he carried :
ere transferred to the other side
at Is, he lost his half million i'm
md and accumulated debt of half "
million beside. o.
But this stupendous failure was not II
ough to convince him that the day .l
his style of journalism had passed ~ ~
7ay forever in America. He made a Id
Die experiment to revive his fallen
Irnal in Chicago, and now he has -
ne back to his old home, La Crosse.
his star has set to rise no more. w.
though i'll the prime of life, and a ~
n OF great physical energy, vet 10,
re is no longer demand for the ,,a
mlrched literature and constipa-
of thought which characterizes w.
fluent writing. He has had a ~,
end1d opportunity to be measured III,
all the people, and they have meas fl.
d him and found him wanting. III.
IRE is literally nothing in him. He 10
ne most transparent political hum o,,
and the most glaring literary bur- {
ue of the age. Unread, unlettered. mai
even acquainted with the simplest 70
s of English grammar, with a fn.
out of shape for intelligence of -
kind, there is no earthly chance onl
IiiIlI W rise amy more above the IN
Sc plodders and mediocre scribblers ,.a,,
lie press.
he Kansas City Pioneer sums up ,,,;t
ks career, politically and socially, ,,a,,
1y in the following paragraph "Lo
ring the war, while pretending to be : -.
mist, he fought the Union cause, de- W
ced the issuing of grcenbacks, and no
measure that tended to advance the f., I;
II cause. He went to New York, took w IL
DIS money, and then BETRAYED him see
med the National Greenback party if v,
etrayed it then formed party of his =,
and it is now reported he has left that. the
IS three living wives, two of whom he X
lohed without any legal cause. The CI
endent dodge is the only alternative VI
i'm. No party on earth will fellow sion
With him or could long survive his earl,
ship.