Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-08-02

as any. man in the world. You always
find him on deck, and the Times never
seems to get left. 1t is more or less
OF thankless place to to hold, than any
where on earth, because he who fills it
is held responsible for slips which no
human ingenuity can foresee or pre-
vent. and if somebody else happens 70
make a bad break. the managing editor
is sure to get all the blarle.
AGATE REID.
The other Reid -Whitelaw-stil runs
the Tribune, of course. Equally of
course yon know all about him. Gen.
Sherman, in an interview the other day,
said he was "a treaeherous cuss, who
started for the rear at the end Of the
of the first day at Gettysburg, and new
'er stopped running till he reached Gin
cinnati. Sherman was severe. The
valiant Whitelaw would never run. He
might retire, because he has timid,
retiring disposition. But he would
never run-never Anna Dickinson
told Mo once that the hrst time she ever
denied a newspaper story was when she
saw it announced that she was engag-
ed to marry Whitclaw Reid. She said
she could stand almost anything, but
she could not get away with that. Reid
subsequently, coralled the daughter of
ID. O. Mills, the California millionaire,
aad raised Jay Gould's mortgage on
the Tribune. hear that the paper is
making money now. 1t ought to, if
cutting down expenses can do anything
of the kind. The Tribune has for years
teen run on the Sam Bewles principal
Ii is a school of journalism. The prin-
cipal thing to learn is how To live or
S2.S7 week. Reds managing editor
is MIR. Donald Nicholson, who used to-
be the secretary of the great editor with
the low-necked shirt Nicholson is one
of the most industrious men on earth.
He would work all day and all night
for month ut a time if it were requir-
ed of him. And when | used to be on
the Tribune, years ago, before i became
the venerable party with q benevolent
bald held that | am now this was pretty
much what Nicholson had to do. He
has developed into iirst-class news
paper man, and makes a, good head
professor in Reds seminary.
As for the Herald well, it is pretty
much the same old thing. 1t is as full
as ever of grotesquely padded cable
grams from the other side, so obviously
stuffed in the New York Office that they
wouldn't deceive u school-boy. My
Lord Bennett is cruising around some
where in foreign seas, and the home Of
flee is in charge of Mn. Edward Flynn,
formerly managing editor of the Tele-
gram. Flynn is very excellent journal
list, and if Bennett sees this notice he
will be discharged. John Russell
Young, of whom once wanted TO write
something nice, begged me not TO do it,
because, as he said, the office was hot
enough for him. already. So, as like
Flynn. | won't perform that act of GER
tain destruction for him. 1t is only so
long as a man is abused that he can stay
in the Herald. The minute he begins
to have any agreeable personality, be is
too good for the paper, and he has got
to go.
The Sun-well, it is one of the very
best papers of America. 1t is made by
John Swinton, Amos Cummings, and
"reminiscences of G.. A. Dana. 1t covers
the ground fully and tcrsely, and gives
more material for two cents than most of
the others do at any price. 1t is short
and sweet, like this paragraph. And
now you have had some of the things |
know about journalism and journalists
Some day, when | recover from the
mauling shall get for writing this let
ter, will tell you some more. Leander
Richardson IN 50. Pdul Pioneer Press.