Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-28
COL. GEO. KNAPP.

The Editorial E"lo0y of the Great st. Lowts
Journal sUits Which he sCos Connected
for Deer Ralfa Century and Which He
Has Conducted for Over Thirty Years.
The following is the editorial eulogy
published in the Missouri Republican, of
st. Louis, yesterday morning, in connec-
ton with the announcement of the death
of the senior proprietor Of that journal:
In the first moment of a great grief
neither tongue nor pen can be trusted to
measure the loss sustained, or pay suita-
BILE tribute to the departed. We must wait
until another time to say what should be
said in these columns of George Knapp. The
Missouri Republican ia perhaps his noblest
monument and most eloquent eulogy. For
more than fifty six years, in various capao-
tiles, from apprentice to editor, to propri
etor, he was connected with it and
his life was a large Part
of the life of the journal which was his
Joy and pride, and to it he directed the
best energies of his mind and body from
boyhood to manhood, rom manhood to
advanced age; and although he died far
away from the scene of his long labors,
seeking in vain for the health and strength
those labors had spent, yet he may be said
to have died IN the harness, faithfully and
conscientiously working to the last.
Though the Republican now represents the
zeal, the energy and the wisdom Of more
than one generation of managers, it is no
injustice to his predecessors to say it owes
more of what it is to-day to George
Knapp than to any other one,
and while this child of his
brain and hands survive, his memory can
not perish. What George Knapp was to
st. Louis her people know. He had some
thing more than that kindly feeling which
belongs to every citizen. He loved the
city with On ardent and self sacrificing
love and gladly gave himself aud his inf1u-
ence to its service at all times and at any
cost. No enterprise large or small which
promised to further the interest of st.
Louis directly or indirectly ever failed to
gain his sympathy and support, and not a
few of these enterprises that have done
with realized prosperity and the future
ment, are indicated to his
tireless zeal. Others might fail. He
never did, and he found what was to him
an all sufficient reward in the growth, in
wealth, beauty and manifold cons
eience of the city, he saw rise from the
humblestibeginning.to a, great metropolis.
Nor was this warm attachment Of earnest
services confined to st. Louis alone. He
was deeply interested in everything which
pertain to the development and progress
of our state and its neighbors in the great
valley. He was thoroughly western man
in ideas, tastes and aspirations, and moth
ing that touched SO remotely western in
terests was.ind1fferent to him. Yet beyond
his state and his section there was always
room for his country, his whole country,
north, south, east, and west.
The claims of party were always with him
subordinate to the claims Of patriotism,
and no truer patriot ever lived. What
Colonel Knapp was in private life his in
Vulnerable friends know-always genial,
courteous and generous. He naturally
won friends, but he had the still rarer fac
ulty of keeping them. man of strong
character and decided convictions, he
could not of course avoid provoking sharp
opposition, but his bitterest opponents
were compelled to respect his fearless hon
esty and incorruptible honor, and among
those who differed with him most widely
in opinion will be found some
of his most sincere mourners. What he
was as son, brother, husband and father,
it is not for Us to say. Into the sacred do
main Of home and family it is not for US
TO enter. Those who knew him there knew
him at his best. In every domestic rela-
ton he was tender and true, and his devo-
ton to the nearest and dearest in the do
mestio circle was as nearly perfect as hu-
mainly can allow. To the public his death
will brinF anfeigned regret; to his family
a sorrow net nothing can assuage.