Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-07-18
THE CHICAGO TINES NAN.

THE CHICAGO TINES NAN.
Legal proceedings have been commenc.
ed Ia the county court at Chicago for the
appointment of a conservator for w. +.
Storey, alleging the incapscity of Mr.. Sto-
rev to conduct his business Tie business
Of the Times office has been conducted for
several years by his wife and this proceed
ing IS instituted by the heirs at law who
are dissatisfied with her management,
partially perhaps from jealousy of her as
she il his second wife.
In some respects W. F. Storey has been
q wonderful man. HIS ambition was to
build up the greatest newspaper in Amer
lea and he had succeeded 50 far that his
only rivals for the supremacy were the
Herald, Tribune and Times OF New
YORK.
Besides being man of good business
qualifications he was forcible, aegres-
slve and courageous writer, but so long az
he wore the democratic cellar he had
many rival peers in the west, and during
the first years of the war was for time
overshadowed by the bold audscity of
Brick Pomeroy with his Lacrosse Demo-
crat. This gsaded Storey INTO such reck-
less opposition to the war that his paper
was suppressed in 1862 and he arrested
BY order of Gen. Burnside, but was soon
released by Judge David Davis who,
short time before, had been appointed as
secjate justice of the supreme court of
the United States by president Lincoln.
This release was the inner secret of
Storey's unf1inching fidelity to Judge Da-
Wis ever afterwards, showing that al
though Storey was regarded as cold
blooded man he still possessed the noble
feeling Of gratitude for the man who in.
terposed in his behalf in time Of need,
wien rum Of his business stared HIM in
In the face. This threatened ruin was,
however, turned into an avalanche of
prosperity by the advertisement it gave
him and his paper.
Soon after this Storey made declara-
tion of independence Of the democratic
party by advocating negro suffrage. The
Times then being the leading democratic
paper Of the west, and Of the nation for
that matter, this departure from the
rock-rooted, "damnigger" principles Of
the bourbon party was denounced by its
leaders in all parts of the country and the
Times was at once read cut Of the party.
Storey was then in his prime and with his
own pen poured hot shot, shell and dy-
Mantle into the ranks of the "putrld rem
iniscence,' rs he dubbed the party,
until he drove the unprogresslve "Siluri-
an philosophers Of the party into politi.
cal exile. The republicans read his pa 4
per for .'pointers', against the messbacks
and the democrats read it to see what he
had to say of them, ald between the two
his paper reached circulation that even
Storey himself never dreamed OF. This
gave the Times prestige which, after
the exciting questions connected with
the war had passed away, he maintained
by making his paper the most enterpris-
ing in the way of gathering news Of any
west of New York.
The brilliant journalistic sun of Wilbur
F. Storey is new rapidly going down, and
while his career may not have been in all
respects model one it shows that ability |
and pluck are almost lnvincible' HIS
name will go down to posterity In history
equally brilliant IN the journalistic gal
axy with those of Bennett of the New |
York Herald, Greeley of the Tribune and
Raymond of the Times. This action,
however. will not interrupt the business
or change the course or policy Of the Chi
cago Times for the present at least.