Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-11
a Noble and Responsible Profss.
sion.

The other day an obscure sheet pub.
lished In Los Angeles gave a garbod
extract from paragraph which appeared
In the Anahcim Gazette. As thus ropro-
duced 1t was made to convey slur upon
che editor of this paper. We therefore
reproduce it as II was written and pub
lished
Joseph d. Lynch, editor Of the Los
Angeles Herald, announces editorially
that he Is not candidate for Congress,
because his paper has become such valu.
able properly that re cannot afford to
abandon its management even to enter
Congressional marble halls. We have
IN idea that Mr.. Lynch could not have
been elected; and we have another idea
that II he had, by any turn Of the politi.
cAl wheel, been elected, he would have
made mn exceptionally able and iudustri.
ous Representative, and Southern Cali.
fornia would have been the gamer by
hia presence in Congress.
Tho editor Of the HERALD Withdrew
from the Congressional contest when his
chances for nomination and election
were quito hattering, and he did so for
tho reasons stated in the brief paragraph
Of the other day. That is to say, the
exigent claims Of newspaper business
which is growing with the rapidity Of
Jonnh's gourd require his attention, and
no proposes TO concentrate all his ener
gies to its management.
As 1t Ia he has no preferred candidate
for the honor, holding himself in readiness
i 10 support any good Democrat. Without
question, should tho HERALD choose to
do so. it could exert very potent influ.
ence in determining the direction which
the honor would take, but this is not
Democratic precedent, and this paper
prefers TO await the natural and proper
z drift of things.
So much by way Of introduction TO
brief word of criticism Of the course Of
conductors of newspapers towards each
other. They entirely justify the old
adage that no two of trade can agree.
Although nine out Of ten of the public
men OF the United States owe their very
creation to the gentlemen of the press
or to put 1t more forcibly-to the press
gang-these gentry seem to be inspired
with an Unsuitable Impulse to see to it
that none of their own profession shall
attain political honor or distinction
with their help. Many newspaper men
have achieved front rank in the polite
al councils of the nation; but, almost to
man, they have accomplished this
distinction in the spite Of the jealous
dispraise Of members of their own
profession. This was remarkably
tho case with Simon Cameron,
who began life at the case, but
who attained personal political
power never possessed by any other
man in the United States save Thurlow
Weed and Horace Greeley, both news
paper men, since Jefferson aud Jackson
were laid in their graves. On the other
hand, what myriads Of pompous and
bulbous nothipgs owe their whole rcpu.
tation and standing to the newspapers
Of all tho strutting nobodies who figure
In both houses Of lhe national Congress,
how few there are who cannot refer their
Importance to the friendly and genial
offices of n newspaper?
The editor of tue HERALD admits that,
for moment, he should have liked to
gosto Congress, but he claims that he
has an office, in assisting TO develop and
, mold public opinion in this section, of a
for higher function than the legislative
one, useful as that may be made ty able
and honest men. There are 80 many in
ferior men in both the Senate and House
Of Representatives, of late years, that
the honor of belonging to either body
has greatly miniiied. The man who, at
the head of daily journal, works in
cessantly for the best good of his sec
tion, and makes it his diurnal duty to
develop all the excelsior impulses of his
fellow men, enjoys far higher honor
than office, as such, could confer upon
him. 1t seems to us that our brethren
of the press too often overlook this fact
France. a nation which, whether her
armies in the field are successful or no,
is the most intellectual nation in Europe,
does herself rather than them honor by
advancing her journalists to the highest
posts of official distinction. Theirs,
Guizot, and hundred Other illussri-
Gus men, who were for year. laborious
journalists, being instances in point,
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