Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-06
DANIEL MANNING.


tied Albany and impressed upon its life
and growth its stald qualities, with its
progressive movement. From earliest
bOyhOod he felt the desire and formed
the purpose of self-help. While at
school the disposition to be doing
was dominant in him. 1t was his con-
Vlctlon before he could shape it into state
ment tnat he could unite the getting
OF an education with work of supporting
himself. He resisted the policy of con-
ming MIN TO the routine of schooling for
set number Of years before he attacked
industry itself. So, as soon as he had
acquired not more than the rudiments Of
learning, he obtained, at II years of age,
situation as a boy of work in the office
Of the Albany AtldS-which was subse-
queEtly merged into the Argus, with
which establishment he has ever since
been connected, rising through every
stage OF service and responsibility to the
Presidency of the association and to the
executive prOprietOrship. In this adher-
ence to one vocation in one establishment,
the qualities of attachment, per-
slstence, and application for
which he is rightly noted, are
exemplitied. Many of his responsible
lles grow out of his connection
with the ArguS, and they all ra-
diate from it; and the journal and his
influence upon one another of a marked
kind. The threefOld form of newspaper
work is apparent. 1t comprises printing,
literary employment and business
management. To each Mr.. Manning
has served long tutelage. In each OF
them he has mastered the art. From one
TO the other he graduated in due course.
over all of them he has qualified himself
to exercise supervision. His life has
N no all f~ pF bf Is..A,
associates have been those who were the
companions his youth. His political Opin-
IOrs have been in harmony with the views
OF the journal which he has promoted.
The position of that journal in the politics
OF the State and nation has required him
to scrutinize and weigh the large respon-
sIbilities which he, in turn, has had to
weld and temper, In its name. Journal
ism is becoming the educating force of
the people. Especially is it an educating
force to those WhO have to do with it.
Most of all, il is an educating force to
those who, from bOybOOd through to ma
ture manhood, have bad to do with it, in
all its trinity of activity. These circum-
stances render the career of Daniel Man.
ming, from "deVil" to TIE ''caseV from the
lease" to the fOremanship, from the fore
manship to the reporters desk, thence TO
the associate editOrship, and thence to
the executive prOprietOrship and business
management OF the ArQUS, a career of
unity, progression, development and re-
WardIng recognition. He has been a
member of the Democratic State Commit
tee since 1876, was its Secretary in 1879
and 1850, and its Chairman in 1881.
lSS2 and 1888. Whatever aggressive work
the State Democracy has accomplished
within the last ten years has been identi-
ned with MIR. Manning's influence upon
It's organization and policy. To the duties
before exercised by Dean Richmond and
then by Samuel j. Tilden, in the leader
ship of leaders, Mr.. Manning succeeded.
not as an imitator, but as one who has
impressed on the position his own methods
and qualities.
lie has long been the director for AL
DanY IN the Albany and Susquehanna
Railway Company. From 1869 to 1882.
WEen he resigned, be was a director in
the National Savings Bank of Albany,
In 1873 he became a director in the Ma
tlonal Commercial Bank of Albany. In
1881 he became its Vice President. in
place OF Robert l.. johnson, deceased. In
1882 be became its President, in place of
gen. Robert II. Pruyn. deceased. He is
Park Commissioner OF the city. a director
Of the Albany Railway, director Of the
Electric Light Company, and one of the
trustees OF tle Fort Orange Club. Daniel
Manning is still in the prime of his fac
uities.
WILLIAM c. ENDICOTT.
William Crowninshield Endicott was
born in Salem, Mass, in 1927. His
father was William Putnam En-
dicott and his mother Mary, daugh-
ter of Hon. Jacob CrOwninshield,
who was a Representative in Con-
gress. He attended the Salem schools
and graduated from Harvard College in
the class Of lS47. He married his cousin,
a daughter of George Peabody, and has
two children, a son and a daughter
Judge EndicOtt studied at Harvard Law
school and read law in the office of the
late Nathaniel j. Lord. He was admitted
to the bar about 1850, and few
years later formed parnertship with
the late j. w. Perry and continued
with him until his appointment bv
Gov. Washhurn to seat on the Supreme
Bench IN 1873. This position he held un-
til 1882, when he resigned on account of
his health. In 1882 he made an extended
tour of the continent. He was member
of the Salem Common Council in 1852.
1888 and 1887, when he was elected Presi-
dent of that board. He was City Solicitor
from 1858 to 1868. He is member OF the
Massachusetts Historical Society and of
the Board of Overseers of Harvard Col
lege. Mr.. EndicOtt is direct descendant
from Gov. John EndicOtt. Until the Bell
and Everett campaign he was an Old line
Whig. At that time he went into the
Democratic party. AS a lawyer he is
very thorough, and in pleading a
case very difnified. AS Judge he stood
nigh in rank. He has never been prOmi-
nent in politics, but was the nominee of
the Democratic party of Massachusetts
for the Governorshlp last fall. In person
Mr. EndlcOtt bears a striking likeness to
the portraits of his famous ancestor, lust
as the features of Mr.. RJberti G. Win
thrOp, of Boston, the orator at the founda-
TiOn and also at the completion of the
Washington Monument in the national
capital, strikIngly resemble those of his
own ancestor, Gov. John Winthrop, Gov.
EndicOtts colonial rival.
WILLIAM C. WHITNEY.
William G. Whitney was born at Con-
way, Mass, in 1910, graduated at Yale
College in 1858, at the Harvard Law
School in 1864, and then went to New
York, where he was at once admitted to
the bar. and got a desk in the office OF
Judge Lawrence. Two years later he
made a partnership with a ciassmate
Henry f. DimOck, and they tried, with no
amazing success, to strike right into a
law practice. Whitney devoted himself
without delay to getting into politics, and
thereby became the Corporation Counsel
an appointive office-on the downfall of
the Tweed ring. The position had amount
ed to little for many years, but now it
suddenly became mpOrtant-partly be-
cause Of the mass Of litigation over frau
dulent claims against the city, but largely
through Whitney's celerity, energy and
ability in clearing off the cases. This
achievement established his reputSGiOn
as a LAWYER, and he maintained it during
his continuance in this office, which he
at length voluntarily resigned. In busi-
ness, too, he was successful. and he
made a considerable start towards fortune
when he gained so much more Of it at the
altar that his own accumulation at the
bar was insignificant by contrast.
The most remarkable thing about Whit
ney is that he has been a clean-handed
Democrat. He was, in q sense, during
his early political career a prOtege of
Samuel j. Tilden, for whom he labOred
hard in 1876, and into whose Cabinet he
would unQuestiOnablY have gone had the
Sage of GreystOne been seated. His
prosperity in a business sense had been
so good from the outset of his career that !
he has had no temptation to seek public |
office for the sake of money. The salary
of the Corporation COunselship-$12,0 900 a |
year-ceased to be an object to him before
he relinquIshed the place.
In politics he is wonderfully clever at
organizing and promoting measures, for
definite objects. This quality was shown
pOtently in the Chicago Convention,
which labOriously nominated Cleveland. |
Whitney was doubtless as influential as
Dan Manning in bringing the Cleveland
venture to a successful issue. 1t was he
who nullifed the Hendricks boom, and
he who beat Villas with Hendricks for the |
second place on the ticket.
1t cannot be said that VIM. c. Whitney
is at all belittled by his wife's importance |
in society. He is a distinctive character !
in Nav York law and DOlitios In Yoroop