The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-05

''but as your experience in political journal
ism has not been very extensive, you would
do well to study some approved models in
respect to style and mode of treatment,
which are matters of the first Importance.
There is, for example, 10. Gales, Of The Ma.
ional Intelligencer I am almost sure that
my friend, while he was saying 10. Gales,
was not thinking of one of his most devout
worshtppers, to wit: the Hon. Oren FoIlett;
but there is bare possibility that such was
the faet-''he Is a notable example, and"-
Well, Mr. Foilett," said I, breaking in
upon the impending panegyric-'h you or
anybody else innagines that am ambitious
to transform myself into an efigy of Jo
Gales. or of any other man, you will find
yourselves salvationally mistaken"
This was imprudent and l lost a point by
it. There was more of this conversation and
perhaps ought not to repeat it: but have
found in the course of a somewhat lengthy
experience that, in ones confessions, that is
best relished which comes nearest to the in
admissible.
'FYou did not want to return to the news
paper business" said Mr. Follett. ''Why
was that2 1 should think you would regard
the post of editor of the central organ of a
great party higher than that of a canal col
Iector.n
''WeI," SAID I, Zone reason was. had
observed that editors, like schoolmasters,-
were apt in process of time to grow dogmatic,
opinionative and pragmatical, and as dis
like such ways did not intend to be tempted
to fall into them myself"
am afraid that at that very moment I
was thinking Of my co.collocutor, an ex-
pedagogue and ex-editor, who, noble hearted
scholarly and punctilious man that he was,
was fully of the opinion that what he didn't
know wasn't worth knowing. I confess
was little taken back when he replied:
"Why, / do not know what your observa-
ton has been, but I am certain I never
noticed any disposition Of the kind in myself
1t is pretty certain that none of us see
ourselves as we are seen by others. l know
that I do not. for although 1 had always
tried to be, and up to that time believed
myself to have succeeded in being, in my
personal aspect and carriage, one of the
most subdued and least assertive of human
beings, on my appearance at Columbus I
heard Of persons inquiring one of another
who the fellow was who had come there to
buy the town. And twenty years after
wards, walking along Fourth street, in Gin
cinnati, in a way that / deemed perfectly
neutrality-suspicious., brother of mine whom
I CHANGED to meet inquired if 1 was in
specting the city with view to purchase.
Although 1 say it myself, did fill the
bill Nominally the subordinate, 1 was In
fact the leader. made the Journal what
it had never been before-a force. And,
while my easy-going chieftain talked politics
20 II o1O
shingles, Illuminated the thunder, indoctrin-
ated the party and led the Wing press of
Ohio. But when it was proposed to me by
the henchmen respectively of Big Tom and
Black Tomas they were designated-to
join their several factions, my response had
uniformly been, "The Wing party is small
enough for me-" l, very naturally, fell.
under the suspicion of both and so it hap
pened that while the Judge and myself
good easy men, thought our promised great
ness a-ripening, the ak was being whetted
for our decapitation. Gen. Taylor was
elected, and yet no symptoms of the per-
Torrance oe the agreement. When, after
his death, the executive branch of the gov
eminent was reconstructed under Mr.. Fill
more, Mr.. Ewing retired from the Cabinet
and was appointed to the Senate by Gov.
Ford to ELL out the unexpired term-being
one session Of Congress-of Mr.. Corwin, who
accepted the post of Secretary of the
Treasury under the new arrangement
Mr.. Ewing wanted to be returned to the
Senate by the next ensuing Legislature, and
of course was DESTROYS of the special aid of
the central organ. This he would have had,
of course, for we were not unfriendly to
him; but great politicians want parasites,
and neither Judge Thrall nor myself were
of that species. Hence, in the place of the
promotions that we still looked for, we
were informed that Mr.. Ewing had put
some money into The State Journal and
that our places mad been filed by persons of
his selection, to one of whom he had given
the Post Office. He wanted, he said, more
talent; but if he got it the fact was never dis
covered.
The judge and myself. having nothing
else to do, devoted ourselves to the work of
retaliation-the Judge to secure the nomi-
nation to the Legislature of Wings opposed
to Mr.. Ewing, and myself to the bringing
out of our opposition candidate. He did
his duty well-for he was well adapted to
that species of manipulation-and 1 was
not remiss in mine. His men-Wray
Thomas, of Columbus, and Joseph H. Gel
ger, of CirclevilIe-men who had sworn
they would be throttled before they would
vote for Ewing-were nominated and elect.
ed, and their election tied the Wing party
in the Legislature In the meantime, with
the aid of prominent free soilers and some
northern Wings, had succeeded in giving
prominence to the Hon. Benjamin F. Wade
as candidate in opposition to Mr.. Ewing.
The fight in the Legislature was long and
furious. Days were spent in balloting, in
terspersed with fiery speeches and bitter
examinations Thomas and Geiger stood
their ground, and could neither be cajoled
nor intimidated, until at length perSistency
prevailed, and the majority was compelled
to give way; and after the most sharply
contested campaign known to the political
history of Ohio, Wade was elected Whether
good or evil came of the elevation to a seat
in the Senate of this rampant abolitionist
and agitator, this deponent declines to ex-
press an opinion. We-my chieftain and
myself-thought we owed Mr. Ewing a
moral debt, which we were honestly anxious
to liquidate, and when the leviathan made,
as he often did, an effort to roll himself off
the shadows and get again afioat, we smiled.
HENRY REED.