Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-10-03
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IFrom The s.. Jo. GaHetie.l
Ii Col. Bill Hyde gets the st. Louis
pn,lutiicc. will it be a recognition OF
the Republican, or Che reverse? Colo
mel HYDE at one time dictated The policy
%! thai PAPER, blu going on Il vacation
bryouG .jacuhy' ;, Inund himself iroAcii
nui on his return. But it is believed,
| for all. that the Republican would like
tn provide for lis ~superanuaicd editor
at government expense, Just as thc
| Times, Of this city, has succeeded III
p~uisionimg two of its manned conicd-
crate employees on the United States.
Kansas City Journal.
Stop right there. Neither the Re
publican nor any Of its owners or con
trolIers will approve or sanction these
destinations. We have been hearing ot
.iacoby's quite enough. Long ago those
| who understood what the contemplate
inSinualiou ~ denounced 1t as I'M
manly, ungcntlemanly and far beneath
| the dignity of il reputable newspaper.
And then again, MIR. Hyde was never
''IroZen out lie WAS IN HE harness
for IA quarter of Il century. lie was
The hardest worked man IN the state OF
Missouri. lie shaped the policy oil the
greatest newspaper III the state
Every Gay in The week he wrote for lis
editorial columns and he saw all that
his subordinateS had written.
Studying ont the situation. Consult
ing all the leading papers OF the nation
and of the state. Giving mteIlSciit
| audience TO all who came with sugges-
lions. Hunting up all thc politicians TO
| confer with them. AS Il leader over
ruling this plan of attack and that
methed of defense. Suggesting some
thing better here or there, and always
inic l%igcntly counseling for the best m
icrGsts of his party and the people.
Accepting intelligent advice and yleid-
inc to The dictates of the. majority.
Going into the thickest of every 1lght
as a volunteer and all Obedient soldier,
whether his views had been adopted or
NOT. Doing'thc outside work of hall Il
dozen men in !; day, aud bending over
his prOof-shecis and his turtles Till long
after midnight, to see that every leader
and every paragraph was iii its place,
that nothing was lacking to make the
paper complete and nothing admitted
that could offend.
Is it any wo Ider that ut two, three,
four or five O'Clock in the morning
| after all this PRESSURE, all this strain
and all this physical and mental fatigue.
he stopped occasional at Jacobys on
his way home? Is it not rather to
be wondered at that he endur-
ed it tor Twenty-Five years with
t ont "A vacation? The greater wonder l.
; that Il fellow craftsman could be guilty
ot an assault SO unjustiiiabic.
We do know. why Mr.. Hyde wen
z - I,,>, Wa do NOT know WHY l(
2 did not resume his place on the RepuD
: iican when he came home. we cannon
conceive the possibility of such a MAJ
. being forced to get down upon Ms
: launches and wrovel i'll the dirt &c
5 obtain a paltry postotfice. But we nc
: know that he is not Il "Suptranultet
l editor" That he is jnst as tnil OF virgo
i as any man in the state. That ne IS Jus
l as capable of conducting great ana'r'
: of state rs any man in Missouri. Ina
/ his ability and his powers and his mag
: nitude As q man are out OF all proper
: ton to the insignificant Office that M
T is supposed to be seeking.
If he wanted the St. Louis poStoiflcc
and it was known that he wanted 1t, III
ought TO have had no opposition iron
Il any source. Under republican rule tin
e newspaper men of h party were SlVel
the pOstoflices as Il matter OF course
They ti"h, the battle of the party il
4 times of adversely and in times of pros
perity alike. They spend their none.
and they waste their lives. They suffe
! as the targets of all the riilemcn ant
c the s~harpshOoters and the bush-whack
Il ers of the opposition. They dig tn
e bitches aud fight in them to the death
They credit everybody and carry every
body. They shoulder the whole bn'
: ben of every campaign and bear it will
e out Il groan, and with the patici
q stoIiditv of the pamnicred ass or tn
e burro in the mining camp. Their new
y papers are everybody's O~mnibuses, an
every fellow feels at liberty to a
free ride every day in the week it suit
his convenience.
The republicans seemed TO appreci
lie ale these facts. Whether admittin
u that The newspapers We worthy OF SUI
port or not, they seemed to feel that I'll
men engaged in that business wer
lie doing the best they could for the party
IL and that without newspapers the part
= would stand no more chance to WI
q ,han an army would without arms {
'e ammunition.
3 Thus ii happened that in almost even
town Il republican newspaper man hcl
;" the postofice, while many OF them we
: even hunted out and given high pos
III lions at Washington and elsewhere.
= the light OF these facts 1t is very ba
ne taste indeed for il republican editor
assail so feroriously The only prom
: nent democratic newspaper man in Il
III state who is supposed to be asking q
: office of the democratic administraiio
III which he did SO much to help create.