The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-15
JOURNALISTIC FRIENDS.
THEY Know the Editor-and He
Knows Them.

course | will. i can do it as easy as
winking. No trouble at all. l should
be delighted. l know the editor and
he will do any thing l ask him to-"
So, 50. You are going to fix it, are
YOU. Ky, old boy? And it won't be a
particle OF trouble because you know
the editor? So you do, SO. you do; and,
friend X, what is a great deal more to
the point, he knows you. He knows
Won like a book. Let me see, where
did the editor meet you first7 Oh! yes.
] have it now.
You were boys together in the same
country town. Perhaps his father was
q poor man and yours was the county
Judge. Perhaps you wore tailor-made
clothes at school and his were home
spun and patched. You didn't know
him in those days, MI. X, for you
were rich and he was poor. After q
few years your father died and you
went into a dry-goods store as a clerk
while the editor went to the city and
became a newspaper reporter. Not
many years afterwards he was the ed
itor of the paper, for the editor had
what you have always lacked, friend
X.-brains. When he went back to
his native town, a short time, ago, a
rich and prosperous man-of-the-world,
you knew him then, just as easy.
And you would have resented with in
dignation any reference to the old
times when you didn't carr to know
him. Don't deny it, for you know you
would.
Yes, you know the editor, X, there
is no doubt about that, but when you
visit his Office and try to fix it, for
your friend you will find, friend ~,
that he knows you too, and l don't be-
lieve you will find it as simple an oper-
alton rs you imagine. If you don't
agree with me, just try it and see.
You have tried fixing things with
the editor before. Yes, you have. If
you have forgotten them, 1 will remind
you. Some years ago you wanted him
to give you three or four col
umns of his newspaper to puff
your friend Jones for the Office
of alderman of his ward. You went by
the nam of B. that time, but you were
the same old X. you always were. You
knew the editor the same as you did
this time. But you made his acquaint-
ance differently. You met him at a
political convention. You were intro
duced to him at the hotel, and you in
sisted on his taking a drink with you
on the strength of the introduction.
Then you gave him a cigar the flavor
OF which has never left the editor since
that day, and never will so long as his
memory of bad odors lasts. You spent
ten minutes with the editor telling him
what a great man you were, and all
that evening you told your friends that
you were "solid with the press" be-
cause you 'knew the editor" You
have boosted of it even since. Don't
ask me how l know, because l shall
not tell You. But it is true, all the
same.
You remember the time you volun-
teered to visit his office and give Jones
a boom. Jones thanked you grateful
ly for the favor and you posed for a
time as a b%enefactor, for it was not the
editor who was going to render the OBJ
legation, but you, B., the editors
friend. All! b., old boy, that was a
sly dodge. Come, confess now, didn't
strike you then that you were a pref
ty sharp old fellow to pull the wool
~yee of Jones ana tile oditvl
loop
But it didn't work. Somehow, when
you reached the EDITORS office and
your plan, he seemed to OBJ
jet to it. He didn't say much, but the
next day he printed an editorial rid
ding Jones and your nice article was
emptied out of the waste basket into
the waste paper bag.
Do you want to know why you
EailedP Well, if you won't mention it
a living soul, I'll tell you. The ed
tor knew you. That was the reason.
Then about a month ago you tried it
again. Let me see, what was your
on that memorable occasionp
oh! yes; it was G. You might fool
other people who were not 60 well &C
luainted with you as l, but you
couldn't deceive me. / knew you were
The same old X. the moment I saw
Eou. You met the editor at the club.
0ne night you gave him a light
rom your cigar and this led to a few
observations upon the prevail
ng weather. From that moment YOU
new the editor. So you said to your +,
riends, and Of course you wouldn't
.'revaricate about a matter Of this sort.
Ore day shortly after this a friend
= yours got into some sort Of finan-
nal trouble, and You asked "your
rlerl d." the editor. to publish his side |
the case. which he very kindly did. |
I you v had any inward doubts q
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