Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-08

hence. He Is q most genial man, never
I'm hurry. A nd very fond OF young tel
| lows who sho,v him that they have vim
and push in thel.v makc-np. He ouce told
me that he would rather see young man
forge ahead and lnake huge blunder,
back up and start OVER again, than 10 set
down aud wait for Something TO turn up.
Col Mcclure is l'enDaylvaninn by
birth, and made his reputation by his
personal force and yigor. IL ~ the POSI-
tive men who are heard Of IN the worlds
affairs. lie Is not the principal owner 81
tho Tines OF Philadelphia, as Is generally
supposed, although be owns some Of the
stock and gets $4,000 year for bcing af
/ Its editorial head. Mr.. Frank Nc
Laughlin Is the largest stakeholder IN the
Times lie Is stlf-Inade inan 10 every
respect He used TO work Of the case ~
an Ordinary type-setter. Then he went
Into the joO-printing business, and by do
Ing good work and pushing his affairs
made fortune. One day In 1875 he en-
counteied Col. Mcclure ~ lawyers
Office on Walnut street A third party
introduced them. Mr. Mclaughlin re-
marked that he had understood 10 quiet
way that Col. Mcclure was looking Tor
capitalist who would furnish the money
10 run a newspaper on certain lines. The
latter could yet money enough from some
quarters, for with his well-known energy
there were plenty who were willing TO
back him financially. But they did not
suit Col. Mcclure as TO predictions and
newspaper views. He and MIR. Me-
Laughlin talked Just five minutes. In
that time the partnership was formed
and the project of launching another
great Philadelphia newspaper upon the
/ -
and when tho Philadelphia Times came
to be started. The venture has been
! enormously successful
4 Another successful newspaper man OF
/ Philadelphia Is Col. william Nj. Singerly.
His publication, the Record, was one OF
the original penny papers in the United
States. Started with ample capital, 1t
early took u front rank, and now has a cir
culation OF over 100000 a day IL is taken
chiefly by poorer classes, but Is read more
or less by all. II Is independent In poll
tics, with Democratic lesnings, and is
the foremost out aud ont free-trade or
gan in this country. Here, in this
strongly protected city, 1t has hammered
away for years on free-trade, and has
been financially successful while doing
so. That is one OF the illustra.
tons OF the liberty OF speech which
the American people demand for
themselves aud are willing TO grant to
others It is u singular fact that Phlla-
I delphia, with $4,000 Democratic voters,
has not one Democratic newspaper, and
no organ any kind that can be relied
upon II ana the present national
: admini 81 ou This is, ot course, no
: fault Z minisuatSnt but simply
: that a3ia eWs have Raen 50 long and
so perslstlgly held here thai the Demo
crats X think tbeia ~ uoo way
than TO 90 EepUbhcala eterythin1 aea
J themselves sl Wa ~ ntditatipn taQ
J political saekcloth Hd shts
Mr.. Slngerly Is much moe tnsn q nowe
: paper proprietor. From bls granite
palace, in which the Record ~ mb1a, nV
! directs one OF the finest stock iaun'
{. in Pennsylvania, and pays much
: attention TO Jerseys and Holsteins. lii
. also owns the Temple theater, one Of tn,
Q leading among the fifteen places o.
t dramatic amusement in this city, Is inter
y ested In street railroads and several Other
$ smaller speculations. He Is not yet fort,
S years OF age, but, like Mr. Childs nnC
n Col Mcclure, has won his way by being
$ positive, progressive and liberal.
d A wholly different sort Of man is Mr.
s. Charles Emory Smith, whom you hav
Is most likely heard Of as one Of the chic
7. advisers and political satellites of Mr.
l. Blaine Had the latter been successful
4 Smith Is said TO have been slated for Tn
m stmasteT-generalship in the cabinet
lr lie is now At the head ~ the Press, whicl
was founded by Col. Johu W Forfey ani
is the leading thick and thin Republican
st organ OF Pennsylvania. Mr.. Smith Is
% New Yorker, having obtained his journal
~ isiic training in Albany. lie does no
Y own any Press stock, but gets $500
5 year salary as It's manager
- The paper is owned by MI
t. Calvin Wells, leading iro
le manufacturer OF Pittsburg. Mr. Smit
II does not have the personal hold upon ia
A. detail Of the Press affairs that Col. Nix
&c Clure does upon those OF tie Times, an
IS his chief success may be said to lie in hi
ID ability TO select COED subordinates.
ID most public matters he lacks decisio
IS and usually lets his editorial column
A. drift for day or two until he gets Gle
le from other Republican organs, notabl
re the New York Tribune aud Bosto
Is journal He is about forty years OF az
er but docs not look over thirty-nve, is a ia
s. public speaker, not particularly origin'
ne thinker, but good man TO see thI
"a Charles Emory Smith remains on u
Is when any deals, business or politics
ie are being made
ne
D. DID LOGAN wRIrE THIsY
OF A most remarkable literary productio
er in the shape OF a political novel made /
II appearance during The past week, Til
title Of The book Is ounce Daniels Stoi
to Of The War; 1t appears anonymousl
SC but was first circulated by Gen, john
a. Logan, who handed copies OF II arour
among ais friends In the senate. Fro
e. this fact II Is being asserted by his poll
ny ical enemies that Logan is himself u
er authorof it. Like Disraeli's NEndymion,
le the work pictures wcll-known public me
~ under fictitious names, but so thinly 81
Sc gused that it is easy for the nlerestp
BY li,ical tyro TO identify the real parsonage