The Opelousas courier., 1888-12-01
National Editors.
ruE MOST VALUABLE MEETING
OF THEIR HISTORY.

Gan Antonio Daily Express, November %.
The more the merrier holds
oood as to editors, wine parties,
Ginning lottery tickets and btA,
bies. The guests who reached
ns in segregation on Tuesday
morning came in aggregations
on Yesterday. There are more
Than one hundred and fifty of
them here, exclusive of the Ia
aies. who are equal in impor-
nortance to a thousand and in
aood looks to q hundred thous-
and. 1t is the most numerous, the
most widely distributed and the
most representative body which
ms assembled since the forma-
tion of the association away
hack in February, 1886. This
latter clause is true, not only
because a larger number of
states send delegates, but be-
cause the number and character
ofthe journals which send men
are more important. From a
representative of the New York
Sun down to tfe publisher of
the weekly paper every grade of
journalistic wealth, enterprise,
news, completeness and in1u-
ence has its voice upon the floor
Of the hall. There are men
among them who speak daily to
4 haIf-million of people; men
who address hebdomadally
4 limited constituency Of five
hundred /; men among them who
have a reputation bounded only
by the continental oceans: men
who are known only in the vii
lage whose enterprises they
boom and whose opinions they
attempt to mould men among
them who will cheerfully sign
you a certified check for $4,000,
men whose sole capital is a
strong brain and genius for hard
work men among them in the
costliest of clothing and most
glittering of diamond studs, men
who wear cheap coats and coarse
linen, but throw their shoulders
back and give the pass to moth
ing which wears pants ; men
among them whose hyacinthine
locks curl profusely around
broWs of Parian Wilderness, men
whose hair is gray and scanty
and men who have no hair at
all; men d.aong them broad
sbouldered, slim WASTED and
pretty enough to melt an irate
officials heart, force him to put
up bis gun orforegoh his libel suit,
men so ugly that they can't
smile at 10 o'clock on Saturday
night without breaking the Sab
bath. They are of all sorts and
conditions only alike in a gen
eral air of earnestness and horse
sense.
It is an assemblage worth
looking at. There should be
no leVity in the gaze with which
the San Antonian regards it.
The body which has done the
city the honor of meeting with
IN its limits represents smooth
but tremendous power greater
than welded by the ear. For
whereas his word is law to
slaves, the word of the National
Editorial association is law to
hundreds of thousands of free
men. 1t is the velvet hidden
paw. 1t can work incaiculable
good to San Antonio and, by a
turn of the pen, incalcnlable
harm. It all depends upon the
Impressions which its members
form, and their impressions de-
pend upon the warmth with
which they are received and the
consideration shown them dur
ing their stay.
Yesterdays session, taken as
9 whole, was more satisfactory
than the one preceding. There
we're more of them on hand.
The attendance of visitors was
larger and, while the papers read
we're not more interesting or
valuable, the business and the
discussion which the business
evoked were. Solomon himself
could not sit a day with the ed
TORS and not depart a wiser
man. He would hear every
thing they know and a good
many things they do not know.
Il y impossible to bring togeth-
er 100 men trained in the paths
of daily knowledge and expe-
Renee and fail to evolve some
tnlng from the contact. Men
whose business it is to acquire
information that they may dis
pense L, are interesting fellows