The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-08

sbning his views occasionally with vigorous
explosives. He sits back in his leather chair
In his cosy library smoking as he talks
and keeping the red handana in his lap. he
entertains the reporters sometimes with
interesting "reminiscences of the old swal-
low-tail and brass button days in polite.
Hon. Levi p Morton talks readily and is
very courteous In his manners. He used to
be bald, but since he came hack from Paris.
where he served some years as minister to
France, he has worn a wig, which is con
Sidered by cOnnoiSseurs the finest IN this
country. 1t took 400 Partisan wig make S
six months to make it, and each hair seems
to have been carefully selected and counted.
Gov. Foraker is a locomotive in trousers,
quick, always ready, afrable to newspaper
men, good tal!1er with a melOdious voice.
Maj. Mckinley, the Locblnvar of ONO
politics, who might have eloped with the
presidential election, but was too chlvalrlc
to even attempt to do so, is very sensible III
his attitude toward reporters. Your
paper has been very kind to me-" he will
say, land hope to reciprocate some time.
He talks readily until he gets upon delicate
ground.
Great editors are usually easy to inter
view. These doctors of journalism take
their own medicine with equanimity.
Charles A. Dana will say to one of the cor
respondents for an Out-of-tOwn paper
We'll, how are you, anyhow Then he
wants to know how things are getting on
in the city where the correspondents paper
is published. The reporter must come to
the point at once; no circumlocution is
necessary; no attempts to gradually lead
the editor up to the subject Out with it, is
the best way of getting his opinions on pub
lie events. He will talk to the point if he
talks at all. He knows the value Of time.
In any event he is friendly, of hand, demo-
cratic, and readily accessible.
AT RACEHORsE SPEED.
James Gordon Bennett talks at racehorse
speed when he is interviewed. When he is
willing to talk he is courteous, and shows
considerable shrewdness in his opinions con-
corning questions of public policy. When
he is dsinclined to talk he simply will not
see the reporter.
Joseph Pulitzer generally refers to the
time when he was reporter. and tells how
hard he used TO work. He is courteous in
his manners and submits to the process of
Interviewing very readily.
George Jones, owner OF the Times is very
reticent and inaccessible He dislikes pub
licity, keeps i'll retirement as much as posi-
BILE, and there are reporters on his own
paper who have never seen him.
Warner Miller, who is likely to be the
republican nominee fot governor of New
York this fall is a hard man to interview.
He is reticent, medtating, seems to be
dreaming while the reporter talks to him
and answers in a non-connnittal manner in
q low voice.
Tom Platt, the shrewd New York leader,
will not talk on important topics to strange
reporters. With those he knows he converses
freely.
Senator Hiscock the Adonis of New
York politics, is very polite and reasonably
communicative
VIM. Walter Phelps talks well and freely
in very friendly way. and if the reporter
is considerable and Intelligent he generally
sends the writer letter of thanks.
Jay Gould will talk freely to a reporter
whom he knows to be intelligent and trust
worthy. The reporter must understand
thoroughly what he wants to know He
will get no help if he does not understand
the subject about which he seeks informa-
ton. After an off-hand conversation the
reporter will, perhaps, if the interview is
an important matter, sit down in the finan-
cier'S library and write it out. 1t is then
suggest erasures or alterations in
the phraseology. He talks freely,
at times almost eloquently, but
has rural habit of dropping the final IS
in partciples Thus he says goin', rnin',
etc. He is surrounded by flowers winter
and summer whether in his home on Fifth
avenue or at his mansion at IrviJg on the
Hudson He walks up and down his library
in mid-winter inhahng the perfumes of
rose perhaps as rare and costly as the flower
in IenObia's hair; his head is bent medita-
lively as he PAGES to and fro and discusses
themes of weigh,ty financial import He ex
presses him elf cOnCiSely in correct Enrlish
OSCAR WILLOUGuBY RIGGS.