Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-02-11
EDITORS IN CONGRESS.
Members Of the Newspaper Fraterni :
Who Occupy Seats in the
House.
An N. C. Who Was Reporting the Pr;
ceedings Of the Convention That
Nominated Him.

Nominated Him.
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT.
There are, perhaps, more newspaper
men as members of this Congress than
were ever before members of the same
National Legislative body.
The best type of thorough newspa-
per writer's who have appeared in Con-
gress for great many years is found
in Amos j. Cummings, of the New
York SalYa, and Truman A. Merriman,
local political reporter on the same
paper. There is no position on great
newspaper, from that of type setting to
defending libel suits, which Cummings
has not held. He has set type in every
State in the Union, and after leaving
the cease" he became one of Horace
Greeley's best and most trusted lieu
tenants. From the Tribune he went
to the Sam, where he has presided for
years as the managing editor OF that
great paper.
Mr.. Merriman, at the time of his
nomination as a candidate for Repre-
sentative in the Forty-ninth Congress.
was reporter on the New York SaI7a,
and had been assigned by the city editor
to report the proceedings of the conven-
ton that selected him as the candidate.
There was o division Of opinion as to
who should be placed as the candidate,
which bore evidence of breeding dis
cord, when the name of Mr.. Merriman
was suggested as an acceptable COM
promise candidate. 1t was no sooner
presented to the convention than he was
unanimously nominated, and was elect
ed by majority of 10000 votes. He
made good Representative, and was
returned to this Congress without op-
position.
Mr.. James Phelan, of Memoirs. is
another ll-fedged newspaper writer.
He has always been an editor since his
advent into journalism, but has never
had that training in the business as has
his New York colleague. He was
never reporter.
Mr.. Boutelle, of Maine, is the editor
and proprietor of the Bangor Wing.
one of the largest and most influential
papers in his State.
Ex-Governor Dingley, of the same
State, is also an editor. For the past
thirty years he has presided over the
destinies of the Lewiston Joatr7aa, and
in addition to his duties in Congress he
writes nearly all of the political ed
itorials which appear in that great
family journal.
The youthful and scholarly Jacob
Yost, of Virginia, is one of the bright,
shining lights of journalism of the cid
L dominion. He began his life as a
printer, and for the past five years sat
on the editorial tripod of the stanton
Virgi1aia1o.
Senator Riddleberger, of the same
State, is also a member of the fourth
estate, having guided the editorial pen
of the Shenandoah Democrat.
Edward Scull, of Pennsylvania, is
the editor and proprietor of the Som
erset Herald, and has been IN the edi-
toriaI harness over twenty-five wears.
The fiery Thomas M. Be-; ae, OF
Pittsburg, is another who is II Jdrnal-
list of some prominence in the Il s.ystone
State. He is the political and financial
head of the Pittsburg Press. He is
also the treasurer of the Press News
Association of the United States, a
rival of the Associated Press.
Thomas L. Thompson, of California,
has been engaged in journalism since
1860. He is the editor of the Sonoma
Democrat, and has for years welded
great political influence in his section
of the Golden State.
Senator Hearst, of the same State, is
the proprietor of the San Francisco
Examiner, the leading paper on the
Pacific Slope, though it is edited and
controlled by his young son, who has
in the last two years developed into
an enterprising journalist without an
equal in the Western country.
B. F. Shively, of Indiana, is not the
only member of the editorial profes-
sion from the Hoosier State. He is
not the power behind the throne, but
the throne itself, of the leading Demo.
| cratic paper of the thriving city OF
South Bend.
| Joseph B. Cheadle, of the same
State, is the editor and proprietor OF
| the leading Republican paper IN Gin
ton County.
General Weaver, of Iowa, who in
1850 was the ereenback candidate for
President, is one of the editors of the
Ioua Tribune, printed at Des Moines.
Robert j. Vance, the red-headed
member from Connecticut, is also an
editor, and began life as galley slave
| in printing Oh ce.
Senator Hawley, of the same State,
is also an editor, and as one has ma
tional reputation as being the editorial
power of the Hartford Couro1st.
James ODonnell, of Michigan, has
been an editor since 1865. and is now
editor of the Jackson Daily Citizen.
Mr.. Timothy F. Tarsney, of the same
State, is one of the editors and pro
prietors of the East Saginaw Demo
crGt.
| Judge Mcdonald, of Minnesota.
though a practicing lawyer now, was
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