Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-30
MARGARET SULLIVAN.
Facts About the Leading Woman Journalist of
America.

Facts About the Leading Woman Journalist Of
America
When the prince visited the TrOcadeT q
few days ago, wonder if he remarked q
calm faced, kind-eyed, nunhke figure,
absorbing everything that passed under
keen grey eyes, writes q Paris correspon-
dent Did the air to the
British crown know he was al
most GLOWING one of the most poten-
tial factors in the drama that must alter
uately HbeTate Ireland from misTule and
perhaps pTecipitate that republican form
OF government in the island kingdom
which the Jolly prince was said years ago
to have acknowledged inevitable. The
occasion I refer 10 has excited immense
interest in Paris, where she is acting as
the agent of the American ASsO-
ciated Press, She got the billet in
manner that WOuld have disturbed equa-
nimity of most men. The manager of
the Associated Press, William Henry
smith, knowing the need of a person Of
education and experience, suggested
three names to his employers, the direc-
tors of the Associated Press.
When the votes came in Margaret f.
Sullivan 5 name led all the rest Mrs.
Sullivan at once accepted the diff
cult post and set out just before
the opening Of the exposition with
carte blanche rs to expenses and assis-
tants The felicityof the choice was at
once shown in the admirable studies of
fthe event and its meaning cabled by this
remarkable woman. These cabled letters
are UNANIMOUSLY clear, yet almost ex-
haustively critical of the vast aceumula-
tons brought together in this stupendOus
bazaar of the world 5 activities. l see
that in spite Of the cruel predIcament of
her husband Mrs. sullivan holds her post.
This, if there were not stronger rea-
sons, would convince me of the baseless-
ness of the accusation agginst sullivan
for if the wiie had the slightest cause to
suspect her husband > guilt She would
have been in this country just as swiftly
as steam power could carry her after she
heard of his alleged inoulpatiOn Though
the most womanly of women in all the
things that are lovely in women, Margaret
Sullivan is & man III resolution, courage,
insight, mental force and faculty. Her
history, when written will amaze Amer
leans Her work, since she accepted a
modest editorial place on the Chicago
Post in 1863, has been more diversified,
brilliant and result-pTOduclng than that
of any man or score of men, on the Chi
cage press,
She was the only one equal to the for
midable ordeal confronting Wilbur T.
story, upon whom her genius gained nb-
solute ascendancy. He gave her
pen unchecked scope on the
Times during its great days Of
8r0speTity Margaret Sullivan wrote
all or most Of that terrific series of ex-
coratious that relaxed the rings from
their apparent death grip on the Chicago
treasury. I doubt if there is Il woman
living that can compare III mind, gifts,
faculty with Margaret Sullivan, and l
know none with a mind so capable of
phlosophic Interpretation since Nine.
De StaeI and George Eliot. l daEe
say this will seem excessive, perhaps
the gush of personal partiality,
II IS not. l haven't met the lady
Il dozen times I know her mainly
through her work and l am writing now
of her solely in the interest of her
compatriots, the women OF America, who
do not, am convinced, know the mag
nificent creature that tolls her way so
modestIy in art politics. letters. I pelft
to the cable letters as eFidenceS of alIIh2e
/ assert about Mrs,rSulliyan.