Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-19

able flourish of trumpets as an editor
that would take care of all the
rest of us in the little melees
that we used to have; but the
performance did not come up to the
high-sounding manifesto, as Colonel
Webster might have said. He broke
down in less than year.
| must tell little joke OF Mr.. Teas
dale for my own glory, which [ have not
forgotten. 1t was during the Franco
Prussian war that the Herald was
rather vociterous on the side Of the
French, | suppose from revolutionary
sympathies and believing that the war
had been provoked and forced upon
Bonaparte by Bismarck. During the
discussion Mr.. Teasdale took especial
pains to make his assaults upon the
Herald's position pretty severe, and not
getting on very well in the debate, per-
haps, he came out one morn
ing and declared that the
editor of tho Herald did not write
the articles appearing in it and the pub
lie ought to be disabused of the idea
that he could write them. This put our
friend in a decidedly bad position. 1t
was confession that he could not
cause he had been announced as very
powerful force in editorial work. lJ so
happened that the articles on the
Franeo-Prussian war were written by
me; not only that, but they were passed
to the foreman of the office without re-
vision, sheet after sheet, as they were
written under great pressure for time.
Foreman Shultz kindly went into the
Herald in the next issue in answer to
Mr.. Teasdale and told him that he
happened to personally know who wrote
the articles and he made statement of
the truth about the matter. The result
was rather damaging upon my good
friend Mr.. Teasdale, and there did not
seem to be any further question about
who wrote the articles, good or bad +,
that were appearing in the Herald on
the Franco-Prussian war.
The next man to appear in the Re-
publica n, which IL will be seen has a
long and che ckered career as to person
mel and ownership OF its life, was Mr..
Waldo Nj. Potter, decidedly next to Mr..
Taylor, one of the best managers of "a
newspaper and one Of the best writer's
that have been in Omaha on any paper.
He was Il trained journalist, he was a
good man and he was as honest as par
zanship of the most extreme sort would
permit him to be. He was the original
editor of the Saratogan. OF Saratoga
49, iic DouE hu a ipii
est in the Republican.
Now came out of the ferment of fac
tion in the republican party in the city
of Omaha and county of Douglas the
Tribune into being as its rival. A very
brilliant man, G.. Il. Thomas by name,
was put in charge of its editorial col
umns. 1 always thought he was more
brilliant than strong and that he
drowned many good thought in his
own yerbosity, as Disraeli said of Glad
stone. But he was attractive and
he made a strong impress
sion among us. ! don't think
he was ever accused of any steadiness
of conviction, but he was graceful,
ornate writer, and the Tribune was a
force in our little community for about
a year, when consolidation was in order,
and the Republican-Tribune was the
hyphenated paper. They soon after
wards changed the name back TO the
Republican, and the paper has held it
ever since, although believe that to-
day the corporation has double name.
Mr.. Thomas disappeared in 1873, and
Mr.. Taife, Mr. Frost and Mr.. Chauncey
Wiltse came that year into control of
the Republican. Mr.. Wiltse, | believe,
had no experience in writing, but he
soon made 1T appear in the Republican, s
columns that he was able to write and
able TO think, and he won consider
able reputation in short time as