The Portland daily press., 1890-01-25

New York workers, while the round and
good humored James W. Scott, of Chi
cago, and the gayly bewhiskered, keen
eyed Col. Jones, of st. Louis, were as
marked for their energy and Judgment
as Tor their personal attractions. Tnese
latter two are the men who by sheer
force of newspaper genius have within
few years built up about the finest
printing properties in their respective
cities.
When we mingle with the bright and
the big men of our times, journalists, or
those who were once journalists. are at
our elbows. Census Commissioner Por-
ter was maker of newspapers. Capt.
Meredith, who manages that great work
shop, the bureau of engraving and print
ing, has from boyhood had two hands
stained with honest printers ink. Sec
rotary Blaine and Chief Justice Fuller
started out in life as reporters in the same
town. Occasional visitors to Washing
ton, and men who while here are sought
out by the most powerful cabinet minis
tiers and senators, are Editors Medill and
Nixon, of Chicago; Watterson. of Louis
vile; Halsted, of Cincinnati; Charles
Emory Smith, of Philadelphia; Agnus,
Of Baltimore; Rublee, of Milwaukee;
Rosewater, of Omaha. Mclean, of The
Enquirer, lives in royal style here, con
suited and courted by men of both par.
lies.
There are many journalists and print
ars in congress. Some are one, some the
sther, and not few both together, for
here is and probably always will be a
strong link between the trade and the
profession. Senator Hawley, of Connec-
Etcut, has been an editor for quarter of
a century. Senator Hearst likes news
papers so well that he has bought one
for his son in San Francisco Senator
Teller owns good newspaper in Colo
RADIO, and Senator Joe Brown, of Geor-
gia, edited a country newspaper when
he was a young man. Senator Plumb,
who has been almost everything in his
time-farmer, lawyer, court reporter,
soldier, stockman, miner, millionaire
also added to his accomplishments the
setting of type and writing of editorials.
Senator Dawes, of Massachusetts, to
whom the country owes the establish
ment of the signal service and final COM
pietion of the Washington monument,
was country school teacher before he
was O country editor. Fifty years ago
Mr.. Dawes was presiding genius of The
Greenfield Gazette and The Adams Tran
script. 1872
Senator Pierce left journalism but
few years ago. Gen. Banks, the man
who was speaker third of a century
ago, was an editor before he was a
statesman. Representative Stockbridge,
of Maryland, combines editorial duties
with legislative, daily writing articles
for the paper of which he is one of the
editors, The Baltimore American.
Fithian, of Illinois, left print shop to
go into politics, while Shively and
Cheadle, of Indiana, are still in the edi-
torial harness. O'Donnell. of Michigan,
is editor of one of the best papers in his
state. Farquhar, of New York, has been
printer for quarter of century, and
to this day prefers an afternoon in the
government printing office to good din
ner. Moore, of New Hampshire, is editor
of one of the many handsomely printed
well edited papers of which his state
boasts.
Stivers, of New York, keeps a paste
pot on his desk in the house-just such a
pot as he used to dip in while editing a
paper at Middletown. Laws, of Nebras
ka, was one Of the pioneer editors of his
state. Amos Cummings is q newspaper
writer and worker known the country
over. Hansbrough, of North Dakota, is
the editor OF The Inter Ocean at Devils
Lake Wickham, of Ohio, and De Haven.
of California, were printers years ago.
while Hit, of Illinois, and Darlington.
of Pennsylvania, have earned honest dol
lars making stenographic reports for
newspapers. Joe Scranton, of Scranton
is the editor of The Scranton Daily Re
publican. Scull. of the Keystone state,
has conducted a country paper for near
ly forty years.
McCord, of Wisconsin, is, as he SAYS
in his biography, ''by~oecupatiop a pub
Usher, lumberman and farmer. and BY
profession an editor" Delegate Caine.
of Utah, founded The Salt Lake Herald,
the organ of the Mormons, while Posey
Green Lester, of Virginia, is one of the
editors of Zions Landmark.
From what know of the ability and
loyalty of journalist statesmen, am will
ing to risk my reputation on the asser-
ton that the country would be safe with
an editor in the White House, eight
journalists in the cabinet, and 400 print
ers, reporters and correspondents in the
senate and house.