The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-05-04

the Philadelphia Ledger, and Mr.. Childss check
for 500 was soon ON its way to where it was so
much needed. Mr.. Cummings has requested
me to let it be known that he has standing ar
rangement of this kind with Mr. Childs, so that
if there are any meritorious newspaper men in
this town who are in immediate need of few
dollars they have only to put themselves in
communication with him.
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1t does not yet appear to be quite decided
who was most to blame for that interview with
Grover Cleveland which was printed in the
New York World, and in which Mr. Cleveland
was represented as applying unparliamentary
language to Mr.. Dana. There are several
questions involved, but the one which strikes
me as the most relevant is, "Was Mr.. Cleve-
lands language accurately reported in that
column of matter, the whole of which was
attributed to him ?' The World itself says, "No,n
and it would have been safe to say, mo-" even
without that authoritative assurance. 1t is ad-
mitted that the report of the interview was
written from memory 1t is impossible for
such report, extending to such length, to be
absolutely accurate, and what is not absolutely
accurate is not accurate at all. To say that the
reporter was one who would not misreport
anybody is all bosh. Not being
shorthand writer. he could not help
misreporting the interview when he had
only his own memory TO depend
upon for a whole column of Mr.. CleVeland's
words Who can remember two thousand
words of any conversation and repeat it word
for word without making any mistake? No
body. To assert that report is substantially
accurate is to confess that it is not accurate at
all. And here let me say that there is not a
third-rate newspaper in England that would
have regarded any but an expert shorthand
writer as competent to interview man like
Mr.. Cleveland on such an occasion and take
such statement as Mr.. Cleveland was eX-
pected to make. Therein we see radical diff
ference between the method of newspaper re-
porting in two countries. Taking it for all in
all, the American newspaper is vastly ahead of
the journalism of any other country, but there
are individual features in the English system
which are preferable.
That distinguished humorist, Col. j. Annoy
Knox, of Teas SittiRgS, made descent upon
Washington quite recently Hespent an entire
week in trying to catch train for New York.
Some say that he actually boarded the train
several times and got off again. However, it is
pretty certain that he ultimately caught the
train and reached New York, because friend
of mine has since received by mail package
bearing the New York stamp, and containing
copy of the volume of stories which Knox pub
lished a couple of years ago, entitled "a Devil
of Trip" and on the title-page there is a
manuscript inscription in the Colonel's own
manly handwriting, sin Memory of a Devil of
| a Night.n The distinguished humorist found
fun even in Washington. And "all's we'll that
ends we'll" DAVID LEWsLEY.
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