The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-01-26

printing properties in their respective
cities.
When we minglc 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 a 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 rcportersin the same
town. Occasional visitors TO Washing
ton. and men who while here are sought
out by the most powerful cabinet minis
bcrs and senator's, are Editors Mcdill 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-
ssIlted and courted by men Of both par
ties.
There are many journalists and print
crs in congress. Some are one, some the
oSher. and not few both together, for
there is and probably always will be a
strong link between the trade and the
raofession. Senator Hawley, Of Connec-
ticut. has been an editor for a quarter Of
n century. Senator Hearst likes news
papers 80 well that he has bought one
for his son in San Francisco. Senator
Teller owns a good newspaper in Colo
RADIO. and Senator Joe Brown, Of GcOr-
cia. edited a country newspaper when
he was a young man. Senator Plumb.
who has been almost everything in bis
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
pletion Of the Washington monument,
was a country school teacher before he
was a country editor. Fifty years ago
Mr.. Dawes was presiding genius of The
Greenfield Gazette and The Adams Tran
script.
Senator Pierce left journalism but a
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 a print shop to /
20 into politics, while Shively and /
Cheadle. Of Indiana, are still in the edi- |
torial harness. ODonnell. Of Michigan I
is editor Of one Of the best papers in his /
state. Farquhar, of New York, has been /
a printer for quarter Of a century, and /
10 this day prefers an afternoon in tho
government printing Office to a 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-iust such .
pot as he used TO dip in while editing
paper at Middletown. Laws, Of Nebras
ka, was one Of the pioneer editors Of hi /
state. Amos Cummings is a newspaper T.
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 foi
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 occupation pub
Usher, lumberman and farmer, and by
profession an editor" Delegate Game.
of Utah, founded The Salt Lake Herald,
the organ of the Mormons, while Posey
Green Lester, Of Virginia, is one of the
editors Of lions Landmark.
From what | know of the ability and
loyalty Of journalist statesmen, am will
ing to risk my reputation on the asser
lion 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.
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