Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-30
HaIstead Should Emigrate.

Field Marsha Murat Halstead should
emigrate from Ohio, and not stand on
the order of his going, but go at once.
He has made heroic battle, as he al
ways does, but perverse city, per-
verse State and perverse party knock
him out every time.
When HaIstead was most uDjustIy
rejected by a Senate of his own party
for the German Mission, he had every
thing on bis side to vindicate himself.
He has consummate ability, a great
newspaper and good party standing,
and all he had to do was to practice a
little patience. A short time would
have enabled him to make all things
even with bis cowardly enemies and
he could have made himself much
greater than Minister or Senator.
In an evil hour, however, Halstead
decided to vindicate himself by elect
ing himself to the senate and thus meet
bis foes face to face. That ill-advised
step dwarfed the great editor to the
dependent placeman, and from that
day his battle was an unequal one and
his great newspaper enfeebled by the
pitiable exactions Of personal ambition.
His campaign that he had made his
own was simply succession of pictur-
esque blunders and grotesque apologies
acts of his life.
The logical result was that Halstead
lost his Legislative ticket in his own
city, lost his State, and lost the sympa-
thy of his party. He delivered the
ablest protests against the nomination
of Brice for Senator by the Democrats,
and they nominated Brice by an over
whelmng vote. He also ably and per-
sistentlv protested against the nomina-
ton of Foster by the Republicans, and
thev nominated Foster on first ballot
by SO to 4. In short, the perverse party
in Ohio seems to have studied what
Halstead didn't want and then gave
him plenty of it..
Halstead is one of the most brilliant
editors of the country and might be
named as the ablest representative of
the profession without injustice to any,
and his newspaper ranks among the
few of national fame and influence.
He is an earnest, aggressive partisan;
not always as wise as Jealous, butever
manly, honest and heroic, and he is
the one editor of all who couldn't be-
come a place seeker without being
shorn of bis locks and made powerful
only 90 pull down the pillars of his
party temple. AS editor of the Cincin-
natl Commercial Gazette he lost moth
ing I'D pTestlpe oT power W d SlbufcbiFo
blow from his party Senate, but as a
candidate for United States Senator to
force a personal vindiration, he was
like the ambitious bull caught on the
fence he attempted to scale, and could
neither hook in front nor kick behind.
The time has passed when the edittr
of great newspaper can be the de-
pendent of politicians as suppliant
for party favors; and the editor who
needs vindication and can't attain it
without leaving his chair to hunt for
the questionable honors of public Office,
can't attain it at all. The editor must
be vIsibly, aggressively independent,
and the independent editor is seldom
wanted as "A party candidate. The fact
that Halstead has lacked in what il
called political popularity is the highest
tribute that could be paid him as n
fearless editor, and had be only been
true to bimself and his calling, tie would
have needed no vindication. AS it is,
he must either clear his desk and re-
sumo the commanding position of the
heroic editor or he should emigrate.
Ohio is ho place for Halstead when
Halstead has ceased to be Halstead.---
Philadelphia Times.