Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-06-26
THE HIRED sCR1BBLEK.

testabIe characters in the world
there are none more despisable than
the hireling scribbler. This term is
applicable both to editors and repor-
tiers. If person is hired to split
rails or to chop cordwood, if the
wood is not cut long enough OF the
rails are not split thin enough or
are too thick the person employing
the labor has a right to give direc-
tons. But in the newspaper bust
ness an editor should not offer his
opinions for sale or prostitute his
talents by writing against his hon
est convictions. Nor should news
paper reporter find it necessary to
lie, burlesque and make a great trav-
esty on the real facts in order to
suit the politics of the paper on
which he is employed or to serve a
purpose. On properly conducted
paper the managing editor is expec-
ted to see that the editorial and
reportorial comments, facts and
statements dovetaii one another.
But it seems to be the custom
among a great many Texas papers
to allow reporters and news cores
pondents the widest range and lib
erty in coloring facts and expressing
opinions to suit themselves. The
foregoing remarks are called forth
by report of Gen. Hogg's speech
in Waco last Saturday evening,
which appeared in the Day. From
the best information attainable the
reception rendered him was in the
nature of an ovation. He began
speaking in the courthouse, but the
crowd was so great that he had to
go out into the open air. The Days
local report of the speech was an at
tempted burlesque all the way
through. Speaking of the adjourn
ment to the square. the report says:
while Hogs was in the midst of an
arid period in which freight bill o.
1927 figured and an oxcart arose,
like a mirage in all, someone told
him that a thousand people were on
the outside waiting to hear him. He
Immediately cut off, adjourned and
opened up again on the public
square where about 100 colored men
listened with polite patience to his
diatribes against railways and when
he closed dozen henchmen gath
cred about him, pressed him to their
reeking bosoms and Mr.. Hogg
gazed around in a dazed sort of way.
He had no idea what he had been
saying and there was no one present
who did" How did the hired man
on the Day learn that nobody knew
what he had been saying? But lis
ten to what the Day editorially in
the same issue in which the speech
is reported has to say: Ellis ad-
herents here gave him a most cor
dial reception and the community
accorded him the courtesy
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citizen occupying high and aspiring
to higher official station. Socially
he made the most favorable impress
sion upon those he met. Politically
lie pleased those who believe with
him on the railroad question. Time
will be required to show the effect
of his speech on the public mind.
The Day finds a great many here
who are supporters of Gen. Hogg
who oppose a commission. The
same state of Affairs exists in other
counties, hence the Days assertion
which time will prove, that Hogg is
stronger than the commission.
Which are We to believe, that he
spoke to a crowd of negroes and
that of that crowd only a 'dozen
henchmen" took him to their Greek
ing bosoms' and paid homage; or
that he was treated with dis
courtesy and made the
most favorable impression socially ?