The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-24
THE KANSAS NEWSPAPER FOLK.

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Harold Chase, the young man who
does the editorial work on the Topeka
Capital, is a nephew of John ingalls,.
Mrs. Moore of Hutchison writes avail
able jokes regularly for Life, Puck and
Judge.
w. F. Craig, the famous paragrapher
of Emporia Republican, is short, dark
little man. He comes from the noun
tain district of East Tennessee. He
neither smokes, drinks nor chews. His
only dissipation is tooth-picks, which are
never out of his mouth, and habit of
yanking at short beard which keeps it
| always scraggy and scant.
Jake Stotler never made but one public
speech in his life. Father Eskridge of
Emporia came out for the legislature
and Jake Stotler came out heading the
opposition, Then Eskridge, Withdrew
and SO did Stotler. Up to within a few
days of the election, neither side had
candidate. Then Eskridge came out
again and so did Stotler A joint debate
was arranged. Eskridge was a good
speaker. Stotler was no orator and he
knew it. He made kick on the debate,
but his side wouldn't hear of it. He
must meet the opposition. He did.
The opposition fired into him, sitting on
a front seat, in the opening speech.
Stotler arose to reply. He was dumb
fuddled. He mumbled out in an indis-
tinct way that he was not speech
maker, and then dropped into
his seat all in a bunch. But suddenly
something occurred to him. He was on
his feet in an instant. And he went for
the other side like spark in fire works
mandatory. He talked for an hour, red
in the face and bowling out his denunci-
ations of the Eskridge faction with all
his might. His effort to overcome his |
diffidence captured the audience and |
they cheered to the echo. 1t was mas
ter piece in oratOry and Jake Stotler
thought he would repose on his reputa-
tion. For he never made another speech. |
Ed Howe believes that the greatest |
of his life was in issuing an
other book so quickly after his first sue
cess. "The Mystery of the Locks" was
a failure and it is said that he would give ,
his all to recall it.
There is a girl in Lawrence, who is
spoken of as Will Whites intended.
A great deal of the philosophy in the
Atchison Globe is written by a young
Frances Garside, bookkeeper
in the office.
The editorial squibs in the Topeka
Journal are written by young man.
He is always bright and never tiresome,
and has the eccentricities of genius.
For instance, he has an aversion to meet
ng public men. He says that he does
rot want to know the people about
whom he writes. For this reason, he is
)nly known personally TO proportionally
ew people. His name is Fred Collier.
Charles Moreau Harger of Abilene
writes regularly over his own name for
olate publishing syndicates.
Park Ward, who ran for congress in
Kansas last fall, writes the Kansas and
[ansans" column in the Kansas City
Zines.
Fred Vandegrift who took Alex Butts
,lace on the Kansas City Star, has an
mbition to run a paper at Topeka. He
'elieves a frey, fearless independent
heet, non-partisan to a great degree,
ould be made permanent state paper.
Tom Norton of whom, when he took |
'tacey's place as Topeka correspondent
T the Kansas City Journal, it was 7
that he would be wanting a
ose for news, has recently signally ,
cooped the other correspondents on two ,
T three different occacions.
Johnny Gilmore Of the Fredonia Citi- c
en- is one of the richest editors in Kan e
ss.
The editorials in the Lawrence Jour
al, the work of Charlie Finch, are ,
uoted largely by papers east OF the 4
lississippi river. h