Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-03-12
WATTERSON SPEAKS OF HILL.

and liz Lost.
Louisville Correspondence Now York Tribune.
Henry Watterson is not only one of
the ablest men in Kentucky. lie is one
of the best liked. At one time his life
was unsafe in any southern farmhouse.
Now, everybody swears by him. No
mans words are more widely quoted or
carry greater weight, and his old enc
mics have paid him the homage Of COM
ing around al last TO his ideas
As an editor, Mr. Watterson's armor
is always buckled on. He manages as
well as he writes. His principal aides
have grown up around him, several hav-
ing served him as private secretary.
just now, he writes little himself. AT
other times, he covers half the editorial
page. His articles arc penned with his
own hand and at home, excepting when
stirring Geographic news keeps him in
his sky-parlor at the office. lie reads
no proofs, but has every line that in
wolves the policy of the paper read to
him. Like most old newspaper men, he
rarely goes to bed until 9 or 3 in the
morning. Ills bedroom is destitute of
pictures or ornament. But there is an
inksland in the window, and his
tories, almanacs and encyclopedias are
heaped on bureaus and fables and
chairs. Men who have been the long
est in Mr.. Watterson's service enealf the
best of him. He calls everybody "Mr.n
is firm disciplinarian, but full Of inn.
pulsive Kindness His readygrasp Of a
political situation L nhenomenoI and
his old editors tell many stories Of his
instant solution Of difficulties before
they are fairly revealed. He never
maigns or abuses. and his most active
opponents are his warmest friends.
Mr. Watterson is an enthusiast over
the New South. "Witbin the next Il,
wears we shall see The iron scentre
wrcsted from Pennsylvania and trans
ferred TO Tennessee and Alabama Penn
sylyania Will become h nlnce onlv tor
the manufacture of the bipber GRADES
All the crude material viii come from
the south. We had sPiq IRON Kelley M
Birmingham moi lone before his dc3th
and | introduced him when be smoke n
louisville, He was perfectly ecstatic
about it,
"Will northern settlers encounter
hostility in the southS M n nj
great deal Of Kentucky and Tennessee
Is already Republican Mit1lesborouob
is hoated with English cnnital md II
Northern Alabama If Won sticl, 10 No..
lection. you've rot 'em. There npver
was so little sectionalism in tbe sonth
as at this moment Jhn great division
to be apprchended In ma future X mi
between north md sonth I'M hetwaen
the west and south as AGAINST thc north
and east. on arrarian basis nil as III
Farmers Alliance fornshsdn,ys Tbe
parties organiaed IA thev m to-day
cannot endure far iii timasp
Mr., Watterson talked ~ n,nvintor.
esting thinps from IN davs ,rhan n
was WASHINGTON eorres5andant If the
Philpdelphia pyeSs "a H. latcr ti,mo
when he succeeded tha famons t,oarta
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he recovered liz strength ror 1 M
what ronv 10 conId t,,r,, an,i : w 1it' ~
never f6r,ned anV intin1ato falianish H., -
Not m ava that had watohod H. rr ~,
career was wot wbnn hn diad NM i,%a
legislature nassrd memorial rns@intians
and i was invitad to o. i Er,i,Gf,,s,,
and deliver m aGdross ,,.i,,oh Hi III
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