The morning call., 1892-05-25
THE CoNvENTION.
Address Of Welcome by Colonel FiIcher
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Address Of Welcome by Colonel FHcher
Of PIacer-Address on Journalism.
The lower floor Of Metropolitan Temple
glowed with life and color last evening.
Nearly every seat was occupied The Ma
tional Editorial convention was in its first
session. The decorations were simple and
fragrant. A border made up Of roses re-
Ginning on ferns adorned the platform front.
The big organ was festOOned with foliage
and flowers and the iampstandS were also
Wrcathed in roses.
WELCOMED N PROSE AND POETRY.
President Cappeiler OF the Mansfield
Ohio Daily News introduced Colonel j..
A. Filcber Of the Placer Herald, who de-.
liyered an address Of welcome in which he
spoke of the gloTies Of California, and told
the editors bow much they were yet to see
in the Sacramento Valley and iG the Sierra
Nevadas, where the miners would prepare
many attractions for their instruction and
entertainment. He promised them miners
breakfast and an exhibition Of the various
forms of mining.
In conclusion Colonel Filcher read a
pretty poem OF welcome by Colonel John
c. PeltOn. The same poet composed a
poem of welcome TO President Harrison
when he visited this city. President David
5. Jordan Of the Stanford University wrote
2 letter stating that j. c. Pelton was the
first person who established a school in San
Francisco after the discovery Of gold and
for many years had been prominent among
the teachers Of this State.
PRESIDENT CAPELLER's RESPONSE.
Colonel Capeller responded In eloquent
and graceful words. He stated that bis
associates had been received with kindness
10y everybody and everywhere. Since they
had come into California they had had had
offered TO them eight meals every 81 hours.
Good fellowship. Colonel Cappeller thought,
consisted In good eating, and the American
people were coed fellows because they were
the test-fed people Oh earth. The editorial
excursions led to broader and more correct
views among the writer's He paid q high
tribute to the editorial profession. Like
the Queen OF Sheba they would, on their Ie-
turn home, say Of California that ''the half
had not been told"
The President, after concluding his adj
dress, announced the standing committees.
ADDRESS ON JOURNALISM.
Colonel +. II. Stevens, ex-presldent of the
association. delivered an address on Jour
nalisI0," in which he recited the history Of
journalism from the time of Moses, the first
public writer, down to the present day
Mr.. Stevens stated that the first editor Of
an American newspaper succeeded in pub
fishing his sheet only one daY, as in the first
issue be published list of all the liars in
bis town, which audaeious piece Of enter
prise resulted in the suppression Of his
paper Colonel Stevens then traced the de-
velOpmenr Of the newspaper business in the
United States from its smallest beginnipgs
Colonel Lammen. on behalf of the San
Francisco Typographical Union and San
Francisco TypOthet8. invited the delegates
20 attend the reception to George w. Childs
at Bnai Birth Hall. on Eddy street, at 2
O'Clock this afternoon.
SYMPATHY WITH PRIVATE WELLS.
Colonel Kennedy, the secretary, called
the attention of the convention to the sad