Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-08-14

| Yes, IL would De well 10 SuosldlLe tue
press. 1t would help you and at the
same time IL would net offend the press.
! SubsldiZing the press should be done In
geuteel way OF course, not rudely or
coarsely.
Do not go into the Office while others
are present and in a loud voice seek TO
swap a cigar with one warm, wet end TO
IL for the never dying love OF paper
| that has come 10 stay. You only give
oifense and hurt your cause. Vulgarity
Is Just as offensive TO an editor as IL Is
to n man OF refinement.
Again, do not fancy because you ara
acquainted with the man who writes
the musical column on Sundays that
you can claim the political support OF
the paper. Do not, because you have
been out late with the editor, fool your
self with the idea that he Will let YOU
dictate the course OF the paper. You
might come in on him daring one OF
his lucid intervals and be thrown out.
Editors do not feel bound 10 drop their
work in the morning and play croquet
with the casual outcasts whom they
met the evening before.
Do not go into the editors Office 10
"cheer him up" You would not go into
a merchants Office 10 cheer him up,
would you? Not II he saw you first.
Editors are the only ones who have
twice as much 10 DO as anybody else,
and yet have TO be cheered up by men
who are the life and sunlight OF a
smoking car aud have an hour or two 10
spare, so come in TO "swap lies with the
editor"
The only editor who succeeds In max
ing his Office delightful rendezvous
IL the editor who finds himself az the
close of the second year with "a host
OF friends" large exchange list and
two bundles OF paper at the express Of
fee which he cannot get out When !
ran paper did not refuse 70 see any
body. Most anybody could drop In
casually and have fun with me. Even
when the balliff came In, and / knew
that ought to work, ] said: Come
right in. | never have refused any
body yet, and IL is too late now 10 be-
GIN" So he came in.
The manner In which you mot tho
editor you speak OF was extremely for
tunate. Always meet an editor on the
train il you can, especially iflyou wish
TO subsidize him. His wife's III health
villa also be good thing, not 80 much
for her, but for yourself
You are no doubt getting good prop
erty IL you buy the paper. DO not
count TOO much, however, on the good
will OF paper. When ] closed out az
what was called by the foreign clothier
who closed me out "a great saco6ze,' l
did not get 20 much for the good will
OF the paper as / did for tho navy re-
volver which had used In securing the
good will.
You need an organ IN you contemplate
coming before the people as q candi-
date, and would say that you should
lose no time In closing the trade. Un-
less he has basely deceived you re-
garding the bucket and the potash, you
will do well 70 close with him at once.
The beauty Of having an organ while
you are candidate Is that while you
can say the most fulsome things about
yourself no one will ever suspect that
you have any interest in the paper. No
one ever does. With paper, Nr.
Smith, you will be surprised 20 notice
how the public will be as clay I'm your
hands. Guard with Jealous care the
good will OF the paper. ] used 70 pat
the good will Of my paper on top OF the
dictionary. and then put the dictionary
in my chair 70 make IL high enough 20
At the desk. When the Office was after
ward shot into by the admirers Of the
paper, the good will and the dictionary
alone escaped mutilation.
You will excuse me, Mr.. Smith. II In
closing / wish you well, and also eR-
press my amazement that green poli~
tician should punctuate 80 well and
write such good COPY for the printer as
you do.
Can IT be that you are, after all, .
! journalist?