St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-17
AMONG THE EDITORS.


the state than any other class of citi-
Zens, and they have done this by their
own hard work, and generally with in
adequate pecuniary compensation. Rail-
roads are great agency in building upa
state, but they are built by foreign cap
itai and, while our own citizens are ell
titled to praise for enlisting this capital,
the men who secure their construc-
ton do not personally undergo the
vIcssitudes of those who labor
i'm the local vineyard. Without
the newspapers to advertise the advan-
tages of the state, the population to
make the business for the railroads
would be minus quantity. How much
the state owes TO its newspapers cannot
be computed in dollars and cents, and it
is doubtful whether it will ever be ade-
quately appreciated.
Among the many excellent papers in
Southern Minnesota none Outrank the
Freedom County Standard. edited and
published at Albert Lea by H. q. Day.
Mr.. Day is one of that class of editors
possessed of manly independence,an and
not SO blindly Subservient 10 party that
his thoughts and expressions are cir
cumscribed by the narrow partisan
groove. His success ought to encourage
more to follow his independent exam
pie. He has just passed his tenth mile
stone as editor of the Standard. having
for some years prior 10 that time been an
attorney in Fillmore county. In an
nouncing the event he says that while
lie paid high price for the plant its
value has been more than doubled in
the decade now passed, several thou
sand dollars in value has been added in
machinery and material; the culled sub
scriptiOn list is twice larger; the adyer-
Using and job business has. been put Oh
a cash basis and increased more than
four fold, and generally the paper has
forged to the front among the most
prosperous and progressive in the
state.' Coupled with this, Mr.. Day
makes this pleasant announcement:
This is the first day after coming of
age of Carlyle II. Day, son of the senior
of the Standard, and 1t is meet and due
that his connection with the paper be
formally declared. For several years
he has been a faithful, unSelfish and
capable worker, and has we'll won the
post of associate, in all departments u
the business. VIII ich has now been ac-
corded him."
The GLOBE welcomes the junior Day
to the ranks of the editorial fraternity
of the state, and commends the senior
for such encouraging recognition OF his
son. 1t is policy as just as it is wise,
and the Standard under Its new owner
ship, as well as the public where it cir
culates, will have no occasion to regret
the formation OF the firm of Il. E. Day
& Son.
The Anoka Union, edited and pub
lished by Granville s. Pease. has just
celebrated its twentv-ninth birthday.
Editor Pease enjoys the distinction of
with the possible exception of the Hast
ings Gazette, by Irving Todd being the
oldest editor in the state without change
of name or base or proprietorship in
his paper. Twenty-Five years is pretty
near the average active business life.
time, but though the editor of the Union
is Familiarity known as 'Old PeaSe,' it
is not due to the fact that he is veneer
able either in appearance. action
or conduct of his paper. Nature has
dealt kindly with him. his locks
not even being tinged with gray, and
his step is as elastic as when he joined
the State Editorial association (of which
he was president in 1892 quarter of a
century ago. He justly boasts OF hav-
ing the most completely equipped coun-
try newspaper office in the state, located
in a brick block, of which he is also the
owner. His street Talk" feature is
department which makes his paper
sought for and read far beyond the
ordinary circle of country weekly.
His Independent expression of political
opinion has done his party much good,
as well as himself. Mr.. Pease is ably
assisted by his son, I. G. Pease, who
| largely conducts the local department.
The GLOBE pleads guilty to being
| little tardy in welcoming }. A. Leonard,
| of the Rochester Post. back to the edi-
| torial tripod of Minnesota, and congrat-
| ulating its state editorial brethren as
| we'll. His long absence in India and
| China has given him maturity Of much
value, and an improved physical vigor,
| from which the Post is now proiiting.
| A daily as well as Weekly Post now
| commands his attention. and he so con-
! ducts them as to command attention of
| his audience. While in his pubic career
ne has grown to the distinction of Hon.
| !. A. Leonard, he will always be known
| in the fraternity as doc" Leonard, the
| same as when, years before he went
| abroad, he was chosen president of the
| state association.
1t seems that there is another ten
| year-old. 1t is the st. Peter Herald,
published by Essler IL johnson, and
edited by j. A. Johnson, the present
| president of the State Editorial asSocia-
| ton. Ten years ago Mr. Johnson was
navmaster of a railroad construction
party, but he had the material in him,
and almost by accident graduated from
his railroad position to his present place.
| He has made the Herald one OF the COM
! handing country papers of the state,
| Notwithstanding his proximity to a
| lunatic asylum. As the years roll on
the st. Peter Herald, under the COM
! mand of Essler d Johnson, will continue
to be heard from, and mayhap the edi
tor will launch out into wider field of
usefulness. He has already visited the
! Plaisance, as we'll as dedicated the Min
nesota building.
| Another veteran newspaper worker
| in the state is E. C. Huntington, who
| has just completed his twenty-third
year as editor and proprietor of the
Window Reporter. He was one of the
| very literal pioneer editors of the state,
| locating at Window when there was
scarcely any more to it than name and
! piece of plated prairie. The Reporter
and its editor have been constant and