Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-02
SECOND DAY OF THE BIG PRESS
CONGRESS.
GREAT EDITORS EXPRESS THEIR
VIEWS INTERESTINGLY.
Suggested That Papers Should Run
Democratic and Republican Edi-
tons With Two Stats of Editorial
Writers-Is News Colored Too High
ly?-Other Topics Discussed.

CHICAGO, May 26.-The program OF
the afteI noon 5 session Of the National
Editorial AssoclatlCn was mosc inter
esting. j. NJ. Pahe OF Illinois was
chairman for the day. The opening
address was delivered by Edltor-ln-
Chief John a. Sleicher Of the New
York Mail and Express, wLo discussed
the que stion whether thu ually press
colored its news too highly. He quoted
letters written by Joseph '-edll,
Frank IIatton, James ". Scott VI.
Il. de Dung and other noted news
paper mcn: deprecatlng the color
ing of news ana faVor1ng the
statement OF all facts in an independ-
ent ami unbiased manne-. Ihe
speaker held that as d geuel al rule
news vas not too highly colOred.
Discuss NJ the question or partisan
newspapers he inade the novel Sug-
gestion that eNspapels should print
both Repu b,i:an and democrat til ed
itions. ea,h having d Republican and
Democratic editor who should write
from principle tn S starting idea
was productive Of one Of the INST in
teresting de bates Of the congress. rep
resentative newspaper men and women
favoring or opposing 1t ac> orulnS to
their predilectona.
benjamin. ii. Herbert of the
National Journalist. Chic go. followed
with paper on current Events ana
the Press Relations There o. he
showed how intimate is the connection
between newspapers and the daily
happenings Of the world and how the
public looks to the press for Il correct
account OF the worlds history day by
day. In "a paper entitled IS the Pub
1ication Of d Newspaper Public Trust
or Private enterprises? eX-Got-
ernor William ID. hoard Of Wis
consin discussed the privileges and
duties of the newspaper proprietor
with relation to the public, and held
that thu newspaper partook Of the
nature OF both public trust and priv
ate business and the rights and re
sponsibiliteS of 10th attributes should
be recognized.
.Recklessness in Journalism was
the subje, of q paper by .iohn i. Stol
Of Indiana. Recklessness in d news
paper was as reprehensible as the same
fault in an individual and should be
avoided. he said. The session con
Guided with d discussion Of the severa
papers in which d mum Der Of delegates
participated.
The trade press congress opened IL
hall seven at , o'clock. Trade jour
: ma ism in its various phases was the
subject of the abe papers read TO the
, delegates by able, experience trade
paper men. ]. Frel Waggoner de
livered the opening address, in which
he dwelt on the growing importance
. of the class papers. George w
Hotchkiss Of Illinois, followed
with an exhaustive paper OF
''The Origin, Nature, Growth
and Development OF What
: Known as the Trade Journal" ''Th
, Distinguishing Fea lures OF the Trad
, Journal as Compared with the Genera
Newspaper was this sub ect Of a pape
by David Ii. Mason of Chicago. Mr.
Mason said that as high a quality o
newspaper ability was required t.
: make successful trade journal as wa
| needed in the general newspaper field
: w. c. Edgar of Minnesota discusse'
+ in Well-written paper, The Essen
tial Departments of the Trade Journa
and the Means Employed for the AT
tainment OF the Highest Excellenc
I Therein" Mr.. Edgar reviewed tn
scope of the trade journal, its useful
ness to the particular trade or indus
try it represent I'd and the place
holds among periodical publicatio
p, The Qualifications requisite for tn
Conduct of a Successful Trade jour
nal was the title of a paper by Oar
iel Williams of New York, in whic
J. the necessary Qualities OF the trad
: journalist were catalogued and Sc
Y forth. There was some discussion G
l the various papers