Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-04-29


editor guilty Of the charge brought against
him, and no honest newspaper could endorse
the act OF the policeman. MFR. Godkin WA
not unduly angry because Of the treatment,
He merely pushed along with trlno more
speed tho circulation OF pamphlet in which
tho sins Of some OF New Works. politicians
were sot forth with pointed truth and remArla-
be energy There were moro thrcats. They
had % well been divided against strong
northwest wind. And 30 tho battle has gone
on. Yet Mr.. 0odkin is a fair general. have
sometimes imagined and It seems that way,
that he is one Of those rare persons who can
deal with man In the abstract, strike balance
OH hand and yot with raru dizziness.
That Mr.. Godlin is iair i do not doubt.
There Is probably no man IN pnblic life whom
Mr. Godkin disllkes an much ~ he docs soma
tor David d. Hill, whom he has always de.
nounced as political gnmcster without con-
science. and with only that deXtenty that In
politics may win just as It wins In the game
Of thlmblo rigging aud the like, Especially
indignant was he whom MIR. illl was elected
to the United Btstos senate, and yet whom
Senator Hin showed IN a very short time that
he was strong enough 10 lend some o. the
leaders In the upper house. when he made
one or two speeches In the Senate that will
not DO soon forgotten, Editor Godkln gave
full credit to the man whom ho does not adj
mire. lie was not small enough To imputc
faso methods TO tho senator from New York
State as some lesser men did.
Mr., dodkin hns shown that he can SEQ the
two Sides Of u question, oycn moro recently
There used TO be- wagcre that he would never
donounee anything done by President Cloyo-
land. whom ho has supported In all his cam
| paigns, but In tho matter Of Hawaii Mr.. God
kin has broken the record, as indeed he has
| done before In such casos as the nomination
10 tho Italian embaasndomhlp. As for the
rest Mr.. Godkin Is a conscientious man try
ing TO do his duty by himself and other mon,
sometimes failing as men will. but really
none the worse for that In tho oyos Of sensible
persons.
The private life Of the editor OF The Nation,
e. Of kind with his worh.a.day existence.
He lives very quietly with his family on West
Tenth street, IN Now York. not far away from
| that mart OF Fifth Avenue that once was fash
ionnble, tho part near Washington Square.
where old New Yorkora such as the Coopers,
tho Howltts and others still live. Tho Uni
yorslty buildings in which many famous
| literary men and artists have lived are noar
| by, and the book publishers have not yet all
moved up town, far from tho historic neigh
borhood. The Aston Library IL but a little
distance away. aud In some rcspecla the
neighborhood has an sir Of staid respoctn'
blllty about II that upper Fifth Avenue haa
not
The 0odkin family Is not much seen In
society. You never eae tho names OF any Of
It's mcmbers IN tho newspapers as having 10
do with the 400 They eau go TO the
theatres without being stared at--as is thcif
wish. and 50 they are comfortable, more COM
Portable than good many persons are
whose pictures are In tho illustrated papers
every day.
Now and tisn Mr.. Godkin contributes an
article 70 SONS OF tho English reviews, but
only when some occasion calls for such ae.
ton. one Of these occasions was when Mr.
Goodwin smith INDUCED In one Of his charac.
torlstlc diatries. aud he probably still TO
members Mr. Godkin's treatment Of hun
This was but ono OCCASION
ghers hayo boon others, and there Is q
demand Tor anything Mr.. Godkin chooses &c
write. But he Is like Charles A. Dana IN one
respect NJ least He likes 10 do his best worl
Tor bis uwn paper-und does II.
on the whole, aside from being man Of
brains, Mr.. godkin Is man who Is In
terostine IN many other ways. Indeed, no "A
typo Of man such a. you do not meet every
FosTER coATEs.