St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-14
PENCIL PUSAERS IN DIXIE.
MEETING or THE INTERNATIONAL
LEAGUE or PRESS CLUBS
apTLY OFF BY IL. w. wACK.

The Faber WieIders Find the
southrons the Most HospitabIe
People on Earth-Some Liter.
airy Bright Lights of the South
Land Typical Life of the
Georgian.
Special Correspondence st. Paul Globe.
ATLANTA, Ca, May 4.-rhe heart of
the press lies in the South. The Juaket
of the International League of Press
clubs to Atlanta; the generous hospital
lily and numberiess gratitudes of the
Southern people; the bounteous nature
OF Dixie land; the historic remin-
iscences of the Valley of the Tennessee,
Missionary Ridge. Chickamauga, Look
out mountain; the negro in his nativity
and obedience to the "masSas' of this
sun-kiSsed garden of ease and ancestral
pride have all conspired to strike tune
fully deep into the hearts of the timer
ant journalists.
Nowhere in this great land of ours is
the spirit to wipe out the memory OF
past strife more hearty, more universal
and more Loyalty expressed than i'll the
South.
We have been toasted and feted: our
minds and our hearts have been famed
INTO sentiments of kindness and atfec-
hon for these Georgia hosts. Theirs is
generous hospitality, unstinted in
demonstrate justified in form. and
unknown anywhere else-for il is na-
Of m
our palms impulsively, your eye spirit
eCly and your person gracefully.
The city of Atlanta was especially
dedicated TO the unbounded enjoyment
OF the newspaper men and women a.
tendant upon our convention. The
measure of our enjoyment and heartfelt
appreciation of so much that was good
can never be set to the tune of barren
prose; but with the proverbial use
''the empty Yerbiage SO common among
men''eyery delegate is today expressing
his need of the gratitude which follows
Southern entertainment SO royalty eX-
tended, so rarely relished.
The visiting delegates, numbering
about 200 visitors from all over the
United States. conducted three days
session III Atlanta. The affairs of the
convention were disposed of with
spirit betokening the brightest future.
Measures were introduced and plans
adopted which must rebound TO the
welfare of every press club allied with
the league. Clark Howell, of the At
lanta Constitution. the sinewy motor of
Southern journalism, was elected presl-
dent. Mrs. Louie NJ. Gordon. the most
typical and estimable lady of the state
of Georgia, was elected second vice
president.
ST. Paul's people will recall tall.
stately, sweet-faced woman i'll the con-
yention session held in st. Paul last
year, when the delegates unanimously
responded to this lady's eloquent well
come to the South. Mrs. Gordon is
worshiped in her native realm for
much in the virtues of womanhood
which distinguishes her from ous
multitude. Her greeting at Chattanooga,
her constant attendance upon the visit
Ing newspaper men and women, and her
sweet. womanly graces. ever manifested
to those about her, must give her lille in
the memory of Northern journalism.
There was no one in our ranks who
hal ever participated in Georgia bar
becue. Murat Halstead, Col. Cockrell,
Mrs. Helen Gardener, Mrs. Eliza c.
Conner and other distinguished men
and wo men of our party-to say naught