The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-25

tailed frock coat was a "reminiscences OF
his priestly youth; and his stereotyped
trousers of Shepherds plaid tribute to
his native Scotia.
In general appearance the quartette
widely differed. Mr.. Bennett was
Romanesque, tall, and of DISTINGUISHED
appearance; not at all married by a ten
dency in one of his piercing eyes to stra-
bismus. Mr.. Raymond reminded a tour
list of some proper babitue of the Champs
Elysee of Paris.' Mr.. Weed, although
naturally tall, became stumbling in gait.
He was strongly featured, and his eyes
were peculiarly searching under shaggy
eyebrows. He might have been taken
by stranger as the personihcation of a
trained police detective, ever watching
and wanting to know, you know"
Mr.. Greeley often suggested in his ap-
pearancs a Mohammedan pilgrim fresh
from q mosque. Mr.. Weed had hesitanoy
of spsech-oftun Of great value when he
desired to weigh words-and he was a
combination of Sphinx and Argos. Mr..
Greeley never laid aside the Yankee
drawl of his boy hood, but always spoke
to the point aud often with impolicy.
Mr.. Bennett when excited or interested
would relapse into Scotch accent; and al
though unusually reserved in conversa-
ton was when he talked Us when he
wrote luoidly epigrammatic Mr.. Ray
mond was gifted with melodious voice
and discreet volubility which increased
his oratorical powers when he became q
lieutenant governor, q speaker of the as
sembly and a Congressman.
EDITORIAL METHODS.
Both Mr.. Bennett and Mr.. Raymond
knew how to keep the editorial finger Oh
the popular pulse, and allow his news-
paper columns to beat with it; when and
how to administer news, and to prescribe
its proper quantity and quality; how to
acquire it and to suitably use it; how to
use fertility of suggestion to assistants;
how in the news hopper to volt chaf
from the grain; how to sometimes fuse
news in an appropriate orucible; how to
weigh news in the editorial scales with
discretion while adjudging whether to
employ as it were troy or avoirdupois
weights accordingly as the demands OF
the day selected weight. And, finally.
how to graduate news or comments to
the many men of many minds who COM
posed newspaper readers. Both appreoi
ated that news and events needed to be
assorted like as the proprietor of bazaar
of alertness, and what wisdom was Inn
piled 10 the Latin saw, carpe diem. They
editorially praeticed upon the maxim
"the law favors the yigilant and not
Shoppers" Each possessed journalistic
enthusiasm ana diffused 1t among their
staff. While they believed in division
Of lnbor. each felt the necessity of an i'm
press of the man power.
Mr. Bennett was the greatest editor of
the quartet because-paraphrasing the
line of Edward Dyer, an English poet of
the sixteenth century-"My mind to me
q kingdom is" be felt "My newspaper
is my kingdom" The Herald from the
first day of his founding it and then be-
coming in his own person it's editor, its
staff. its business manager and its sales
man; and from tho very hour when he
published his small sheet in Wall street
basement, until the day of his death;
when his sceptre welded then in an edi-
torial marble palace was passed to his
namesake son, remained as his kingdom
for his exclusive regard. MIR. Benefits
thoughts, aims and purposes were con-
contracted upon that kingdom, while the
other three of the quartet were more OF
less also immersed in political manage
Inent and were using the sword of paI-
tisan organization therein in company
with the mightier pen. When rendered
by President Lincoln the post of for
eign mission in apparent acknowledge
ment of the editorial services that his
pen had rendered during the early dark
days of the civil war, Mr.. Bennett re-.
marked to me: who has greater SCOPE
for diplomacy than the proprietor of
daily American newspaper" Wherefore
he declined tn @ mission.
In his turn Thurlow Weed during half
q century of his eventful participation in
political movements declined many ten
dered offices, various and honorable in
scope. He preferred to be Warwick to
being a crowned political monarch. But
at the inception Of the civil war he &C.
copied along with Roman Catholic
Bishop John Hughes and Protestant
Bishop McIvlaine designation as q rrj-
vate commissioner to the English and
French governments toward avertine
their presumed intention of proclaiming
international belligerency between moth
ern and southern forces.
TREATS AND ECCENTRICITIES.
1t may be observed that Mr.. Weeds
personal magnetism became peculiarly
noticeable by every one brought In con-
tact with him. They all recognized what
We now call the hypnotic eyes that shone
SO oaressingly and the magnetic habitual
touch of his fingers on the arm Of him
who he ooloqulsJly addressed. Chow
could resist him?' said on one ocoas-
ion candidate at political convention
who, withdrew bis name to the conster-
e L.