The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-24
CHARLES A. DANA OF THE NEW YORK sun.
Ito Generation o Great Editors Most Versatile Of Modern
Writers -Hs Methods Of Work.

years ago II borrowed $f75,0 200 for new ma
, chinery on that mortgage the World made
80 much Of. Amos Cummings told me In
Washington few years back The owns q
few shares In the paper he used to serve al
! nnapaglng editor, composltor. Washington
correspondent. ctc.,) that he hadn't seen a
. penny OF dividends since the Butler bolt
sun Mr.. Dana and few others about the
establishment chow no evidence OF poverty
This Is explained by the (reputed) fact tina,
tho two Danas, Laffan aud Thomas Hitch
cock. have a majority Of the shares and
vote themselves salaries large enough to
eat up most OF the earnings. The elder
Dana is said 10 have drawn $50. 900 year
his son $4,000 year, Mr.. Laffan $4,000
for a good deal more than the morning
Sun is said TO have earned for some years.
but the evening paper has more than made
good the deficit
Evening papers are tho best properties In
New York journalism nowadays, and the
Evening Sun la one OF the best OF them. 1t
costs much less than Its morning name
cake, has bigger circulation and advcr-
| Using patronage. Just 30 the Evening
Post In New York. with circulation OF
only 10000, IL considered one Of the best
properties in town. The Evening World Ia
said to have helped the morning World
! out OF hole yonr or so ago. when under
| stress OF new competition the latter cut
It's price from cents to cent. The Even
| Ing Sun has been the especial creation and
| pet OF Mr.. Laffan. and he has made howl
| ing success Of It, almost without aeeming
| to try.
COSTLY ANIMosITIEs.
have seen men try to compute what Mr..
Dana's pet animosities have cost the Sun
in the way Of circuatlon-which meaie In
come. They have been numerons--thess
little weaknesses OF big man. The way
| he hunted General Grant into the hereafter
| beyond the grave ought to be forgotten, but
| isn't. Twenty years ago everybody knew
the reason for this hatred,lt was some
thing about an appointment that Dana
wanted and thought he had eaf1.ed by his
services In the war. lie has never consld-
cred those eeryices fully requlted by tho
government. ! know man who says he
has seen a letter from Dana to ANDY"
johnson fairly begging 10 pc appointed col
lcotor of the port OF New York. He was not
appointed and he didn't get what he wanted
OF Johnson's successor. Then he begun 10
call himself democrat. though he mover
supported democratic candidate cxcllt
T1idon. All the rest he helped to slaughter,
and was the more effective by reason OF
his democratic mask
IN later years f.. H. Godhn OF tho New
York Evening Poet and Grover Cleveland
have divided the honor OF being the beet
hated OF Mr.. pana's enemies Dr. Park
hurst and the Springfield Republican got
their share OF dlpbblng too. but Cleveland
and Godkln. Dana seemed really 10 hate
with deep and personal hatred. lie has
consistently hated all reform movements
and all forms Of mrgwumpery and seemed
to respect open ana candid devotion to
spoils. Tammany was HIS idol for many q
year. but he dropped Il lik9 a hot potato
In the nutumn Of 1896 when tho silver
question came TO tho front and Instead OF
building monuments to croker and shechan
the Sun has been rounding them day and
night and Sundays as puol!c mnlcfactors.
MASTER or 1NVBCrIVE.
II the editor OF the Sun had never done
anything else ho would be remembered for.
ever as the king Of and master Of tho art OF
calling nafnce. That art may almost be
sadd to have been invented by him Prem
tice and McCollagh were each In his way
past masters OF this sort of work. but really
their Efforts seem tame and Intellectual
compared with Danas. They were wlelders
OF the bludgeon and meat AK. Dana could
use these NeapGns, too but he also knew
the rapier and stiletto apd could smile ana
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SanG III uo va" ha, u,aw,hs WIN nus relentless
frri,o,- ri1Jn,, t '"otns' s'it a'eo IN US per-
bo F.,,,Id so, nn einse sentence
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nst,, ,,brro ,.,,aa, , uune 'uut upIortu-
hoo,, ~, 'nou'"''' p'oWs coulu not have
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,',,u ,nu sp,snee OF lhe stuhed prophet" he
H., s,a, .nu PavhyuerinA'ons covering of
- ~ nun nun Whcle an ESQ mad failed.
roaraa ~ iu'. eyo-WllhesSes that @. G.
,,f,t, "n ~, Snnitou more over that igno-
agsd,,ss s,slo th"h AZ All else said or done
'1 nn p n,th,
,ss,,, aanulst, the least offensive and
ia conann,,., oi men so TAR as notoriety
~. s'n1u' pcSline knokn TO the world
-" -" ,,, avnualhs, ioxl'ke hypccrite, an apostle
y, nsp'an.sy pecaure with few skllnnly
,ia,oa h Wo''S ,ne oditor OF the sun 80 de-
bn, I, lit, LII -. =, was RANK ana cruel Injustice
v,,,na. m+n. ana whole lifetime OF such
~ ,,, as ,ne apostles could not remove
-, 's''on'
VINO MATTHEW MARSHALL is.
The MIR. Hitchcock rcferrca % !. ...
known by tvo circnr,.,., "sA'
o,,,,. :, u"'''"hees' l. lie Is the
-. VI muse famous Matthew Marshall