Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-31

"Oh," said Mr. Dana. Well, send in any one of them you ike
 There never was a newspaper staff made up wholly of men whose opinions were in absolute accord with its polit- ical course, and there never was man whose views differed more radically l from those of his editor-in-chief than John Swinton, for so many years Mir. Dana's best man. Swinton, more than any other member of the staff, was able to write almost exactly as MT. Dana would have written upon any and all topics This was especially true with regard to economic subjects and trade union matters, although these were the questions upon which the two men were most at odds. Apropos of this, it is related that on one occasion, after Swinton had addressed a labor meeting early in the evening, he went directly and bitterly combating the views put forward in his speech.
 When he was asked why he had done this, Mir. Swinton said:
 That is what Mir. Dana would have said, and when 1 am in this office 1 am his man. It is not John Swinton who is writing when 1 sit down to pen a Sun editorial, it is Charles A. Dana"
 It was some time after this that Swinton left the Sun to start "John Swinton's paper" Dana tried to pre- vent him from going. alike out of re gard to Swinton and for the Sun, for the chief editor thought very highly of his assistant both personally and pro fessionally. But Swinton would not be restrained. John Swinton's paper" was failure, as Dana had said it would be, but Swinton's Scotch blood was reused and he continued publication un- till all the money he had saved from the liberal salary the Sun had for so many years paid him was gone. Then Dana sent for his old friend and subordinate and told him he must again take place in the Sun office and again have his name on the Suns pay roll.
 But before you begin work" said the chief, "you must go back to Scot land, where your boyhood was spent, and stay till you have regained your strength" For Swinton was badly broken in health as we'll as finances. ''Then, when you are well again, you shall come back"
 Few of Swinton's acquaintances ex- pected ever to see him in anything like good health again. and probably MT. Dana least of all; but the air of his na- tive heath and the knowledge that he would not be again obliged to worry about money matters were wonderful restoratives to John, and in time he re- turned almost as vigorous as of yore, and quite as gruff and ruddy. He is just as ready as ever to say cynical things, but he never speaks i'll of MT. Dana, and he never fails to rend and tear, with his most vitriolic English, anyone who has a word to say in criti- cism of his late friend and chief.
 schurz and PuIitzer.
 The reappearance in public of Carl Schurz in advocacy of Seth Lows elee- tion is a surprise to those who believed some years ago that he had retired.
 Not many persons know it, but Mr. Schurz once gave Joseph Pulitzer big boost. at the beginning of his jour- Ealistic career. MT. Schurz was at that time editor of a German paper in St. Louis-the Westliche Post. It was a prosperous journal then as now. One day Sehurz had occasion to visit an agency. Pulitzer, then young man, had earned a little money by working with his hands, and had gone to the agency hoping that he might hear of some way in which he might better his position. Schurz wanted some information not possessed by any regular attache of the agency. Pulitzer, however, knew just what Schurz wanted to find out, and he an swered the journalists questions with a degree of accuracy and clearness that was delightful.
 Schurz at once asked the young man for his name. which was readily given. A long conversation followed and at it's close Schurz invited Pulitzer to call at the Westliche Post office, where pos sibly some kind of journalistic work might be found for him. Two or three hours later. when MT. Schurz walked into his office, he was surprised to see the young Magyar there ahead of him.
 You believe in being prompt l see"
 'Yes," said Pulitzer, q do. know of no other way to begin a new line of life so satisfactorily as to be always on hand, and 1 am now all ready for anything you may have in mind for me-"
 sehurz had not thought of putting the young man to work at once, but this last remark seemed so shrewd and sensible that before the day was over Pulitzer had begun life in earnest as journalist oSRORN SpRNCEP