The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-03-15
HE is
To our virtues very kind
And to our faults little blind.

llC is
To our virtues very kind
And To our faults u little blind.
1--WE are all more or less, gen.
orally more, his handiwork; and
it does not become the creature
injure the business of his crea-
tor. Without his ingenious, gen.
erous, and enthusiastic labors
most of us would never have
been here; and when he tires of
us, we will retire to private life,
amid rural scenes propitious for
secret meditation and silent
prayer. Laughter Working
night and day during the cam
paign, often without money and
without price, when the election
is over and the victory is won
and the loaves and fishes, now
vulgarly called pie" are to be
distributed, by some strange
lapse of human memory, he is
generally forgotten.
Horace Greeley was certainly
one of the greatest editors the
world ever saw. His letter to
William H. Seward in 1854, an
nouncing "the dissolution of the
political firm of Seward, Weed
and Greeley, by the withdrawal
of the junior partner" is one of
the funniest, most caustic, and
most pathetic epistles in Ameri-
can literature.
Horace wrathful statement,
part of which | quote, would
easily fit many another rural ed
itor. After stating that in 1887
Weed and other friends of Sew
ard asked him to run a campaign
weekly paper, he continues
"They asked me to fix my salary for the year.
named 81 900, which they agreed to; and did
the work required to the best OF my ability. II
was work that made no figure and created no
sensation, but loved tt-and / did 1t well.
ernor, dispensing ofaces worth 5000 to 10000
per year to your friends and compatriots, and
returned to my garnet and my crust and my
desperate battle with pecunisry obligations"
81 commend that entire letter
to politicians and editors. 1t
makes what Horace Greeley him
self would have called mighty
interesting reading" in the light
of Greeley's revenge by aiding
to defeat Seward for the Presi-
dency at Chicago six years later.
1.-THE junior partner" evened up
the score on that occasion. Ire
fuse utterly to become particeps
criminis in robbing the country
editor of any privilege he now
enjoys. / would rather confer
new ones upon him. He is as
faithful to the people as the
needle to the pole.
Il can never forget-how can
any man on this side of the
Chamber forget so long as mem
DRY holds its sway, so long as
gratitude finds Judgment in the
human heart ?-that in the mem
orable camuaign of 1885,. when
the vast majority of the great
Democratic metropolitan dailies
not all of them, mark you, but
the vast majority-basely desert
ed their colors and went bag and
baggage, horse, foot, and dra-
goons, into the camp of the enc
my, the country weeklies, with
rare exceptions, stood by the
cause of Bryan, Democracy, and
humanity with mistaken fidelity.
superb courage, and heroic self
abregation, thereby indicating
the patriotism, wisdom, and in,
dependence of the American
press. Loud applause on the
Democratic side.
Upon the same country ed
itor we must depend for honest.
fearless, patriotic press service
in the campaign now pending, as
well as in that of 1900; and sure
ly upon the Democratic side of
the House we would be acting
with unparalleled and unpardona-
bic folly to deprive him of any
OF his prerogatives. The Loud
bill might not inappropriately or
unjustly be entitled IAN act to
diminish the supply of anti-Re-
publican campaign literature.
lRenewed applause.
"Then it would be true to
name. Republicans, with nine
tenths OF the metropolitan press
at their back and in their service
may find excuse for supporting
to squelch the country
weeklies, but certainly Demo.
Gratis, Popuiists, Free Silver Re.
publicans, the true friends of the
people, can not afford to do SO.
unless they have made up their
minds once and for all to commit
political suicide in the face of
5he country"
18th Annual Confaranoa ofTo+