Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1898-02-12

apparent hostility to every loyal idea
WAS the daily feature of Mr.. Storey's
papers. ana the venom never became
exhausted until the war closed. Mean
time he had been kuockei down ON Il
cruSswalk by one citizen aud shot ut
10y another on the strcet--for reasons
purely political. But il came to me
straight that Nr. storey subsequently
notified Franc Wilkie. the chief edto-
rial stay. that the Chicago Times would
henceforth aud forever support every
movement Of the United States In the
field.
really cannot tell YOU much in re-
gard tn the suppression of the Times
by Gen. 4. T.. burnside. 1, is said
that even his main rivals of the Tri.
bunc felt the gravity of the mistake
made by the man In blue uniform and
s,ar~-the disgrace of using bayonets
to suppress free speech. no matter how
fiery may have been the zeal of n pen
running in the wrong direction. Very
much in evidence is the fact that Judge
David Davis telegraphed to President
Lincoln 10 disavow at once the us,irpa-
;ion of power by Gen. Burnsidc-that
the act could never stand in the Fed
cral courts. The muzzlc was taken Off
the weary and slccpless editor. and he
started of 10 win fresh laurcls. This
incident was the foundation of the
friendship ever pftcrward shown by
the great journalist for the famous
iuriS;. It was worth the head of n
newcomer on the Times to let one
breath of criticism on the Illinois
statesman get into the paper. And 1t
was my privilege tn see the grand old
man convulse his feeble frame and shed
tears over Mr.. Storey's caskct as 1t was
placed in the dark vault. out from the
brilliant sunshine of October.
II Is easy sailing up the stream now
that we reach the question of liberality
and vlgor in the expenditure of money
and intense effort for news. When
Hora'io W. Seymour and myself were
the telegraph editors. in 1876 or so.
recall one heavy charge up the slope
all night against special dispatches on
which the tolls alone were SSSO. The
Times once procured a certificate from
The Western Union Company that for
the year the telegraph bills aggregated
over 100000. You can imagine the
effect on competitors In the newspaper
field.
40 man 4, ,h, r.,,,,d s,,.o. ovor ,.o 4,
so closn IN rho lima M h,nkrun,cv ,o
s,uf ,wo p.wsnonar. into on. II.
ken, nlov,nu tho rom. wltb cold ,lns
nnd gray evns un,i, IN. yorm.r on.rad
with = anil. aud IN. i,,,.r ,w,,r,.d In
tr,umnb Here NJ last w,s a viImnso
of /, n,,iop,, r.nu,,,,o, 81. . m,st.r
An nloin vIew was a million dollars 70,
tho vro.s or f,ne us..s Of humanity ns
he snw a, 70 ,nn,v /, Out NJ rho Latte,
bcon grew great building mans nf,er
thn overs,ra,n.J ,,oJv nnd mind vnvu
way forever: but shall draw the veil
Will. b., uv.d n. r.coyndya,, No mas
tor: On the road with n tenm he took
mo dus,. and rry,m tho national chiefs m
Ho ,wos a dIs,,nct fvpe. like tho Cor
onndo mouu,nins standing out sixt,
miles In tho hlue Pacific. an San Dtcuo
10 ,s, seen ~ nil men ma Nr. store,
,x,s vjs,h,. nj, over. m. West frnm nj,
iourna,,s,,c tbrone
"Whence came this mans couroue
na.ience. eornestnessY. Won may ask
Uc nhsorh,.I none ~ n from ,he world
whom he shut ont with locks. He I'm,
s,hsoIu,elv no compon MONS. His ounli
ties were evolved directly from nj,
inner self. and thev were the fruit nj
Ion. hours of reflection. the harvest O
hIs own mind and muscle. Remember
he was not tlnshIng Custer or n yell
ing Kearney: he was n se,late yo,
Moltke. lacking the spectacles, Tri
u,nph nf,er triumph IN newsMper Int
ties only brought 10 the stafY impera
tive demands for further ylctorIes-no
n leave Of absence to enjoy the lates
conquest.
or Mr.. Storey's sterling sense in tn
M,,Nit,,l field 1 can present no bette
evidence than his Multitude regardinI
the Introduction Of the cOl0red man I,
the bnllot box-Ope Of the grave event
Of lSaa, in the way of recOnstructin
the union. To few men In the Mort
was the proposition more repulslve. q
he had not classed himself among tn
protectors OF the negro. But whe
there came u day OF doom 10 the N
phIefflin'S NET Idea he ntsSltuttNI OIIv