The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-03-16

politics, pillar of the church, leader
in the crusade for better morals. He is
pre-eminently the friend of humanity.
Line upon line, paragraph upon para
graph, day by day, he is embalming in
cold type the facts from which the He
rodotus, the Tacitus, the Sismondi, or
the Maeaulay of the future will write
the history Of our times. (Applause)
He joyously announces our advent into
this world, briefly records our uprisings
and our downsittings, and sorrowfully
chronicles our exit from this vale Of
tears.
AS creator of beauty, he double dis
counts Nine. Aver, who undertakes to
increase feminine pulchritude only in
particular instances; but the country
editor, in the exercise of plenary pow
er, impartially beauties all women
whose names appear in his columns.
daughter and applause.) By a touch
of his magician's wand he converts paste
into diamonds sparkling on beauty's
AcCA, anu Will d ohlll VI WulCu duClSnC
and ambitious alchenists only dreamed,
and with politeness which Chesterfield
might have envied, he transmutes brass
trinkets into jewelry OF purest gold
when they appear upon the breasts OF
the family Of his subscriber. Uaughter.)
He is the greatest and most ingenious
of manufacturers, for, while other
manufacturers produce only perishable
stuffs, he manufactures immortal states
men out of raw. sometimes very raw,
material. Uaughter.) In this laudable
industry no Dingley bill can protect him,
and he must work in competition with
the pauper manufacturers of Europe
(Laughter.)
He is
To our virtues very kind
And to our faults little blind.
We are all more or less. generally
more, his handiwork; and it does not
become the creature to injure the busi-
ness of his creator Without his in
genious, generous, 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. Uaughter.) Working
night and day during the campaign,
often without money and without price,
when the election is over and the vic
nd ho Ecbo
vulgarly called pie" are to be distrib-
uted, by some strange lapse of the
human memory he is generally forgot
ten.
Horace Greeley was certainly one Of
the greatest editors the world ever saw
His letter to William H. Seward in 1854,
announcing "the dissolution of the po-
litical firm of Seward, Weed, and Gree
ley, by the withdrawal of the junior
partner" is one of the funniest, most
caustic, and most pathetic epistles in
American literature.
Horace's wrathful statement, part Of
which l quote, would easily fit many
another rural editor After stating
that in 1887 Weed and other friends of
Seward asked him to run a campaign
weekly paper, he continues:
They asked me to fix my salary for
the year. l named $1,000, which they
agreed to; and 1 did the work required
to the best of my ability. 1t was work
that made no figure
See how closely it fits the country
editor
1t was work that made no figure and
AS the country editor loves it
and I did 1t we'll. When it was done,
you (Mr. Seward) were governor, and
dispensing Offices worth $4,000 to $40, 900
per year to your friends and compatri-
OTIS, and returned to my garret and my
crust and my desperate battle with
pecuniary obligations.
I commend that entire letter to poll
ticians and to editors. 1t makes what
Horace Greeley himself would have
called mighty interesting reading" in
the light of Greeley's revenge by aiding
to defeat Seward for the presidency at
Chicago six years later THE junior
partner" evened up the score on that
occasion. l refuse utterly to become
particeps criminis in robbing the coun-
try editor of any privilege he now en-
joys. I would rather confer new ones
upon him. He is as faithful to the peo-
pie as the needle to the pole.
I can never forget-how can any man
on this side of the chamber forget so
long as memory holds it's sway, so long
as gratitude finds a lodgment in the
human heart?-that in the memorable
campaign of 1896. when the vast ma
jority of the great Democratic metro
politan dailies-not all of them, mark
you, but the vast majority-basely de-
serted their colors and went bag and
baggage, horse, foot, and dragons, into
the camp of the enemy, the country