The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-04
JEFFERSON BRICK.
The Famous Editor of the New York
Rowdy ut Length Outciassed.

The Famous Editor of the New York
Rowdy Mt Length outciassed.
From the Washington Post.
When Charles Dickens, so years ago.
pictured Jefferson Brick, editor of the
New York Daily Rowdy. asking Mar
tin ChuZzlewit, in a husky whisper,
whether 1t would be safe for him to go
to London in view of the Rowdy's at
tacks on the corrupt and effete insti-
tutions of monarchy, he was repu-
dated by critics in this country as a
maker of extrayagant burlesques. We
do not know just how apt the sarcasm
was at that time. We do not remem-
Der. But we are very sure that, If
Charles Dickens We're alive to-day, the
situation would beggar even his CO.
lossal powers of ridicule. Jefferson
Brick would seem a mere idiotic driv-
eer compared with the editors and
correspondents who are now loading
the unhappy air with their foolish
| squeak and gibber.
Premier Sagasta denies the Daily
Jabberwock's exposure of mines in
Havana harbor, but what has he to
say about the Jabberwocks map,
showing exactly where those mines are
| placed? Let Sagasta gaze upon that
map and hide his miserable head!'
| There is no longer the shadow of
doubt that the Maine was destroyed
| by Spanish treachery. The Jabber-
| wocks correspondent has seen wo-
man who gets the information directly
| from a high official" Then comes the
Daily Whangdoodle: General Miles
| declares that our coasts are INSULT
GENTLY protected, but the Whangdoo-
/ dies STAFF commissioners have investi-
/ gated and now expose Miles lgnor-
| ance." washington is alive with en-
! thusiasm over the Whangdoodles sug-
| gestion that Cuba be Immediately set
free by way of Furnishing Spain for her
deceit and cruelty. All classes unite
| in thanking the Whangdoodle for it's
noble and fearless stand The pres
| ident and cabinet, to say nothing of
congress, fight and scramble for cop
| les of the Daily Whangdoodle, that be-
| ing the governments only source OF
reliable, scientific and thoughtful in
| formation from Havana. Several hum
dred of the Whangdoodle's neWsboys
were Frustrated yesterday as a result
of the rush. THE Daily Too-H has
been asked by a high official of the adj
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. identity cannot be
torn from US by wild horSeS-Whether
we think the time is ripe for war. We
answer, with all the solemn and pray
| erfu emphasis of truly conservative
soul: Yes! We have thus far yielded
to the eloquent entreaties OF the Prince
of Wales, HanotauX, Emperor William
| and others, and have found ourselves
embarrassed by the natural obligations
of a lifelong friendship and close init
macy with Christina, the queen regent
of Spain, but personal attachments
must give way to patriotic responsibil-
ity. We can keep silent no longer. Oul
alert and always accurate Key West
correspondent has just interviewed 8
Cuban cigarmaker who knows mar
who saw with his own eyes a dark OBJ
ject creeping up to the Names bow
five minutes before the explosion. W.
can keep silent no longer" THE pres
ident and the secretary of the navy
both sent for me to-day" writes th'
Washington correspondent of thu
Daily Yawp, Ito express their graft
tude for the maps published in tn
I great newspaper l am proud to repre-
sent From that source they obtained
their first reliable impressions of tn
wreck and the ground plan of Havan
harbor. The pictures, also, showing
beyond question that the explosion wa
from external causes. have remove
from their minds the last lingerin
doubt So long as he can depend upo
getting the Daily Yawp regularly h
feels that he cannot go astray
And so on, and so on. Where woul
jefferson Brick be and how would h
, figure in this symposium of modesty
His spirit has gone marching on, eve
since he asked Martin Chuzzlewi
whether his life would be spared if b
were caught in London, but the Jeffel
son Brick of to-day is, compared wit
| the jefferson Brick of half centur
l ago, as a mountain to wart, as
plesiosaurus to flea, as load of gal
bage to a rotten oyster. Poor Bricl
If he could rise again and read til
t Jabberwock, the Whangdoodle, til
!. Too-Hoo and the Yawp, he Woul
D swoon with baffied envy.