The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-27

] editorial page. He dictates what he
has to say to a stenographer, and
never keeps him long. Such time as he
has to spare he puts in making himself
familiar with the doings of the day as
/ they pass in review at the news edi-
tors desks, keeping a daily comprehen-
sive grasp of the workings of the whole
establishment. Mr.. Dana has in high
degree that other, for an editor invalu-
able, quality that distinguished his
, father, a nose for news. 1t is only an
other way of writing even balance of
mind, common sense, in a newspaper
/ Office.
More than a year before the elder
Dana died, his son had an opportunity
to show his fitness to be his successor
in a very conspicuous manner. 1t was
in the days of the silver agitation, when
! the Democratic party nominated its
chief apostle and threat tened, as the
east saw it, to precipitate reputation
and dishOnor upon the nation. The Sun
up to that time had been Democratic.
while not always in accord with the
leaders Of its party. Now it electrified
the country and inspired the champions
of Mckinley and the gold standard
with new hope by coming out in flat
opposition to the enemies of the ma
tiOnal credit. and leading the attack
upon them with all its old-time vigor
and pluck. The step was taken with
out the knowledge and advice of the
chief editor. Mr.. Dana was away, be-
yond reach There was no time to be
wasted, and Paul Dana, who had been
left in charge, took the responsibility
upon himself of swinging the paper
around. 1t was the act of a clear
headed. courageous man; incidentally,
it made a hit Of which any editor
might have been Justly proud
he hoc
entity Republican. and has easily
crowded out all other claimants to be-
ing the party's spokesman. The course
agrees well with its editors personal
predictions. Paul Dana is natural
party man, a believer in America and
its great future. He believes in reform
where reform is needed within party
lines and by party machinery, as the
proper means, under our form of gov
eminent, of getting things done. Spear
ing mugwump is his dear delight. In
the recent election the fight for the
gOVernorship of New York centered in
the Suns championship of Theodore
Roosevelt as the exponent of a young
aggressive Republican party, and. as in
the Mckinley campaign, the Suns side
won. 4 greater service could hardly
have been rendered the Empire state
and New York City; indeed. the whole
country.
Mrs. Dana is the daughter of William
Butler Duncan, and is a woman of
many and rare accomplishments. The
old Dana homestead, the famous Do
SORTS on the Long Island sound. is now
occupied by Mr.. Dana's widowed
mother. The young couple live in their
Fifth avenue house, within reach of
the great memorial arch in Washing
ton square, with their three children,
quiet and happy home life. The elder
boy bears the name of his great-grand-
father, Anderson, which was Charles
\. Dana's middle name. Curiously
enough. the young Anderson was born
on July 3. the day on which his third
grandfather. the first Anderson
Dana, was killed in the massacre of
Wyoming The Sun of the twentieth
century, when the fights 1t is fighting
today have long since passed into his
tory, may once again see a Charles
Anderson Dana at the helm, trained in
and imbued with the strong traditions
of its past that Eni in the editor of
today their best eOOnent and make it
the power it is in city and national
affairs. JACOB A. RIIS.