The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-05-02
Thirty Years Service.

The Sunday issue of the Sioux City
Journal announces the completion of
Geo. D. Perkins thirtieth year as edi-
tor and proprietor of that paper. The
story of his life work is simply and
modestly told by MIR. Perkins and 1t
contains many lessons of value not on
ly to newspaper men, but to any who
are conscientiously struggling for sue
cess. 1t was by giving his people the
very best that was in him that Geo. d.
Perkins succeeded. 1t was by ever
lastingly sticking to that which he felt
to be right. in spite of the temporary
effect that has made him winner in
the race of life. The journal is in
many ways the very best newspaper in
Iowa. To have worked on the Journal
and to have received an honorable dis
charge is a passport ''par excellence"
into the editorial sanctum of any other
newspaper of the state, and many of
our most successful papers are now be-
ing operated by sJournal'' men. AS
schools of journalism the Sioux City
Journal and the Burlington Hawkeye
have done more than all the other
papers for the elevation of the press of
the state.
Geo. d. Perkins is the highest type
Iowa has yet produced of the able and
at the same time successful editor. In
speaking Of his first going to Sioux City
thirty years MIR. Perkins says:
although 1 had been an Iowan be-
fore, shortly after the war went to
Chicago, but never was weaned from
the Hawkeye state. l.. ID. Ingersoll,
formerly Of the Muscatine Journal, but
then of Washington, where he had ach-
letters signed Link or 'Linkensale, :
and who had a desire to lecture, not
withstanding an impediment in his
speech. was in Chicago one day and
told me of the chance to buy paper
called The Journal, as he remembered
out at Sioux City. He said he believed
there was a chance to do something
with it, and that could find out by
writing to Judge Isaac Pendleton.
wrote and got in reply letter signed
by George w. Wakefield, who was in
Judge Pendleton's office. On the
strength of this the trip was made from
Chicago. And recall with regard tc
the latter part of it from Missouri Val
ley over the Sioux City and Pacific
completed only few months before
was that the locomotive had to stop sc
the brakeman could go out and drive
some cattle off the track. Finally We
ratified into Sioux City-a very differ
emit Sioux City from what the new ar
rival sees today. / met Mahlon Gore
publisher of the paper, and the salt
was arranged. possession to be given al
soon as the trip to Chicago and return
could be made.
ION the train coming back to Siou1
City got hold OF a newspaper telling
that during my absence Charlie Collins
and company Of printers from Omaha
had been given bonus of some thous
ands of dollars to start a morning news
paper here, which they were to launch
at once. This was startler. I ha(
dreamed that possibly in the long afte
awhile a daily might be started, bu
here was to confront it as an i'm
mediate rival. For the rest of the tril
, l did some pretty steady thinking
This new paper-the Times, it was call
ed-was to be independents the an
nOuncement said. l knew the Journa
would be republican with capital r
and to this pinned my faith. Event
proved the sOundness of it. With it
; bonus and whatever other advantage j
had. the independent newspaper coul,
not swamp one which stood for some
thing definite.''