The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-13

conception of news in a day. It is too
early to pass judgment on the expert
ment."
G. c. Clemens said: mot in all the
interested world has Mr.. Sheldon a
more anxious friend than myself His
own devoted father cannot feel more
intensely than I do the Importance of
TINS week, not on Mr.. Sheldon himself
but what is of more consequence, to
the cause for which he stands. We
do not agree on prohibition, sundry
laws and dogma; but we have SO much
N common in our views as TO Jesus,
the reformer. that we tacitly disregard
our points of difference and have been
for years the best of friends. think
the paper will develop day by day, and
that as Mr.. Sheldon has refused to
profit by the first issue that each issue
will be better than the first.
III. G. Larimer said: 81 am delighted
with it. In the first place, l think the
first page model in makeup. Scare
heads make a first page ragged look
ing. This is clean, sensible and bust
ness like. The feature that especially
pleases me is the absence of any boasts
or buster and the paper IS more re-
markable for what it leaves out than
for what it puts in. The manner of re-
porting police court news is the best
thing in it. 1t is like laboratory prac-
tlce. The causes of crime think TO be
nifty If this manner of reporting
crime should be carried on by paper
for series of years we would nave
the statistics upon which to base an
effort to suppress crime The paper Is
like Mr.. Sheldon, clean, pure and un-
assuming"
]. G. Slonecker said: THE paper is
chiefly remarkable for what it did not
contain. 1t is really a creditable look
ing sheet and a clean paper. 1t does not
conform exactly to my ideas of news
but did not expect that. Some things
have been left out that call news and
ffn n oh a
benevolence for a newspaper 1t starts
a good deal higher standard in that re-
Spect than can be expected OF a news
paper for good many years to come.
think a newspaper of the present day is
OF no account unless it be a political
paper. If not partisan it is of no ac-
count. A literary daily might get
enough custom in a large city but could
not succeed in a small town and if a
daily is to exist it must meet the prac-
teal needs of the people"
Judge L. S. Ferry said: 1.-THE first
paper to be issued by Rev. Mr.. Sheldon
impressed me as mild on news and that
he took rather a conservative stand on
most questions and altogether that
there was not a great change in the
paper. 1 thought the Associated Press
news was about all cut out. With the
exception of a few local items what
news there was was old. Twas favorably
impressed with the first number in car
rying out very successfully what he in
rent events shall have to take some
other paper 1t is all right in its place
but we want newspaper that will give
the news good and bad"
J. b. Larimer said: 'On the whole it
is what l expected and L think it viii
give the people about what they I'M
derStoOd they were going to get from
Mr.. Sheldon as editor. My own opin-
ion is that when the people get accuS-
toned to the change it will give great
satisfaction except among those who
care for certain matter that has been
totally excluded. 1t will be a great adj
vertisement for Topeka and Kansas and
will be read by the people we want to
have know about the state, the middle
classes
Major A. NJ. Harvey said: 'I like
the paper first rate but the news that
we want to keep track of every day is
crowded into the middle of the paper or
left out. 1t is not on the first page. I
like the comments of Mr.. Sheldon on the
different news items. AS long as people
are put up the way they are war is
part of human existence. Take the
pages about war out of the histories
and few people would read them"
A. w. Dana said: Il don't see why
the Sheldon edition is not a good clean
paper for which it processes to be, a
Christian journal. 1t does not differ
much from the great religious papers of
the country except that 1t is a daily
publication and necessarily more or less
in touch with the daily news of the
world and of the local news of the city
and state. In the Capitals appeal for
help for famine stricken India would it
not have been perfectly proper to have
suggested that England devote to that
purpose at least a part of the enormous
war loan that she is now making rather
than to devote it to the prosecution of
the war in South Africa"