Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-16
Cosmopolitan Washington.

Star with the news of politics.
Cosmopolitan Washington.
Washington, politically. is cosmopolitan
All political parties and every state of tn,
national confederation are represented il
Washington's citizenship, permanent ant
temporary. Essentially, therefore, it would
be wise newspaper policy to present to thi:
cosmopolitan audience variety of politica
news SO that each colony could find il
The Star something of interest about the
politics in its own state.
The political correspondence of The Sta,
of the present day, which in point of scope
and range is not surpassed by that of any
other newspaper in this country has been
built up within the past twenty years 1t
has grown by leaps and bounds within ten
years.
Monday, prior to the last election, The
Star published more than two full pages
of political news, compiled by its staff and
special correspondents. There were tele-
graphic dispatches, giving the unbiased,
non-partisan judgment of capable political
writer's upon the outlook in many states.
These dispatches were wired to The Star
at the last moment and represented the
best estimates of the men who expressed
themselves. ooIlpdTlSOn OIL eleCllOH IeluIHS
with prophecies shows that the forecasts
were accurate. Moreover, those correspon-
dents had been sending letters from their
states for three weeks before the election
The dispatches covered the political stua-
ton in these states: New York, West Vir-
ginia. Michigan. Connecticut, Maryland
Kentucky, Virginia, Indiana. Wisconsin,
Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Illinois. Ne
Hawaii was represented in the same pub
LEGATION by letter, for the reason that
there is no cable connection with the ISL
ands
The Staff Correspondent.
The system of reporting politics by staff
correspondents has grown up within the
past twelve or fifteen years. The theory
is that a dispatch from a member of The
Stars regular staff permanent and known
in the community, who writes over his own
initials attracts more attention than an
unsigned letter. The regular readers of
The Star get to know the man. He is on
test, and the knowledge of that fact is
stimulant to him to do his best
The Star, through it's staff correspondents,
has covered the field of politics in every
state from Connecticut to Missouri, and
from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico Its
staff men have travelled over every state
within the area thus circumscribed, famil
iarizing themselves each year with the
political and economic conditions of the
communities.
In addition, The Star has special CORE
spondents in the big cities of all the states
in the Union resident men connected with
the most prominent newspapers, who fur
nish dispatches when called upon. Whatever
the political affiliations of these mer may
be- they must send unbiased political dis
patches to The Star. A good newspaper
is a newspaper man first and a parti-
san afterward, so it is quite practicable to
get non-partisan news.
The letter of final instructions sent to The
Stars efficient corps of special correspon-
dents, previous to the last election, by the
managing editor, contained this injunction:
The Star is independent in politics and
your correspondence must be from abso-
lutey non-partisan standpoint OF course
we want the probabilities as they appear,
but in no wise biased"
When The Stars staff correspondents ap-
pear in distant states, as in Minnesota, Mis-
lucky, etc, people sometimes say: rs
Washington interested in our politics p
Most assuredly, a portion of Washington S
population is deeply interested, and as it is
the purpose of The Star to serve every
class of it's subscribers, it is considered
worth while to send staff man on spe-
cial mission to those states, if events of a
special character are happening. Not only