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newspaper men nave IHdue III Po- litical warfare since his departure to the other world. You can also come forward a little and see where the successor of Greeley as editor and proprietor of the New York Tribune, Whitelaw Reid, "got off" when he was the running mate of James G. Blaine in 1884 against Grover Cleveland. Reid, though, received some balm of consolation when during the Harrison adminis- tration (1SsS to 1S92) he received the appointment as minister to France at the hands of the presi- dent. You can still come a little further this way and see what suc- cess John R. Mclean, editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, met with a few years ago when he ran for gov ernor of Ohio. Mclean, it is we'll known, has a few barrels of money, and it is generally credited that he expended a barrel or two with lavish hand during the campaign, yet when the votes were counted at the end of the day of election the verdict of the people of that state was that Mclean should stay in Cincinnati and look after the inter ests of his great newspaper. Trail ing on until you reach the state of Colorado probably little different story might be told-that of a news
 paper man winning his way to the United States senate-yet when the circumstances attending his election are taken into consideration, there is no material difference in this case than the others referred to above. Thomas Patterson of Denver and the editor of the Rocky Mountain News of that city is one of the men of the newspaper world who made his point," but it may be stated right here that it wasn't Tom Pat terson as a great newspaper man that carried him to the upper house of congress at Washington, but it was Tom Patterson as a great lawyer that won the gift from the people of Colorado. In the early days of the state Patterson was looked upon as the greatest lawyer in Colorado-in fact, at that time (along in the lat ter 7Os and early SOs) he was con- sidered enc of the greatest criminal
 lawyers in the United States. He was a democrat in politics and stood high in the confidence of his party. The leading republicans of Colorado also recognized in Patter- son an able man and always felt that the interests of the state would be well guarded should he at any time be placed at the helm of gov ernment of that commonwealth. It was Patterson's early efforts as a lawyer in helping to upbuild his
 now great state that won for him
 his seat in the United States senate, and not because of his connection with the great daily of Denver. Coming on still further and getting close to our own doors (California) )
 one can reflect on the repeated fail ures of the editors and proprietors of two great San Francisco papers, John D. Spreckels of the Call and
 M. H. de Young of the Chronicle, to reach the goal of their ambition-a seat in the United States senate; and if you'll take glance up the coast from that state as far as Oregon Cat the last session of the legislature)
 and see what progress the great re- publican editor, Harvey w. Scott, of the Portland Oregonian, made in endeavoring to be sent from that state to the United States senate, you can well see that newspaper men generally do not cut much of figure upon the political horizon. It may also be mentioned here that the democratic candidate for presi- dent in the last two campaigns, Will liam J. Bryan, was and is now a ewspaper man of considera ble prominence. He was for few years previous to his first nomi- nation in 1896 the leading editor ial writer on the World Heral Id of