The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-12-11
Intimate Antedo,es Of Famous Men.

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The newspaper correspondent, who
gets near view of great men, has pity
for human infirmities, and as Il consc-
qucnce, secs more than he tells and hears
more than he prints. Sometimes he
writes more than is permitted to 20
into the columns of his paper. The
proprietor, who in these days is general
ly millionaire, has his business, his politi-
cal, his financial, and his social interest,
and he looks after them carefully. There
may be a newspaper proprietor who
wants to print all the news regardless of
his own interests, but he is so rare rs to
be an exception to the rule.
We have often thought that there
would be great field for a newspaper i'll
any of our large cities, whose policy and
province it would be honestly to print
only the suppressed news of the other
papers. One page of it could be proita-
bly, set aside for corrections, denials, and
explanations of the articles that were
printed in the other papers but were
either incorrect, false or Obscure.
That is one side of the shield ofiournal-
ism. The other which has already been
indicated, is its kindness-its unknown
and unappreciated kindness-to public
men and women. Many statesman
walks the streets of Washington today
a monument to the charity and good
will of the newspaper correspondents.
Occasionally some narrow-minded public
man, in the seclusion and safety of his
own apartments, speaks contemptuOus-
~ of the newspaper fraternity. Would it
surprise YOU to know that his fame has
been made by what the correspondents
have written of him? Or that his repu-
tation has been saved by what they in
diligently had not written about him?
OF course, the correspondent is only
a wheel in journalism, important as he
may be. The hub of his universe is really
the publisher ofhis paper. The politician
who can control the publisher has the cor
respondent rolling under his wagon. One
OF them, on one occasion, at least, could
not be controlled.
The late George W. Childs, the pro-
prietor of the Philadelphia Ledger"
was a man who supported his subordi-
mates, when they were in the right.
During bitter Congressional CAM
paign, one of the candidates called upon
Mr.. Childs and said:
MIR. Childs | have always considered
you my friend. Am right in that as
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Yes" said Mr.. Childs, in his quiet
way, wondering what was coming.
well, l come to complain about your
political reporter. His reports of my
campaign have done me much damage"
81 understand" said Mr. Childs, that
our reporter has been printing your own
speeches. Is that true"
-'Y-e s." was the hesitating reply.
Then said the publisher, you are
the guilty man. You are killing your
own candidacy and the Ledger is simply
giving faithful picture of the perfor-
nance. Blame yourself, ard not the
Ledger reporter
And that was all the satisfaction this
influential politician could get from the
publisher.
you ask the Washington correspon-
dents what member of Congress has the
greatest news value, seven out of ten will
answer, QUAY" And this is correct.
Quay, the silent; Quay, the man who
holds up Senates; Quay, the man who
elects Presidents, can always be depended
upon to do unexpected things, at uncx-
pectcd times. No man i'll public life cares
less for the newspapers than QUAY.
With him it is not mere bravado, but
philosophical conviction.
The opposition papers" he once said,
"havc done their worst. If they had the
power, Quay would have been wiped out
of existence long ago"
While Quay consistently and persistent
~ refuses to talk for publication, he has
no hesitation i'll talking freely with news
paper men who will not quote him
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