The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-31
NEWSPAPER MN
AS POLITICIANS
Col. ]. V. Admire'S Address
at Press Meeting
SOME VALUABLE POINTS
About the Devil and His COL
leagues
SOME VALUABLE POINTS

is the address of j. V. Admire. delivered
at the Oklahoma Press Association:
NEWSPAPER MEN IN POLITICS
Politics, critically considered, is COM
ptehensive term; but as we use it in this
country it means anything and every
thing that pertains to office-holding and
voting. The President of the United
States is a politician, and so is a road
overseer. And so are all men, and, in
communities where the franchise is ex-
tended to them so are all women who are
sandwiched in between these important
public officers It is, therefore, in this
broad American sense in which L shall
speak of it.
A MOST TRYING OFFICE
THE office of newspaper pub
fisher is probably the most trying
and vexatious OF all offices. 1t is an Of
fee that not only tries the souls and
bodies Of those who undertake to perform
its duties, but its responsibilities are
manifold and far reaching. Hence, if
man in this position acquits himself with
credit he is entitled to all honor. But if
he does badly, and finally is able to crawl
out at the little end of the horn, so to
speak, frazzled wreck, broken in spirit,
out al the knees. hungry, with butonless
shirt and tattered hat, disguised, cross,
grabbed sore of heart, hating and hated,
consenting to live longer only for the bare
chance to get even'-to administer one
more roast TO his enemies-he is an OBJ
ject not so much of scorn as of tenderest
sympathy Black indeed would be the
heart of the man who would lift his voice
or foot to do him harm.
1t is an awful job to print a news
paper and print it right-as it ought to
be printed In my own modest and varied
experience of thirty-five years l have
known no instance in which our critics
could not step in and cut and slash and
tear the most perfect work into a thou
sand indistinguishable fragments. Not
many months ago man who had gained
a well-deserved, world wide reputation
as a writer of books, concluded to try
the experiment of printing a newspaper
for one week-siX days-as he thought
Christ would have done it. The inglori-
Gus result of that lamentable effort is
now well known. The only persons whom
] nave ever known who could print
newspaper as it ought to be printed have
been those who have never printed
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. who would not know
how to get into or out of a newspaper
Office. We are all on the most friendly
terms with this large and respectable
class of intelligent. patriotic and we'll
meaning citizens. They swarm like bees
in a clover patch in every community.
WHY TL...Y ARE CALLED COUNTRY
EDITORS
I'VE are called country newspaper pub
Iishers-country editors for brevity. One
reason for this distinction is that we live
outside a dozen Of the principal towns Of
the country, print our names conspicu-
ouslv at the top of the editorial page,
are introduced and pointed out as the
editor of the 'Bungtown Bugle-Blast
or some other publication Of equally high
standing in the great world of letters.
Another reason is that our patrons live
in the sma-ler towns or in the adjoining
rural districts. The popular belief, and
one by the way to which we carefully
cater. is that these patrons-our sub
scribers-having paid in advance. are
deeply and even painfully interested in
knowing why and wherefore John Smith
of White-Cap School District has been
away from home for two whole days and
nights: what Former ones Of Deer Creek
precinct got for his last wagon shipment
of Berkshire shoats, and how much they
weighed: the exact day and hour that
Miss Mollie Dusenberry of Bear Creek
Center terminated her visit to her Aunt
Jane Long of Badger Cross Roads; who
won the BOBBY prize at the last progress
sive euchre party; when il happened that
the stork few over Joe Simpsons barn.
whether it was boy or girl, and how
much it weighed These distinctions are
honora bic. and if given fair consideration
add to the popularity as well as to the
circulation OF a country newspaper.
The big daily newspapers. through
which one must search in mountains of
chaff to discover grain of valuable in
formation-edited by unknown editors
and supplied with copy by unknown re-
porters-are called the metropolitan press
Fortunately there is no specimen of this
class Of Journalism in oklahoma While
the aggregate circulation of these great
papers-great in their amount Of waste
paper-may exceed the circulation of
the country press. their influence among
The good men, women and children OF
the country. is as the dimensions Of the
vicious gnat are to those Of the good
natured and patient elephant.
THE METROPOLITAN PRESS WITH
OUT INFLUENCE.
1--WE used 10 want 10 know what Hor-
ace Greeley had 10 say on the subject.
but who now cares a snap Of the finger
whether the New York Tribune says
anything or noa. When charles 4. Dana
sounded the tocsin Of battle in the New
York sun. and shouted Turn the ras-
Gals out. a cheer went up from every
hungry democratic throat in the country.
and every federal office-holder Quaked
and trembled in his boots What man
now cares whether the Sun has a tocsin
any longer 10 sound. or what il says
about turning the rascals out? When
wnber r. Story Numbered his anathemas
AZ the Republican party through the
columns Of the Chicago Times. declared
the war for the Union a failure. and de-
nounced Lincoln and Stanton as muir
derers and cut-throats. the blood froze
fn the veins Of the patriotic men and
women Of the country; and when that
grand old man. Joseph Mednl Numbered
his answers in the Chicago Tribune.
shout and q hurrah FOR the Union rent
the skies Who now cares what the New
York SuR o. Lhs Chicago Tribune SAY