The Republican journal., 1903-02-12
MAINE EDITORS In THE SOUTH.

George Frederick Mellen contributes
to the New England Magazine an inter-
esting article on New England Editors
in the South" Writing of the Charles
ton, S. c., Courier he says: "Other
New Englanders on the staff were
Henry M. Cushman, who went from
the Boston Times, and J.L. Hatch from
Maine, both men of energy and talents,
who wrote tersely, cleverly and causti-
cally." And then of another Maine
man:
Mississippi, with no large towns and
with sparce population, had no great
papers. Volney E. Howard, a native
of Name, went in early life to this
state, where he practised law and be-
came connected with the press. A
Mississippi historian speaks of him as
brilliant as an editor" After the ad-
and was elected member of Congress.
Only these two Maine men are men,
toned by Mr.Mellen, and serious omis-
sion is that of s. S. Prentiss. We are con-
fident that there were many others on
the Southern press in ante bellum days,
while after the war their names we're
legion. For example, in a note receiv-
ed from Zenas 7. Haines, then in Win
throp, under date of Nov. 16, 1889, he
said: "Of Maine journalists in New
Orleans only think of Dennett( David
and Burbank (Nat) of the Picayune; z
T. Haines, who worked on three papers
there;, Pilsbury of the Times, and Ed
ward C. Hill who did little for the
Times as "a Head" and ran paper in
Mobile. James Otis, of the Picayune
before and during the war, was once
with the Portland Advertiser, but was
not a native of Maine. bennett first
edited a planters paper in the AcadiaI
county. He came from Bangor way
Horace Jordan of Portland did some
thing on the New Orleans Republican
and little afterwards at Vicksburg
He was on Eben Pillsbury's Standard
at Augusta; and of late years has work
ed on the Boston Traveller and Globe.
About 1877 he was on a Brooklyn paper
Turner of New Orleans was a reporter
on John O. Poor's State of Maine" Wher
| was a reporter OH the Portland Ad
vertiser
! A list about as long, and including
men of greater prominence, might be
| made of the Maine journalists at the
National Capital. We quote from Hud
sons History of Journalism: "James
| Buchanan entered the executive man
sion in 1857. He made The Union his
organ but he insisted on new editor
John Appleton, who had edited the
Portland Argus, and who had been IL
the State Department and in London
with the President, was the one select
ed" George Melville Weston, native
of Augusta, was the first editor of the
National Republican, and among his
successors was Elder ID. b. Peck
George F. Talbot, now of Portland
edited The National Union, and Hon
John Lynch, former Maine Congress
man, was the publisher.
| Charles Davis, native of Portland
went to Brunswick, Georgia, in 1s3'
and established himself as editor anC
proprietor of the Brunswick Advocate
| In 1910 he moved to Savannah and was
editor of The Savannah Republican
| the leading Whig paper of that city
| for seven years. In 1917 failing health
compelled him to relinquish Journalism
and he returned to Portland to engage
in other business. Sidney Herbert Lam
cey, native of Bangor and a school
mate Of Governor Dingley in Water
vile, has long been connected with tht
Southern press. He was for time the
editor of The Southern Cultivator anc
| Dixie Farmer, and for more than
quarter of century has been con
nected with The Savannah, Ca, News
He is living i'll Florida.
This by no means exhausts the list OF
| Maine journalists in the South; anC
elsewhere in the country the State Ii
well representative well represented
that they cannot even be enumerated
| in a newspaper article.