The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-14

Iif little personal humping was
thrown in so much the better. He
had broken canes with rival editors
before during, and after the war, ana
deplored the fair, delightful ways OF
peace that were fast decinenating to
him, real editors of Thackery, Dooldn
and HOOlan. Not to have nau Joilil
Spellman help you out OF dllHculty,
for he could do any part OF any work
with n hearty good will, IS olsIlllct
loss to any living newspaper man.
Like Major Hearne he was man
without a party. There was really no
Republican paper at the capital 10
hire them and they had, to stanu IN
the market place. until a press OF WORK
or special work came along TO thelh
at whatsoever was right. Ihey WeIe
| too old to learn new tricks ana doupt-
less felt at election times much as
great Republican leader once said ~
undertone when the wires were load
| ed with returns favorable to judge
Buxton: I'm damnably afraid my
man is elected.
OF quite another kidney was John
Syme. He was born to the Royal NIX
That's better than the purple in ihis
country. His father was an olI-fash-
Toned editor of the old school. Hls
editorials opened up at 212 degrees r.
subject and whether he was moulding
public opinion in tho Old Dominion
or the Tar Heel state lie always AM
sisted that the moulds should be Kept
glowing and opinion should CONFORM
to their outlines. This wasn't a weak
milk to give q youngs e. VINO was 10
work on Joe Turner's Senlltl"l' ~
on it he did excellent work, perhaps
most of the systematic stockWo!N
DO
Turner would have stopped the press
to take out the press dispatches an
time to have inserted one of his chalts
on Radicalism or one of his waits iho'
lamentations for a squire MI
ner's greatest editorials was ms IN
prisonment He wrote hlnSell llto
and then out of popular acclaim, anu
our plain people, like thelr inol
volatile forerunners, the AthenlahS.
lust got tired of paying tribute Oh
adulation and then telling him so
some more. If you had lived III
Athens wouldn't you have voted 10
Danish Aristides? Why, sure. me
more is the pity. John Syme tdlh .s
about that singular journal were mos mos
interesting. Anybody was cashier anu S
also was at liberty to go to the III
and get what was coming to him, that
is if it had come While they had all
things in common, it was q common
thing. as of old, for them not 10 nave
all things. He used to tell of these
idyllic days, between pipes, When ne
had worked hard all day on suCh
thrilling themes as catalogulng tild
prizes i'm the Counterpart department
of the fair for colored people. When
7 took a day off, as l did sometimes,
because somehow all paths LED IN
some mysterious way to cottage
called ",rhe Pines" where Mr.. Hale
and his wife, such an unselfish, loving
and lovable, helpful loyal wife VINO
had inherited her full share or hef
fathers unequaled abilities and her
mothers extraordinary beauty, ana
had nurtured and purified her own
sweet heart-where they, L say, had
around them a lovely family of four
girls and a baby boy, arranged along
at intervals of four years, whether IL
was to see the chief or the baby boy
but that is another story, the same
old story, only this | am glad and I'M
PEELED to say. / never read or hear q
cheap gibe at the mother-in-law that
nv gorge doesn't rise in indignant pro-
test Certainly if others were like
mine. even a little like. this untrue
and unseemly jest could not be.
Unless it was a newspaper man L
doubt if John Syne was acquainted
with a Republican. A tireless deliver
in the hardest shifts, it is small Won
der that he laid down his strength
when still young man, ana mas Tor |
years had to employ himself only in
the exercises of his holy religion and |
the gracious tenderness of his broth
ers and sisters and friends.
Two things induce me to say
something of William Plummer
Bachelor. One is that the picture
would not be complete without this
fidus achates of Peter Hale and Bill
Saunders-they We're both very fond
of and he of them. Another is that
it will not occur to him to say any
thing of himself His work was al
ways excellent and his presence cheer
fulness itself. If there is any better
account of a Southern Republican
State convention than he wrote 1T has
not been taken from the hook. His
articles on blooded stock were classics.
Whoever heard of a mans deciding
by the literature of trotting. that the
greatest trotter on earth was TO come
off at Vermont farm and then proving
it! He did it and in spite of burning
the colts legs off him, he made OF
Pamlico the king of horses of his
inches. He could report horse race,
4 cock fight, a legal tilt on the doc
tfine of champerty, a soft=gloVe con-
test in church synod, anything eX-
cept write poetry. society FeISSS may
have stumped him. but he would have
found somebody who could write them
if they had to come out next morning.
You may rest assured he Will slip his
halter ana jump over into the field
Of journalism yet.
Bachelor owned the Sentinel al
one time and he imported one of the
most remarkable word jugglers, Col
Pat DOMAIN, that ever browsed on the
newspaper commons. But he went
the way of most Bohemians. lie
didn't understand the people and they
wouldn't stand for him, and so-but
Bachelor ought to tell that story.
Some Burning Questions.
Will the advanced stage of decom-
position of the journalism of today
believe that in the day of which
write there was a vehement outbreak
in friendly circles against reprinting
very clever letters with which J. q
Logan Harris then tickled the fancy
of the masterful New York Times?
The Colonel told in the drollest way
of all the little jealous and petty scan
dals among the four hundred of De-
mocracy and The Observers repro
duction of them, made the judic1ous