The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-25

life, having served In public capacl-
ties at the state capital, and having
but recently retired from a seven
years service as clerk of the court, in
which he had given general satisfac-
ton, it ought not to have been mat
ter of surprise that he should have as
PRED to serve his country in broad
er field, for which he was no doubt
we'll qualified. True, he was no public
speaker, but neither was Washington,
Jefferson, Franklin, Irving, and many
other notable Americans. But Finley's
crime was that he chose to fall back
on his preserved rights as man,
and make an independent race, al
though the party to which he adhered,
had nominated another. In other
words, while acknowledging fealty to
the principles of his party he declined
to be it's slave. This of course brought
down upon him the condemnation OF
mere partisans, Of whom none were
more severe than his late partner, HOl
loway. Finley defended his position
through the press, neatly and cogent-
ly. The pen may be mightier than the
sword, but it can have no showing
when pitted against stump orator
with a mixed multitude as umpire.
Mr.. Finley ran the race through and
was defeated, but he went into pr1-
vate life with no dimunition of re-
spect on the part of thinking people.
And Mr.. Holloway, who was so great
a stickler for strict party discipline
in his case, in 1864 hismelf clicked
out of the traces even more fragrant
ly. He not only refused to place at
the head of his editorial column the
name of a member Of his party who
had won the nomination for congress
by a decided majority, but actually
continued to keep up the name Of his
defeated competitor, until preemptor-
lily required by President Lincoln to
substitute it by that Of the actual
do.
To return to the Palladium. AL
though I kept no file beyond 1910, l
continued to receive it at my rural In
diana home several years longer.
Meantime 1 first saw myself i'll print
in some articles which contributed in
my early teens to the Family School
master, edited by DR.. John T. Plum
mer, and printed by Holloway & Da-
Wis. 1t lasted but a few months, and
[ then transferred my contributions
to the Palladium, writing on variety
Of topics, in prose and verse, winding
up with a series of essays, after the
manner of the Spectator, entitled the
Rustic, by Phaeton Clodhopper. The
year 1914 was that of my majority,
and l set great store in anticipating
the casting Of my first vote for Henry
Clay for PRESIDENT; but making a trip
to the west | was unavoidably de-
tanned till after the election, causing
one Of the greatest griefs Of my early
life. In the spring Of 1916 I removed
to Iowa, remaining till the fall of
1850. Meantime the Free soil and
Anti-Slavery questions had taken pos
session Of the public mind; old ideas
and issues were passing away. The
editors Of the Palladium, however,
chung to the old order of things. I
now found in them bitter and unspar-
ing opponents, more especially after
I had entered upon the publication of
the True Republican. 1t was not I'M
til some years after my removal to
Texas that I resumed relations with
the Palladium, then under the friend
ly management Of Isaac Jenkinson.
Before closing a word further of
B. w. Davis, Holloway's partner. He
was aunique character, unexcelled as
a pertinacious personal Photographer
although I will confess that, not I'm.
likely I may have ranked with the
"other side' as a close second in his
special line. But in spite Of our rath
er sharp rivalry, I continued to enter
tain kindly regard for his memory
because Of his having favored my ear
2 ly literary aspirations, as also a fel
, low feeling for him as a hard ant
faithful worker in thankless, profit
: less vocation. He had an inveterat,
), proclivity for getting off puns, good
. bad and Indifferent; also for the pro
= fuse use of italics, and I cannot bu
: smile while attempting to fancy hi
: feelings, had he lived to the presen
}. day, at finding his favorite typograph
: ical figure entirely ruled out Of tn
: newspaper world Of letters.
f ISAAC H. JULIAN.