The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-28


 the first news, and are not ayerse to 1 getting the worst news. It about all i has to go in, because one newspaper is l as truly affected by what another newspaper does or will have as one col ] lege is by what another college or an other university will have or provide. l
 l have remarked concerning newspa- | pers and business men. I would like to submit a few words concerning the re- lations of the press to public men. Those relations are improving. Public l men are finding that what may be called the rowdy press can do to them i no harm. Decent newspapers are ind ing that rowdy public men can do them no harm-and no good-in the long run There are rowdy public men. There are rowdy newspapers. They have a natural likeness and anity, one for the other. The decent sort of newspapers are letting the rowdy sort alone. As for the relations between unpright public men and upright newspapers, let this be said: Such public men are generally in public trusts. Such news papers are opponents of news and views by men trained in that art and
 duty. .p2... -.. .ss-t The speaker then discussed further the relations of public men and the pa
 pers, showing how the newspapers take the speeches and actions or pubic
 men which appear in public documents | which are seldom if ever read, and are
 so condensed. interpreted, developed and placed that they make the press Il 1sr.,,z 1.1 4r, Txst7i turn are very helpful to the press.
 We cannot logically think of public | men and the men of the press as class | es alone, or as antagonistic classes. They are inter-dependent or reciprocal
 or complementary. There are bad pos abilities of such association or conso- | tive temper as a salt of salvation. It \ comes in on or with politics. That is mimic war Both parties contend for I the same offices. Only one can get | them in any one place, but the other IS \ certain to obtain equivalent functions I in some other place. No party is ever wholly out of power. A short conspir- | acy of parties to wage a sham battle I over small areas is, perhaps, possible, but the conspirators invariably fall out on the division and succeed a dishonest l pact with an honest and ugly fight. \ And on a large scale, or over a large area. it is impossible. It is against nature and against interest. Nature and interest assert themselves. Two
 bodies cannot occupy the, same space. Two parties can neither occupy nor i'm partially divide the same trusts. This : fact saves politics in the large to sin :. cerity, if not to honesty.
 ! It is the same way with journalism.
 Papers compete for circulation, for ap- !, probation, for news and for advertise i. ments. They are as courageous, as en- ergetic and, short of assault andt bat tery. as cumulative as Loyalty served ] armies. ! Thus newspaper men and politicians , are alike affected by a common rela- tion to publicity. It could be shown , that they must preserve as between or . against one another sturdy and self , respecting independence ], The necessity of solvency to journal , istic power was MT. McKelway's next , topic.
 Only those newspapers that make and keep a solvency in themselves and by themselves are worthy of consider : ation as really public journals. Jour ] nalism should be moved by righteous ness. Lawyers prefer to be moved by retainers. Between righteousness and retainer there is in morals the diff : ference there is in politics between rec
 titude and regularity. My plea for DO litical reporting is for fullness Wher- - ever possible, and for fairness under all circumstances. will go further. My plea is for greater fullness and for finer fairness toward adversaries than
 toward supporters. Looking at it even
 in the lower sense, paper which
 rightly has it's preferred principles in
 one party should certainly have its
 readers in both. In truth, members of
 the opposition party should form a
 larger constituency of readers to a journal than the members of a party whose docarines or policies that jour
 nal may uphold. He then took upit the necessity of un- biased reporting. I Il My plea is for fair political reporting.
 The excess of unfairness may lead to it's death. My first plea is for fairness for it's own sake. My second plea is
 for fairness for the sake of the rights
 and the susceptibilities of opponents , My third is for fairness for the sake of
 our own consciences and for the sake (Continued on Fifth Page.)