The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-03-09
FATHER FOR PRINCIPLE
Joseph MediIl Patterson's
Stand for Socialism Reads
Like a Novel.
HE CONDEMNS BOSS RULE

OG 0S0o nOLE
Ne Was Elected Through It's Unfair
Operation-Left Chicago Tribune
Because His Views Were Too
RadicaI-cIean-cut American.
New York, March Soften a novel
has woven in 1t such a story as lies in
the experiences Of Joseph Medill Pat
terson, only son of the rich proprietor
and editor of the Chicago Tribune. who
a taken his father aback and moved
to Its depths the rest of the stanch
republican tribe Of Patterson by an
nouncing himself a confirmed socialist.
1t is such a story as this that makes
folk who have only a reading acquaint-
C. with America say: "Oh, it can't
be rue It's just pretty fiction"
College athlete, COW puncher, unsus-
pecttng member of q gang of rustlers,
reporter. editor-in-chief of a great met
ropolitan daily, member of the Illinois
public works commissioner of one of
the largest American cities and social
ast-that's the gamut Joe Patterson
has u in the past eight years. He is
only 81. -Four years ago he married
Alice Hig%ginbotham, a Chicago belle
they have a little girl who is nearly 8.
A Ciean-Cut American.
Joe" Patterson is a healthy speci-
men of a clean-cut American. There is
q full six feet of him there's a
thickness in his shoulders that foot
ball n a year with Yale's freshman
eight modelled. OF course, when Rob-
orf nv potfarSnp can't tTnaS Lf, evils,
son. east to Groton school it was, ac-
cording to his plan, the beginning Of
the education that vas to fit him to
take over the Tribune when the young
eter's time came. Joe" got on at Gro
called Porkopolis' and wild and
Woolly'' until the other boys got tired
Of nagging him or had felt the weight
OF his fists.
There were our years at Groton and
then came a year on a ranch in New
Mexico. After New Mexico he entered
Yale.
Z didn't do very much there" he
said. Il got through all right in the
end, made most of the societies and all
that sort Of thing. Yes, l went In for
athletics for awhile and made the
freshman eight. That vas all there
was to that
It was while Patterson was a Yale
student and during one vacation that
he got into Wyoming n fell in with
Q gang OF rustlers.
way he tells it. II thought the fel-
lows were all right, but every last one
OF them was arrested. except me-"
On Sunday Supplement.
II was a case of buckling down to
work after o left Yale. His father
started him out as q reporter. He did
the 'hotel beat" most OF the six months
put In the Sunday department. of the
Tribune.
THE Tribune was trying to be a lit
tie bit yellow about hat time is the
Patterson way of describing his ex-
psrtence on the Sunday staff. Father
had . chap at tn. tead OF the supple
mont who was a leach in the yellow
line. And ! was his very able assist
ant. ] wrote yards of CUFF about love
and things OF that sort. and at The end
OF eight months father said l was get
ting demoralized and yanked me out OF
the sunday. Maybe he was right. /
was put on b news desk. and then In
q little while I was in charge of the
editorial page.
ut vas not long afterward that ia
ther left me in charge. He went to
Europe. 1 had h editorial end, and
charge OF the business end. That was
the campaign that the Tribune cut
loose between Louden and Deneen, the
republican bosses. The Tribune was
for Deneen. Louden knows the fam
lily. but at that I guess Deneen was the
better "a oh. yes, father was a
iOeneen man, but the Tribune wouldn't
hit 1t up 50 hard for him If father
had been home. anyway. Deneen WON
It 10 q naive way that young Pat
terson has Of describing how he got
into the legislature, which was before
the Deneen-Louden fight.
I He .psnouness the Machine.
Its a fact" he declares. that L
didn't know three of the voters in the
district. Father just went to a couple
OF bosses. my name was put on the re-
publican ticket, he machine voted for
and that 10 all there was to it. Just
as easy az that. but It's just there that
euE whole system is wrong. The ma
very 0rst thing.
There vas a whole lot doing in the
legislature that session. That was the
year We got through the enabling act
which was to open up the way for
Dunno and municipal ownership
which didn't own. I was put on
porations, and then they tried to get
out OF the way by putting me on
the penal Institution committee, whose
chief work 10 riding around the state
IN a Pullman full of Scotch and soda
Ind things IKE that.
1T would be a l6Iik story to go over
all that happened that year at Spying
was boss, and he wanted the Mueller
bill amended 80 that II 1t was passed
~ he put It up I o US, the enabling act
which the municipal. ownership needed,
wouldn't have been worth the paper 1t
was written on. We howled good and
1o,,6 a& VIZ rnrnko nm. tho N.ofny.vonpo eorAN
got them coming down to Springfield
BY the carload. The day Lorimer's
amendments came up our side wanted
vote by cas- and nays. but the speak
ers choked us off. The machine thought
AZ had everything its own way until we
pelted the speaker with books. dragged
him out of his seat and threw him out
Of the house.