Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-04-12
WHY CREELMAN LEFT JOURNALISM |
.tNew YORK colrespondence.

T. aES-t.. i, Nza az
New York Correspondence,
| When James Gresham, few weeks
ago.. sent in his resignation to, Mr..
Pulitzer and severed his connection
with the New York World-a sconnec-
jtion of many years, following upon
years of similar responsible associa-
! tons with James Gordon Bennett and
I William R. Hearst-many were the
surmises as to the why's and where
flores. When it became known that he
had left the newspaper field to associ-
/ ate himself with Pearson's Magazine
! the knowing ones smiled and said to
j another periodical join
| ing-t ranks of the Knockers 7" So
! Such an inference while satisfying
! to the specifically knowing ones"
did not quite fill the bill for the old
time newspaper men who had known
Creelman for years and who knew
/ that it was his custom to lead in
! journalistic movements and not fol-
low in the rear guard of an already
overcrowded procession. To those
who remembered that it was Creel-
man who stood out against the cor
Eruption fund of the eonquering Japa-
nese and fearlessly gave to the world
the true land at the time the only
Itrue) account of the massacre of the
Chinese at Port Arthur in 1S94-to
those who remembered that it was
Creelman who from his post in
Washington in 1894 gathered the am
munition with which the New York
World bombarded Mr. Clevelandis
isecrets bond issue coalition with the
i Morgan Wall Street syndicate, and
finally wrought great and patriotic
victory for the people of the United
States-to those who remembered that
:: it was Creelman who broke through
Vatican precedents of "a thousand
years and actually obtained from
Pope Leo XIII an interview for the
Isecular press upon topics Of popular
and political signiicance-to all these
who by years of training have become
accustomed to looking beneath the
tsurface of things for real reasons, the
Creelman move from newspaper to
magazine suggested the possibility of
la new departure in the monthly
periodical style of national Journalism.
/ After number of efforts to find Mr..
Creelman at leisure and in the right
frame OF mind for a publication talk,
our representative located him few
ldays ago in his new official home and
turned upon this famous interviewer
1.-THE pertinent and direct style OF ques-
ttion battery which he himself. had
done so much toward establishing as
| the standard of reportorial invasion. n
4 'Why have left daily journalism
/ to serve monthly magazine? Well
Mr.. Creelman arose from his edi-
Itorial desk in the cluttered Office of
| Parsons Magazine and paced the
floor slowly-"I suppose that, after
Serving for nearly thirty years as an
active newspaper man, II ought to be
liable to answer that question.
1T was not alone a large salary that
1 brought me to Pearson's Magazine,
for, handsome even as that is, could
have done better without leaving the
work for which have been so liberal
lily paid these many years. 5x
4 Il gave up newspaper work after a
long struggle with myself, simply be-
cause saw in an unfettered magazine
Hike Pearson.s an opportunity NOT
imerely to earn my livelihood, for i
have always been able to do that and
have something left over; not merely
to get out of the wild rush for in
fcreased circulation which so often
sweeps the greatest newspapers
tagainst the saner and better conyic-
4 tons of their editors; bat also to get
national utterance for what / may
4 have to say =, .ss- ST. 5sss
Mr.. Creelman threw himself in his
Ichair again and gnawed the end OF an
: unlighted cigar Z s1s85s
Il have just been compelled to give
I up tobacco after having smoked an
average Of thirty cigars a day fol
something like seven years It has
y been a terrific fight against insurgent
4 NERVES, but 4 can at last live without
"a narcotic roneentrant suppose
that / shall have the same battle to
4 fight against the long established
Newspaper habit" and that Z shall be
tortured when / see the newspapers
EVERY day and feel that Il Jam no more
a part of that furious moral force, the
, 4 like Of which has never been seen in
y. the world before.
The truth IS that the average
American daily newspaper has be.
come, IN more senses than one, pro
syincia and a victim of mere extremes
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