The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-02-22
THE EDITORIAL MEETING.

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! Probably more brains and less
money were represented in the meeting
of the Minnesota Editorial Association
which assembled in their annual
meeting in the Mayors room in the
city hall in Minneapolis for two
days meeting than has been gathered
together in one building for many
moons. We doubt very much if the
combined wealth of the more than
three hundred men and women there
assembled would aggregate 500, 900.
Yet there was not one there present
who had not contributed more to the
benefit OF humanity and good of
mankind than all the multi-million-
aires OF this country since this country
became nation. Mayor Jones
welcomed the assemblage with quite a
few warm words of welcome and a
great many more indicating what a
great man the present mayor of Min
neapolis is and the wonderful work he
had performed in the Flour City in
the interest of law order and good
government. Probably everything he
said was correct but we would rather
some one else would have said it.
The Hera d. editor is the only man
in Minnesota that has full and free
license to blow his own horn and
when any one else encrOaches on his
prerogative he don't like it. President
Whiteman responded to the address OF
welcome in speech that sparkled.
Sure he swung the "big stick" some
but if "Whitey'' couldn't knock a
little life would not be worth living for
him. President Whiteman's annual
address was one of the best ever
delivered, and while we are speaking
OF w. c. it might be we'll to remark
that he has made one of the best if not
the best, presiding officer the associa-
ton ever had, and we suggest that the
craft instead of presenting him with
diamond ring or gold watch as has
been the custom in the past, that every
editor in Minnesota donate silver
dollar and have them cast into a solid
gavel on which there shall be inscribed
'The Best Presiding Officer Ever"
An incipient boom was started for him
for governor and while our propensity
for telling the truth compels us to say
that we don't think it will ever pass
the incipient stage the same propen-
sity compels us to remark that the
republican party might go farther and
fare worse than to nominate him.
With VIC. Whiteman in the executive
chair, wouldn' tsicklv shams, palpable
humbugs and hollow hypocrisy get it
in the neck all the time? It makes us
grin to think of how special interests,
4 professional grafters and shoddy re-
formers would shiver at the mere
possibility of such an event.
All the old boys, and young news
paper women were present. Nc
Kinstry, the veteran editor of Faira-
bault with his twinkling souirrel-Iike
eyes and ragged white beard that
reminded one of the flag of truce that
the Russians waved over Port Arthur,
said nothing and took in everything.
"Grannv Pease," the meanest man in
the profession and the best fellow out
of it, man who has worked up an
absolutely wonderful circulation be-
cause the people want to read the
roasts he perpetrates. chummed with
the men and jollied the ladies. cold
Put" of Granite Falls. the chief
engineer of the Granite Falls Tribune
the only paper in the state that runs
it's editorials on the outside and is
published early Monday morning to
keep the force from spending Sunday
evening with their best girls, was
strictly in evidence. He was one of
the most popular editors present
because it has come to be understood
among the editors OF Minnesota that
his cussedness is ONLY assumed for
financial purposes and that at heart
he is the most kindly and genial of
men. Mcdonald of the st. Cloud
Times, former president, tall and
soldierly, democratic for revenue and
republican in principle, was listened
to with marked attention every time
he arose to speak because there was
not an editor present but knew and
knew full we'll, that in him they had a
constant and steadfast friend and
every time he opens his mouth he
SAYS something. Alvah Eastman,
critical and cynical. who always news
to the line regardless of where the
chips NAV fall, who belongs to the
Greedy, Henry Watterson class of
editors who write what they think and
think what they please and who can
not be bribed, cajoled or coerced into
supporting men or measures that he
thinks are detrimental to the interests
of the commonwealth, that class of
editors that has made the profession
the glory of the republic. Lindsay OF
Starbuck who made one of the most
eloquent nominating speeches in the
convention who would probably have
nominated his candidate for president
by reclamation if some of his friends
had not caught him by the coat tails
and pulled him into his seat before he
had time to name his man. Joel P.
Heatwole, white vested, clean shaver,
debonair, who behind pair of sleepy
looking brown eyes conceals one OF
the most active and scheming brains
4 in all America, never missed detail
of what was going on. Bob Dunn,
the Nestor of Minnesota Journalism,
hawk-eyed and alert was on deck
every minute. His paper was one of
the best read. Bob may not be a
shining success as politician but
when it comes to the newspaper
business he possesses the commonest
kind of common sense and the hard
| headedest kind of hard headed judg-