Live Oak daily Democrat. (Live Oak, Fla.) 190?-190?, 1907-10-22
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JOHN TEMPLE GOES hrcS


Hearst's leading and most widely read
newspaper. the New York American.
Mr.. Graves is a mafSof genius, Gull
ture and rare moral excellence. A
few years ago he was an obscure
country school-teaeher in Georgia.
and by sheer merit he has since won
national repute as lecturer and writ
er, and now goes into the front rank
of metropolitan fsaF0alists at salary
whose magnitude makes us little fell
lows fairly gasp land gurgle and
choke with d&e1.( unutterable emo
ton. But he Thoroughly deserves his
good fortune and all of us rejoice
with him, for John Temple is one of
those rare creations from which the
coarser elemepts have been omitted
and whose fine, Sympathetic qualities
challenge neither eAyy nor hatred.
But we have our tears about this
vi NuI AASA-
souled, warm-hearted, sensjtive Geor-
gia journalist for he is Igojh into the
lions den. Ne~>YorB dsly journal
ism is fercely strenuous Ind brutany
inconsiderate Itps al bright as
polished steel, and as csuel. It is
give and take with out hercy among
those ellowsSandI the fine courtesy
of a more provincial environment is
conspicuously absent. This is
especially true of the attitude of
most of the metropolitan press to-
ward the Hearst ~papeFs. for Mr.
Hearst has notionSNof his own and he
Is credited with a monopoly of the
yellow journalismrof this country. To
hold his own in that crowd Mr.. Graves
must put off hiSN fine velvet skin and
encase himself in a hide, and even
through thst>thS sharp thrusts of his
adversarteS- vii Frequently reach the
quick. And above all things, those
New York papers won't stand for
fine writing They deride it with
our~mercy, tSthey realize that it is
obsolete m Metropolitan journalism
in every English Speaking land. They
abhor superlatives and gorgeous
phrases and sonorous periods as
mere tinsel and fustian to dazzle the
eyes ana tickle the ears of the
groundlihgs. and we modestly sug-
gest that NJ. Graves will do well
when he enters upon his new duties
to- forget that there is such an ad-
jective as "Great'Nin the English
leave 1t and it's degrees
behind him in Atlanta He will have
need for all his nerve as well as his
wits as the leader of fthe Hearst
newspapers forces, for there is hard.
stern, work ahead of him in which
the flowers of speech are as the TOYS
of children, mere "doquence" is
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despised, and the battle is to him
whose wit can bite tue deepes:.
whose satire sting the keenest. and
whose logic hit the hardest
But we have faith in the fibre Of
the man from Georgia, in his staying
in his adaptability to new
and with his undoubted |
talents and high ambition, we be- |
lieve that he will not disappoint his |
friends in his larger field of action. /
He knows our Southern problems in :
and he can and will do us /
vast good in putting them right be- /
fore millions of Northern readers.
That will be but q small part of his /
work, but he will not forget it, and
he will tell those people much about
US which they need to know. The
whole South will feel an interest in
John Temple Graves in New York
newspaper life, for he stands for the
best that is in us; he is our ambas-
sader at a great court, and we all
most heartily hope that he may in
crease in fair repute and usefulness, /
hold his own with the best of them,
and write his name too deep for
erasure in the journalism of the