The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-02-20
STATE EDITORS
GET TOGETHER
Our Esteemed Competitors Feted
and FIattered at St. Paul,
Kings for a Day.
Declare in Favor of Anti-Pdss Law
and Endorse Reciprocal
Demurrage.

The average country editor never
knows what a good fellow he IS
until he attends a good-sized con-
vention of newspaper men and list
ems to the eulogies of representa-
tives of commercial bodies and the
confessions of the editors them
selves. No wonder some newspaper
men get the convention habit and
never quite recover from the in
sidious disease. At home they are
rated as very ordinary people, or at
least no better than they ought to
be, but no sooner do they line up
with body Of other thot-moulders
than they are brought to a realizing
sense that the newspaper man is
really sit" and that the whole world
hangs breathless on what he is 60
ing to do next.
After ten years or so Of total
abstinence from the convention habit
the writer wanted to hear the old
band play; wanted to see the play
of light and shade on Dad Pease's
capacious brow, to listen to old
Halls high-keyed and witty sallies
and to Charlie Whitney's announce
ments Of what was coming next for
the boys. In short, we wanted to
see what the bunch looked like after
growing ten years older. And we
are glad we went.
1t was just our luck to miss the
first morning session and with it the
opportunity of a lifetime to hear
W. j. Bryan jolly the newspaper
boys and tell them that the big
dailies were not worthy to be used
as footwipers by the country weekly
push. The big dailies were man.
aged by corporations and were the
organs of corporations mere big ma
chimes for grinding out the worlds
news-while the salvation of the
country hung on the opinions Gre
ated by the real things.
Thursday afternoon was largely
devoted to roasting one Madden.
third assistant auditor of the P. O.
department at Washington. When
Madden read what the Minnesota
newspaper fellows thot about his
rulings and recommendations as to
second-class matter, he probably
wished he had never been born. In
the evening the distinguished Jour
nalists found solace at the Orpheum,
where the program has been adapt
ed to their need for something light
and easy. One clever artist bal
anced a table set with dishes and a
lighted lamp on the end of a pole
IN mid-air, another set sang catchy
songs and exploded a joke or two
on the Minnesota editors. One clev-
er female artist demonstrated that
editors were not the only people
who were gifted in the ability to
blow their horn, and was a marvel
with the cornet, while another
woman very ingeniously personated
Bryan, Roosevelt, and other people. |
oetween acts moving pictures de-
olcted the whole process of modern
newspaper making in a metropolitan !
newspaper and later the wonders of I
Yellowstone Park.
The banquet at the Commercial
Tub followed, and in the main
demonstrated what has often been
hown before, that the Commercial
Tub OF st. Paul know how to give
heir guests a good time. The
eatures of the evening were the
peeches of Attorney Deutsch of
Minneapolis, of Editors Frank Eddy
nd Charlie Mitchell, the thoroly
senial and tactful art of POSTMASTER
aggard OF the state supreme bench,
nd the nathotic ;no;Aan4c III %