The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-04-27
fFayctteViIle IndcXl

"a IS a Republican State daily for
several years until last January. when
il Vas suspended by order of the Fed
raj Court, after having been for unite
ii While in the hands Of a receiver.
Now Carl Duncan has bought the
plant, and It is understood that he will
undel take TO do what others have
JAILED TO DO, publish a successful Re
publican daily ape at Greensboro.
The newspapers in North Carolina
mat are successes are owned outright
n at least entirely controlled by one
IF TWO men, while those owned by a
dozen or a half dozen men, any ma
jority OF whom III number have a con-
trolling interest,". Go not so. Those
that have tried it have experienced 2
career not at all enViabie. The In
d~ustrial News had plenty of hands.
but no head. 1t had a bunch OF
stockholders. These stockholders
by the way. first one man and then
another-Was not boss of his lob.
There were too many bosses over him,
ana they insisted upon overseeing the
work. The editor was a hired man
only. If he could not run the thing
10 suit all he could get out"-as if
Jesus Christ could run a paper to suit
q dozen bosses! Anyway, one editor
would set out and another would get
ln-of course the bosses knew there
were plenty of men just ~yearning for
the Job! But the editor wasn't free.
His readers didn't recognize his per
sonality, and personality counts. To
make 4 }ons story short. no man car
run q newspaper TO suit Il dozen
bosses-and the Industrial News failed
utterly.
The Winston Journal has been han
dicapped because it belongs to too
many oil and changes its editorial
force so often that its readers hardly
know who is running the paper. The
Raleigh Evening Times has been in a
lass close kin to that Just described.
On the other hand, the News and
observer, the Charlotte Observer, the
Wilmington Star. the Durham Herald
nd the Greensboro Telegram are emf
0rntly successful dailies. Wherein
ara they different from those before
menU0ned? Let's see.
The News and Observer, as every
body knows, is controlled by Josephus
Daniels, and no other mortal man has
anything whatever to do with direct
Ing the policy OF that paper. Not a
word goes into the paper that he
ioesn1 stand personally responsible
Tor, unless it be printed over mothers
signature. Every issue OF the paper is
50 completely the expression Of the
man that the readers. III speaking of
't -~~CA+A III - q 49,
news columns or the headlines, instead
of saying, THE News and Observer
says, they say, ~"Josephus Daniels
says even though he may have been
in Ne" York a month and didn't him.
self know what the paper said until
Two days after it was printed. But
II is the most widely read and most
powerful daily paper in the State.
Everybody knows the Charlotte OBJ
servers utterances are those Of j. z.
caldwell and D. A. Tompkins. They
have made it one Of the very livest
uailies in the South. Joe Caldwell is
one Of the ablest editors in all the
Southland. but he would have failed
utterly with three bosses standing over
MIN when he wrote, ready to dis
charge him when his opinion happen
I'd TO differ from that of a majority Of
them.
Joe King and +. T. Rollins haVe run
their own paper and made fine sue
cess Of the Durham Herald. The edi-
tOrial columns contain only what Joe
King thinks, and he doesn't care q
continental whether it pleases any
body else or not. But for that very
reason It does please.
The Wilmington star is the oldest
daily in the State. and when you get
It yOu have X. II. Bernard's opinion
and the days news. and when you get
the Greensboro Telegram YOU get a
letter from Bob Haywood, along with
the news. and YOU know he didn't u
to u railroad official nor to a bunch
Of stockholders to get permission TO
write if.
Now. what we have said Of dailies
is true also Of Weeklies and semi
Week1ies.
To make financial success and weld
a large. influence at the present day III
North Carolina. a ape must be SO
conducted hat the personality of the
editor or editors can be recognized by
its readers, and the paper must IN a