The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-06-15
Trains Going West.
COLES A GREAT MAN.

The average editor has a great deal
of trouble keeping out of jail and the
poorhouse-trying to run one paper.
1t is only given to a few men Of ex-
ceptionaI genius and ability-fnancial
prodigies-to conduct more than one.
In England the great Harmsworth
has a string of dailies, weeklies and
monthlies. In this country Munsey
and Hearst are working along similar
lines.
But Fargo is likely to gain promi-
nence in this respect in the near flu
ture. It has an editorial writer who
may make the rest of the thought
mouIders of the United States and Eu-
rope look like 80 cents. This city has
a great genius-a man with a mental
ity of such prodgious proportions that
he is already editing two publications
one seven day in the week daily
and the other a weekly.
AS a result of his wide learning, his
retentive memory and his scintillating
brilliancy-he is not only able to write
of the past and the tpresent-but he is
also gifted with the ipower to peer into
the future.
He can read the minds of people
divine their motives sand forecast to a
nicely just what are their innermost
thoughts. While this work is somewhat
on the plan Of a constipation of ideas
and diarrhoea of words-that does
not prevent him from being great and
'heroic-to himself.
He frequently writes his editorial
matter in advance, carries it around to
places where he finds unsuspecting
victims to whom he reads it. He u.s.
ually concludes with the observation:
"this is fine matter, if do say so my
self"
It's certainly great toShave it that
way!
In Tuesday norning'st issue of his
daily publication, Editor Cole had the
following:
The Forum has always been the
main mouth piece Of the staIwart or
ganization in the state. It is recog-
fnized as such all over by everybody.
1t is persistently now claiming that
there was nothing wrong under the
Boucher administrations notwithstand
ing the disclosures that the legislative
committee made, and it was exceed
fngly mild.
TIE Forum always has a purpose
and in this case its purpose is to get
a republican governor nominated who
would If elected make such appoint
ments to the board that controls the
penitentiary that Boucher would be
put back in charge. The Forum will
no doubt deny this, but any one who
has watched it's recent roundabout
iaudation of Boucher will readily con-
clude that that is a part of its game.
Now, if Editor Cole had hesitated in
his prophecy trif1e-had it been pos
sible for him to have had a brief mo-
n1ent or two of lucidity-it might have
occurred to him that the hold over
democrats, already appointed, will con-
troll the state penitentiary board and
select the next warden-no matter if
a republican candidate for governor is
elected.
In fact it was this very thing that
made Warden Hellstrom-a third own
er of the paper in which Cole is re-
Gently perpetrating his effusions-de-
eide to continue in his present posi-
tion. He saw that he could hold on
three years longer, even with re-
publican governor, and he concluded
to remain at the head Of the PEN
rather than assume the active man
agement Of the morning paper.
II Editor Cole was not SO busy--he