The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-09-23
MAYOR DELIVERS KEYS Of
CITY To NEWSPAPER MEN
Gave Address of Welcome Which Was Responded to
by Vancouver Publisher President Hazetine in His
Address Showed Effect of Primary Law Newspa-
per Business Magnied Importance of the Editor.

| difference. The press of this state
| has now before it the greatest OPP
portunity it ever had and with it
came a great responsibility. / some
times wonder if we are not too hui
man to respond to the duty thus laid
upon US. The people must look to
J us for information as to the quail
| fication of candidates. Will we be-
| tray their confidence by publishing
only paid advertising matter or shall
we set before them fairly, though
even briefly, the claim of every cam
| didate, SO that the people will have
a chance to Judge for themselves?
| This does not mean that | do not
favor the extension of our privilege
to print paid advertising matter, for
do, but with the profitable feature
comes the duty of giving the news
of all candidates to reasonable eX-
tent. We can play our favorites.
but when we take a mans subscrip-
ton, we contract with him in all
honor to give him fair idea of the
various candidates so that he can
discard our prejudices and judge for
himself. If we do not do that, but
set ourselves up as bosses, or sell our
| influence for office, we must see this
opportunity pass from us. The peo-
pie will rightly say that they have
simply changed bosses in changing
primary system, or despise us if we
are in the march for sale to the high
est bidder.
lit is better that the president of
the United States 60 wrong, or half
of our representatives in congress
should go wrong, than that the peO-
pie should lose confidence i'm the
press.
The campaign just closed has
demonstrated most emphatically that
something besides favorable pub
licity is necessary. that people are
beginning to look back behind the
editorial writer and see what the in
f1uences are, which cause him to ad-
Iyocate some particular candidate It
has been plainly demonstrated in the
past campaign that a man cannot
boost for himself with his own pa
per effectively, and it has also been
demonstrated that paid publicity in
Itself is not always effective. The in
fiuence which counts and which tells
which is given freely and sincerely
from the heart, and we, as country
editors, who are known by our sub
Iscribers personally, have a duty
plainly before us. of giving freely of
ICur space when there is matter of
principle involved.
The day of personal journalism
has probably passed, so far as the
big daily is concerned, but | can
not see how it can ever pass with the
country weekly, when we consider
how closely the editor of the country
paper is connected with his readers
and his patrons. The country editor,
who has such ideals, will have glori-
Gus victories and some singing de-
feats, but the defeats will develop
later on into victories, and then the
joy of having borne will be greater
than ever. Everything is by COM
parison, and there is no particular
pleasure in victory unless it has been
ipreceeded by a season beneath the
Juniper tree, occasioned by defeat"
New Members Enrolled.
The following is list of new
members registered by the secretary
this morning:
Eugene Lorton, Spokane; Mrs. H.
ID. Matthews, Monitor-Transcript,
Monroe Fred Ornes, Argus, Mt. Ver-
non; Mrs. Fred Ornes, Mt Vernon;
A. j. Morrow, News, Everett; Mrs.
A. j. Morrow, Everett; ]. B. Best,
Herald, Everett; Ole Hansen, Real
Estate Bulletin, Seattle; Thos. Hook
er, Chronicle, Spokane; H. F. Will
Icox, News, Index; Mrs. H. F. Wilcox,
Index; w. P. Bell, state attorney gen.