Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-10-06
MORE POLITICAL HoNoRS
FOR NEWSPAPERMEN
Several of Them Are Running for
Governorship and Others Want
to Go to Congress.
(American Press J

This is surely going to be a fine
country, for editors are coming into
political power, and it won't be long
Until we shall have a perfect govern
ment.
Newspaper men have long had a
hankering for political power, and the
halls of Congress have been graced
with editors for these many years.
But there's wave of reform sweep.
ing the country and the newspaper
men are grasping the reins.
! u nts2 Deeh slggeSted by a cynic
that the people are trying to show the
editors up. The newspapers have
pounded at aldermen and city coun.
cilmen street commissioners and gov
ernors since the constitution was
framed. Congressman, senators and
presidents have been held up to the
limelight, and the public has been in
formed that the country was going
straight to ruin because it was not be-
ing properly handled.
The country has been saved a good
many times by the ink pot and shears.
The public seems to have taken the
editors at their word and are now
Placing them in high offices. This is
as 1t should be, for-well, let us wait
and see what the newspaper men are
going to do as governors and congress.
r1en and senators.
Some have made good in the past;
some are yet to be tried. The majori-
ty will make good.
The newspaper men that have been
before the public have won a serious
position as lawmakers. New recruits
have come to the front, and they are
to be tested.
Today the American Press gives a
few of the newspaper men who are
either elected to political honors OF
are seeking new fields. Other reviews
of newspaper men in the political field
will be published from time to time
Frederick W. Plaisted, the Demo
cratic governor elect of Maine, is the
publisher of the Augusta New Age He
has been good newspaper man. and
how he will fill the governorship is
yet to be settled by time.
Warren G. Harding, the Republican
candidate for governor of Ohio, is q
popular newspaper man in the Buck
eye state. He is publisher of the
Marion Evening and Weekly Star
two of the best papers in the state
that makes presidents to order.
Vivian M. Lewis, Republican candi
date for governor of New Jersey, was
a representative of the Associated
Press at Paterson, N. j., for many
years.
Representative Walter P, Brown
low of Tennessee is editor and pro
prietor of the Herald and Tribune O
Jonesboro, Tenn.
Representative Joel Cook of Phila
delphia has held many years in ant
around Philadelphia.
I E. A. Hayes of San Jose, Cal, pre-
prietor of the Morning Mercury an,
Evening Herald of that place, seek
political honors in Congress again.
Victor Murdock, he of the red hal
and insurgent tendencies, was at on
time a reporter in Chicago and late
editor of the Wichita Daily Eagle.
Cole E. Hofer, editor and publishe
of the Daily Capital Journal of Salem
Ore, sought gubernatorial honors i
his state.
E. S. Underhill of the Evening Leat
!. er, Corning, N. Y, has been honore
, by the voters of his district for man
o years and would like to go to Coz
I gress.
! Representative Daniel Read Al
G tkony, Jr., of Leavenworth, Kas., ha
p been the director of the Leavenwort
J Daily Times since the death of hi
father.