Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-10-26
c. E. Flint Resigns
Position on Daily
Had Proved Very Valuable Man to
Public opinion-Goes to Mime
i apolis.

pays pays high tribute to an employee
OF an opposition sheet and in doing SO
the Saturday News feels that they
are ovefstretching the limits to pay
their respects to a young man whose
principles are high enough and his
desire for truthful reputation is
utterly beyond the reach Of those
who try to maintain a standard of
thought that is not verified by facts
and transpose theories and truths to
make them fit their own egotistical
natures, and desires whether or not
such things enlighten the public or
mislead them -&
C. E. Flint, for the past year, city
editor on the Public Opinion, severed
his connections with that paper Tues
DAY and has gone to the twin cities
where he will become connected with
one of the dailies there.
Mr.. Flint has been the hustler on
the morning daily and since his con-
rection with the paper has furnished
the readers with good live news all
the time and it will make it espec-
tally hard for any successor, no mat
whom he might be, to fill the vacan.
cy he has left.
During his stay here he has made
a host Of friends, not only for himself
but for the paper with which he has
labored and many dollars worth OF
business has been turned into them
from the friendly contact that he has
had and the many warm personal
friends he has acquired.
4 Through the acquaintance with
i numerous stattss ., officials that Mr.
Flint has made, he was invited to
make the trip through the state on
the President Taft train and in accept.
ing such an invitation did so with
the understanding that he could re.
port the news to the readers of the
Public Opinion and thereby give his
friends an opportunity to hear the
interesting news concerning the trip
On returning home, he found that
where he had told the truth about
the crowds who attended the presi.
dents visits and the many courtesies
extended to Watertown men who
were on the trip the management ot
the paper had utterly misquotad his
representation and had stated that
Taft had been poorly received.
Nothing was mentioned (until the
day after) about the entertainment
and efficient service of the local par
ty who acted as the presidents body
guard. Thereby, utterly ignoring
the people who were extending their
hospitality and telling their story in
exactly the opposite light from which
it should have been received by the
reading public in Watertown and
Which Mr.. Flint intended. ...
| We heartily commend Mr.. Flint in
deed for the action he has taken ir
the matter and glory in the spunk Of
any young man who will stand up lr
the interests of truth, aud when he
iinds out that he cannot have his sto
ries told as he intends, to sever his
connections on the spot.
When newspaper men get to learr
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thing else in this world, just SO sool
will their readers start putting con
4 fidence in what they write. Any pub
lie spirited man, no matter how mar
! row minded he may be, should have
patriotism enough about him to la,
aside all personal ambitions ffor sucl
they are) and extend the hand of vel
4! come to the president of this grea
country. He may not be of yolr DO
J |sliticai creed, but he was elected b,
the people, he is the nations chic
and deserves at least the courtesy am
respect of truth.
During this entire trip Taft ha.
& made, there has been constant re
port Of how poorly Taft has beef
received. II the Public Opinion ha
n'isrepresented it under our eyes cal
! we believe that they have not don
it when the president was in othe
II states. @
Such tactics are done blindly, Ii
doubt but they have tended to max
people discredit any statement tha
/ may be made in the future as far a
Public Opinion is concerned.
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