The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1912-11-14
AN APPRECIATION
BY sam \. CLARK
PASSING OF THE THIRD OF TRIO
OF NEWSPAPERS MEN WHO
BUILT UP THREE GREAT PA
PERs REGRErTED-sET HIGH
STANDARD FOR STATE.

The Curbstone and Corridor coli
umn Of The Bismarck Tribune had
the following: sh H. a-
Il noticed in yesterdays Fargo For
/ um the announcement that. the paper
had passed from the control of III. g.
Plumley, having been sold by, the re-
ceiver under a court order, and in the
future The Forum will be published by
parties who come from outside the
state" said Sam III. Clark. There is
just a tinge of the pathetic in this
Plum-as he is lovingly known by
the press boys--and The Forum. When
l came to North Dakota some few
years ago, the standard of journalism
within the state was at high tide. The
Fargo Forum, The Grand Forks Her
aid and The Bismarck Tribune were
the leading papers. Unlike the big
newspapers of other states where l
| had been. there was distinctive char
acter at the head of The Herald, H. c.
| Plumley piloted The Forum and Mar
| shall H Jewell headed The Bismarck
Tribune. While ] embarked in the
| daily newspaper business and imme-
diately commenced mixing in political
| broils and had a say on ali matters, of
public moment, / always had the ut
most reverence and respect for the
editorial utterances of the three big
| newspaper generals who moulded pub
lie sentiment toward better things in
the new state of North Dakota. In
| their years of faithful service, these
three men did more for North Dakota
| than did all the politicians and So
called statesmen; their editorials were
ever big and broad and wholesome
always loyal and pointing the way to
the great future which so surely came.
In their time--Plumley and these 9TH
er two made scores of men. They
welded an influence through the press
that had then been recognized and
now after years of faithful, unwaver-
ing service, the last Of these three hon
orable soldiers in newspaperdom steps
down and out to make room for young
er blood-and money. Marshall n.
Jewell Is dead; George B. Winship
has severed all connection with The
Herald and has left the state; H. G.
Plumley, the last to 60 surrenders his
place to an outsider and The Fargo
Forum which has been his pride and
his very life--the one ambition to
which he devoted the best years, the
vigor, the hope and everlasting faith
of his ife-passes out of his hands to
satisfy the clamoring of creditors.
when / see men high in the public
life-scores of them-Who owe their
every success to Plumley, to Jewell, or
reward these three men received at
the hands of an ungrateful public,
sometimes wonder, If, after all, honest
human endeavor is appreciated and
rewarded. Winship's every ambition
was assassinated by political pirates;
JEWELS uphill fight for the slope"
| and Bismarck sapped his great vital
ity and strength, and while he built a
monument to his memory in the splen-
did Bismarck Tribune, some of the
very men and factions he befriended,
battled for and actually made-have
used money and political influence and
even underhandedness and intrigue to
cripple if possible the plant and paper
to which Jewell gave a quarter of a
century of brilliant, honest manhood.
And now Plumley steps down from
| The Forum; he never asked much for
! himself-he got less. In the years to
come perhaps Plumley and those 9TH
ers who unselfishly gave the best that
was in them for North Dakota will be
appreciated for their worth. The his
tory of the state can never be written
without giving these men an honored
page. And we youngsters who
have succeeded them would adhere to
the strong principles, the manhood,
and honest endeavor toward better
things-the standard set a quarter of
q century ago and carried out by
Plumley by Winship and by Jewell
we cannot go far wrong" - o.. ~