The Cairo bulletin., 1912-10-26


We can get control OF. II VIII take
100000. but I'm game II yon can
snow me how the thing is goiRs to
work out"
Well" I said, "I'vc got to get in
with that bunch and get in right or
there will be nothing doing. They're
too wise and too old al the game to
let any secrets slip except in their
own bunch. | could stay there year
and be no wiser than am now, unless
| got in right. BY playing the part
Of crooked newspaper owner, vii.
ling to sell his soul for money, I'll be
one Of their own kind"
The paper in question was small
daily In nearby town. It was in bad
financial condition, and Braden's old
friend soon raised the money for IT'S
purchase. | got down and out news.
paper man from New York to come
out and take charge of it, and the
day the ownership changed hands VIC
came out with a front page editorial
announcing change OF policy. Whore
before the paper had soughi only to
harm business-in pickwicEian
sense-and so to harm all classes. IL
was now going to help business all 1t
could. We did not ray so in so many
words. but We limited that we were
not at all in favor OF Governor Bra
den's drastic and unreasonable on
slaughts on the great interests that
have made the prosperity of the
STATE possible" My newspaper man
ives peach; he could write as II he
really meant anything he said.
! got some new cards printed MS
publisher of the "Cronkton Daily
News" and continued to live at the
hotel in the capitol city ! had boys
from the paper coming in to see NE.
had letters ana packages addressed
to me Under my newly assumed title
delivered at the hotel, and soon my
identity was we'll established among
the cotere that made the hotel its
home,
One morning we published a clever,
yelled attack on Governor Braden
That afternoon a big, genial looking
man stopped me IN the hotel lobby
and said Mr. Cornell, I've never had
the pleasure of meeting you. I'm Gold
rarber. attorney for the Union Milling
company. | want TO congratulate you
On that mastery editorial on the gov
srnor this morning"
Have you seen what the governors
own papers say about it, Mr.. Goldfar-
ber?" | asked and | showed him a
reform paper that ! had just bought.
which bore the headlines:
"Cronkton News IN the Hands Of the
Graftors-Formerly Respectable
Paper Sells Ont to the
Interests"
We laughed heartily over the story
md adjourned to the bar. l told
Goldiarber that had bought the
Cronkton News because | thought it
good business proposition--if It was
run right. There was plenty Of adver-
Using to be had If its editorial policy
was right. | proposed to keep It right
| hoped Mr.. Goldrarber would remem-
Der me If he happened to speak to tie
advertising manager Of the UGi0a
Milling company
He certainly did. Next day there
+, ,ame by telegraph an order for full
page ad to br run daily for n month,
ma check IN full payment for the
came cane in the first mail.
10 show its gratitude the Cronkton
News ran n laudatory article about
The Union Milling company and about
he men who were At its head My
editor made the company look like the
foundation upon which the welfare of
The state rested and It's owners Ike
unselish benefactors OF the human
race.
This was kept up until five large
companies were running big ads in
the News and until we had written
them up favorably. | was on friendly
terms with the i've lobbyists who req
resented these concerns. They We're
The men who really had been running
the state, and obviously they were the
ones who were behind the detection
OF Governor Bradens oue-iime reform
legislature. II | could learn what
they knew about the change Of heart
that had como over the representa-.
tives after the labor bill had been in,
troduced. | would have finished my
case.
One day Goldfarber came 10 my
room and said. Suppose you send
a man up to interview Murray and
Schoenlein. those celebrated reform
friends of the governor. They might
have something interesting to say
| took the hint and wired my editor
to get on the Job himself. Murray
and schoenlefn, up 10 now had been
steadily standing by the governor,
pledsing themselves to fight tor his