The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-01-20
TRIBUTE To
THE COUNTY
EO|T0 DR.
CHAMP CLARK SAID NICE
THINGS ABOUT HIM l3
YEARS AGO


house was considering the Lou
bill. which proposed TO increas,
the postal rates on country newspa
pers and to adopt a number o
restrictions on their TRANSMISSION
through tho lHais. Champ Clarl
defeated the bin by his speech
portion OF watch follows,
Newspapers are great dissemina
tors cf information. The mammoti
metropolitan papers with their vas
circulation are SPLENDID educators
hut after all ten persons read tn
little country weekly where one
reads metropolitan paper.
Having once been country edi
tor myself. | entertain a most kind
| u feeling for my old conireres.
am willing to make affidavit tha
the eleven months | spent editing a
rural journal were the most beneh
cia OF my life to myself, perhaps
others. ! am proud to have belong
ed to the editorial guild. | am un
alterably opposed to anything that
vii iljure tne country editor, cur
tai his profits. circumscribe his
usefulness or place an additiona
thorn in his pathway.
The rural editor-God bless him 4,
lis the most persistent of teachers.
Like charity as described by st.
Paul in tae thirteenth chapter of the
| Flsrt Corinthians he suffereta long
and is kind, which cannot be said
OF the men that got up tais bill.
! lie 'envieth not in which he does
not resemble some people over on
this side of the House. He yaun-
/ teth not himself, in which ne is
| differentiated from the leaders on
the other side OF the big aisle He
is not puffed up in which he rises
! high above a good many of us. He
does not behave himself unseemly.
seeketh nor mis- own; is not easily
provoked.
He is the pack horse OF every
community. the promoter of every
laudable enterprise, the worst un-
derpaid laborer in the vineyard.
Counting his space as hts capital.
ne gives more to charity his means
considered, than anyothes member
OF society He is a power in pol-
tics, a pillar OF the church. leader
~ tle crusade for better morals.
lie is pre-eminently the friend OF
humanity.
Line upcn line. paragraph upon
paragraph, day by day, he is EN-
halming in cold type the fact from
which the Herodotus, the -actins,
the Sismondi or the Macaulay Of
RE future viii write the history III
cur times (Applause). He Joy
ously announces our advent into
this world. briefly recorns our M.
rsings and our downsittings, ana
sorrowfuliy chronicles our exit from
this vale Of tears.
AS creator of beauty, he
double discounts Nine. Aver, who
undertaking to increase feminine pul,
chritnde only in particular instan-
stances but the country editor in the
exercise OF plenary power. I'M
partially beauties all women whose
names appeal in his columns.
daughter and applause,l BY a touch
OF the magicians wand he converts
paste into diamonds sparkling unon
beautys neck, ana with a skill OF
Wiieh ancient and ambitious at
chemists only dreamed. and with
politeness which Chesterfield might
have cnyicd, he transmutes brass
lflnkets into jewelry of purest gold
when they appear as ornaments vi
The family of his subscriber
lie IS the greatest ana most in.
genlous or manufacturers, for, wniie
other manufacturers produce only
perishable stuffs, he manufactures
statesmen out Of raw, sometimes
very raw, material. (Laughter) In
this audable industry no Dinglev
bill can protect him. and he must
eX-necessitate work in competition
withe the pauper manufacturers OF
Europe.
lie is
70 onr virtues very kind
And to our faults little blind
We are all more or less. general.
y mere. his handiwork; and it does
net become the creature to injure the |
business Of his creator. Without ais
ingenious, generous. and enthusiastic |
IA bors most Of us would never have |
been mere; and when he tires OF us |
we viii retire TO private life, amid |
rural scenes propitious for secrer |
meditation and silent prayer. CLsugh. |
ter) Working night and day during |
ne campaign often without money |
md without price. when the election |
S over. the victory won and the I
caves and fishes, now vulgarly called |,
pie, are to be distributed, by some Il
strange lapse of the human memory II
ne is generally forgotten.
Horace Greeley was certainly one II
L the greatest editors the world ev-
r saw. His letter 10 William II.
eward in 1854 announcing "the dis.
oluiion Of the political firm of Sc
ard. Weed, ana Freely, by the
CT the junior partner. is
ne CT the wittiest. most caustic. and
lost pathetic epistles in American
terature
"Harace's wrathtul statement. part
which ! quote, would easily ft
ANY another rural editor. After
ating that in LOST Weed and other
lends OF Seward asing aim TO run :
campaign weekly paper. he contin-
rs. They asked me to fix my
iary for the year named $1,000.
hich t1ex agreed to; and | did the
ORR required to the best Of my abi-
r Il was work that made no fig |
c. See how closely il fits the
untry editor-It was work that
ade no figure and created no SEN
tion, but l love it'-as the countryl