Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-18
J0SEFHUS DANIELS LOVES
HIS EDITORIAL DUTIES
Washington Post.)

JOSepHuS DdHlelS, ike henry wat
| terson, is a man SO thoroughly in love
with his editorial duties that he never
has been. conspicuous as a seeker for
public office AS editor of the RAJ
leigh News and Observer, he has been
but throughout the South. For sixteen
years, however, he has represented his
state in the democratic national COM
mittee, and with single exception, he
is its senior member. 1t has been said
of him that he is closer to Mr. Bryan
than any other member of that body.
The only public Office Mr. Daniels
has ever held hitherto was that of ap-
pointment clerk under Hoke Smith in
the second Cleveland administration
at $4,000 a year. He did not like the
job, and was glad to return to his edi-
torial sanctum in Raleigh. Twentieth
century politicians have regarded MI.
Daniels as "old fashioned" and },
a somewhat severe type.
Started Career i'm Wilson.
His is a smooth-shaven, serious
face of thoughtful man of middle age.
with deep lines running down from
the corners of the mouth His friends,
however, know him as one of the kind
Hest of men. He is never so happy as
when he is at home with Mrs. Dan
iels and their four sons For a South
erner, he is something of an anomaly,
for he neither smokes, drinks nor
swears, so it is said, but he talks with
the explosive rapidity of a machine
gun.
Mr. Daniels was born in Washington,
N. c. on May 16, 1862. The name Of
Wilson has always been one to conjure
with during his career for it was in
the town of Wilson, when he was a
boy, that he launched his first anna
teur newspaper and nursed his ambi-
ton to become the greatest editor in
the state.
After he returned to Raleigh from
his first experiment in officeholding in
Washington he bought the Chronicle
and ran it SO vigorously in opposition
to the News and Observer that the two
papers soon consolidated under M,
Daniels proprietorship, 1t now has
double the circulation of any other
paper in the state, and occupies g
handsome office building, from which
are published two weeklies-the Far
ner and Mechanic and the Weekly
News and Observer.
Has Courage of Conviction.
Josephus Daniels has always had the
courage of his convictions. North Caro-
linians all remember how he was put
"in Jail" in 1904 for speaking his mind
too freely in his editorial columns. His
Jail there in the custody of the United
he actually was held for several days,
during which he dated his editorials
from Cell No. $685."
He had severely criticised the acts
of a United States Judge now dead.
| The judge held him for contempt and
imposed a fine of $4,000. Mr.. Daniels
declared in court that he would "ro5
in jail'' before he you'd pay cent.
On an appeal Judge Pritchard found
Mr.. Daniels not guilty, and RENTED
the fine.
Mr.. Daniels married Miss Alice
/ Worth Bagley, whose brother, Ensign
Worth Bagley was killed on board the
Winslow, in Cardenas harbor, the only
commissioned officer of the American
navy to lose his life in the Spanish
American war. A statue of the young
officer now stands in front of the Ra-
leigh courthouse Mr. Daniels was one
of the first prominent men in the en-
tire South to espouse the cause Of
Woodrow Wilson in his presidential
campaign, and was placed at the head
of the Wilson publicity and literary
bureau, position which he had fillel
! for Mr.. Bryan in the 1908 campaign.
In the Parker campaign he organized
the editors pilgrimage to Esopus and
the famous dollar dinner to William l.
Bryan, Tom" Pence, who had been
the Washington correspondent of the
Raleigh News and Observer, had
charge of the publicity bureau at the
National Capital for the Wilson
forces.
A woman could enjoy eating cold