The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-06
New Secretary Of the Treasury Owner and Creator Of Raleigh
Newspaper-Twice Managed Publicity Cam
= paigns for the Democrats During
Presidential Years.

composition of sub. which is the harder
| task
Put down in their order, Mr.. Daniels
| interests are journalistic-he is the
| owner and creator of the Raleigh News
and Observer; political. he long has
beer a member of the Democratic Ma
| tional Committee, and twice managed
the literary end Of Presidential cam
, paIgn, and, religious, he teaches a
Bible class Of college students at his
home. is a worker in the Y. NJ. CA,
and preached prohibition in his COL
umns until he saw it made the law of
his State. He is a partisan Democrat,
| a pugnacious editor, and a militant
Christian. because he is energetic, in
dustrious, and intense. His language
is vigorous and quaint; his philosophy
is original and direct, and his outlook
is optimistic. He has walked his bed
room floor at night with big debts
scowling in his face. Once, likewise,
he was almost in jail. 1 asked him
when he made the acquaintance OF
Woodrow Wilson.
AT the time he was president Of
Princeton" Mr. Daniels replied. HE
came to Raleigh and delivered an adj
dress to the studepts of our university
of which i am q trustee-and was q
guest at my house. We found that two
Of Mrs. Daniels uncIes had been elders
in his fathers church. Consequently.
we felt we'll acquainted from the first.
I think" Mr.. Daniels went on to say.
with q smile. that the President
thought Mrs. Daniels would make a
good Secretary of the Navy, SO I got
into the administration. I am afraid.
on my wife's ticket"
Bagley was Mrs. Daniels name be-
fore she wa married. Worth Bagley.
her brother. an ensign on the torpedo
boHt winslow. was killed by Spanish
bullet off the Cuban coast eleven
months after he was graduated from
the Academy at Annapolis. Jonathan
Worth, his grandfather. once Governor
Of North Carolina, was a Quaker. The
Bagleys, however, are Presbyterfans;
the Daniels are Methodists.
His Idens About Journalism.
Il was a thick -and-thin Wilson man."
Mr.. Daniels continued, from his very
start in politics. l didn't print, edi-
torially. very much Of anything else. j
never do when i have enlisted to help
man or a subject. That is my policy.
Reiteration wins eventually. Many edi-
tors nowadays touch things lightly. They
want to entertain their readers and skip
from issue to issue so as not to be-
come wearisome. That wasn't the prac
tice of Raymond, Greeley or Dana. They
repeated themselves month in and month
out, stating their arguments differently
in each issue, but never losing thought or
sight of the question they were driving
into the minds of their subscribers.
Consequently they were. convincing. A
reader will say, if editor hammers
away long enough: This man is honest. |
He believes in what he is preaching /
guess I'll accept his Judgment
"(-lerpVmen.' / Eenturpd to observe. |
necessarily have to keep on telling
the same old story"
land that is the reason" Secretary
Daniels answered, that the world is |
being civilized. But Christianity is too
much scattered doctrinally. 1t is en-
barrassing to us and Is especially so
to the heather. missionary says: You
must go under the water And the !
heather obeys the order. Along comes