The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-06
First Met President Wilson When the Now Head Of the Nal
ton Was President Of Princeton-Once Fined
$500 by Judge and Held by Marshal
for Three Days

once every year. If I met young man
from Wisconsin who was a Democrat.
Mr.. Postmaster General. / would say
heswas disloyaI to you. But the logic
and the stratagem didn't work. Howe
put my mother out and appointed the
wife of the man who had wanted the
place himself Howe wasn't slow.
either. He did the right thing, but I
would have hesitated TO admit 1t then.
Moreover, nothing better could have
happened to the Daniels family.
Hard Times and Finally Success.
Il grew III kcer than before. politi-
cslly, and that helped my property.
Matters became a little brighter flnan-
cially. and 1 studied law. taking q
course at our university. simply be-
cause 1 wanted the mental discipline.
having been denied a college training.
i never meant to practice the legal
profession. and ceased to be a lawyer.
II 1 ever began, the day / passed the
bar examination. Walter H. Page.
afterward editor of the Atlantic
Monthly and now editor of Worlds
Work. was running the State Chron-
icle al Raleigh. He and 1 were friends.
] took his place when he moved to the
North. buying the Chronicle on credit.
Then / Mingled with the members Of
the State Legislature, and, to the as
constituent of two other candidates.
was elected State printer. The ONCE
paid me about $4,000 net. 1t was not
oncrous. / was reelected three times.
and then. right after the fourth cleo
tion resigned because / believed the
work should not be given as a reward
in politics, but let out to the lowest
bidder
by this time 1 was also proprietor of
a daily newspaper and was losing money
steadily. Well, as it always happens, a
man came along and wanted to be an ed
itor. After paying all my debts. had
5000. i took my mother and my mother
iE-Iaw on a trip to California. 1t was a
fine vacation. and all of us enjoyed il I'm
mensely. / returned home in time for
the Cleveland campaign of 1892. Popu-
lsm was breaking up the Democratic
party in the South. Cotton was down to
cents a pound. started a campaign
paper for the agricultural regions called
the North Carolinian.
After the election, Hoke Smith. who
was to be Secretary of the Interior, tele-
graphed me to report to him the day fol-
lowing the Inauguration. 1 was made
appointment clerk, and cut off so many
Republican heads that even Senator
Smith asked me, in heavens name, TO
stop. Too many amateurs. you see. were
being brought into the department all
at once. / was chief clerk. and had been
in Office nearly two years. when i heard
that the Raleigh News and Observer, a
dignified old newspaper, had fallen into
hard lines and was to be sold at auc-
ton.
"A lawyer bought il for me secretly
for $4,000. thus fooling the railroads.
borrowed the money from a friend. The
first wear 1 lost 5000. At the beginning
Of the third wear I owed $1,000. Then
the tide turned. / have one of the best
NEWSPAPER plants in America, taking all
things into consideration and speaking
relatively. Raleigh has 1900 inhabitants.
My circulation is 10000 Think those fig
ures over for a minute. I am far from
being rich. but 1 have all the money
that is good for me or for any one else
Copyright, 1913, by James B. Morrow