The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-06-19

A little more than fifty years ago Archibald Campbell came to
Wheeling o take a place as reporter in the office of the Wheeling
Intelisencer He was young and unknown there. ave IS to his name.
He had a good education and was expecting to practice law. He had
Missouri in the interest Of Bethany college. This tour had ' BEEN made
He had written some amnsirrI e,'ers 80 ~, IN nssou IN 20 ..m
ua stat, a. p ~ THINGS 20 n IN I he. iIPs IS OF his aeauain'anse: In reference 70
exctemen was the atmosphere OF the time. especially in the border
The young man had felt its influence among the southern students.
debate was. the order of the day. Yet his warHest friends we're among
.sa from college in his t~ Sns Hs YEAR F and u aa a s SSS%t a year ss at a f ho%s
Quoted by two young men who were students Of Of SasV college Sse but Il much S
souri, a brother Of the Afterwards famous Sol Smith Russell : hG S@e ACTOR aas
ne the 'AS supreme 3 lS SeneS of of the Gs0I Thised ias sisss of II: They sT Sc 9 se;n r snm ar.
yaneed in literary and legal requirements. and the association with
developing his growins literary tastes and weaving him. for the present.
New A TeIE sci;,s a S ga, spent a. at; the Hamilton Law school in Clinton.
nercnee he had yet had. while the winter in Kansas and Missouri added
intense agitation going o 0c or pp" tSe w a"G.S eou N senf e. a shT s%1H ~ SS
: n,srH ina, c Mr came 10 Wheeling and entered the office of the
whole after career eP pafoTe nn po@' &c m Re h ina smp that decided dsd.,t his
as to the practice of law. but his brief en 8penaS ne ", "a , sh "n %sSa
@an completeIy ehanssd his outlook upon his professional life He
education. his tastes and his experience of life thus far all seemed to
L. anerward' even when he gave it up at times and engaged in other
wont In IN 'h rs d, MOI, months "a, as a a reporter this quiet. reserved young ma
somewhat in society, fearing and observing much acih. but saying SS "H little me a
VI -, . u" t.rtnr m y, n, inc silent 10 gwen TO condolences. but given
When he became the owner and editor of his paper IL ito be presumed
S Sipsct ~" s ~ IN nv a. I ,as,r nay AZ "a ser his mind abroad" in more
transformed into a newspaper which reflected the sentiments and
ing young reporter Needles io say. he was not in sympathy by With it's
N'Htnt II" udu" q bold Fntlfe. M Win tn" cooperation OF a
business partner he bought the paper That IT had been a WhIg paper
win SOM" saving grains OF salt left in It sim was undoubtedly IN ad-
vantage 20 Mr. Campbell In taking hold % il, for Wings were eminently
respectable IN Virginia. with Tbs tradition of Odiime conservatism"
sih lingering about the party. and man Of the best people" in the
Wheeling OF that day described themselves rs "oldtime Wings" The
ans, Republican,. however. unlike either Wing or Democrat would
no, have been resrect"b" Tho Yong edi'or was poor and proud. tmt
not al Yet unpopular He a poor hut De had Il heritage 81 birth and
breeding cqual to tho bes, His talents were good and his cultivation
distinctly "intenectual-he had entrance INFO good society and he had
apparently evcrythins 10 gain by making his paper popular. but certainly
everything to lose. Just at that time. by making it politically unpopular
II would have been easy by another Course 10 have made for himself
a phc" which would hav" given him early pr'minenc" and influence in
the state a IL then Was. With his ACKNOWLEDGED talents and ability ho
might have filed the places which long arcrward were filed by aliens:
Who. coming into the n"w state az The eleventh hour received the reva-is
which re who had borne the burden and he heat Of a long la rnic-t
tav" been expected to receive. but did not Pit what he might ave
done at this time Of youth and opportunity IS idle speculation-whath he
Gid. "" know. and what was trle of him at the outset remained true Of
him TO the last.