Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-10
GATHERED BY THE WAYsIDE

I and before he finished he rose to true
eloquence. Parrish ought to develop
| the chautauqua habit. Hamlin Gar
| land, that word painter of prairie
scenes also gave an address that was
gem. Years ago he told the writer
| that he was looking for someone who
! could delineate with pencil and brush
| the rich color of the prairieS. He
| has never found the man. But he can
do the word painting to perfection.
Joe Mitchell Chapple proved good
| entertained. although filling his mar
| rative> with trife too much of Joe.
John p. Irish gave to the banqueters
his third speech of the day. He makes
no apologies. When he rises ii is With
message and he just gives it with
out hesitancy.
| Emerson Housh and DR.. Steiner had
given their messages at previous
meeting. Both read from their recent
works. Both were decidedly interest
| ing. but the hall was too large for
| that kind Of a program. Alice French
was ever happy IN her remarks. and
the daughter of Naj1r Sherman spoke
| charmingly.
| The most interesting feature of the
| whole week was the exchange of re-
| iminences at the historical building
! where Curator Harlan presided and
called on one after another for a few
| words. That was an event all too
short. The remarks by Henry Wallace.
| Charley Jenkins, LATE Young, Alex
| Miller, Harvey Ingham and others were
good.
So.
! Major Fleming, of this city, sprightly
as ever. tho nervous, led off with a story
| of how he came to do his first writing.
He was setting type in the Office of the
| Davenport Gazette. The story of the
| firing on Fort Sumter. April Is. 1861,
came into the office. The great import
of the news was seen by everyone. 1t
was agreed there should be an editorial
on it in the paper. The editor was not
present. Mr.. Fleming wrote an editorial
on the firing on Fort Sumter and it was
| printed. Mr.. Fleming told of peculiar
experience prior to that time in starting
a unique paper. 1t was the lie Claire
Republican. 1t was started for some
special purpose and those responsible
| for it agreed that it should run just six
months. So all subscriptions were
| taken for six months and those coming
| one time. When that time came the
! paper expired. 1t was a six months
paper and nothing else Mr.. Fleming
said he had never written very many
books, but he had probably written a
published one before anyone else at the
meeting. He had compiled land pub
'ished city. directory Of Davenport in
1856.
| The real treat Of the day was the
address at the gathering of pioneer
| newspaper men by John P. Irish. The
| natural eloquence Of the man bubbled
forth in delightful stream. He recalled
many names almost forgotten todayand
| others well known. And then he turned
| to what was rather discussion, philo-
sophicai and reminiscent, of the chang
| ing phases of American Journalism. He
paid a great tribute to Horace Greedy.
| AS Mr. Irish was a democrat his adj
| miration for Greedy was not due to
politics. He spoke of the fact that
Greedy entered journalism because he
/ had a message for the world. because
! he had something to say. how he put
| into his paper every day his own great
/ personality. how he became great
! Intellectual leader, how he made a
| weekly paper that contained something
for every member Of the family, and
| how that paper used to come weekly
into thousands of Iowa homes. The old
7; Weekly Tribune did more. he said, than
any other one thing to mould the char
acter of these men of pioneer Iowa. But
! there grew up also, the other school OF
| journalism right alongside of Greedy
| and it was represented by the James
: Gordon Bennett ideas-the purely com
mercial idea of the newspaper. And
| he was sorry to say that the Bennett,
school has outlived and outstripped the
Greedy school. 1t was the beginning
! of yellow Journalism. 1t foreshadowed
the day when -he counting room should
! be the dominating force in newspaper
! offices. Mr.. Irish regretted that the
! change had come. The man who az
editor writes day by day and who is