Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-03
THAT OLD ROMAN MAJOR KELLY
 OF MISSOURI

Major Kelly. editor Of the Douglas International. knocked at the news paper mans door the other day ana thaWed enough unuer warm welcome 10 place his rect on the desk and light his pipe and visit for a little while When the major came over 10 Bisbee to some celebration or other a few months ago some one introduced him to a new conner in the district as the Col. Henry WattersOn Of Arizona, ana the comparison was not so inapt or odiouS. The famous Kentucky editor has spent his life fighting for what he thought was right and he has grown old gracefully. clinging to his ideals and traditions to the last And this Arizona editor has done and is yet do- ing the same.
 When the newspaper man first came to COchiSe county he called upon Ma jOr Kelly in his own Douglas den. The major was in his shirt sleeves smOk. ing a corncOb pipe. After little talk the major mentioned the fact that he was from Missouri. but the newspaper man. a MisSourian himself. had spot ted him rom the first glance and the first word No chance to be mistaken in the old time MiSsourian.
 For nigh on to twenty years the ma jOr has tOiled in the Arizona vineyard and if he has gathered few grapes every one who knows him is glad. The newspaper field of this state Is the better for his having tiled iU. The major is an editor Ot the old school When he was a boy in his teens he was apprenticed 10 a printer in Poplar Bluff. Mo. and he has never wandered far from the inkstained windows during the forty odd years that have inter vened since that day. lie landed in Tucson one day G0Out twenty years ago with just tour bits" in his pocket and took a job in the back shop after quite Q career of viciSSitudeS and sue cess as an editor in several states. He would doubtless have stayed in the old Pueblo city. for S4CceSS smiled upon him. as she always smiles upon the capable and the brave. but for the fact that the contractor who had assumed the obligation of building him house miscalcUiated certain necessary archl- teCtural deductions and the walls of the half finished structure caved In.
 The major. like most MiSSOurisnS, k superstitiOuS. and he took it as an omen and moved to Graham cOanIy where he got out the best weekly pap CT Arizona ever had since the Ouit- dweller days Then he came to Bis bee and decorated the Review with editorials that stung and praised and illuminated and hammered and helped and were always in the cause Of right eO-sness and against sin
 He is an owner and plUtOcrat now Ee sits in swivel chair and rules a retinie of slaves. But his men love him and the smoke from his corncob pipe ascendS to heaven He has seen Arizona grow and gather strength and never a man came here from a lar country to do something or mine yielded more ore or a municipality multiplied but that the Kelly pen bore witness to and praised them. The COW hOy. the proSpecJOr. the builder. the politician. the friend and foe Oi his adopted states true greatness, have nasSed m a procession before him anu he has lauded their virtues and labeled their weaknesses. His hair Is gray and his eye is dim but his list still closes about the old gOOseQuln with the same cunning and skill
 This simple newspaper man was glad and proud Co be hOnored by visit from the major. for from his lips fioweth wisdom of both the old days of Arizona and the new. and m hls heart there is no guile Of that s1a-nch old Missouri breed that sent so many fOrty-ninerS to the coast over the san la Fe trail. Stin retaining that scntle smile and the twinkle in his eye and the love of joke and the dry chuckle and the shrey.d understanding and the faith that his father had.
 So long major. May the devil make a uightcap out ot gOOseberry sSln for all of your enemies.