Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-12
Newspaper Men In
Public Eye Today
BY w, s. MANN
Copyright, 1870. by The washin
ton Star.1

ton star.)
WASHINGTON. July 1a-News-
paper men have been honored by
appointment to high office in the
past, they have been elected to the
senate and the House. But 1t re-
manned fer the Republican and
Democratic national conventions
of 1920 to elect, out of the large
field of candidates presented. tive
newspaper men as their Nominees
for the Presidency of the United
States. 1t is a feregone conclusion
that q newspaper man will sit in the
White House as the next chief ex-
ecutive.
Both Senator Warren c.. Harding
of Ohio. the Republican neminee,
and Governor James NJ. Cox of
Ohio, the Democratic nominee, have
been actively engaged in the news-
paper business over a long period
of years. Both bought small news
papers In their home towns and
built them up into paying properties
While their official duties as senator
and governor respectively have in
terfered to a considerable extent
with their keeping OF with the act
ual physical management of their
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retained a Arm hold on the editorial
policies and the policies of their
business Offices as we'll
The leading newspaper of Mar
ion the Marion star, a daily after
noon paper, was purchased by Sem
ator HaFding's father and turned
over to the son to operate In 1854,
1t wasn't long before the son him=
self became possessed of the news
paper, Year after ear he and the
RaPer grew together. Today It is
enc of the most widely read eff the
small city newspapers in the middle
west, and Is a dominating influence
in Marion county.
Senator Harding Is a practical
newspaper man. He has dene ev-
eFythiHg there is to do abeut a news
paper efiee, from setting type and
helping with the presses to writing
the editorials. He has taken his
employees on the newspaper into
business with him. They actually
ewn an interest in the concern,
GeverHef Cox got his start work.
ing on a newspaper in Ohio, and at
one time was on the staff of the 6in-
einnati Enquirer. and a mighty good
reporter as his ee=werkers have tess
tiled, Later he came to Washing
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the House freH Ohio. He get te-
gether some money and bought the
Dayton, Ohio News and the SRring-
field, Ohio, News, Under his man
agement these papers thFived. They
became none making properties
on a considerable scale and be obs
tains a good income from them te-
day.
With the development of the sys=
tenn of primary elections, and pre-,
f~erentiai primaries for nominations,
1t is noticeable that more and more
newspaper men have been named
fer high Office, either elective or ap-
pointive. Many members of con-
gress today, in both the senate and
House are newspaper men. At
least two of the men who were
mentioned for the Democratic nom
inatien, besides Governor Cox, were
active newspaper men-Senator
Gilbert NJ, Hitchcock of Nebraska
and Senator Carter Glass, of Vir-
ginis.
Senator Hitchcock is the owner
and for many years the editor and
publisher of the . Omaha World
Herald. He was trained to be a
lawyer, but the first actual work
that he undertook was the publish
ing of a newspaper in Omaha. His
first idea was that a newspaper
should be entirely non-Rartisan
where political questions We're con-
cerned; that it should explain both
sides of an issue and let the people
decide upon It. In fact. he con-
Quoted his newspaper along these
lines for a while. But when the tar
if issue was raised Mr.. Hitchcock
became intensively interested in the
fight. He hired two men whose
duty 1t, was exclusively to write edi-
~torials ON both sides of the con-
tested question. Six weeks before
published an announcement stating
that his newspaper would support
Democratic tariff plan and oppose
the Republican protective tariff.
The World-Herald has developed in
one of the most important news
papers of the middle west,
Two newspapers are owned by
Senator Glass both in Lynchburg.
Va. Both are dailieg-fhe News.
a morning paper, and the Advance.
an afternoon paper. He has given
a great deal of his time to them.
though his duties, first in the House.
and later in the senate. have kept
him away from them in recent
years.
other members of the senate
who have come to the senate from
newspaper desks. or from other
public office to which they went
from their newspaper Offices. are
Senator Arthur CappeF. of Kansas
who published a number of papers
and magazines. having a combined
circulation of over 100000 an is
sue; Senator George Moses Of New
Hampshire. who was editor of the
Concord Evening Monitor from
1892 to 1918; Senator Harry New,
of Indiana. who served as reporter
and editor on the indianapolis
Journal and finally became a part
owner; Senator Hale. of Maine, wis
owns a newspaper. though he hal
not given it his active attention ta
any considerable extent in recent
years: Senator Heke Smith, OF
Georgia, who has had large news.
paper interests In his home state,
and Senator Walter +, Edge, ol
New Jersey, who until the last few
years. owned = valuable nawspapes
properly IN Atlantic city.