The New York herald., 1921-12-23
WAS A BITTER
BUT A COURTEOUS FOE
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ly the last of that group of so-caled
personal editors who made their names
powerful in the land in the latter half
| of the nineteenth century. He described
| himself as born an insurrecto" He
brought to his profession, which he loved
and honored, great variety of gifts
he was in print the bitterest yet
most courteous Of foes. His sword
though sharpened to the finest point,
| was never poisoned. Ills was a life al
! most incredibly active and diversified.
FIe was forever ralying to the attack.
| Theoretically he should have made and
! left many implacable enemies. yet MEM
ory recalls not one, for his nature was
as kindly as his temper was hot. and
| everybody knew it. AS a boy he was
! dandled on the knee of Andrew jack
son. He knew every President from
that time to this. He wrote the platform
| Of at least four national Democratic
conventions and was power in others
and between conventions too. He coined
the phrases "No compromise with dis
honor tariff for revenue only" and
his cry from the beginning of the world
war; appended day after day to his edi-
torlal articles in the Louisville Courier
Journal, ITO hell with the Hapsburgs
] and the Hohenzollerns =! His friend
| ships through seventy years with celeb
rites of his own and other countries
were innumerable; but whoever they
were they had to have fine flavor of
mind to win his affection. Fortunately
| for the world Mr.. Watterson found time
| in his later years TO write what he
would have called piece" about it ALL
! The piece" grew into article after
/ r1n gta1 IL, thea C<,t.,
ing Post two years ago under the title
Looking Backward" When brought
together in book form-two volumee-
they were renamed "Marse Henry"
He was born in Washington February
| 16, 1910. Because he had imperfect eye
| sight and an obvious talent for music
his father, Harvey NJ. Wattepeon. ar
ranged that he should take up music as
| career. However. the elder Watterson
was himself at the head of a newspaper
the Washington Union, and had pre-
viously distinguished himself as politi-
cal writer and speaker. a member of
Congress from Tennessee and in the
diplomatic service. His home and his
office were meeting places for men and
women of influence and distinction, and
from his childhood the boy Henry had
the advantage of association with public
men and the stimulus of their conversa-
ton and DISCUSSIONS.
Studied Music Here.
| His defective eyesight standing In the
way of systematic study, he was not
sent to school, but was placed with
tutors, who taught him the lighter ac-
complishments mainly. but trained him
carefully in music and bellies lettreJ
When he was Is he was sent to New
York for special musical study, but de-
voted most of the time of his residence
! here to all sorts of writing. which soon
began to find its way into the periodicals
of the time. BY the time he was 19 he
had turned out a flood of dramatic
criticism. stories. essays and pieces in
verse and had achieved an enviabie
name among the younger writer's.
In 1859 he went back to Washington
and found a place on the Washington
States, the organ of the young Dernoc-
racy at that time. A year later. before
he was 2l. he was a full blown editor.
having accepted the post of editor in
chief of the Democratic ReUieio.
AT the outbreak OF the civil war ths
states was suppressed and the Demo-
cratic Revicu languished. The elder
Watterson having left the capital and
| returned to his home I'm Tennessee, his
son followed him there and was at once
made leading editorial writer on the
Nashville Republican Banner. He re-
mained with the Banner until the fall of
Nashville. when he entered the military
service OF the Confederacy.
As a soldier he saw service as a staff
officer and as chief of scouts with Gen.
Johnston's army. Just before the wars
conclusion In 1865 he returned to news
| paper work as editor OF the Rebel, a
Chattanooga publication which, unde.
| his leadership. became popular and
| widely circulated throughout the South,
| but which, of course, ended when the
war did. After the war he returned TO
| the Nashville Banner and the same year
married Miss Rcbecca Ewing. The yea-
OF 1856 he spent in European travel and
on his return home established a connec-
ton with the Louisville, KY, Journal
Having bought controlling interest
In It's stock he was in full charge Of the
| paper by 1868 and In the spring of that
| year set about forming combination
with w. N. Haldeman. proprietor of the
Louisville Courier, by which the two pa
pers were merged. taking In also the
Louisville Democrat, paper of national
character and twenty-five years stand
ing. The final arrangements were COM
pleted by the autumn OF the year and on
Sunday morning IN November the
Louisville Courier-JouY7tdl made It's ap-
peararcc with Watterson as its editor
and Haldnman its business manager
As editor of the Courier-JOurndI for
almost fifty years he added 10 the mem
tai health and gayety Of nations and
welded notable influence as we'll
Politics formed the chief inspiration of