Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-23
JOURNALIST HENRY PATTERSON DEAD


 The Rebel instantly achieved great popularity. The paper was outspolzen and independrsat, forecasting in many things the Louisville Courier-J Journal, lineal descendent to follow 1t within a few years.
 Abraham Lincoln was said to be the great passion of Watterson's< life. His lecture on Lincoln was delivered III hum dreds of cities and it was his pride to tell of calling on Lincoln the morning of his inauguration and of standing be- side him at the ceremony.
 Let no southern man point his fn- ger at me-" MT. Watterson said, "be- cause canonize Lincoln, for he was the one friend We had at court when friends were most in need"
 When Watterson founded the Journal he made a plea for harmony in the south. Thoroughly reconstructed him. self, he urged all to follow his course in complete submission to the federal government.
 Mir. WaI;erson always advocated 8 Tariff for Revenue Only" phrase which he coined, and which finally was adopted by the democratic party. He was an ardent friend Of Grover Cleve- land during the 1atter's first adrninistra- tion as president but opposed Cleve- lands third nomination.
 His service as a public official was confined to fractional term in con- gress He accepted a seat there in 1S76-7 at the wishes of Samuel J. Til- den, with whom he was closely allied MT. Watterson refused renomination for . the full term. Frequently urged to run for high office he always refused, main | taining:
 MT. Watterson opposed William Jen- nings Bryan in his candidacy for pres 1 ident in 1896, but in 1900 the Courier | Journal gave him luke-warm support. Tn l 1908 however, what MT. Watterson de- nominated as the free silver heresy' being "as dead as African slavery" ir the United States, he became a warn supporter of Bryan.
 l MT. Watterson also devoted some ot his editorial attention to social questions l He once made a savage attack on New York society women calling them "a | flock of unclean birds" He accused them of fondness for display that ruin ed the men. and love of champagne and bridge that eventually ruined theil morals.
 His dashing style gave currency tt l Light Horse Harry and "HenEy oi 1 Navarro" The most popular nickname
 
 was plain "Marse Henry"
 l As effectively as he wrote Mir. Waiter son spoke on tn public platform. Hi reputation as an orator reached its eli max when he delivered an address at tn dedication of the Columbian Exposition | when he appeared as the government official spokesman.
 Among the several books he wrote O compiled were Oddities of Southern Lif and Character, a volume of southern hu nor; The Spanish-American War, writ ten concurrently with the events ant his latest work, Compromises of Life, compilation of his lectures, addresse and numerous editorials from the Cour ier-Journal.
 Of his career, MT. Watterson recentf said:
 T came out of the war like many c the young fellows of the south, a yer picked bird, indeed. Tn order to escap the humiliation of borrowing from northern uncle. whose politics I did nc approve, I went with my watch to a uncle" who had nc politics at all an got $50 on it. Along with two blanket mates, who were as poor as myself i started, or rather revived. publication ( an old suspended newspaper at Nast ville Nothing could withstand the CT | ergy and ardor which we three thre' into the enterprise. We were workin .. for bread and had to have it.. Vine we began there were nine daily paper struggling fo~ q footing in the little Ter nessee capital. At the end of the yea there were but two. and one of thes ours. had two-thirds of the business. A ter two years I was called to Louisvil to take an editorial position on the oI l o11iSvi11e Journal the naner of (eore D. Prentice. Si months later Waite N Haldeman, who owned the Courie joined with me in combining the journ and Courier. Incidentally this led | the purchase of the old Louisville Dem crat, this publication losing it's identit entirely. That is about all."
 The consolidation of the three pape was the first of the great newspap