The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-16


many men to congress. 1t holds its place
as second only to the bar in the output of
lawmakers. says The Editor and Pub
Usher With the publisher of the Marion
Star occupying the white house and 4
former reporter on the Toronto Globe now
prime minister of Canada. the press well
may boast of its prestige in the prepara-
J ton of men for public service. Pennsyl-
Vania's member of the senate at present.
William T. Grow, was connected with the
Pittsburgh Press and the Uniontcwn
/ News Standard.
! The Congressional Directory tells the
following story of the press gang in the
senate and house:
, Henry Zenos Osborne, 10th Califo, MIA
district. Was New Orleans correspond
ent of Chicago Tribune from 1873 to
1873 and reporter and writer on New
Orleans papers. In the latter part of
1873 removed to the live gold mining
camp of Bodie, Cal, where for six years,
from 1873 to 1884, was editor and pub
/ Usher of the Bodie Daily Press. i'm 1884
removed to Los Angeles; was editor and
publisher of the Los Angeles Evening En-
press IL years. 1854 t. 1897.
J Guy L. Hardy, Canon City. Colorado
tthird diStrict). Purchased the Canon
City Record in 1879 and has since been
engaged in the publishing business. is at
present editor and publisher of the Canon
City Daily and Weekly Record and Colo
RADIO Press.
i. Hart Fem. first Connecticut district.
Left college to engage in newspaper
work; associated with Hartford Post and
Hartford COurant as reporter. city editor,
,o1 II
| from 1873 to 1908 reported sessions Of
Connecticut legislature.
7 Thomas T. Watson, senator from GeOr-
! gia. Began publication of Tom WatsOn'S
magazine in New York in 1908. published
Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine and the
| Weekly JeffersOnian since 1906.
Medill Mccormick, senator from Hi
nOiS, grandson of the late Joseph MedilI.
founder of the Chicago Tribune. when
graduated from college went with the
Chicago Tribune as cub reporter and has
run the whole gamut of repertOrial cNpe-
rience. serving in Washington in the press
galleries of congress
Harry Stewart New senator from In
diana. For, - yearS-1S7S to 19O3-was
connected with the Indianapolis Journal
as reporter, editor and part owner. Went
on the Journal as a police reporter. the
result of a chance remark overheard by
the then owner, Judge Il. +. AIartiudale
{ -NIltI It uGN DttD WITH lllt paper Tor
three years it was purchased by his ia
Their. Together they conducted the prop
crty until 1903.
tTrenus CoTe representa- tive from Iowa
( is editor by profession, connected with the
Iowa State Register. Dcs Moincs. from
1887 to lScS and with the Cedar Rapids
Republican and Times from 1898 to 1921
Arthur Cappcr. senator from Kansas
Learned the printing trade on the Garnet
journal. Went to Topeka in 1884 and
secured work as typesettor on the Topeka
Daily Capital. of which ne is now owner
and publisher. later became a rcpnrter on
this paper, and then city editor: in 1891
went to New York and was reporter on
the New York Tribune and in 1892 was
in Washington as special correspondent :
IN 1913 started in business for himself by
purchasing the North Topeka Mail. a
weekly paper which he afterwards com
bined with the Kansas Breeze: a few
years later he purchased the Topeka Daily
/ Capital and other publications.
Daniel Read Anthony, jr.. first Kansas
/ district, Has been engaged in newspaper
work all his life tLeavenworth Times.
! Homer Hoch, fourth Kansas district. is
an editor.
Arthur Il. Rouse, representative from
Kentucky. is part owner of Il weekly
/ paper i'm Boone county. Kentucky.
Frederick Hale senator from Maine.
until recently owner of the Portland
! Press.
James Gallivan. representative from
| Massachusetts, formerly a reporter on
the staff of the Boston Globe
! Joseph Walsh, representative from Mas
sachusettS. was a reporter.
Louis {. Cramton, representative from
/ Michigan, publisher of "a weekly. the La
! peer County Clarion
Harold knutson, sixth Minnesota dis
| trIct, Is newspaper man. having pub
| iished Royalton Banner and Foley indie
| pendent; later was associate editor of St
/ Cloud Daily Journal-Press. was presi-
! dent of Minnesota Editorial ASSOCIATION
! 1910-1911.
William Oscar AtkeSon, sixth Missouri
district. Newspaper man.
Carl w. Riddick. second Montana dis
! trict- Editor and publisher of Winamac
/ (Ind.J Republican for II years
! Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock, senator from Ne
| braska. Publisher. Established the
| Omaha Evening World in 1880. and is
now publisher of the Morning, Evening
and Sunday World Herald
| George T.. Noses senator from New
! Hampshire. First newspaper work after
graduation from college was i'm 1890 as
manager, of the New Hampshire Republi-
can, an illustrated weekly published in
| Concord in connection with the campaign
! At the close of the campaign Senator
| Nose; joined the staff of the Concord
Evening Monitor as a reporter. January
: lS92, became political reporter. and IN
. June of the same year became managing
editor, continuing in that position until
1918 when he sold out his half interest
acquired about 10 years before
Walter f. Edge, senator from New Jer.