Year: 1878

the announcement that Anderson is Night
Editor and with it sIlenced their oppo-
nents Would any man." they said,
"occupying the responsible position of Night


editor of The PHILADELPHIA North American,
"tell a lie n SIS it likely" they inquired In
the most striking type, "that the Night Ed
"itor of The Philadelphia North American
"would say these things about Secretary
SHERMAN if they were not trueT Until 1t
appeared that he was a Night Editor, Ander-
son had been charged with getting most un-
commonly and abysmally drunk upon inOp-
perfume occasions they said that he had offered
to sell himself to the Democrats; that he had
lied and perjured himself; that he was
low and disreputable and red-headed. ana
that his clothes didn't fit. And it must be
admitted that up to the time when he an-
nounced himself as a Night Editor he had
seemed to be somewhat open to objections
of that sort. 1t was also urged by the
unprincipled defenders of fraud that 1t
did not seem reasonable or credible that
Secretary Sherman, who had maintained a
reputation for honesty aud integrity all his
life, should have disclosed such depths of base
ness in five minutes interview with an utter
stranger T~S---
to be something in that, too.


The truth is, there were doubts in the minds
Of many concerning the conspiracy which An
dersOn revealed, until he said he was Night
Editor That clnched the whole business.
Against the word of any other sort of person
we should say that the character OF
the accused should be permitted to go
for something, and perhaps that the reputa-
ton and the circumstances Of the ac-
cuser should be weighed. But the case here
is different The Democratic press, we
are rejoiced to, see, correctly appreciate
the situation. 1t is really surprising the
number Of newspapers of that party that
Immediately took it in, and said at once,
"Wby, this concludes it. There's no use
"for further argument. This man Ander-
"son is not an ordinary person. He's
ga Night Editor, and Night Editor too, Of The
" "Philadelphia North american" They saw at
once. these deep-eyed and far-sighted pilots
of opinion, that the end had come when
Anderson, with such dramatic effect, threw
of the disguise of drunken cOnsDirator and
venal supervisor, and appeared before the
committee and the country as the clean
handed and white-sOuled Night Editor.
The profession of journalism, we may be
permitted to say, is laborious, and too often
ill-requited, and even the Night Editor is
not always regarded with the confidence
and affection he deserves; but when we see
such tributes paid to the calling of Night Editor
as we have observed for the past two or
three days in the columns Of some OF our
Democratic contemporaresin in the rural districts,
we feel encouraged aud hopeful at the
prospect The Night Editor is gradually
but surely finding his niche in the Pan
theon. 1t is we'll for us that for so many
years we have been able to point to one
model for imitation by our youth: the Father
of His Country, who could not tell lie. But
he was q single individual only. Happy for
us now that the horizon enlarges, and
instead of one isolated exception to the
general untruthfulness Of mankind, we
have one whole profession. Behold my
"son," viii say hereafter the aifectionate
father, watching the dawning Of intelligence
and growth of consciousness in his tender of
s2ring-" behold and initiate the Night Editor.
For the Night Editor cannot tell lie"