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Show EDITORS NOT FOR OFFICE. In spite of the expected opposition nf all the editors In lown William It Ileum nf the New Voik Journal hus been nominated for Congress n , with wuiie misgivings thut this nomination nomi-nation was made and II was made nnl) after the New York Herald had publicly repudiated the Idea that a col league In the newspaper business should be opposed 'because he hip pened lo be n newspaper proprietor ' Another Niw lotk newspaper said that ihu newspaper man was because of his newspaper training better quail-lied quail-lied limn others nnd usually better than lh candidate he snr ports but that when he becomca u candidate for tublh nnicc he necessarily abdicates a higher olTlee, that of tribune nf the peo. Pie -an observation hlghlv ludicrous In Heirsts case. HUM, Hearst Is fr , away ahead of scores f lleprescnln-'H's lleprescnln-'H's New York Illy In, ,Pnl to Con. gress Hut lhe real reason wh) iieW,i,llper people arc not considered available for ofTiee Is that they are too useful to the candidates to be spared. With one accord, ac-cord, the candidates think (If they do not saj), ' If he Is nominated, who will boost us?' It Is practically a necessity neces-sity that he should leave his newspaper newspa-per work, for the campaign at least, as It would not look well for him to urge tho election of a ticket that Included himself, his efforts would be discounted, discount-ed, and In short, he would be unavailable unavail-able for newepipcr work for the time being. That must be a loss to the ticket, for his placo could not be supplied, sup-plied, In doing effective party work. A stump speaker or a man who In any way renders what Is supposed to be advantageous party work, Is held to have deserved party reward. Not so Ihe newspaper man, who Is helping the party all the time; he has no claims on the party at nil. Why? Because, primarily, the other fellows want, and Insist upon having, tho party rewards Again, the nevvspipcr mm, In the course nf his duty to his parly und his pnper, has made enemies; therefore, there nre more or less voters who have their knives out for him. Third, he can seldom afford the expense of n campaign and the Interruption In his work. Last, there is a good denl nf Irulh In the suggestion made In the case of Mr. Hearst; the other newspaper news-paper people think they owe him a grudge, (If the man Is worth his salt, this Is true, and the settlement Is long past due,) and rejoice to lake any occasion oc-casion when he might run for oHlce, to get even. No doubt Hearst will suffer to some extent from this, dcBplto the Heralds disclaimers. The upshot of It all Is, that In spite of some brilliant examples to the contrary, It In best for the newspaper man not to run for office, even though the public may bo tho loser. |