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Show MIURAT HALSTEAD'S VEHEMENCE. Gossip Regarding the Noted Newspaper Maa Formerly of Cincinnati. The announcement that the veteran Murat Halstead has located in Brooklyn as editor of the Standard-Union, and that the same is to be an uncompromising Republican Re-publican journal, has called out a perfect flood of reminiscences. The one fact made prominent thereby is that Mr. Hal-stead Hal-stead has done very odd and startling things at tolerably regular intervals, from the time when as a boy on his father's farm he introduced a new method meth-od of "training bulls" down to his publication publi-cation of the Ohio ballot box boomerang, which damaged Governor Foraker so badly. According to local testimony, he was rather more of a puzzle to his own father than he has since been to party managers. MR. MDRAT HALSTEAD. There are abundant reasons for tho incredulous in-credulous smile with which Brooklyn Democrats receive the prophecy that he will weaken their hold in city and county; for in building up parties Mr. Halstead has not been a conspicuous success. It may be said, however, that ho has helped many others to success. He gave the Cincinnati Commercial a national and finally an international fame, the last being achioved priimf ally by his letters in 1870, written on the battlefields of the Franco-Prussian war or at the headquarters headquar-ters of the German commanders, and his Iceland letters in 1874. The Commercial Commer-cial was founded in 18-13, and on the 0th of March, 1853, Mr. Halstead began his career on ite staff. It is simple matter of history that his wit, satire, industry and management made tho paper the great power it soon became. That he should sever bis connection with it after thirty-Beven years of such work and such success is an incident which would have aroused melancholy reflections in most men. i Of his occasional errors in political or journalistic management, the explanation explana-tion may perhaps be summed up in one word vehemence. He was such a vehement vehe-ment Unionist as to declare late in lblil that if the coming January passed without with-out a bold stroke by the army and a victory, vic-tory, the Union cause was lost beyond redemption. The little victory at Mill Springs barely "let him out" on that prophecy, but the rashness was not repeated re-peated during the war in anything written for the public. His once notorious notori-ous letter to Secretary Chase, in which ho made some rather wild suggestions, coupled with fierce criticism of the administration, ad-ministration, would have been utter ruin to a politician if made public soon after the war; when it did become public the country had reached the philosophic stage. Nearly all men of sens remembered remem-bered that they too had suffered such fits of angor and dejection during the war and had expressed themselves as freely-only freely-only not on paper, and certainly not in letters to officials which were liable to be made public. The fierce philippics against those senators sen-ators who refused to Investigate the election elec-tion of Senator Payne, of Ohio, marked another instance of what might be called insuring defeat. Mr. Halstead had never sought or greatly cared for office at home; the place of minister to Germany, however, was one which would have filled the greatest measure of his ambition. ambi-tion. Ho suited the Germans and they suited him. In personal appearance and mancer he is the very beau ideal of a German nobleman of the old stock. No peasant, meeting him for the first time, would think of addressing him by any lower title than "Herr Baron." Most likely the address would be "Prinz." His letters from Iceland were quit as popular in Germany as in Ohio, and hia association with Von Moltke and tho crown prince during the war made conquest con-quest of tho German heart in Ohio. Tho nomination for the German mission by President Harrison was in every sense appropriate; its rejection by tho senate was certainly exasperating, t Thcro seems to be a natural law in literature lit-erature and oratory by which those who are to achieve greatness begin with productions pro-ductions that are ornate and florid to tho point of absurdity, and Mr. Halstead is a marked example of it. "The Red Haired Maiden of the Blue Miami" is the title popularly given to one of his earliest productions. Some of his descriptions de-scriptions of the scenery about his native na-tive Ross, in Butler county, O., wero so grandiloquent that his friends have not favored their reappearance. There is said to be a love story among his early writings so "excruciatingly "excru-ciatingly highfalurin," as rural critics crit-ics say, that no copy of it can now be obtained for publication. The same fact is recorded of somo early writings of Abraham Lincoln, and his earliest speech oa politics now extant is of that perfer-vial perfer-vial sort of mixed rhetoric which at first unuses and then wearies. Mr. Halstead is still in the prime of life. Born Sept. 2, 18-J9, he started with the inherited vigor of six generations of olid farmers; his physique was perfected by life on a stock farm, with school attendance at-tendance only in the winter, till he was 19, audi., despite his arduous labors as a jaurnSSst, ho has much of the strength jf jo.th. Indeed, he has had but one sarions illness since reaching manhood; ihat W2a recent affair, and to those who snorm Mm beat seems to have made no prions inroad on his splendid constitu-sara. constitu-sara. There is ever)' reason for hope that may rule The Standard-Union for a wow of fruitful years, and achieve an Ten greater success in Brooklyn than he iss ia Cincinnati |