Show NEWSPAPER THE MAGNETISM THAT THERE IS IN THE profession why crusoe crago print a si paper edwin edwi 15 arnolds Arno liia love lofe lo fe of the caning calling depew aad sis his toillee Jo lUea illee A tired I dixit ot of r I 1 like to brag about newspaper mews paper men who bave done dome good wor r because the men themselves dont like it for one newspaper man to chant the praises of others of his craft is considered taboo and the very fact of its being tabooed makes it exceptionally tempting at times so frail are we all the proper professional attitude for a newspaper man according to convention is that of being always slightly bored and of a hating above all things ahinga to see his own or another newspaper mans name in in print nt As to being in love with his bis profession well all right for a new hand band just jast from college but now dont you yon believe a word abord about newspaper work making genuine newspaper men tired they keep away aro arom it if they tried if robinson Eo binson crume had been a newspaper man he ha would have printed a daily edition of the juan joan fernandez mandez Fe castaway in blunt blent stick type on the sand in front of his hut but every morning and got out an extra when he captured friday and it must be that age and rank and station dont berve to benumb this feeling when sir edwin arnold happened tobe to be in st louis a few years agoa ago a sudden crisis in india P russians lus and englishmen glaring at a 6 each other across tho the rugge rugged d crests of the the roof of the world made an interview with him of especially timely timely value it came into my my days work to we eco him and at the close of the interview ho fell to talking about the incidental phases of a possible russo kusso eng lish war should mch ench a war be declared said eaid sir edwin 1 I would instantly go to the front for my paper the london telegraph and serve as a special correspondent it is the most fas fascinating cinat work in the profession and there is none more fascinating outside and a moment later the english poet and newspaper editor was telling me that be considered james whitcomb Whitco aab riley eiley tho the most distinctively national of living american poets and that to his bin mind riley owed much ot of this to the fact that he be v was as a newspaper poet instead of a magazine poet if I 1 only enly had bad dr chauncer Chaun cef joc dc pe pew pem m here to join in this talk about aboul newspaper paper men then begin to realize what fino follows fellows they really are dr live without newspaper men they visit him in his hia private office in the now new york corfe headquarters of the yew new york central railroad and they laugh at the jokes in his hia after dinner speeches and boom him for the presidency of L the united states and for anything else elge ho he may desiro desire simply because they like him and ho likes them tho the first and only time I 1 ever saw caw dr depow was at too the republican national convention of 1892 in minneapolis apolis sr whither dr depew repaired as one of the big four of that very lively convention he was waa surrounded six deep by newspaper neivE paper correspondents facing thom them tall anti and irreproachably bloomed gloomed groo glo omed ed looking for all the world like the swell old heavy father in the tha dankers bankers Daug daughter liter 1 I and giving out ont all al the news ho he consistently could I 1 suppose and when he be had exhausted bia budget fox for the time being ho turned in and guvo gave them a depew jolly of the press which was really a daisy in its ita line of courso course im 21 not going to tell fell you what lie raid eaid because honestly it was a bit steep but I 1 just want to give YOU yon un RD idea ida that I 1 would bo greatly re enforced ju iu this talk if I 1 could have dr depew here to taken take a hand band in it il talking of conventions and bearing in my expressed disbelief in the possibility of a newspaper mans ever getting tired of newspaper work wark I 1 want to make a kind of exception tho the tir edest lot of newspaper paper men I 1 ever naw faw was at the close of tho the famous nil all night r ision of the democratic national convention of that same year 1892 in chicago jt it was tho the night of the great anti cleveland fight made by tammany any in abo last ditch the night when bourke cockran mado made the greatest t speech of his life tho the night when rc such h an orator as daniel of virginia was hooted from the platform because tile tho convention was wag actually too exhausted to listen tho the night when clove laud land was nominated with ono recess if I 1 ani am not mf mistaken staken the convention remained in session from 10 tc lock one morning until til 4 on tr next nest it was n crucial chachil session too and kept corres correspondents pon dents on the alert every moment bourke cockrans cockrane Coc krans speech against cleveland was mado about in the morning and a dying man would havo have been forced to listen and thrill at its eloquent invective and masterly sar but after that came bamo tho awful slump of utter weariness when tho the convention adjourned adjourn od duy day had broken over chicago and tho the sects were gray in RR its early carly light whito white faced and limp tho the corps of special correspond tuta almost staggered out and undo mado their sleep blind way to their respective ive hotels tired yes hot but it va was s as a foldier is tired in tho trenches tren chea A few bours sleep and tho fight would bo resumed as gallantly as aa ever B R D V in st louis republic |