Show MR LAFFAN Mr tr lr Laffan who died on Sunday I last ha had owned the Sun since Dana died He lIe was born in Dublin Ireland in 18 lIe He was educated in Dublin university nu and took a i course at St. St Cecelia's school of medicine When his education was finished he became artist to I the pathological society of Dublin n lie Il came to America s shortly after He was married in Baltimore Baltimore Balti Balti- more to a Miss fi Radcliffe in 1872 It seems he was managing editor of the San Francisco Bulletin in 1876 then he hc became editor and half haIr owner of tho the Baltimore Daily Bulletin He lie went wont on the tho Sun in 1877 as a general writer He lie was the art editor of Harper Bros in 1881 1882 and 1883 He TIe was wasel el elected publisher of the Sun in 1884 In 1900 he lie purchased the interests of of the estate of Charles A A. Dana in tI tie e C Sun Printing and Publishing association tion and bf beanie the president and controlled all the papers published by the thc Sun Publishing U company com I pany up UJ to the time of his death He lie was l known at ru a famous caustic satirist It will bp be very hard to fill hi his place on the Sun Ii picture shows a strong but cruel f filce ce He JIe is the one one th tt t in an editorial on candidates for Tie tte presidency said aid One ClOne of tha candidates is a gentleman gen gen- tiernan but hut not not ot a politician Another is a politician but bitt not a gentleman and thc tho remaining candidate i. i neither al gentleman nor a politician President Roosevelt made an attack upon the Sun in regard to the Panama canal purchase and iu ill reply Mr Laffan among other things said The editor of the Sun declines a controversy with Mr 1 Roosevelt lIe He is isby by no means indifferent to tt the implied compliment discernible in Mr lr Roosevelt's tirade but but 1 Mr Roosevelt has shown in his liis frequent collisions with various persons of distinction distinction dis ilis that he lie has an overwhelming advantage over oyer any respectable antagonist in his Mr lr Roosevelt's Roose Roose- v volts velt's complete freedom from an any sense of personal personal personal per per- obligation in respect of the truth The Sun will be he better and worse through his loss It will be a more human newspaper but it will lack a great deal that a great many readers lo loto love to sec see In his career he lie seemed to carry earry carryout carryout out the old story of the Irish editor who in a controversy con con- with a contemporary wrote an article and passed it to a friend for his opinion The friend read it and found it simply a tirade against the rival editors editor's mother altogether shameful But said the friend H do do 10 you yon OU know this lady Divil Di a bit but if her son has the spirit of a man in him when he r that it will cut him to the quick quick |