Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . Michigan, whither hisparents moved, then became a publisher of anewspaper himself. Through his newspaper con-nection he drifted into politics, and was electedto the Michigan Legislature before he was of reached his majority ten days before the Leg-islature convened. After numerous vicissitudesas editor and publisher, he came to Penns^dvaniaas editor of the Williamsport Gazette and there he came to the Philadelphia Times asan editorial writer, then as managing editor. Hehas been identified with the Inquirer a
Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . Michigan, whither hisparents moved, then became a publisher of anewspaper himself. Through his newspaper con-nection he drifted into politics, and was electedto the Michigan Legislature before he was of reached his majority ten days before the Leg-islature convened. After numerous vicissitudesas editor and publisher, he came to Penns^dvaniaas editor of the Williamsport Gazette and there he came to the Philadelphia Times asan editorial writer, then as managing editor. Hehas been identified with the Inquirer as editor-in-chief, and is now, and has been for some years,the State political editor of the Press. He was amember of Governor Beavers staff. Affable, 3^etdignified, inviting rather than giving confidences,he has more friends in political life than any otherman in the State. To the gratification of thesefriends Colonel Lambert has been appointed In-surance Commissioner for the State in the cabinetof Governor Hastings. 137 ^ |~[>5TO^7^H3 (19) THE /jjO more congenial set of neWvSpaperfolk were ever gathered together,in any campaign, than those whojourneyed at intervals with theHastings party. Faithful, honest,conscientious gentlemen, ever}^one of them. Men of broad andvaried experience, with fewexceptions, who love their pro-fession, and who are gifted(go^Q* with that rare power of put-ting inspiration into the wordswhich the}^ among the number mUvSt be mentionedMr. Howard H. Derr, of the Philadelphia ^<fr<?;^.ReprCvSenting, as he did, the newspaper ownedand edited b}^ Mr. William M. Singerh^, theDemocratic candidate for Governor, and a Dem-ocrat himself, Mr. Derrs position as a memberof the Republican campaigning part} was oneof extreme delicac3\ Yet from beginning to endhe discharged his duty to his newspaper faithfully 141 and honestl3% and with a fairness to the Repub-lican candidates and their friends which madefor him some lasting friendsh
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