. Review of reviews and world's work . tronized a clipping bureau, norasked his friends to keep him supplied with suchmatter. Yet few men know more editors of newspapers, andcertainly none knows more of the character of morenewspapers than he does. How he does this is amystery, and yet there is scarcely a paper of impor-tance anywhere that he does not know somethingabout it, or have an idea of its editor, though he hasseldom seen the one, and has never come into per-sonal relations with the other. This comes no doubtfrom meeting so many men and from the faculty hehas cultivated of getting from
. Review of reviews and world's work . tronized a clipping bureau, norasked his friends to keep him supplied with suchmatter. Yet few men know more editors of newspapers, andcertainly none knows more of the character of morenewspapers than he does. How he does this is amystery, and yet there is scarcely a paper of impor-tance anywhere that he does not know somethingabout it, or have an idea of its editor, though he hasseldom seen the one, and has never come into per-sonal relations with the other. This comes no doubtfrom meeting so many men and from the faculty hehas cultivated of getting from them what they knowor what has occurred in their immediate neighbor-hoods of interest to the world in general, and espe-cially the knack of getting a great deal of politicalinformation from a brief interview. III. AS A PUBLIC SPEAKER. As a rule, men in public life have kept themselvesin thorough training as speakers by reason of theoffices they have either sought or held. Many havehad legislative careers : others have been successful. < CO Q -Ju 1^ .a pu a9 2 w GROWER : A CHARACTER SKETCH. 33 stump speakers, wlio have talked freely and fully uponalmost every subject. Quite as a rule, too, tlu^y arepartisans. Whether or not their efforts are devotedto the consideration of questions jiurely political, theyare, generally speaking, almost entirely lacking inthe judicial quality. Many are ranting tiradesagainst individuals or causes, while such speechesare seldom carefully prepared, and still more rarelyreported with anything like accuracy. But during the whole of his public life—throwingout of view the early professional position as a prose-cutor, and his service in the sheriffs office—everyimportant speech has been carefully prepared, andwhen it has been published at all, has been reportedwith almost absolute accuracy. He has alwaysdeemed it his duty to give his hearers the best ide^sthat he had. Carefully writing his addresses, revis-ing them when necessary—al
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