. The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 . f the Chicago Tribune, then called the Press andTribune. Senator Douglas had entered upon his campaign with twoshort-hand reporters, James B. Sheridan and Henr>- Binmore, whoseduty it was to write it up in the columns of the Chicago necessity of counteracting or matching that force became appar-ent very soon, and I was chosen to write up Mr. Lincolns campaign. I was not a short-hand reporter. The verbatim reporting for theChicago Tribune in the joint debates was done by Mr. Robert R. Hitt, late assistant secretary- of state Verbatim reportin
. The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 . f the Chicago Tribune, then called the Press andTribune. Senator Douglas had entered upon his campaign with twoshort-hand reporters, James B. Sheridan and Henr>- Binmore, whoseduty it was to write it up in the columns of the Chicago necessity of counteracting or matching that force became appar-ent very soon, and I was chosen to write up Mr. Lincolns campaign. I was not a short-hand reporter. The verbatim reporting for theChicago Tribune in the joint debates was done by Mr. Robert R. Hitt, late assistant secretary- of state Verbatim reporting was a new feature in journalism in Chicago and Mr. Hitt was the pioneer publication of Senator Douglas opening speech in that campaign,delivered on the evening of Julv 9, bv the Tribune the next morning;,was a feat hitherto unexampled in the West, and most mortifying tothe Democratic newspaper, the Times, and to Sheridan and Binmore, •?Mr. Horace White in Hemdons Life of Lincoln, by permission of D. Appleton & HORACE WHITE From a photograph made in 1854, and loaned by Mr. White, now a resident of Xew York City. REPORTING THE DEBATES , 77 who, after taking down the speech as carefully as Mr. Hitt had done,had gone to bed intending to write it out the next day, as was thencustomary. All of the seven joint debates were reported by Mr. Hitt for theTribune, the manuscript passing through my hands before going to theprinters, but no changes were made by me except in a few cases whereconfusion on the platform, or the blowing of the wind, had causedsome slight hiatus or evident mistake in catching the speakers could not resist the temptation to italicise a few passages in speeches, where his manner of delivery had been especiallj^emphatic. Here [Ottawa] I was joined by Mr. Hitt and also by Mr. ChesterP. Dewey of the New York Evening Post, who remained with us untilthe end of the campaign. Hither, also, came quite an army of youngnewspaper men, a
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