. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . etts pol-itics. He is the mostaggressive politicalfighter in the State,and many a time hassnatched a brilliantvictory from the edgeof defeat. Whateverremains for him ofpolitical honors, hisfifth year in the chairhas brought him anunchallenged placeamong the memora-ble speakers of theHouse. Not alonein politics, however,has his career beenmost striking andexceptional. Takingthe charge of a paperinjured by poor man-agement, he hasplaced it on a solidfinancial
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . etts pol-itics. He is the mostaggressive politicalfighter in the State,and many a time hassnatched a brilliantvictory from the edgeof defeat. Whateverremains for him ofpolitical honors, hisfifth year in the chairhas brought him anunchallenged placeamong the memora-ble speakers of theHouse. Not alonein politics, however,has his career beenmost striking andexceptional. Takingthe charge of a paperinjured by poor man-agement, he hasplaced it on a solidfinancial basis andregained for it itsold-time position inmoulding the public opinion of New England. \ meagre outline of the lifestory of Mr. Barrett is as follows : He was born in .Mel-rose, Mass., Dec. 29, 185S, the son of Augustus andSarah (Emerson) Barrett. His education, begun in thepublic schools of his native town, was continued in thehigh school of Claremont, N. H., where his father wasengaged in manufacture, and completed at DartmouthCollege, from which he graduated in 1880. A fewmonths later he went to work on the St. Albans (Vt.). WILLIAM E. BARRETT Messenger, and remained there two years. In 1882 hecame to Boston, obtained a position on the DailyAdvertiser, and, after a preliminary experience as specialcorrespondent in Maine during the campaign of thatyear, was sent to Washington as the regular correspond-ent of the paper. At the capital he developed rapidly,and soon became one of the best-known Washingtoncorrespondents in the country, his note and commenton political and other movements being often brilliant, and always the nationalcampaign of 1884,Mr. Barretts lettersfrom the doubtful States were amongthe most importantand interestingcontributions tocampaign literature,giving a perfectlyunbiassed accountof the situation. InJune, 1886, Mr. Bar-rett was recalledfrom Washington andmade managing edi-tor of the Advertiser,subsequently becom-ing the publisher andl
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