. "Marse Henry" : an autobiography. , Medill and Hal-stead, All were marked men; Greeley a writer andpropagandist; Raymond a writer, declaimer andpolitician; Prentice a wit and partisan; Dana ascholar and an organizer; Bowles a man both ofletters and affairs. The others were men of allwork, writing and fighting their way to the front,but possessing the nose for news, using the Ben-nett formula and rescript as the basis of their seri-ous efforts, and never losing sight of it. Forneyhad been a printer. Medill and Storey were caughtyoung by the lure of printers ink. Bowles wasborn and reared in t
. "Marse Henry" : an autobiography. , Medill and Hal-stead, All were marked men; Greeley a writer andpropagandist; Raymond a writer, declaimer andpolitician; Prentice a wit and partisan; Dana ascholar and an organizer; Bowles a man both ofletters and affairs. The others were men of allwork, writing and fighting their way to the front,but possessing the nose for news, using the Ben-nett formula and rescript as the basis of their seri-ous efforts, and never losing sight of it. Forneyhad been a printer. Medill and Storey were caughtyoung by the lure of printers ink. Bowles wasborn and reared in the office of the Springfield Re-publican, founded by his father, and Halstead, across betwixt a pack horse and a race horse, wasbroken to harness before he was out of his teens. Assuming journalism, equally with medicine andlaw, to be a profession, it is the only profession inwhich versatility is not a disadvantage. Specialismat the bar, or by the bedside, leads to perfectionand attains results. The great doctor is the great[232] \. HENRV WATTERSON--ruOM A PAINTI NG BY LOUIS MARKIX THE MAXIIATTAX CI,IB, XEW YOIIK MARSE HENRY surgeon or the great prescriptionist—^he cannot begreat in both—and the great lawyer is rarely great,if ever, as counselor and orator. The great editor is by no means the great he ought to be able to write and must be ajudge of writing. The newspaper office is a littlekingdom. The great editor needs to know and doesknow every range of it between the editorial room,the composing room and the pressroom. He musthold well in hand everybody and every function,having risen, as it were, step-by-step from theground floor to the roof. He should be level-headed, yet impressionable; sympathetic, yet self-possessed ; able quickly to sift, detect and discrimi-nate; of various knowledge, experience and inter-est; the cackle of the adjacent barnyard the noiseof the world to his eager mind and pliant too small for him to tackle, nothing toogreat,
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