However impersonal it pretends to be, with whatever of mystery it affects to envelop itself, the public insists upon some visible presence.

In some States the law requires it.

Thus "personal journalism" cannot be escaped, and whether the "one-man power" emanates from the Counting Room or the Editorial Room, as they are called, it must be clear and answerable, responsive to the common weal, and, above all, trustworthy.
IV John Weiss Forney was among the most conspicuous men of his time.

He was likewise one of the handsomest.

By nature and training a journalist, he played an active, not to say an equivocal, part in public life-at the outset a Democratic and then a Republican leader.
Born in the little town of Lancaster, it was his mischance to have attached himself early in life to the fortunes of Mr.Buchanan, whom he long served with fidelity and effect.