John A.Cockerill was still under contract with Joseph Pulitzer and could not accept for a year or more.

He finally did accept and died in the Bennett service.
John Russell Young took the editorial page and was making it "hum" when a most unaccountable thing happened.

I was amazed to receive an invitation to a dinner he had tendered and was about to give to the quondam Virginian and just elected New York Justice Roger A.Pryor.

"Is Young gone mad," I said to myself, "or can he have forgotten that the one man of all the world whom the House of Bennett can never forget, or forgive, is Roger A.Pryor ?" The Bennett-Pry or quarrel had been a _cause celebre_ when John Young was night editor of the Philadelphia Press and I was one of its Washington correspondents.

Nothing so virulent had ever passed between an editor and a Congressman.