CHAPTER XII.
A DEMOCRACY.
The _Star_ was printed in an old building where more than one newspaper had failed.

The interior of the place was so comfortless in arrangement, so subject to unaccountable drafts of cold air in winter and breaths of hot oppression in summer, that it must have been built especially for a newspaper office.

Henry found that the working force consisted mainly of a few young reporters and a large force of editorial writers.

The weakness of nearly every newspaper is its editorial page, and especially so when the paper is owned by a politician.

The new manager straightway began a reorganization.