It was an easy matter to form an efficient staff, for in every city some of the best newspaper men are out of employment--the bright and uncertain writers who have been shoved aside by trustworthy plodders.

He did not begin as one who knows it all, but he sought the co-operation of practical men.

The very man who knew that the paper could not do without him was told that his services were no longer needed.

In his day he had spread many an acre of platitudes; he had hammered the tariff mummy, and at every lick he had knocked out the black dust; he had snorted loud in controversy, and was arrogant in the certainty that his blowhard sentence was the frosty air of satire.

He was the representative of a class.