Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 762
ontinue their con-nection with the Press after they havepassed the age of boyhood. Manysuccessful editors and newspaper cor-respondents attribute their present for-tune to the training they gave them-selves as amateurs. The boys arefond of quoting a saying of SpeakerRandall to the effect that… … AN EDITOR DEMOLISHING A RIVAL. of youth, the impossibility of editing an amateurpaper, of joining the N. A. P. A., of decoratingour breast with the silver shield and pen, of goingto the convention at Detroit, and doing our verybest by voice and ballot to elect to the presiden-tial chair for next…
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