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...grounds of Missouri's Capitol at Jefferson City repose three old cannon from bygone wars. Every time that Ralph Coghlan, a ruddy, owlish man who breathes fire and snorts the editorial page of the famed St. Louis Post-Dispatch, thought about them it made him mad. He thought they belonged on the nation's scrap pile. But Missouri's earnest, toothy Governor Forrest C. Donnell said he could not prove that the State owned the cannon, therefore could not give them away. This made Ralph Coghlan even madder...
...first account of the incident, the Post-Dispatch ran a kidding story, dubbed Stearns "the General," published his picture wiggling the "V-for-Victory" sign. Finally it had to admit Editor Coghlan's part in the prank. This moved Governor Donnell into action. He ordered Editor Coghlan arrested for larceny. Righteously the Governor said: "This is outrageous . . . filled with a spirit of anarchy and disrespect for law. . . . The law is going to be enforced, the Post-Dispatch notwithstanding...
...proposal: the London Times, Manchester Guardian, New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, Baltimore Sun, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Washington Post, Kansas City Star, and one more to be named by the reader...
...could the nation's press take claim for much astute reporting. It, too, completely failed to gauge the breadth of Republican sentiment. One reporter who had sensed the trend was the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's able, amiable Irving Dilliard, who, in the New Republic on Sept. 7 set down a multitude of reasons for possible big Republican gains. Some of them: dissatisfaction with the military, failure to come to grips with inflation, politics as usual, "feather bed" regulations for labor, bungling censorship, Congress' descending reputation...
...late great Publisher Joseph Pulitzer's three great cartoonists have all stuck to their earnest convictions. One of them, poker-playing Daniel Fitzpatrick, lean, well-paid and determinedly independent, is still a mainstay of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and one of the foremost men in his profession. Another, Robert Minor, has long since laid down his charcoal to follow his beliefs into another profession (he is a member of the political committee of the Communist Party in the U.S.). The third, Rollin Kirby, once the best-known of the three, last week quit...