Pulitzer_ A Life in Politics, Print, and Power - James McGrath Morris [286]
The fit was: APM, 128, 130.
After the brotherly: Watterson, Marse Henry, Vol. 1, 210–211.
In the fall: A copy of the menu may be found at the MHS. It was printed, with the paper’s compliments, by the Missouri Democrat, which had so strongly opposed Pulitzer and Grosvenor’s efforts with the Liberal Republicans a year earlier.
Pulitzer resumed his: Interview with John Johnson, in Kelsoe, undated letter, PDA; “Birthday Anniversary Dinner,” 4/10/1907, PDA.
Membership in AP gave: The third owner, George Fishback, won the auction by bidding $456,100, or $100 more than the pair’s final offer. (Hart, A History of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 113.) McCullagh, who remained with the Missouri Democrat, attacked the new rival paper, dubbing it “Robbers’ Roost” for supposedly stealing news items from the Western Associated Press.
Neither McKee nor Houser: GlDe, 1/8/1874, 4.
The owner of the Democrat: The papers loved insulting each other. Responding to an item in the Democrat that factiously suggested the Globe was published in German, McKee and Houser wrote, “For all the influence it has, the Democrat might as well be printed in Scandinavian.” (GlDe, 1/8/1874, 4.)
The legal maneuvering: One person recalled that Pulitzer earned $47,500 from the deal, but this figure seems high. (Rosewater, History of Cooperative News-Gathering, 181.)
In the spring: ChTr, 7/5/1874, 1. Built at a cost of more than $10 million, the bridge rested on a masonry foundation sunk deep into the riverbed, using caissons filled with pressurized air. A dozen of the 352 men who worked in these underwater air chambers died.
Pulitzer confessed that he: Eads to JP, 1/19/1885, JP-CU. Pulitzer’s friend Whitelaw Reid declined Eads’s invitation to invest in the Mississippi project. Reid to Eads, 3/2/1875. JBE.
After turning the money: It was Papin Street, off Chouteau Avenue, DCS-JP, 77; Dubuque Herald, 10/28/1873, 1; Freeborn County Standard, 8/17/1892, 2; A. S. Walsh to JPII, undated but probably June 1913, PDA. T. Saunders Foster, who knew Pulitzer around this time, recalled that “he was very fond of riding, and owned a fine saddle horse on which he took long morning rides.” (George S. Johns, “Joseph Pulitzer in St. Louis,” Missouri Historical Review, XXV, No. 3. April 1931, 415.) Also JP to Schurz, 6/3/1874, CS; Ed Harris, memo to JPII, 2/29/1942, JPII.
Financial freedom also: JP to EP, 5/25/1905, JP-CU. A copy of the illustration reproduced in early editions of DCS-JP, between 78–79; Charles Nagel, A Boy’s Civil War Story, 397. Nagel eventually becomes a cabinet member in the Taft administration. Katherine Lindsay Franciscus, “Social Customs of Old St. Louis,” originally published in PD, 12/9/1928, and reprinted in Bulletin of Missouri Historical Society, Vol. 10, No. 2, 157–166; JP to Davidson, 1/15/1875, TD. Playing Mephistopheles was a minor frivolity for Pulitzer. But interestingly, in his life yet to come Pulitzer would be repeatedly identified publicly and privately with this character. Those who were present when his anger rapidly surged, or who felt his hot temper or listened as he eviscerated an editor, would more often than not reach for Mephistophelian metaphors to describe what they witnessed.
Finally feeling prepared: Pulitzer took his bar exam before Judge Napton; MoRe, 7/2/1874, 8.
The treatment the bolters received: Galveston Daily News, 8/28/1874, 1.
On September 2: The interview, real or not, was the work of McCullagh, who had left the Missouri Democrat to join his old bosses at the St. Louis Globe. McCullagh had probably learned of Pulitzer’s disillusionment with the People’s Party directly from him and chose to report it as a reconstructed interview; GlDe, 9/6/1874, 1.
For Pulitzer, the: MoRe, 9/7/1874, 2.
Drawn into civic life: Undated clipping, GlDe, 9/1873, WG-CU.
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