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While several of the New York dailies were circulating from two to three hundred thousand copies, the News-Record the best-written, the most complete, and, where the interests of the owners did not interfere, the most accurate circulated less than one hundred thousand. The Sunday edition had a circulation of one hundred and fifty thousand where two other newspapers had almost half a million.
You know how Segur is always laughing at the protection editorials he writes, although he is a free-trader." "Oh, there must be many directions in which the paper is free to express honest opinions." Howard began that very night. As soon as he reached his club where he was living for a few days he sat down to the file of the News-Record and began to study its editorial style and method.
A national campaign was coming on and the News-Record was taking a political stand that seemed to him sound and right. For the first time he tried political editorials. The cause aroused his passion for justice, for democratic equality and the abolition of privilege. He had something to say and he succeeded in saying it vigorously, effectively, with clearness and moderation of statement.
They postponed the wedding until Howard had the "art-department" of the News-Record well established. It was on a bright winter day in the second week of January that they stood up together and were married by the Mayor whom Howard had helped to elect. Only Mr. and Mrs. Carnarvon and Marian's brother were there.
From day to day he kept this up, publishing a splendid series of articles, humorous, witty, satirical, eloquent, bold, with a dominant strain of sincerity and plain common sense. As his associates had predicted, a storm gathered and burst in fury about the News-Record. It was denounced by "leading citizens," including many of the clergy.
"If a newspaper should publish the testimony," said Herron, "Judge Glassford would never dare bring the editor before him for contempt. His record's too bad. I happen to know he was in the News-Record office no longer ago than last month, begging for the suppression of an article that might have caused his impeachment, if published. So there's one paper that wouldn't be afraid of him."
She gave him no chance to evade her, but joined him and accommodated her horse's pace to his. "And are you still on the News-Record?" she said. "I hope not." "Why?" Howard was smiling, glad to get an outside view of what he had been doing. "Because it's become so sensational. It used to be such a nice paper. And now gracious, what headlines! What attacks on the very best people in the town!"
He was in the street at seven the next morning. As he walked along with a News-Record, bought at the first news-stand, he searched every page: first, the larger "heads" such a long story would call for a "big head;" then the smaller "heads" they may have been crowded and have had to cut it down; then the single-line "heads" surely they found a "stickful" or so worth printing. At last he found it.
A year of this work, with Howard giving many hours of each day personally to tiresome details, brought the natural results. The profits of the News-Record had risen to five hundred and forty thousand, of which Howard's share was nearly three hundred thousand. The next year the profits were seven hundred and fifty thousand, and Howard had reduced his debt to eight hundred thousand.
"I'll drop you at your corner," said he to Howard at the end of the dinner. As they drove up the Avenue he began: "How would you like to be the editor of the News-Record? My place, I mean." "I don't understand," Howard answered, bewildered. "I am going to retire at once," Malcolm went on.
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