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THE RACE FOR THE WIRES
The excitement in regard to Impeachment in Washington appears, indeed, to
be confined almost entirely to the newspaper men; and they display it only when something
very important is on the tapis. On the morning on which the public printer was to deliver
the impeachment articles to the House the whole force of newspaper correspondents, to the
number of fifteen or twenty, assembled in the lobby to await his arrival. As soon as he
entered the floor sacred to the "third house" the crowd of correspondents rushed
at him, regardless alike of the warnings of the doorkeepers and policemen and the
entreaties of the public printer. They pushed him and his bundles violently through an
open door into a committee-room, where a House committee was discussing some weighty
subject; violently dissolved the committee for the time without the slightest regard for
its dignity; grasped the bundles from the hands of the printer, cut them open, and rifled
them of their contents, before he could resist or the officers could interfere. The
precious documents having been secured by the rival reporters, a race was made for the
nearest telegraph office. The whole force rushed through the lobbies regardless of the
persons whom they there encountered and whom they rudely jostled aside, past Leutzes
"Course of Empire" without stopping to point out its beauties or absurdities,
and into the telegraph office in the reporters gallery of the House. Our artist has
given this scene as illustrative of the energy of the reporters, and it certainly is as
characteristic of that industrious class as the scene on the floor is of most of the
occupants of the House.
A RACE FOR THE WIRES ENERGY OF
THE REPORTERS.
March 21, 1868 page 180
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