“No.”
“Why don’t you try it?”
“I don’t know. I never thought of it.”
“Think of it now.”
“Reporters aren’t supposed to go outside their own department.”
“Pshaw! A newspaper is like any other business; it needs all the ability it can command. Now, I believe you could write editorials. And if you care to try, I’ll be glad to speak a word to Mr. Farley.”
“That’s mighty good of you, Senator.”
“Not at all. Gives me a chance to set myself right in your mind,” smiled the other, “for appearing to interfere with your activities. We need a new paper, a new kind of paper here in the capital,” he added after another of his pauses.
Jeremy Robson became uncomfortable. “I guess I’ve been talking through my hat,” he confessed. “It must take a lot of capital to buy a newspaper.”
“Not so much, for a small-city plant.”