Finally, in 1876, a Democratic State Convention put its mark upon me as a Democrat by appointing me a Delegate at large to the National Democratic Convention of that year called to meet at St.
Louis to put a Presidential ticket in the field.
The Courier-Journal having come to represent all three of the English dailies of the city the public began to rebel.

It could not see that instead of three newspapers of the third or fourth class Louisville was given one newspaper of the first class; that instead of dividing the local patronage in three inadequate portions, wasted upon a triple competition, this patronage was combined, enabling the one newspaper to engage in a more equal competition with the newspapers of such rival and larger cities as Cincinnati and St.Louis; and that one of the contracting parties needing an editor, the other a publisher, in coming together the two were able to put their trained faculties to the best account.
Nevertheless, during thirty-five years Mr.Haldeman and I labored side by side, not the least difference having arisen between us.

The attacks to which we were subjected from time to time drew us together the closer.

These attacks were sometimes irritating and sometimes comical, but they had one characteristic feature: Each started out apparently under a high state of excitement.

Each seemed to have some profound cause of grief, to be animated by implacable hate and to aim at nothing short of annihilation.