d in his manipulation of contending elements he shows a dexterity
that has baffled even the professional politicians.

Harvey began his journalistic career upon the Peacham Patriot.
Thence, with a borrowed ten dollar bill, he went to Springfield,
serving his apprenticeship on the Republican, the best school of
journalism in the country at that time. Later, on the Chicago
Evening News, on the staff of which were Victor Lawson, Eugene
Field, and Melville Stone, he completed his training.

When he joined the staff of the New York World at the age of
twenty-one he was a competent, if not a brilliant newspaper man.
His first important billet was the New Jersey editorship. This
assignment across the river might very easily have been the first
step toward a journalistic sepulcher, but not for Harvey. He made
use of the post to garner an experience and knowledge of New Jersey
politics that were to have an important bearing upon the career of
Woodrow Wilson later. At the same time he attracted the attention
of Joseph Pulitzer who appointed him managing editor of the World
before he was thirty.

While directing the World's policy during the second Cleveland
campaign, Harvey met Thomas F. Ryan and William C. Whitney, the
financial backers of the Democratic party. This prepared the way
for his step from Park Row to Wall Street after his break with
Pulitzer.

But the ways of Wall Street were not for Harvey. Nevertheless he
was cautious enough to help himself to some of the profits that
were forthcoming in those days of great amalgamations. With
commendable foresight, however much he might have despised the
methods then prevalent in the fields of high finance, he acquired
enough to make him independent, to follow his own bent, and
strangely enough, in the acquiring he came to the conclusion that
the Republic could not survive if the plundering of the people by
the "interests" continued as it was proceeding at that time.

He withdrew from the Street and eventually purchased The North
American Review. In the meantime J. P. Morgan and Company had
underwritten the bonds of the Harper publishing house and the elder
Morgan asked Harvey to take charge of the institution. This he
agreed to do with the understanding that he should be permitted to
direct the policy of Harper's Weekly, one of the assets of the
firm, without interference from the bankers.

With his peculiar faculty for detecting the weaknesses of
financiers and politici