Byron R. Newton

thumb| Byron Rufus Newton (August 4, 1861 – March 20, 1938) was an American journalist, political figure, early aviation promoter, and author of satirical poetry. He was the publicity director of Woodrow Wilson's presidential campaign in 1912 and served as Collector of the Port of New York from 1917 to 1921. Attributed Vulgar of manner, overfed,Overdressed and underbred;Heartless, Godless, hell's delight,Rude by day and lewd by night;Bedwarfed the man, o'ergrown the brute,Ruled by Jew and prostitute;Purple-robed and pauper-clad,Raving, rotting, money-mad;A squirming herd in Mammon's mesh,A wilderness of human flesh;Crazed with avarice, lust, and rum,New York, thy name's Delirium. "Owed to New York" (1906). Attributed to Newton in Hazel Felleman (ed.) The Best Loved Poems of the American People (Garden City, NY: Garden City Books, 1936) p. 638, and dated in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 11th ed. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co, 1938) p. 759. A slightly different version quoted, unattributed, in William Salisbury, The American Emperor: A Novel (New York: The Tabard Inn Press, 1913) bk. 4, ch. 3, p. 214: Dwarfed the man, enlarged the brute, Raving, rioting, ... Millions with a single goal—Mammon's herd, without a soul; Crazed by avarice, ... External links Category:Journalists from the United States Category:Poets from the United States Category:Government officials Category:People from New York (state) Category:1861 births Category:1938 deaths