Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-09-24

WHY it Succeeds in Bewildering
ifs Contemporaries.

| Under the head of 'sWhere are we
at" the Examiner prints in parallel
| columns the various opinions of its
contemporaries 1t makes very
funny reading.
For instance the Oroville Mercury
says:
From first to last the Examiner
has been friend and defender of
the President.
The Woodland Democrat looks at
it in this way:
The enmity of the Examiner for
Mr.. Cleveland dates back to 1891.
The Reno Gazette says:
The Examiner has always thought
Grover Cleveland To be god.
While the Vjsalia Times remarks:
The Examiner has always hated
Cleveland, and before he received
the nomination for President there
was nothing too mean for that paper
to say about him.
Strange as this seems the views
taken by the various contemporaries
of the Examiner are all correct.
The Examiner is probably run un-
like any newspaper in the world.
1t employs the best men it can find
in all its departments, and on it
regular staff are some of the brightest
writer's in the United States, but it
has no guiding hand; no head to the
establishment, and every department
is go-as-you-pleas affair; the head
of no department amenable to the
head of another department.
This is what makes the sheet 50
brilliant and interesting, but as POI
lltlcal organ no country cross roads
journal in the State has less standing.
Mr.. Hearst, the real head of the
paper has unlimited money at his
command and he is pleasant, easy
going man who dislikes very much to
discharge employees. With power to
lift the scalp of anybody at NOM
ent's notice, he seldom exercises the
power, and is hale fellow well
met with his subordinates.
For instance, when Arthur Nc
Even was managing editor, some
years ago, he tried to dispense with
a lot of useless mon who were in the
local room.
He demanded of Hearst unlimited
authority to bounce any man he had
no need for and Hearst said 600 it. !"
Next day he bounced seven men
from the local department. and the
next week he happened to stray up
in the telegraph department and
found the whole gang there at work.
Hearst had put them on again un-
beknown to McEwen, because they
were Jolly good fellows and Hearst
didn't want to see them out of
job.
Mac came down frothing and told
Hearst he had just cleaned the whole
gang out of the telegraph room.
Hearst merely pulled his cigar and
said, "Good scheme"
In a week McEwen happened to
stroll down in the business office and
found the same gang down there on
the circulation department all draw
ing salaries and grinning. Hearst
had put them back. McEwen made
kick and Hearst said:
"Well Mac, honor bright old boy,
they sha'nt bother you any more"
Gradually they disappeared.
| Hearst sent two to Paris, one to
London, and the rest to Japan and
the South Sea Islands on fictitious
details. Their expenses were paid
and they got instructions to remain
until sent for.
They are still at large wandering
over the great cosmos and drawing on
the offices for salary and expenses.
Nobody ever knew who was the
managing editor of the Monarch.
When new man asks, the reply
will generally be, "You mean for to
day or tomo:~-
Once some wag put a plac-.ll up
| on the door of the local room,
Persons learning Of changes in
the managing editorshlp will please
post them hourly on the bulletin
| board"
Treat strangers politely, they
may be new managing editors. "
"Why don't you sober up?" asked
a man once of Cotton, Hearst's Pri-
vate Secretary.
| 1II'd be n d-n fool tO do that -