The San Francisco call., 1896-03-06
DR.. BROWNS STORY.
In Many Respects In Line With That
Told by Miss Over

There was sunshine in the air when the
council came upon the platform at :15
O'Clock. Immediately afterward Mrs
Brown and Miss Ruby Rogers entered the
room by the west door, and few mo-
ments later DR.. Brown came in by the
east door and shook hands with half a
dozen persons while on his way to his seat.
After the usual preliminaries of opening
the council, DR.. Brown addressed the
council on a question of privilege. He
complained that with one exception the
newspapers had not treated him Justly.
81 say it in all Kindness" he added,
"but the newspaper reports. with the sim
gle exception of THE CALL, have been un-
fair"
DR.. Brown called attention to the omis-
sion in the Examiner and Chronicle of the
questions which be had announced he
would have asked Mrs. Stockton had she
been on the stand for ton.
These two papers contained only q bare
reference to the subiect-matter of his re-
marks on that occasion, while THE CALL
contained tolerably accurate but brief
account. He wished to say also that the
testimony of Mr.. Seymour had been slight
ingly treated, if treated at all. The doctor
continued:
That incident at the corner of Sixth and
Bryant streets was absolutely new and it was
never reported. Nor was it reported that on
Monday following the publication OF the lodg-
ing-house rumor asked Mr.. Seymour to 20
with me 10 the lodging-hous on all the cor
ners there. said, 81 will spend a day with
you. sir, and will go with you into the pres
ence of every lodging-h house keeper on Sixth
street" said also to newspaper men that
they could select TWO newspaper men to go
with me to every lodglng-house on Sixth
street These facts have been suppressed in
the newspapers. / cannot understand why
facts which are so material to my vindication
| have not been published. / am told that this
good man (referring to his friend, W. C. Pond)
made speech in my favor last night and no
report was made of it. II it was against me
every syllable would be in the papers.
Moderator Mclean remarked that the
press owed a debt to every man and
woman in the community TO give as fair a
presentation of facts as they could in any
| case like the present. He had been in
| formed by some of the represe natives of
the press that the men who write the re-
| ports have no control of the matter which
they write after it reaches the hands of
the city editor. He suggested that it
| would be in order to move that request
be made to the newspapers to give a fair
report of both sides of the case.
Mr.. Pond made the motion and it was
adopted unanimously. DR.. Brown added
Iwant 10 say that have it from authentic
sources that discussion was held at the close
| of the council of Friday evening of last week
! between the representatives. of two of the lead
| ing dailies, and it was determined either in
this room or in the yestibule that the matter OF
| my remai ks regarding Mrs. Stockton should be
i suppressed by them. 1t has been reported
| here, and ii reached the ears of my dear, aged
father in Cleveland that when severely criti-
| cized the council at one OF its meetings l
| turned TO my wife and said, Were gone, any
how" That rumor was false and has done me
very great damage.
The moderator expressed the hone that
DR.. Browns remarks would be given as
| fully as the reporters could induce their
| superiors in the editorial rooms to allow.
Lawyer Nagle then formally moved that
the testimony. of Mrs. Cooper should be
! stricken from the minutes as being hear
| say.
DIR. Brown called the attention of the
council TO the testimony OF Mrs. Eaton as
| being not only secondhand but third hand.