The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-10-07
1T is VERY YELLOW
SAMPLE cF SENSATIONAL JOUR-
NALISM DOWN EAST.

Man and Wife, Representing Nerve and
Brain, Respectively, Set Out to show
the Old Farmers . Swift Gait In the
Land Of Steady Babits-ln . Little
Weekly With Patent Viseera, They
Roast the Villagers Like stepchildrsn,
and Nothing Can Stop Them But Death
but They Make the Paper Pay
New York, Oct. Ga special to the
| Herald from Wiliimantee, Connecticut,
says: This is not in any sense a funny
! story. In fact, it is hardly story at
all. Il is more nearly a tract, ami a
heavy moral sits upon it TO be observed
/ Of all men. 1t will tell you many things
| about running country newspaper that
you never knew before; things that may
save you, if you have leaning toward
such occupation, from setting forth OF
path full o fpitfalls wherein the un-
wary stumble TO destruction. You note
the tractlike language? This tract is
true. 1t is q warning.
There is an published axiom which
I every aspirant for newspaper ownership
should ponder upon. II is thiS:-Don't
go in for yellow journalism. To this
axiom there is added another:-Don't
try it in the country. And here's a
| third which 1 have involved myself
AS you value your life here and your
| welfare hereafter, don't try il in Con-
| necticUt. For that is what this tract is
| about.
Connecticut, as everybody knows, is a
state built upon O. rock. They say UP
there that the farmers have to bring the
in from neighboring states to plant their
crops, and graves are blasted out of the
eternal rocks. This is probably exag-
gerated. But it Is stony place.
Wherefore. if you should publish a
yellow newspaper, if wy owuouldonrim-
yellow newspaper, il you would be an
exponent Of the new journalism, turn
your face away from Connecticut. 1 will
tell you the plain tale Of woman and a
man who have been running such a
newspaper for nine months. They are
still alive, but consider the forms of op-
position which have greeted them in
their efforts to import metropolitan SEN
sationalism into the sedate quiet Of a
Connecticut town. The list to date is:
l. Personal abuse in public.
2. Assault and battery.
8. Arrest.
4. Boycotting.
5. Destruction Of property.
6. Tar, applied externally.
Z. Anonymous threatening letters.
II you still think you can dash of
brilliant items each week under such
conditions you are hopeless case. Go
on TO your fate.
The woman and the man who furnish
the moral for this tract are Mrs Kate
G. Warner and her husband, Frank G.
Warner, editor and business manager.
respectively, of the Willimantic Her
aid. They publish a paper so yellow
that it would make the New York new
journals turn green with envy. and be-
sides certain financial reward, hard won
from this stony soil, have endured all
the list Of horrors noted above.
KEEN WOMAN EDITOR.
Brains and nerve-that's the firm.
Mrs. Warner is the brains. and her hus-
called the meanest man in Willimatic,
and is proud of it Formerly ne was an
advance agent for a circus. Now ne has
a circus Of his own, and OF the citizens
of Wllimatic he make his menagerie.
Those who have to dance to the livliest
tunes 90 not like It, but the rest rise up
and laugh till their turn comes, and the
game goes merrily on.
The motto of the Willimantic Herald
is RIP En- Up the Back" II IS not so
stated of course, but the policy OF the
paper is consistently and persistently
laid to that line. Hence much trouble.
These daring new journalists make
queer combination. Kate Warner. as her
husband says proudly, is the ''only lady
reporter in Eastern Connecticut" She
is about thirty-two years old, plump.
good looking and keen as a whip" as
the farmers near by say. She has a
fluent pen, and when she sets out 70
fay some man editorially she does it
with thoroughness that makes her al
most respected. Her venomous little
paragraphs have set more than one citi-
zen dancing. You can see her sharp
wit in the line Of her mouth.
FLUENT MIR WARNER.
Her husband is her direct antithesis.
Where she is keen and quiet, he is ram
bling and blatant But he has his uses
in the conducting of this new journal
When IL seems good to them to casti-
gate some citizen otherwise than edi-
torially ne is eminently capable Of doing
it. He posses a fluent tongue, part Of
his capital in the former circus days,
and a vocabulary that is remarkable
for its extreme picturesqueness. When
ne stands in the busy market place and
tells some man what ne thinks OF him
the shops stop TO listen. The news that
Frank Warner is discussing a mans
character with the owner thereof VIII
draw merchants from behind their
counters.
Mrs. Warner was for several years be-
for. her marriage the editor and man.
ager of the Wiliimantic edition Of the
NiddletoHn Penny Press. a daily paper
This had 70 be a abandoned when Will
mantle got a daily paper OF her oHn,
and on January 1st las; the Wiliimantic
Sunday Herald was started. II has
oSeH tipping eAl W tHo JAIN ever
since. II Is wna. IS known as a paten:
inside paper, the sheets being furnish
ed ready printed with miscellaneous
matter. with the exception OF two or
three columns OF local news. This bill
liant combination sells for five cents.
and IS the yellowes, thing in New Eng
land
SOME NEW JOURNALISM
The character % the local news" IS
best shown IN the following clipped par
agraphs. some % which refer 10 Will