The San Francisco call., 1897-02-16
THE EXAMINERS" ISLANDERS.

The cheeks OF all decent San Franciscans
are tingling with shame at the dastardy
atte m pt of the Examiner to create 4 sensa-
ton about Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.
in order to sell a few extra copies at the
cost of wounding the feelings of the young
married couple, Mr.. and Mrs PAYNE
Whitney, who are now staying at the
Palace.
The Examiner claims to have got the
scandalous story from Mr.. Hearsts other
paper, the Journal of New York. That is
just the sheet 10 invent such an infamous
SANDER. 1t is capable of concocting any
defamatory story about a private family
in order to make talk among gossip
mongers and to spread its circulation
among persons of low life. 1t is the lineal
successor of the alligator. which was run
by the blackguard Branch until A. T.
Stewart had him sent to Blackwells
Island.
The baseness of Rearst's foul tattle
about Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt is not re-
deemed by the low cunning with which
the Examiner, while publishing innuendoes
calculated to blast the lady's reputation,
affects to disbelieve them. Its object is
gained py their mere circulation. There
are plenty OF people who will gloat over a
dish OF scandal affecting persons of good
social position and large means and will
wag the head and wink the eye at the
reservation that its truth is as yet I'M
proven. The envious will say that where
there is so much smoke there must be
some fire, forgetting that the author of
the smoke is one disreputa ole editor who.
with henchmen OF his own kidney. stands
ready to blight the happiness of family
that has never injured him In order to
illustrate the new journalism.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Wander bllt re-
quire no defense among those who are
acquainted with New York society There
probably never lived more modest, un-
assuming, uuobtrusive couple than they,
nor is there to-day girl in New York
whose sweet disposition and unquestioned
virtues are more universally admitted
than were those of Miss Grace Wilson.
She was known as q young lady whose
social charm was set off by a disposition
which commanded the admiration and
respect of all. II was not till she fell into
the hands of Senator Hearst's son and his
man Long Green Lawrence that any one
dared to sully the purity of her fair fame.
This is matter which involves some
thing more than the ethics of journalism.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whitney Will presently
shake the San Francisco dust from the
soles of their feet and will thank God that
they have got out of a place where news
pa pers stand ready 10 blast lady's char
acter in order to sell few extra copies
They will warn their friends to give San
Francisco a wide berth.
When the day comes that drop in the
circulation of the Examiner in the Tender
loin or Tar Flat is eporied from the busi-
ness Office, Long Green and his pals will
search onr own society for victims. They
will publish again as they ave done be-
fore, in conspicuous doublc-leaded para
graphs, vile insinuations against some
honored member of San Francisco fam
lily, well knowing that such SANDERS will
sell their paper.
There VIII be no redress for the victim
OF their yillainy. The more such stories
are stirred The worse it is for the sufferer.
They will have to bear their agony as best
they can, cursing' their ill-fortune that the
wealth which Senator Hearst accumulated
in this State has come 10 be used as an in
strument of torture for its citizens.