The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-26
The Pied Pieman.

Like Mr.. WHITELAw REID of New York
Mr.. HERMAN II. KoHLsAAT of Chicago was
fortunate in q father-in-law Unlike Mr..
REID, whose legs ached instinctively for
plush breaches, Mr.. KoHLsAAT had q gift
for pies. He made very good pies. In an
evil hour he bought a newspaper, the Times
Herald. 1t was soon evident that the man
who made very good pies was making Q
very bad newspaper.
The Hon. DOUGH KoHLsAAT, as he 10
facetiously styled, not with reference to his
occupation but to his yielding principles,
was and is supposed to be . Republican.
His paper was the residuum Of two Demo-
cratic journals. So far as 1t had any read
ers, they were Democratic readers. MI.
KoHIsAAT proceeded to feed them with
stuff which he thought would be to their
taste. His paper attacked the Republican
organization in Chicago and in the State.
1t attacked and has not ceased to attack the
Republican leaders in the city and State.
1t has lied and lies about them with an In
dustry and a fertility calculated to make
Mr.. REID himself e~nvious. Last year 1t re-
fused to support the Hon. John r. TANNER,
the Republican candidate for Governor.
Its opposition was not needed to elect him.
1t has since made q continuous assault
upon his administration and his private
character The stupid falsehood of Its
charges against him and other Republican
officials whom the Pied Pieman hates has
been exposed again and again.
1t 10 the misfortune of the Pied Pieman
of Chicago that his character is reflected in
his newspaper. Dense, dull. doughy, stolid.
foolish, malicious without wit, and tedious
beyond remedy. He tried to play the bully
In the Republican party Of Illinois, but his
doughballs were not dangerous missiles.
Well. the Pied Pieman of Chicago has
been making a bad newspaper for some
what less than three years. How does he
think he likes it, How does it pay him
How does the public support his campaign
of slanderf Hear the testimony Of a wit
ness tolerably familiar with the Pied Pie.
mans affairs, and In whose affairs that
person has shown an unremitting interest,
the Governor of Illinois:
.By his wholesale abuse of the Republican state.
county. and city administration and Republican
leaders he expected 20 hold his Democratic sub
Scribers and c~liontage; on the other hand, he o.
poused the cause Of sound money and protection.
hoping thereby TO induce the Republicans TO patron
iLo his paper. In this. however, he has been very
sorsly disappointed. Not more 90. however. than
in tho financial results. The best informed peopls
advise me. and I believe II to DO true. that he IL In
yolyed to the amount OF more than e1. SOC, 900.
which loans arc becoming very embarrassing to him
In getting his extensions from time TO time from
the banks and other creditors. who have recently
taken charge OF the financial anain Of the paper.
tho paper has been losing on an average OF Ss.boo
meath from the time OF his purchase and oonSolidA
uon- His p~lungins Qor no u recognised 70 DO . reok.
less plunso) in real estate deals and his newspaper
sohens have already absorbed and wiped out thu
great fortune advanced to him BY hs fathSr.in.lAw. -
The gift for pies and the gift for news.