The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-08
YELLOW NEWSPAPERS AND DEM
AGOGUES

The Chicago Chronicle has become the
understudy of the New York Journal, the
chief of the yellow and sensational malig-
nants, and seems ambitious to surpass it's
chief in sensational and irrational lying. In
its headlines of Thursday is charge at
tributed to the New York Journal that the
Mckinley Cabinet is to get a commission
upon large issue of bonds to be used by
Spain in promoting autonomy, and that
Speaker Reed is in the conspiracy. This
sort of lies is given out as news Even the
authenticity of Consul General Lees tele-
gram to the President urging delay until
Sunday to the end that United States citi-
zens in Cuba be rescued, is doubted. Yet
men of both parties in Congress have seen
the dispatch. Frequently, however, the yell
low journal, through recklessness, permits
one liar to prove that another dispatch
maker is a liar. For instance, the New
York Journal originates and the Chicago
Chronicle prints, under a Washington date,
the following:
Yesterday "wednesday he did not send
the message, but said he would hold it until
next Monday, giving as reason that the
message was warlike, and that if promul-
gated the news would cause a massacre of
Americans in Havana. At the same time
agents of the administration spread reports
in Washington that riots had already broken
out in Havana. These reports are absolutely
false. There have been no riots in Havana.
The Americans there are not IN more dam
ger than usual
In another column with the Havana date
of Wednesday, the Journal and the Chron-
icle print:
The two thousand American citizens in
Havana Tonight are in terror. The Spanish
yolunteers-the army which sees in Weyler
the Butcher hero-haS practically hidden
defiance to Captain General Blanco and is
unrestrained master of the streets of the
city. Since early afternoon the city has
been the scene of boiSterouS and almost
riotous demonstrations. Men in squads.
flushed with liquor and all reckless in their
hate of America, have paraded in struggling
fashion along the public avenues. Cheers
for the crown when passing the abode of
some royalist have followed derisive boots
and threatening movements on passing the
American quarter.
There is more of this, showing that Amer
leans are disposng of their belongings and
preparing to leave the city as soon as pos
sible If this last story were true there
was the best possible reason for Consul
General Lee to suggest delay in any action
One or the other of the above stories is
false. because they are contradictory. One,
as a special telegram. declares that riotous
demonstrations We're taking place in Ha-
vara, where it was. dated. Another special
from Washington declares that the reports
of its Havana special about riots ARE alb
solutely false"
Such is the yellow newspaper 1t does
not attempt to make its lies harmonic.
The yellow statesman or demagogue is also
an understudy of the yellow newspaper A
Mr.. Lentz, of Ohio. occupied that position
in the House yesterday. He had the au-
dacity to quote the dispatches of the New
York Journal as the basis of charges against
the President and his advisers, declaring
that Consul General Lees dispatch was not
the reason for delaying the message, but
that the delay was to influence the stock
market. The desire OF the yellow newspaper
is TO psGnge the country into war, and. fear