Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-06-30
Hewlett Bros. Co.

have grauded his ambition to publish
a newspaper in the biggest city Of the
interior. as he already publishes a pa.
per In the biggest city on each Of our
ocean coasts.
WILL HEARST STIR CHICAGO UP?
The points Of greatest interest among
many OF the newspaper men, Of course,
are whether they can get aboard the
Hearst band wagon and whether he
will hike IN journalistic salaries as he
did IN New York.
There his methods on taking charge
Of The Journal caused little less than
revolution. His early policy with The
Journal was TO pay so much better
prices for all sorts OF newspaper work
that he ,Ould completely drain the Of
fees Of the other newspapers OF their
best men. He made a dead set for the
men on The World especially, and for
a long time there was the deadliest RI
valry between him and Mr.. Pulitzer as
to which paper this or that reporter or
special writer especially yersed IN the
arts Of the new Journalism" should
serve.
On one occasion they say. The Jour-
nal hired The Worlds entire Sunday
litzers establishment without any one
10 Get cut the mammoth number that
Is now feature Of nearly all big news
papers on the first day Of the week.
There WAS nothing for The World to
do but 20 hire The Journals Sunday
staff, and this, Il Is claimed, was done.
Just who viii be on the statf Of
Hearsts Chicago American has not
been made public though there are all
sorts OF rumors aflOat. It is stated
that Mr. Hearst hopes TO begin Du0li-
cation In iinie 20 report the Democratic
convention, but isn't sure he will be
able 10 do 80.
HEARST AND OTHER PUBLISHERS
It hardly need be said that the news
paper publishers here are as much in
teres,ed In Mr. Hearst's new venture
as are the newspaper workers.
The publishers are wondering wheth-
er he Will make il as much more e1-
pensiye TO get out a newspaper in Chi
cago as he did in New York There he
increased the cost o. publication on
the part OF the World and the Herald,
II not Of some Of the other papers, by
very substantial percentage. and the
circulation Of some OF them was cut !
down perceptiby. the World suffering
most in all probability. What Chicago |
paper. II any. Mr. Hearst viii enter in
to close and direct competition with, |
as he did with the World In New York, |
is another matter for interesting spec |
ulation among our publishers. II would |
seem unlikely that he will cut much |
ice with the readers OF the Tribune or |
the Times Herald or the Inter Ocean. |
These are all strongly Republican In |
politics, standing for exactly the re-
verse Of everything that interests Mr.. |
Hearst
The Chronicle. Democratic; the Dis
patch. also Dem0cratic the News and /
the Record, both Independent and pub |
lished from the same Office, would /
seem more likely 10 be the objects OF /
his direct rivalry The News and the |
Record are very profitable properties,
though probably not so profitable as in 4
former years, for they were placed
under the ban Of the labor unions be-
cause Of trouble with the printers some
time ago.
PUBLIC INTERESTED ALSO.
But the interest is not confined to
the newspaper publishers and workers.
Ailt EtNfldl puulll II ALSO SulNtNilhl ]
wrought up over Hearsts Chicago
American, though not so much as It is
bound 10 be later.
II is expected by all hands, as a mat
ter OF course that the new paper will
aspouse the cause OF the labor unions
heart and soul, and that II VIII strict
~ follow the policy Of the San Fran
cisco Examiner and the New York
Journal both as TO matters Of national
and worldwide import and local az
fairs, Should this prove true, It seems
more than probable that II will get
after some Of the local politicians. as
he Journal has in New York, where
he fight against the ice trust has been
8aged tooth an nail by that paper
md quite as relentlessly as II all the
officials implicated were Republicans
instead OF Democrats.
II Is conceded by all who are inter-
.sted that the advent Of Hearts Chi
ago American will stir up things jour
lalistic I'm many ways, though II is
hardly expected that II will lead 20 a
ight Of the magnitude Of that between
he New York Journal and the World |
Perhaps the greatest fear on the part
II publishers has TO do with price.
,ir Hearst is q devotee OF the cent
paper. and the ! cent experiment Of the
'hIcago newspapers some time ago was
lot satisfactory.
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