The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-24
TIE YE1Eor SENTINEL.

The Milwaukee Sentinel seems to have
lost its head This possibly will not be
noticed as the change is not material.
About two weeks ago it published char
acteristic editorial in which the Demo-
cratic press was charged with being an
ed assassination of President Mckinley.
This direct charge, the G o b e resented
and called attention to the effort of
some of the Republican journals to make
political capital out of the act of Czol-
gosz.
It's reputation for conservatism, and it's
well known attitude toward President
Mckinley, made in possible for the
Globe to administer rebuke to this
kind of yellow journalism without be-
ing subject to the charge of party bias.
That the public might appreciate the ex-
act attitude of the Sentinel, the objec-
tionable portion of the editorial in ques-
ton was reproduced verbatim. This just
rebuke for a most uncalled-for aspersion
upon the enure OeulOcratlc press Oh the
country, brought from the Sentinel a
flood of Billingsgate, the natural refuge
OF the uncultured wherever found, either
on the street or In the editorial sane
tum
With a mendacity that is appalling. the
Sentinel attempts to ward off the force
of the G o b e s rebuke by stating that
1t was referring to yellow journalism"
and not to the opposition press, for yell
low journalism is devoid of political
principles and convictions In making
this statement the Sentinel seems to have
forsaken what little head it has and at
tributes the action of the assassin to
the Republican as well as the Democratic
press. Just how the fulsome praise Of
the administration, and of President Nc
Kinley in particular, could work upon
the mind of Czolgosz, nerving him to the
deed of assassination, evidently is clear
to no one but the Sentinel
If the Sentiners editorial meant any
thing, it meant what it said and the
yellow journal" hole in which it now
seeks to hide, is too small even to admit
the machine organ of Wisconsin.
After string of abusive epithets, winch
are usually found only in the columns OF
a crossroads weekly, the Sentinel con-
cludes with the following:
eff the CLIO means to pose as the
champion of yellow journalism it is
entirely welcome to that unsavory dis
tincticn."
This the Globe need not answer. It's
columns are daily refutation of the in
situation. It's condemnation of ''yel-
low journalism has been persistent and
consistent. Should it attempt to cham
pion the yellow journal it would of
necessity begin with the Sentinel, for
there is no yellower journal published
than that most virtuous sheet Yellow
in color or sensational news, but in ex-
travagant editorials expressions and a
total disregard for the truth; in Just
such fantastical and irresponsible posi-
tIon DIS the Sentlnel oeilgntS TO take, and
of which the editorial attributing the as
sassination of President Mckinley me-
diately to the Democratic press, is fair
sample. While some journals are "yel-
low for purposes of financial gain, the
Sentinel is yellow for purposes of
party advantage.
Further comment is unnecessary. The
short career of the new Sentinel Is too
well known in Wisconsin to need any
further notice. AS to the peurile at
tack upon the Globe, the which serves
as a basis for this comment, it reminds
one of a boy whipped for a misdeed, who
from safe distance makes faces and
sticks out his tongue at the author of
his discontinue.