Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-09-26
Sam Zones RoaStS "7he YelzowS. "

CARTERSVILLE, Ga, Sept. 20, 1901.
The assassination and death of Pres
ident Mckinley stirred the civilized
world perhaps as no event in this coun-
try or any other country, in a hundred
years. He was a great president.
good nah and faithful officer. have
no doubt that anarchy is responsible
for his death. The spirit of anarchy
must be fed and fostered to maintain
it's place in any country, and / believe
that the great grist mill from whica
the bread of anarchy comes Is the par
tisan press of this country. The car
features and criticisms, the sarcasm
and grotesque representations OF public
men is the power that turns the wheel
that grinds the corn that makes the
bread on which anarchy can feast.
1 believe that in the field of caricature
and criticism there is usefulness and
may be rightedness. A perjured OH
cial, demagogue i'm office, dirty ras-
cal that is out for the stuff and play
ing 10 the galleries without speck
of love for his country or appreciation
for the right of the people, let him
be pictured in earicature and ridiculed
in word and grotesquely represented as
much as you will. but when these
things are turned loose upon a good
and true official, then they are harmful
and only harmful, and however much
fun and fancy there may be in these
things. they bring only evil to the peo-
pie and feed and foster the enemies of
government and dwarf the spirit of
patriotism in the people. The series OF
PICTURES in The New York Journal in
which Hannah and Teddy and Willie
have been the end men in the Ministries
have been laughed at and thought
over and taken in by the vicious and
unpatriotic, as well as the partisan
politicians of this country, and | am
one American citizen who long ago has
grown tired of the misrepresentation
and the ridiculous attitude in which
this series of pictures have misrepre-
sented faithful officials. A great presi-
dent, administering the affairs of gov
eminent and beloved by all the people
as President Mckinley was. true TO
every trust ever committed 10 him. 10
be placed before the public day after
day as The New York Journals pic
lures placed him was an outrage that
/ hope will never occur again. l wonder
how Opper and Hearst feel now. when
II today they were to reproduce one of
these pictures perhaps an organized
mob would lynch the whole gang? 1t Is
we'll enough to put up men of straw
and ridicule and caricature them: it
is we'll enough, perhaps, like Daven-
port to represent the trust as great
malignant giant thTottling and murder
ing the people, but when you place be-
fore the public eye the president, vice
president and United States senator,
whose character is above reproach,
then it is carrying the thing too lar.
Rabid partyism is no doubt responsible
for the whole thing. If anybody can
make pictures Hearst has got the
money to pay them to do 1t. and no
pictures are too grotesque for him TO
publish II 1t hurts his political enemy
or fattens his spirit of partisan politics.
The New York Journal and The New
York World and that class of papers is
simply wild-fired journalism gone to
seed.
After all. the sober, conservative
spirit must dominate, not only the
press of the country, but all classes of
people Partyism can be carried too far.
Conscious must take it's place in jour
nalism as well as in other things, and
we must be just and truthful and hon
est in our representation of public on
Gals 1t may be said that / have criti-
cised officials severely, which / have,
but never criticised a faithful official
i'm my life. 1 have never said anything
of any official that was not true. 1t
is as loyal and patriotic to denounce
demagoguism and unfaithfulness as it
is to praise the faithful in office.
This country may we'll mourn for the
noble president we buried yesterday,
and yet HOW fortunate that a man
like Roosevelt is ready to step into his
shoes. / am a believer in Roosevelt.
l do not believe that truer. Drawer,