The San Francisco call., 1901-10-11
THE FRANTIC EXAMINER.

n its efforts to prove else as bad
itself the Examiner quite frantic, and, usual,
illogical. 1t is reproducing from The Call
paign of Mr.. Bryan, and tries to represent
them as the same in spirit and purpose its own
lampoons and cartoons of "Willie and His Papa and
''The Mckinley Mnstres,' published persistently
after the campaign was and up to the very
morning OF the day which the President shot
Our cartoons of Mr.. Bryan legitimate
paign material. He had provoked that style of
graphic argument by his own attacks upon his oppo
nents. He had called them hogs" and said that his
mission to put rings in their noses that they
could not root. He had characterized large section
of the republic ''the enemys country, and by his
forcble and fantastic oratory had assumed positions
that were best answerable by ridicule weapon that
he often used himself. When told that many Gold
Democrats were following Richard Olney in his
camp he said: Had l known that so many were
coming l would have had a large number of candy
fatted calves made with which to reward these
turning prodigas" In countless instances he used
the weapons of satire and ridcue in promoting his
political fortunes, and the weapons turned
against him, in malice, but in humorous illus
tration of his peculiarities.
Between such campaign methods and the Exam
iners steady, stealthy and magn pursuit of Presi-
dent Mckinley there was all the difference between
term by the largest popular majority given to
candidate for that great office Neither in his first
candidacy nor his second had he ever Extensively
characterized his opponents. After his first election
his action was that of President of the whole people
He invited the South to sit above the salt at the
national table, and commissioned Lee and Wheeler
and restored them to the place in the regular army
they had resigned to fight for the Confederacy.
Never for moment did his patience his amiabil-
ity disappear. The Democratic members of Congress
in personal intercourse found him a considerate
friend, and his popularity with them great as
with his own party IN fine, he never said nor did
partisan thing from his first nomination to the day
of his death to justify the malice with which he was
treated by the Hearst papers, and they cannot excuse
nor soften their brutality by reprnng campaign pic
which were humorously intended to reduce Mr..
Bryans position to its ultimate absurdity
After his second election President Mckinley S
had perspective OF only four years He could
not be chosen again There was no good point nor
purpose in personally assaling and brutay abusing
him. The Examiner attacks by cartoon and text
were not partisan nor political. They were entirely
personal, directed against the man and intended to
degrade him in the eyes of his countrymen and the
world They were more than this. They repre-
sented him as the enemy OF the plain people, the
avarcious destroyer of their happiness the greedy
robber of their substance, the foolshmnded tool OF
their enemies. In all the history of cartoons from
the days of Glray TO these days, there were never
such indictments to the murder OF as lay in
the Examiners pictures In all the history of lam
Ipoons from the days of Cobbett there were never
printed such reckless, malicious, provoking
lampoons as the Examiner editorials against the
President Neither the "Cri du Peuple" nor any
other hysterical publication that preceded the French
Revolution ever exceeded the malign influence of the
Examiner against law government and the rights of
person and property.
All this is of black record, and so black that it
may superimpose the ridicule Of others in text and
picture foot deep upon it. and the black purpose OF
it will show through