Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-03-21
NEWSPAPERS REORGANIZATION.


in the eastern newspaper world BY
the attacks which have been made
upon the character OF Hearst, and the
retaliation which has been visited up
on innocent and guilty alike through
the columns Of the New York Evening
Journal. The following article, com
menting on the situation, IL taken
from Practical Politics:
The Hearst boomers In this state
are more than ever defiant because OF
the attack upon Hearst's character
which has been started by the New
York Evening Post and echoed by 9th
or papers of Influence, including the
Springfield Republican. The Hearst
men In Boston are taking their cue
direct from New York, and the cue
there Is to attack everybody who re-
fers disparagingly to Hearst.
The New York Evening Posts at
tack was answered by an attack on
the Willard family, one Of whose mem
bers controls the destinies Of that pa.
per. The Evening Journal--to that
paper the Hearst syndicate confines
Its personal attacks-pleasantly an
nounced that Henry Willard, 10y dead,
and unable to retort, was q burglar,
but that he burgled corporations,
while the son who controls the New
York Evening Post was q degenerate
and had his fathers instincts, but
lacked the courage to do anything
more desperate than 10 rob his sister.
This Is due to a family quarrel over
the settlement Of the Willard estate.
Meanwhile, all over the country pol
.iticians are asking concerning the
speech against Hearst which Con-
gresham Johnson Of California made
aud which Is embalIned Ia the Con-
g%ressional Record OF a few years ago,
Finally recognizing the wave Of curi.
osity and comment that he'd been
started, the Hearst promotion bureau
printed an attack on Johnson himself
as "a fugitive from justice" So far
as the public is aware, Johnson has
been a dead issue for a number OF
years, ana the appropriateness Of that
retort is hardly visible, but has called
attention to the subject Of Johnson's
attack eight years ago, in which he
spared no words In expressing his
opinion Of Hearst,
On the day following Johnson's
memorable speech In congress, there
was printed In the Congressional Re,
cord what purported 70 be a reply to
johnson, delivered by Mcguire of Cal
ifornia, in which johnson was attacked
as a fugitive from justice who had at
tempted to conceal his identity on
the Pacific slope. AS a matter OF fact
the reply has never delivered, bu,
was printed without being made
johnson, rising to a question Of priv
ilege, after the screed Of Mcguire had
been printed, admitted that thirty
four years previous he had left New
York state under a financial cloud
but under his own name had worked
his way up, had paid every dollar that
he owed, and could and did return al
any time to his own home under his
old name, where nobody greeted him
more warmly than those who had SUI,
fered by his ~unfortunahte experience
II was a florid reply. In which John
son told how he had risen IN the odd
Fellows and other orders, without
roncealment Of his early difficulties,
and declared that Hearst has previous.
" caused copies OF the San Francisco
Examiners attacks upon him 70 be cut
ont and mailed to his wife, who was
an invalid.
Then Mcguire made another reply,
This time actually doing i. There was
an argument as to whether certain
portions Of The debate should be
stricken from the records, but the
matter was finally dropped and the
mnck,heap remained in the Congress
sional Record 10 confront Hearst In
his most ambitious hour.
We believe that the precedent estab.
lished on Saturday MS 10 the manner