The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-14
MIR. HEARST GIVES
 WARM INTERVIEW
Says SulIivan's Attack Was Deliber ately Planned and Characterizes
 It as DsgracefuI.

Washington. February 13 3-Representa- tive Hearst, in an interview tonight on today's incident in the House of Repre- sentatives said
 ii need not say that consider todays session of the House disasreeable to all, and absolutely dlsgraceful to those who deliberately planned such a scene and forced 1t upon myself and other unwilling members I feel that they deserved the ] disagreeabe shock and discontinue that met them when they learned through me the extremely appropriate kind of man whom they had selected as their mouth piece.
 "The one interesting feature to the pub l lie and newspaper men, whom I serve, | is the question which is raised of the 1 right of editor to sit in Congress without making his newspapers sub | serVient to the opinions of his congress sonal associates. I say as emphatically l as I can that it would be of the great | est possible value to the United States ! if a hundred editors of important news l papers could be elected to Congress. wish that these men could see for them | selves and tell the people of the country much better than l am able to do, ex- actly to what extent the House of Repre- sentatives is a representative body, and ! they might. guided by actual knowledge, | obtained as members of Congress use their newspapers to force upon the House the needed reforms and compel action and definite obedience to the wishes of the people.
 Defends His Position.
 My stand is this. and as far as i know the editors of this country l think there are very few that would not agree l with me:
 AS a member of the House speaking i in the House, I expect to be bound by the rules of the House.
 As an editor of a newspaper. repre- | senting a constituency much larger than 1 that of any congressman, 1 expect to be bound now, I have been in the past by newspaper ethcs that is to say. by the real interests of the readers whose 1 approval gives my newspapers what force | they have. I am perfectly certain that no American newspaper editor worthy of l the name would allow himself or his newspaper to be controlled by the mem | bership of any club or any legislative body to which he might belong
 T am not interested in knowing who | 1t was that actually prepared or inspired l the lengthy, elaborate attack on myself which Mfr Sullivan read from manuscript this afternoon. This strikes me as the one feature in 1t of interest to the pub lie:
 Called Hlm an Anarchist.
 "The gentleman from Massachusetts spoke as the representative of the re- spectablo democracy. He spoke about protesting on behalf of the respectable element in the democratic party. Accord ing to men of this type he who tries to | accomplish real reform Is an anarchist. Mir. Sullivan illustrated this tendency of his class Interestingly, not only by at- tacking an individual democratic con- gressman as an anarchist and d socialist, but declared the whole republican party 1 to be pushing the country into social- | ism because of the recent effort urged | by the President to bring about reform 1 in railroad rate legislation,
 "The original attack upon me by Grove | Johnson was due to my opposition to the will of the Southern Pacific railroad, and incidentally to my having defeated him for reelection. And this attack by MT.