New-York tribune., 1906-11-04
CALLS HEARST FAKIR.
Brother of Editors Running Mate
attacks Him TN Verse.

John Armstrong Chanler member OF the N.v
York Bar and brother Of Lewis stuyvesant Chan
Ter. Democratic and Independence League candt-
GATE for Lieutenant Governor has Just issued his
new book entitled -Four Years Behind the Bars OF
Bloomingdalei or. The Bankruptcy OF Law IN New
ioIH Ihe volu-ne contains 40 pages and brtstIes
win causuc criticism OF well known persons OF
the Bloominsdsle Asylum. the Commissioners IN
Lunacy and the lunacy laws. William Randolph
Hearst his brothers running mate. Mr. Chanler at
tacKs In verse and prose He says OF Mr.. Hearst:
me torch CT Catins. with which CatilIne at
W WesHRIe9 to IRE Rome Is more fitted to the fingers
"a W. IT, hearst than cigarette.
Mr.. Chanler opens his work with the following
lines spoken by Hotspur In king Henry w.,
70; yet time serves wherein you may redeem
into the EooS ,banS honSTs and rsstos. yourselves
Revenge ths 3ssrins and disdsin'd csntemps
It IS in this spirit that the book is written
Equipped he IS with knowIeds. of ths
law and made familiar by his unfortunate rela-
tons with the Lunacy Commissioners and his con-
hnement In the institution of which he COM
plains the author OF this remarkable book speaks
Win some authority on the matters discussed
Mr.. Chanler who Is the divorced husband of
Amene Rives. was committed in 1897 on the re-
quest OF relatives. to the Bloominsdals Asylum
from which he escaped four years later.
He charged that his confinement was the result
OF a conspiracy Mr.. Chanler went 70 Philadsl-
phia, where he remained under the observation
Of neurologfst for six months. He was then de-
clared sane. Later he declared sane by a
court decision in Albemarls County Va. where
he has home.
Mr.. ChsnIer charges in his book that he was
railroaded to the asylum order that his brothers
and sisters might get his money away from him
Referring to himself throughout the book as 'ths
plaintiff he says Of the alleged congplracv aSajns,
him:
dssdg cod boodsd seoent n@os G0oet as Of to In.
tiIs family. male and female.
Likenng Bloomingdaie Asylum to a baron.s
castle on the Rhine, the writer says OF it:
Once within the walls Of said robber baron's said
stronghold. each victim is systematically robbed Of
thousands OF dollars per annUm. plaintiff
Coming to Mr.. Hearst. Mr.. Chanler writes this
sonnet on the candidate for Governor:
FAKIR HEARST.
intellectually sterile socially vulgar and morally
Obtuss"-District Attorney jerome the Fakirl
tin horn gambler from the Vastly West
. o hS.. T4 ta nI R'11s * .ay. SS h s .
BY which best may operate my guile
am fskir Of the rsnkest kind
So shall make philanthropy my Blind
Being gambler / must have horn
win sS9q ydM 5 oaTna s2 tG PR" m . FfsRns ad son sas
and hlch the woFknan,s pockets first and last
Just focus your optics on Fakir Hearst
MI Chanler also comments Mr. Hearst's
method of obtaining the Democratic nomination as
follows:
AS We said. raise In one thlng, ielse In all
true desire right false laws. w. r. Hearst proved
himself the prince Of fakirs, a mild term by
his action in stealing his nomination by the Demo,
cratic Convention at Buffalo, in the face CT tho
overwhelming sentiment of said convention for
Congressman sulzer; by sapping and mining in the
upstate counties and consequently catching the
honest Democrats mapping, and consequently con-
trolling the Committee Contested Seats with
the result that he and his FaIstafTs army Cf
heelers. Plug,uglies and strGng-arm men
feloniousy placed in the seats of men robbed
thereof Thereby sapping and mining in the up
state counties, and conscrupulous-on said record
i'm his political methods as Lucius Sergius Cat-
line.
But is It necessary TO pursue this painful topic
further?
We shall close by assuring the honest section of
the followers Of W r. Hearst's political banner
that mean slightest reflection upon them. We
have found W. r. Hearst out; hope that they
may MOTTO their cost
Mr.. Chanler also criticises the late Stanford
White, who. he says. induced him TO come to New
York for the purpose OF having him confined in
Bloomingdale