The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-08

plopTletors of newspapers have snfFe-od
similar experiences. The yv sforv SEneree u en,e
el even W. r. Hearst that who, 'g,e he
aounu the University of California IN
nuenSes getting around his editors nv -,
;r. Sme San Francisco Examiner and max.
N NS.G tnem M conservative" be came 70
7 ,r;,1 hHrA i' with the exclamation, N'WelI
after bo naVe S.a paper of my own" And
journal be found these same Econserr. ~ n
as,v ar,ve influences" coming into sh their
own again on the New So,k Jor-maI .mei'
once again he packed his or;n nnd nn,
sIeIted Tor Chicago, once again nx'
canning, Lg IN show them that ] will
nave paper of my own."
me New York newspaper situation
osat, nnS nao pad habit of boiling Demo
neae fimos nominees T during the campaign
YnrL wpI,, pIr pe 1T understood, the New
nef IN tins respect. In fact, Mr. pnit.
Ier gained his first start in New York
Ia ms work of making the World m
senstitntional paper when the New York
sun bolted Grover Cleveland and eun.
gor'ed Ben Butler The New York
Guh mas done many eccentric tbings
SINCE that time. but nothing one.haIf
81 eccen1r1c as that But old-line, old
tine. oid-school Democrats who Ind
never read anything except a Demo.
eratic newspaper IN their lives bolted
.ne New York Sun, which had been
oneir faNorIte newspaper from the timo
OF the Illden campaign, and went over
~ ihe world in swarms and droyes
ana lust as the New York World
walked INTO the circulation of the New
u orh sun when II bolted Cleveland. SO
unr New YORK Journal under Hearst
Waiked INTO the Democratic circulation
9l the World when that paper boIted
brNan IN 1896, Hearst undoubtedlv
lost 'ar2e sums of money in that cam.
Paign, because leading advertisers
Wonld nave nothing TO do with him and
ms Bryanite sheet, but he gained such
a lead IN circulation that. saw what
t9ey may about the man and his meth
obs. nevertheless he has been force
and a power TO be reckoncd with ever
since.
Hearst Sheets Conservative.
ferhaps the most interesting thing
that can be said about the Hearst news I
papers is that since the election last
tall. when Mr. Hearst was defeated for !
1overnor, the New York World of |
'ourse once again refusing 10 support (
ne Democratic nominee, since the eIcc-
ion oil Governor Hughes the Hearst
papers have been comparatively con
'evatIve; Just why this is no man
seems to know, but Mr.. Hearst has sum
noned TO his side men like Bradford
nerTlIl, formerly AT the head of the
New York World. and Justin McGrath.
ormerly Albany representative Of the
New York Times, and they are getting
nut morning newspaper which if sen,
atlonal and radical is sensational and
ndlcaI largely IN the reckless use OF
Illustrations and head lines
Even Arthur Briebane wbo ,en;ros 80 !
'e Known as the Voltaire of America
nd VINO Is aS much an institution dur.
ng these latter days az Horace Greeley
'as forty years ago, has toned down his
d'torlals, though occasionally II must
C Ac acknowledged that he still takes an
ccasional radical highfight, as William
:. DeVery would say in the Evening
ournal. The best thing that can be
AID In this connection is that Hearst
loves III mysterious way his news
aper wonders TO perform and that il
impossible to even venture n guess
5 TO what the future may bring forth
the Hearst publications
MI be found supporting the Demo.
ratio nominee for President or the
Independence League nominee for
resident one year hence. The enemies
Hearst say that his publications are
and anarchistic, forgetting
lat the socialists and the anarchists
present two Numerically opposite
hools Of economic thought. Z
Herald Not Taken Seriously.
The New York Herald never has suv
Iltorlal column and hence never exerts +
serious influence in matters political.
nee in while IT will fly of on a tan.
mt by putting A name like George
ewey or President Roosevelt at the
'ad of It's editorial columns sort
nine days political and newspaper
onder. But the Herald always takes
'od care 10 pick a man who is not a
ndidate or who is an impossibiIitv.
hat would happen if the Herald
ould actually find itself some day
picking a winner it is difficult to 4
eD imagine. Probably James Gordon
ennett on the other side of the water |
ould indulge in some picturesque /
'ear words about a white elephant
his hands" and "bresk even" by
bling the sixteen committees now a
pposed to have control of the edi- =
rial policies Of the paper TO Support