The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-12
NEWS FOR NEW YORK.

Wnen man throws shadow In
New York, everybody in the Man
haitian archipelago is sure that the
SILVER must run from Pressure Isle
to San Diego and from Key West to
Puget Sound. Wherefore, after Mr..
Hartman had concluded the telling
of the story of the doing up of the
Alton and of the exploitation of the
Union Pacific. the Illinois Central
and other lines, and had followed
this up with an attack on the presi-
dent, the New York Herald rushed
to its multitudinous correspondents
Throughout the country an order to
get and transmit the Republican par
| ty sentiment in their localities, as to
any changes to be seen in II effected
| by his action. The first question in
the list was one asking If Mr.. Roose-
welt mas declined in popularity or
public confidence because of the
Hartman attack. Mirabile dictul
The universal answer is that, so far
from declining, the president has
grown several cubits in stature as a
result OF the attack. The Herald Is a
great newspaper though published
in New York, and prints its returns
without equivocation, as news for Its
readers. And its nose for news is as
infalllble now as ever, for 1t must
have come as a revelation to the
archipelago that even a president of
the United States does not shrivel
and shrink in every state of the un-
ion when a Napoleon of hignball A.
nance raises an issue with him.
In every part of the country but
that which swarms around the
mouth of the Hudson river, II was
Instantly realized when Mr.. Harri-
mans letter to Sidney Webster was
printed so fast upon the heels of his
confessions to the Interstate COM
merce commission, that, without re-
gard to which Of the disputants is the
active and which the honorary mem
Der of the Ananias club, an attack
from such a source. at such time,
was sure to immeasurably strength
en- the president. The arrest of Mr..
Harriman's former stenographer,
who sod the letter to the newspaper
which printed it, relieves Mr.. Harri-
man of the horrible suspicion of hav-
ing been a party to its publication.
Such shreds of his reputation for po-
litical sense as would have remained
If he had not cleared himself of such
a doubt, would have matched the
remnants of his reputation for con-
sentative and constructive railroad
after ne had testified
before the commission, and he could
have carried both assortments in his
vest POCKET
Some standing for safety and san
ity he has retained by prosecution Of
the man who betrayed his confidence
Mr.. Hartman does not appear to
have shared In the apparent New
York curiosity as to whether an at
lack by him upon the president inn
neiiately after his testimony wCr'd
weaken Roosevelt in the country He
seems not to have needed the He--
lld's revelations of the effect Of
such an attack by MIN at this time.
None the less has the Herald exercis-
ID fine newspaper sagacity in col
Getting and publishing what must
lave been startling news to the mass
II its readers. For we nave excellent
eason for believing that Mr.. Harri-
nan is about the only archipelagan
lot surprised. The arrested steQog-
apher tearfully protests that he
bought he was doing a friendly ser
ice to Mr.. Hartman and giving mis-
nemies a jolt. Great is Manhattan
-Globe-Democrat.