The San Francisco call., 1908-10-11
Prosecutor Charges Publisher
With Responsibility for
DastardIy Crimes
Is Ready TO Demonstrate Exam-
iner Is Unworthy of Belief
on Any Public Issue
Asserts That the Editor Is the
Slave of Corrupt Harri-
man Interests
People Ask Why Paper Persist
emily Misrepresents Facts
of the Graft Prosecution

OF t1e UTdIt fI0SSCuIlOU
w. r. Hearst's cowardly
refusal to take up the chal-
lenge thrown in his face by
Francis j. Heney has not ar
mored him against a seeth-
ing Characterization at the
hands of Heney. Deprived
by Hearst's fear of such a
meeting from joining issue with
him in an open field before the
San Francisco public, Heney has
replied to Hearst's insults in a
brief but pointed statement.
Heney makes no effort to list
all Hearst's shortcomings, for the
statement is brief. He simply
calls attention to few of the Of
lenses committed by Hearst's Ex-
sminer and to a few of the crimes
against decency for which it has stood
kponsor. He answers Hearst's attack
on his character by charging the editor
politician with being a traitor to his
country and an enemy OF mankind, and
he calls particular attention to the dis
torted account Of Friday nights meet
ing published in yesterday mornings
issue Of Hearsts organ.
HENEY's STATEMENT
Heneys statement is as follows:
The proprietor Of great metro
politan daily newspaper possesses
the power TO WELD great influence
for either good or evil and hence
he owes a patriotic duty TO his
country and a charitable duty TO
mankind generally, aside from any
question OF common decency and
fair dealing, TO publish only cor
rect reports, at least, of public pro-
ceedings and of all matters in
which the public have an interest.
The proprietor Of such a news
paper, who does not do this at
least, is a traitor to his country
and an enemy Of mankind.
Everybody in this country knows
exclusively responsible for the as
sassination of President Mckinley,
and IL IS only recently that that
eminent Catholic, Archbishop Quig-
ley Of Chicago, declared through
The medium Of the church organ
that the Hearst newspapers were
responsible for the recent assas-
sination of Father Leo Heinrichs.
= Catholic priest at Denver, Colo.
and that they are unfit to so into
the home OF any good Christian
Within IS hours after the dyna-
hitting OF the home of James L.
Gallagher in Oak land the Examiner
of this city published Mutt car
tOOns ridiculinR and poking fun
st that infamous attempt at assas-
sination. which was only prevented
by a miracle from resulting IN the
wholesale murder Of eight people,
including three women and several
children
FIENDs ENCOURAGED
The cartoons We're calculated and
intended to make light of that
awful crime and to thereby encour-
age the same or some other fend
"a try the same foul plan over
again. Indeed, the same fiend who
committed this repulsiVe crime was
encouraged by the attitude OF the
Examiner and other higher de-
tenders Of wealthy criminals to re-
peat his fiendish attempt within
less than a month after his failure.
IL has been confessed by the per-
the time OF the second attempt TO \
dynamite Gallagher he had 10
pounds Of dynamite planted under
the floor. or small wooden Office
in which Gallagher was in the
habit Of paying of from Is to 20
WOrkmen every Saturday after
. noon, and that he. the fiend, in
tended TO explode the dynamite
while Gallagher was there paying
on the men. Again, only the in
tervention Of providence prevented
wholesale murder, and the crea-
ton OF orphans and widows. How
ever, the Examiner cartooned and
ridiculed this awful crime
I have challenged Mr.. Hearst to
publicly discuss with me the atti-
tUde OF the Examiner toward the
graft prosecutions in this city.
have not the time TO expose the
Misrepresentation in regard to the
graft prosecutions which are made
every day by the Examiner, but
in a public debate with its owner
I am prepared to demonstrate that
its news columns are absolutely
unworthy Of belief on any public /
issue.
MAKES COWARDLT ATTACK
In reply TO my challenge Mr..
Hearst makes cowardly and false
attack upon my character. / am
told that every person who attend
ed the Hearst meeting last night
knows that this mornings Ex-
sminer's report thereof is vfciously
false in substance. Abuse is not
argument. TIE people of San
francisco wsnt the facts and they
want TO know at this time why 7
the Examiner is perSisfent1y mis-
representing the facts in relation
70 the prosecution of wealthy and
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