The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-07-29
HEARST AND HEARsTISM.


ence party convention in Chicago
North Yakima working men have
gathered in little groups talking Of
the new party and on. of all their
talk comes much praise for William
Randolph Hearst and much comment
as TO his fitness to be placed in the
chair OF the chief executive.
ii the laboring men wish to COM
NIT wage suicide and bring onto the
country the greatest calamity It
ever experienced they will put Will
iam Randolph Hearst at the head of
She next administration.
AS a yellow journalist he is peer
of them all. He has been response
BILE for more crimes than any man
who has ever lived. His papers in
New York and Chicago are breeders
of murderers and criminals. Dime
novels. for Led effect, are like pocket
sGi ieas al tie NeN Testament when
compared TO Hearst's Chicago Amer
team. AT the time of the arrest and
hanging Of the celebrated car barn
bandits Hearst's American and Exam
iner in Chicago covered the story
down to the most minute and the
most loathsome details. The day Of
the hanging the american was pub
lished in green and red: contained
l6 pages and every line on each of
the 16 pages was devoted - the
hanging. Immediately following
This scandalous piece of newspaper
work an epidemic of earbarn rob-
berries broke out in Chicago. Boy
after boy was arrested and to the
police it seemed the robberies would
never stop. And each one OF these
youths in the sweat box declared he
had gained his inspiration from the
Hearst papers.
Once upon a time a certain Jocko
Briggs committed heinous crime
in Chicago. The Hearst papers were
a little barren in those days because
it was summer and most of the So
ciety scandal makers were in South
Haven or st. Joe or at Atlantic City
SO Jocko became the center of a
space writer's attention. He used to
grind out about s25 a day telling CT
she beauties Of yocko's character.
Then he found Jocko's wife, whom
Jocko had always abused. Working
on her sympathies, the space writer
secured her presence in the court
room and She used to weep before
the jury and the papers told about it
and the people began to favor this
rank criminal After two or three
disagreements no jury could be
picked but one Influenced BY Hearst
Ism. Finally Hearst jury ac-
quilted Jocko and the Hearst papers
crowed much after the sound of the
Blethen rooster. Then Jocko went
home. beat his wife, which was an
other signal victory for the power of
Hearst
Excellent man for president. This
Hearst who has instituted a chain Of
yellow newspapers from coast TO
coast and each one is devoted to
SANDER slime gossip of the divorce
courts and scandals in high society.
He Is catering for the labor vote.
True lie pays high wages. True he
secures the best labor market will
AFFORD But it is merely a pretense-
a desire TO impress the laboring men
with the idea he is their friend True
that some Of the editorials in his
paper have the right ring.
Hearst Is a practical nonentity. He
has something Of an ability to picE
good men and his mother to draw or
FOR money. He selected Arthur
Brisbane as his general in chief ant
The main spring Of his entire news
paper clockWork Brisbane is {
great newspaper man the highes
salaried editorial writer in the world
He dominates the Hearst policies
and dominates Hearst. Hearst coult
not move without him and would
probably appoint him secretary d
state. But Brisbane. while he shine.
in the newspaper world, as mair
mover Of Hearst's great newspaper
shell game would not shine as a cabi
net officer.
HeaTst's fame is largely built or
his comic supplements which are o.
such character as 20 be scarcely a
ans material assistance to him ii
the White House
Next to Brisbane the smooth And.
Lawrence does the beating of the bis
drum OF William Randolph. Law
renee is Chicago general for Hears
and is a clever one. He managed