The San Francisco call., 1908-11-17

All California is aroused to the gray
ity of the situation in this city. The
shot which struck down Francis }.
Heney last Friday has walked the
echoes Of popular indignation up and
down the state. That indignation is
flaming forth irresistibly against the
vicious dailies and the subsidized gut
ter weeklies in this city which cried
aloud day after day for violence upon
the person of Heney.
William Randolph Hearst and the
Examiner have been made the special
targets for public resentment since the
deed Of Friday last enlightened the
state as to the logical consequences to
be expected from Hearst's vindictive
lampooning OF the assistant district
attorney.
Among the predisposing causes Of
the assassination of Heney the attacks
by the Examiner are counted first by
al the newspapers of the state. The
interior press. rejecting popular senti-
ment in the large and small commune
ties from Siskiyou TO Imperial, unani
mousiy approves The Calls assertion
that Hearst's Examiner ''peddled the
provocation OF murder"
Extracts from newspapers in various
parts Of California viii indicate the
temper of the people over last weeks
outrage
In one Of the most scathing editorials
evoked by tho attack upon HeReys life,
written under the suggestive title
Morris Haas pulled the trigger-who
inspired the deed?" by the editor of
the Sacramento Bee. the blood guilt
ness is attributed to the cartoons of
the Examiner the cowardIy attacks of
the Chronicle. the insidious assaults of
the kept weeklies. and TO the vile abuse
Of ba es1hcflfzaA -
press. Here is part of the editorial:
Who can deny that in that mur-
derOus brain was instilled some of
the poison OF hatred against Heney
carefully cOncocted in the cartoon
crimatory conducted by the Exam
iner2
Is it not probable that this un-
balanced man believed he would be
a public benefactor if he got rid
of one whom the Chronicle had
taught him TO look upon as a public
tyrant2
Is il not very likely some of the
weekly poison put out by the Argo-
naut and its fellow kept sisters in
harem journalism entered into this
weakling'S brain and spUrred him
on TO his deed of hell?
Is il not more than thinkable
that the constant assaults by the
Calkins Syndicate press upon
everything decent in public life in
san FRANCISCO, and It's colncident
defense If not championship and
eulogy of everything vicious and
venal conspired to infame this
mans brain and nerve his ARM
How was he to know that back
of this Calkins Syndicate stands
Patrick Calhoun. prostituting a
public press? 1t may be he never
heard that. during the recent cam
paign IN San Francisco, it was
publicly and repeatedly charged
and never denied that Abraham
Ruef himself one of the arch Grim
inals, paid the salary of the politi-
cal writer on the San Francisco
exhibit in the Calkins chain OF
journalistic odalisques.
That there would be secret joy in the
Offices of the Examiner the Oakland
Tribune. the Los Angeles Times and
the Callzins papers if Heney should die
is an assertion. startling at first, but
when considered in the light of what
4 these papers have done to incite
/ Ieney's murder. extremely plausible
The assertion is made in a vigorous
editorial in the Riverside Daily Press:
If Heney should die there would
be JOY in the camp Of the grafters,
such as no other event could bring.
Ruef. Schmitz. Calhoun and every
other man accused would rejoice
even though they might put on
piOus air of sorrow and might de-
nOunce the assassin in vigorous
) terms. And in the offices OF. the