The San Francisco call., 1908-07-25
HEARST HARD hit
BY HFNEY'S TALKS
Stung by Circulation Losses,
Examiner filings Mud at
Chief Graft Prosecutor
Swift Kick Only Reply to Re-
hash of Attack by
Gutter Press

Alarming einroads upon the circula-
ton of the Examiner. caused to a con-
siderable extent by Francis ]. Heney's
fearless exposure of that papers meth
DDS and policy have caused renewal
OF the Examiners venomous attacks
upon the special attorney of the graft
prosecution. The first whimper of the
renewed wall was heard yesterday.
Goaded to anger by the manner in
which Heney recently has been holding
It's methods up to the light of pub
licity and by the sting of the truths
which he has been telling, and suffer-
Ing at the same time from rapidly
dwindling circulation list, the Exam
lner resurrected and published yester-
DAY morning an old story which has
served as the basis of half a score of
dellperate attacks against Heney since
the beginning of the graft prosecu-
ton.
The Examiner discovered that more
than two years ago Heney gave re-
celpt for $4,000 to the Contra Costa
water company for money received for
legal services while he was acting as
one of the attorneys for the company
In its litigation with the city of Oak
land, and on the existence of this re-
ceipt the attack was based No open
charge was made, but by innuendo and
implication an attempt was made to
reflect upon Heney and convey the i'm
preston that he was guilty of some
thing. The Examiners demand was to
know the nature of the services per-
formed and what Heney did with the
money after he got it.
HENEY'S FORCIBLE ANSWER
The only answer thus fAr made by
Heney to the attack, and probably the
only one that he will consider it neces-
sary to make, was to forcibly eject
from his home representative of the
Hearst organ who gained admission
there by Misrepresentation. AS soon
as Heney learned the real identity of
his visitor he wasted no time in throw
ing him out of the house.
The Examiners attack was published
yesterday morning, and at the same
time occurred another incident of in
terest in connection with the case-the
departure for Europe on a three
months trip of Garret w. McEnerney,
chief counsel for the Examiner. Nc
Enerney is also involved in the Contra
Costa water case as an attorney on the
same side with Heney, and had it not
been for his opportune departure for
Europe it might have been an easy
matter for Heney to force from his own
lips and through the columns of the
paper with which he is identified cor
rect account of the Contra Costa mat
ter
AS 1T is, the report of ]. III. Dock
weller, who exported the Contra Costa
accounts, shows that the amount paid
to Heney was not the largest paid to
any attorney, as claimed by the Exam
iner, but that McEnerney himself for
performing services of the same nature
and covering the same period OF time
as those of Heney, received nearly
100000 for his services, while Attorney
McCutchen received $4,000 from the
same company and A. A. Moore s25, 900
in single case.
The Examiner included In Its attack
reference to case in Arizona II
years ago in which Heney was fined $50
for contempt of court. 1t is not the
first telling of this story, the details of
which have since come to light, but the
Examiner loses no chance to draw an
inference which amounts practically to
an accusation of jury tampering.
EXPOSES EXAMINERS METHODS
The answer to all this is easy. Heney
has been telling some things about the
Examiner that have hurt, and Heney
is blamed for considerable part of the
responsibility for the loss of thousands
of subscribers. At Sacramento during
the Christian Endeavor convention
Heney laid bare the causes of the Ex-
aminer's attitude of antagonism toward
the graft prosecutions, and the con-
vention passed resolutions denouncing
the paper and pledging the members
of the organization all over the state
to refuse to subscribe for the paper
and to exert their influence against 1t.
In all his recent speeches Heney has
condemned the paper, but instead of
referring indiscriminately to its lies he
has picked out some of its most recent
ones and analyzed them. Immediately
after the action taken by the Christian
Endeavorers at Sacramento the attacks
on Heney in the columns of the Exam
fner suddenly stopped. His name was
not slurred from day to day as 1t had
been for some time before and the car
toons with which he had been assailed
We're withdrawn. It was the hope of
the Examiner that Heney would with
draw his open denunciation, but Heney
refused to quit
In recent speeches at Oakland, Berke-
ley, Alameda, Richmond, Centerville,
San Leandro, Petaluma, Martinez San
Jose, Los Gatos and other cities Heney
has charged the paper with lying and
mishandling news, and has declared
that the only remedy for its stamp of
Journalism is for readers to withdraw
their subscriptions. The suggestion has
borne fruit and the loss of circulation
has been tremendous.
ARRAIGNs HEARST PAPERS
In his speeches Heney has charged
the Hearst papers with moral response