Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-03
HEARST A RENEGADE
AND HIS D00DLE-DEES
ARE NOT DEMOCRATS
UvHE Los ANGELES TIMES prints the

/ authenticity with the exception of the las
paragraph. The Herald cannot let pas
without challenge the assertion that tn
Examiner is rival to a paper of pure Dem
Ocratic principles. When Hearst first lis
tened to the bees that swarmed around tn
then pIethoric molasses barrel, and per
mitted organization of the Doodle Dees un
der his protectorate, the Democrats Of Cali
fornia rebeued. They kicked the renegade
body. boots and breeches from the party
This action was taken at the state Demo
cratic convention at Sacramento two year
ago. Hearst is not Democrat and hi
organ does not represent Democracy.
Official notice has been given of an
other entire change of management
business and editorial, in the Los An
geles Examiner office.
Since the Examiner was started here
about four and a half years ago, it has
had four managing editors and -four
business managers. 1t underSoes a
general shake-up about once a year
Nobody has yet been able to put the
concern on it's feet and make 1t pay
it's bills.
Uncle Heine" Lowenthal, the worst
failure of them ALL has been dis
CIdIRGu
gether. and has, while hanging around
looking for a better job devoted his
talents to his interest in small news
psper in the interior of New York
state.
Perhaps the general public will UNI
derstand more clearly who is referred
to if we say Uncle Heine Knowitall,'
for such he was generally dubbed
among those who had the distinction
Il ,cf err
incredible, not to say Impossible,
person-like unto whom there does
not exist another being on the earth,
above the earth or in the waters UNI
der the earth. Who ever made Uncle
Heine" broke the pattern after he was
turned out.
It has been duly announced that
Charles S. Leach succeeds Lowenthal
as general manager of the Examiner.
Mr. Leach is an experienced newspaper
man. He labored for years on the San
Francisco Chronicle, and his ability
is recognized on this coast, as well as
in Chicago where he has been one of
Hearst's managers.
1t is doubtful, however, If even a
man of Mr.. Leach's vigor and shrewd-
ness can pull the Los Angeles Exam
iner out of the hole in which bowen-
thai left it. The task calls for Her
cules-which, perhaps, his other name
is Leach
Uncle Heine left the newspaper bank
rupt financially, legally and morally.
The San Diego affair, in which three
members of the Examiner staff were
locked up in Jail on the charge of
burglary after one of them had been
stopped in a sensational attempt to
flee across the border, was the culmin-
alton of Uncle Heine's mismanage-
ment. That shook him off his perch,
together with his managing editor.
When Mr.. Leach came here to un-
dertake the conduct of the paper he
found 1t losing advertising and sub
scribers at an alarming rate, and en-
numbered with debts that threatened
to put a stop to its publication.
The financial status is known to be
desperate. The Examiner Qocal office
owed the paper manufacturers many
of dollars for white paper.
It's bank account was overdrawn.
Dozens of smaller creditors were clam
oring for payment. The railroads were
on the point of disseminating service
because of unpaid bills. Hearst, the
big boss, himself was on the verge of
up his hands and letting the
weak flame go out.
Hearst, by the way, is very hard
pressed, financially. He owes millions.
He has mortgaged everything mort
gageable. The Hartman interests and
associated fnanciers almost own him,
owing to the huge sums he has bor-
rowed to keep afloat. He owes the
Hoes 5000, 900 on his presses.
Under such conditions, Mr.. Leach
takes up his duties. He has canned"
quite a number of men, including the
fellow who burglarized the studio at
San Diego and stole the pictures. I'm
he can't can the memory
of Uncle Heine. The scent of him
still hangs around the Examiner shop
in large, fat, exuding clusters.
It remains to be seen what success
Mr.. Leach will have in staving off the
creditors and keeping what
few advertisers the Examiner may
have left, hanging on by the eyelids.
He has tackled about the hardest
that newspaper man ever
The Times wishes him good
luck-not too good, but just good
enough.
The new managing editor of the
Examiner, Foster Coates, is one of
Hearst's crack evening newspaper men.
There are persistent rumors that after
a while Hearst will try to start an
evening edition here, with Mr.. Coates
at the helm. The morning Examiner
may be discontinued and the Hearst
deliverance here be made a twilight
sheet altogether.
In politics. too the new management
is confronted by difficulties. The Elk
aminer has declared itself to be
not Democratic, but Independence
league" which means Hearst personal
politics. His Los Angeles sheet can
not therefore appeal to the Democrats
for support on partisan grounds, thus
surrendering the local field to its Dem
ocratic rival The Herald, and making
more trouble in camp.