The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-30
SATURDAY, APRIL 80. 1910.
srnA1cnr TALK FROM cAyNon.

a STRAIGHT TALK FROM GAHNoh.
There was great disturbance at
tho Joint annual dinner OF the Assoc
ciated press and the American News
naner Publishers Association In New
york Thursday night. It was made by
Tom williams. the publisher Oh
Hearst's New York Evening Journal
1T was caused by Mayor Gaynofs
sneecb on .The Press in Its Relation
to public officials
The committee which invited
tho Mayor to speak advised
hin, to speak plainly and freely
ue did so, He did not speak very
long or depend upon the Inspiration
of the moment for what he saic; but
on the contrary, he read from care
fully prepared manuscript what he
thought tho dinner party wanted. OF
what he had been led to believe 1t
would want Asserting that the
press as a. whole is Just to pubic ON
cials." and is influenced when inc
election is over" by "a wholesomel
desire to see that the one who Is
elected gives good government, and 70
helm him to do So he laid down the
proposition that "a newspaper propri-
etor or editor who is simply bent on
cutting threats is an awful spectacle
There would probably, have been no
pronounced objection to the Mayor
self evident proposition but for the
single illustration employed by him to
establish his contention. That illus
tration was william Randolph Hearst,
in one of whose New York papers
there appeared about two weeks ago
what purported to be the reproduction
of a draft for s4s,0o0 paid to Daniel
Il Cohalan, Charles f. Murphy's le~
gal adviser and grand sachem of Tam
many Hail." The payment of this
draft, or warrant, or voucher, was de-
scribed in the Hearst paper as zone
OF the first acts of the new admins
tration" Mayor Gaynor said that the
headlines and article in the Hearst pa
per assert that / fixed the award
and the amount and paid it, and the
draft of the treasury is printed to
prove it," The Mayor exhibited pho
tograph of the draft to show that the
Hearst paper had cut out the date
line which showed that the alleged
services We're performed and the draft
was issued before his administration
:" ~ So
~ 0'@' - -"
non OF puoAc docu'aeh'--"ere co'ii-
United IN the easerness Oh t'As pup
Usher ana editof 10 wrong the mayor
OF the CITY OF Ne" YORK
ne lhdeoteahess ior winch TINS
ofai' was uiawt' -NaSo " gay 'ioi oN
Ptained' was i..Suftee turing seVeia.
years before Inc" present ihenipeis Oh
-he GU! government were eie''eu' anu
II was auui'eu ana mace 'iAeu anu
iesai opi'satio'i u tle cies peiofcf"e
LOOK once ihs'eau Oh any Vi Us ny
ing Inc award
II Is hish '''fe' ueetafeu 'he May
or that these iorseis ana itpeie.s
were IN s'ate PRISON. aiu ''ie 'ii''e =
VIII be tt'ere' ana 'use 10 mink oi
a man. VINO Is eapapie oi aoiNs ehiass
IKE inns peihg possessed Oh me no
Won ttiat ne IS NJ 70 hoio any once
from MAYOR 70 i'resioeht oil the Ch'seo
states! Morally speakihs' ms mihd
will the voters anywhere put such a
man in Office"
Ihat was more than Tom Williams
could s'aila ana rushing 10 the
SPEAKER $ taoie' ne oesan 10 Vociferate
WiiolS. "nat ne SAID nobody could
near pecause y was upon ms tfehzled
appearance that pandemonium broke
loose Nh Hearst was not present;
he wouid doubtless have behaved far
better than his hired man who made
himself utterly ridiculous by his
prlze-rnS conduct. The mob was