Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-08-13
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Mayor Gaynor. of New York, again
brings forcibly before us the fact
that the assassination Of public offic'
ials and others holding important
positions. is frequently the result of
violent and unbridled attacks upon
these men by newspapers and would
be socialist orators. With an utter
disregard for the truth, inscriptions
editors and speakers seek TO incite
the prejudice and dislike of I'M
thinking people, until finally the idea
evolved from a distorted brain is that
il is his duty TO himself and MS
fellow man to remove such a monster
from this life. These bitter attacks
upon officials and individuals through
the editorial columns of a newspaper
and from the dry goods box rostrum
on the street corner. founded on
faisehood and malicious misrepresen-
tation. have been responsible for
more than one assassination in this
country. Upon this same subject
the Los Angeles Herald says:
when the news flashed through |
New York City yesterday that Mayor
Gaynor had been shot down and
fatally wounded las the first stories 1
had it). it is safe to say that a
majority of the Mortified people |
thought instinctively of the shoot /
ing of President Mckinley. of Will 1
liam R. Hearsts responsibility for the
crime. and the same mans probable I
responsibility for the deed on the
deck of the Wilhelm der Crosse.
for some month past Hearst, for
no other reason than that Gaynor
stands in his political path. has
been carrying on through his chain
of papers a violent, abusive and re
lentless personal attack on Judge
Gaynor. Just as he described Nc
Kinley as a poitroon and despica-
BILE creature, a living, breathing
crime in breeches,' so he has been
heaping insult and invective on the
mayor day after day and week after
and San Francisco papers, three
thousand miles away, in the effort
TO crush his political rival
When newspapers of large cir
culation persistently hound a man
and picture him az the devil incar-
nate in every edition for months,
how much effect does it have on poor
weak brains like that of the man
Gallagher. who shot yesterday? A
good deal. probably 1t obviously had
a good deal TO do with the crime OF
Czolgosz, in whose pocket was a New
York Journal when he was appre-
hended. Given a small personal
grievance to supply the murderous
dynamics, and a diseased brain like
Czolgosz's or Gallagher's needs only
the spur of repeated bitter personal
denunciation to become imbued with
the idea that he is doing a public
service who shoots holes into men
ike Mckinley and Gaynor
AS a matter of fact, Judge Gay
nor was proving himself one Of the
best mayors New York has ever had
and he had already performed ines
timable service in establishing a
very high standard for those who
are to follow him With blunt hon
-esty. hatred Of graft and respect for
the law, he was cutting out extray-
agance in a dozen departments and
he had reyolutionized the police de
Dartment, whose partnership with
vice had long baffled the most earn
est and able executives, ard made
it both law-abiding and a Iaw-en-
forcing body.
yet in spite of HIS great ser.
vice, he was bitterly hated bv
Hearst and made the target of mud
batteries that daily belched streams
Of vile abuse, attacking both his
personal honor and official integrity.
Not until the truth can be sifted out
of the case can it be known how much
effect the denunciation had on the
brain of Gallagher. but doubtless II
was considerable, for Gallagher was
of the class to which The New York
Journal panders.
Millions viii rejoice that Mayor
Gaynor seems likely to escape death
and to be spared for a public ser.
vice he has already adorned and i'm.
proved to a marked degree.