Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-17
HEARST MENDACITY

IN HE local Hearst organ has in its
recent efforts to serve the South
~ ern Pacific machine in this state
by its futile attempts to introduce dis
cord in the ranks of the Democracy,
added another chapter to the record for
mendacity made by the newspapers
bearing the name of William Randolph
Hearst at their head.
The way in which the Hearst papers
published in the east found the san
Francisco horror and its appeal to the
charity of the good people, an occa-
sion for filing their columns with false
hoods intended for the glorification of
the impossible person responsible for
them, is an old story. The fact that
the Hearst papers in New York sought
to give credit to Mr.. Hearst and his
Los Angeles paper for the 100000 of
subscriptions to the San Francisco suf-
ferers raised by the Los Angeles Times
and Gen. II. G. Otis has, of course, not
been forgotten by our people.
Stil fresher in their memories are
the mendacious statements which the
local Hearst paper has SO often made
concerning its irculation-statement
intended to deceive the advertising
public to their hurt, and statements
which the paper has never dared back
up by opening its books to the inspec-
tion of advertisers when challenged
by The Herald to do so.
or class with these records of the
past are the false interviews and ut
terly unfounded statements concerning
Mr.. Bell with which the local Hearst
organ has favored those persons who
are unfortunate enough to be its read
ers during the last three days.
It's alleged interviews with prominent
Democrats of this city have been de-
MED and repudiated by so many Demo-
Gratis who are quoted, and it has been
so often branded as a falsifer by in
dgnant and misquoted friends of Mr.
Bell that 1t seems hardly worth while
to say any more upon this subject.
Its last weak effort on yesterday at
stated that a message was sent to
Joseph II. Call late Tuesday night by
a Democrat occupying a position con-
spicuous in the leadership of local af
fairs, pledging Mr.. Call the vote OF
Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc, etc.
if he would consent TO allow the use of
his name as candidate for governor.
OF course there is no Democrat in
Los Angeles. conspicuous or otherwise.
who would dare attempt to pledge the
vote of the Democrats of Los An
geles county, and certainly there is
no Democrat who knows anything
about the universal sentiment of
his party in this county, who does not
know that the attempt to pledge the
vote of this county for governor to any
person other than the Hon. Theodore
Bell would be false and misleading.
In the same article it is stated that
the chairman of the convention, Chair
man Norton of the local committee,
and others affiliated with him, were
boosting for Call.
Chairman Norton in his communica-
tion TO The Herald of the 18th inst
disposed very effectively of this false
hood-so effectively that one is tempted
to wonder at the temerty in men
dacity which would permit a newspaper
to repeat it. The fact that it was re-
peated can only be accounted for on
the theory that the paper responsible
for it IS so stepped in the very spirit
of falsehood that it has no proper ap
probation of the enormity Of putting
before its readers in its columns state
ments which are not only known to be
false, but which have been proven to
be false.