The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-29
BITING SPEECH Of
NEW YORK'S MAYOR
Judge Gaynor Unburdens His
Mind Regarding William
Randolph Hearst.
SCENE AT PRESS BANQUET
OTHERWISE THE FUNCTION
WAS A GREAT SUCCESS.

New York, April 2s-The regular an
nual dinner of the Associated Press
and the Newspapers Publishers ascot
alton, was thrown into riotous and pro-
lOnged disorder tonight when Thomas
T. Williams, business manager for Will
liam r. Hearst, was refused permission
to speak as he rose to reply to biting
criticisms Mayor Gaynor had just made
of Mr.. Hearst's part in journalism.
For twenty-five minutes the uproar
continued, while men stood in their
chairs and women craned from the bal
comics of the banquet hall.
Mr.. Hearst is not here. 1 am his
friend and have right to be heard"
Mr.. Williams shouted, climbing on the
speakers table and shaking his fist in
the face of the mayor
Put him out" Shut up" Free
speech" came from all parts of the
hall.
Unable to Maintain Order.
Toastmaster n. c. Wright of the
Cleveland Leader hammered in vain
for order, while Mr.. Williams stood i'm
passive but obstinate, and waited with
folded arms to be heard.
"This is a disgrace to the press of
the United States; 1t must end" shout
ed Alfred S. Ochs, proprietor Of the
New York Times, as he stood on his
begged for a word.
Mr.. Williams, l promise you, has
less than forty words to speak; let me
say them for him."
mo, no." yelled the diners. Mr..
williams says began Mr. Ochs.
mo, no." broke in the thoroughly
angered diners with added insistence.
Mr.. Ochs sat down while the orches-
ira Numbered Dixie" but Mr.. Will
Iiams still kept the floor, and sem
blance of calm was not restored until
the Rev. Newell Wright Hills of Brook
lyn with a felicitous speech brought
laughter and drove out anger.
Seven Hundred Guests.
The directors and members of the
Associated Press and of the American
Newspaper Publishers association had
met at their annual joint banquet at
the Waldorf-Astoria to sink for the
moment their wholesome rivalries as
competitors in their Fellowship in one
profession and in realization OF their
co-oDeratiye endeavor to inform eighty
millions of a reading people, their SUD-
scribers and critics.
seven hundred sat down to tables,
and after the coffee the hosts began to
hear things about themselves from
their guests.
Mayor Gaynor the guest of honor and
first sneaker, took for his subject The
Press in Its Relations to Public Off
Gals" He spoke as is his won't and
as he had been invited to do, without
mincing words.
In an attack of almost unexampled
bitterness on William r. Hearst, who
ran against him for mayor, and who
has since criticised his administration
sharply, he applied epithets seldom
heard in public speaking.
Then followed the scene described.
Woodrow Wilson, president of Prince
ton university, spoke of the celebrity
with which worldwide news and the
attendant comment thereon is trans
mitted by telegraph, emphasized the de-
cline of the editorial in power in the
growing Importance of the prompt, &C
curate and unbiased news gatherer.
Messages of Greeting.
Throughout the dinner cable mes
sages of greeting to the American press
were read as they flashed in at brief
intervals from American representa-
tiyes abroad.
Cheers broke out from every table as
Colonel Roosevelt's was read, and as
they subsidized a male quartet sang a
burlesque on Anybody Here Seen
Kelly?"
HAS anybody here seen Teddy?
II L. double d Y?
Has anybody here seen Teddy?
Have you seen him smile?
Sure: his copy's hot, his taste is true;
He's a news man through and through;
Has anybody here seen Teddy?
Teddy Of the matchless style?"
The rest of the dinner passed off
without incident, and the best of good
fellowship as q scene unprecedented
at a public banquet had not marred the
Mr.. Williams left the hall early. es-
corted by his friends.