Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-09-28
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NEW YORK PUBLISHER CABLES
REPLY TO THE MAYORS
FAMOUS LETTER.
HIDDEN POLITICAL HANDSCORED
Says Mental and Physical Condition Of
Executive Weak and He 10
Eliminated From
Politics.

New York, N. Y. - William r..
Hearst sent the following reply to
cables from the New York World, the
New York Times and other newspa>
pers asking for statement from him
in answer to Mayor William J. Gay
nor's recent letter to his sister:
Il am exceedingly sorry that Mayor
Gaynor was shot and if Mayor Gaynor
has said what you tell me I can only
add that am exceedingly sorry that
his injuries have affected his mind.
After his apparent recovery Mayor
Gaynor expressed the hope that his
illness would make better man of
him.
MANY others entertained the same
hope, but unfortunately his experience
did not abate his evil temper or his
lying tongue. The criticism of some
of Mayor Gaynor's public acts by the
Hearst papers has been temperate and
truthful, dignified and deserved, un-
prejudiced and in the public interest.
"A public man who would make a,
false accusation in an attempt to sup,
press all public criticism of his acts
is man who is afraid or ashamed to
have attention called to the part he.
is performing.
"Masked Man" in Spotlight.
"The World has persistently and
pertinently asked, Who is the masked
man who is employing Maurice Mimi
ton to canvass for GaynOr for gov
ernor?'
Who is the masked man who is.
supplying the cash in the attempt to
nominate Mayor Gaynor for GOVERNOR
'*The World might further ask with
perfect propriety: Who usually en-
ploys Maurice Minton in politics?'
Who owns large green automo-
bile and sometimes lends it to his
judicial friends?'
Who would particularly like to
control the public service commission
in the matter of the new subway.
Who naturally would make every
effort to nominate for governor man
before his election for mayor had said
that the people ought to build the new
subways and after his election de-
clared that the corrupt and incompe-
tent interborough ought to build the
subway?'
I'm asking all these questions the
World would be asking in strict &C
cordance with the public interests and
only that man would obpject who had
q guilty knowledge and guilty dread
of the truth.
Papers as Public Watchdogs.
'@The Hearst newspapers and all
honest newspapers will continue to
hold public men to their public pledg-
es and to their public duty.
"The appalling conditions lately re-
vealed at Albany, at Pittsburg, in Cali
fornia, in Illinois, in Mississippi, show
the absolute necessity of public Wig
ilance and indicate the extent of the
corruption that would prevail if news
paper publicity-the one power that
every scoundrel fears-were with
drawn.
''The Hearst newspapers will con-
tinue to exercise a public censorship
which I hope will be always intelli-
gent and always fearless.
II personally will not take advant-
age of your columns to criticise Mayor
Gaynor politically; first, because of
his mental, as we'll as his moral con-
dition, has eliminated him from polit-
ical consideration.
civilian RANDOLPH HEARST"
The letter referred to was written
by Mayor Gaynor to his sister, Miss
Mary Gaynor of Utica; describing the
shooting, and intimating that the as
sassin was encouraged and abetted
by the publication in the Hearst pa
pers of inflammatory matters concern
ing the mayor.