The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-29

Se"F"si Hr"S 10 answer -artn8 HuF
Ps',ce Before AdeIph Ochs Gess q
! chance To saS Thai hearst Mixhe
Better answer IN tss avn way
SPEECH Based On the "Amerseaap''
FubiIratI"N % the Cehslan Warrant
HumSr From GeerEc AIDE After tne
Mayors wholly Unexpected speesh.
| The JOINT banquet COMMITTEES of tho
| Associated Press and the American News
paper Publishers Association in their
invitation To Mayor Gaynor to be tho
guest ~ honor a. their annual dinner
last night at the Waldorf Astoria. told
the Mayor they they wanted him In speak
freely and unrest ruinedly. And he did.
He went To the dinner with a carefully
prepared speech in which he said that
William r. Hearst was guilty of two state
prison felonies. forgery and classification
, Of public record lie charged the pro-
prieior Of the Journal and the = r.erican
with printing on April rs a photoGraph
Of a draft for $4,000 drawn To the orxss-
OF Daniel p. Cohalan of Tammany Hnfi.
the date Of which had been left on win
the idea Of discrediting the oaynor
administration
The instant he concluded his aIOw.
emphatic reading OF the speech up jumped
Thomas r. Williams. publisher % the
STsHfRS Journal and a cIoss personaI
friend Of Hearst Pale with rags and
swinging his fists within three feet og
MsyOv 6~ynor's nose. williams demanded
to he heard in defence Of Hearst.
There were 7Oo men in the banqust room.
editors and publishers from all over tho
United States. The balcony boxes
bloomed like nower garden with thu
brilliant gowns of the women guests.
Before MIR Williams exploded out Of his
chair the dinner had been serene. the calm
broken only by the popping OF Champagne
corks or by the laughter that follow Cd Nat
wrights jokes With the uprising Of tha
big and angry Williams. the whole sosno
changed
WILLIAMS TRIEs To ANSWER.
Angry or indignant or excited or merely
curious. half Of the 200 showed forward
for the trouble centre. while in the boxmn
the women we're shivering with excito-
ment There was a steady roar OF voacnn-
over which Mr.. williams shouta roaa
high The banqueters tried to yeli him
down. Toastmaster Nat Wright pleaded
with him Mr.. Stone consulted win
Mayor Gaynor who shook his heaA.
show ing no more emotion than a souno
man. Oscar. manager of the hot0l, waS
sent for. House detectives hooked IN.
There were cries for the police Williams
couldn't be budged
For half an hour he faced a storm AZ
yeils and threats standing in front o9 sAs
guest table or on a chair directly In IRONS
OF Mayor Gaynor. The management AZ
the waldorf was in q quandary. Thsw
tried 20 get permission to put Williams Qua.
but neither ToastmAster Wright nor any
body in authority In the two assouiaeionn
would say the word. The turmoil wee
unceasing. Finally Adolph y. Ochs. nrs.-
prietor Of the New York Tunes. rot WIN.
iams's consent to speak for him. Moo
half hundred people heard Ochs aay
that aimee Hearst wasn't present 70 9DnRk
Tor himself and since Mayor 0aynor wns
4 guest OF the associations, the MnyDr
rouldn't be answered at that time. hue
hat Mr.. Hearst would reply to him lssar.
Nobody had . hint Of what tho Mayor
had brought in acceptance Of the invita-
lion 70 out loose no matter what hsp-
psned. IL was noticed that the MMror
iidnt laugh even when the toassmas4ar,
Nat g. Wright Of the Cleveland EegSuv.
freed some % the newest Jokes IN shN
middle West. issts that have Away. roe
: hand. He sat stern and sits bsnhad i
md conversed little. -,
AT TEE QUESTS TABLE.
To his right and left were sons urrtaw
veil known men. famous In Mternt.,rs.
politics. Law. Journalism and Other nrs-
isssiOns. AZ the right Of Toasemawrsr
Wright we're Herman Riddsr. thea NJ.
3aynor. Melville Y. Stone. general mana.
Eor Of the Associated Press; George Ada.
". II. De Young. Senator Joseph w.
Bailey. William r. Nelson Of tho KanAna
City SsaT. Charles W. Knapp. A. =.
BIstchsn and n. W. sooat. AZ M
Wright's other side we're Frank n. New.
ne Rev. Or. Newell Dwight AiIlis. vIcenr
Lawson. Presidsnt woodrow wIlnun ~
Princston. 8. Edward Young. Robert g.
Morris. Cyras Curtis. Robert Adamann.
he Mayors SECRETARY: William HaseR
md City Chamberlain Charles H. HYDE.
AFR. Wright. toastmaster for the nrnt
limo in his life. a. he told George Am.
Aad got away with his job bsautlguIIy.
Everybody was in iiptop humor when ka
turned To the Mayor and said that he had
he honor Of presenting If not the nRxt
'tAndard bearer Of the Democratic party
u isast q Spssndid executive and a charm
nR gentleman. William J OayuoP" ~.
1aynor made a bOW. hut there va 40
mile on his face. He went 20 work wfgh
sxtrems dslibaration. hr1t adjusting hae =
HIaMnnN than anrffna ova~ IN, r.. unns..t