The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-04-29

on his chair behind the toastmaster
and begged for n word.
| Mr.. Williams. / promisc YOU less
than forty words to speak-let mo
/ say them for him"
NO. no. yelled the diners. "NIr.
Williams says began Mr.. Ochs,
mo. no" broke In the thoroughly
angered diners, with added inslstence.
Mr. Ochs sat down. while the
orchestra Numbered Dixie" but Mr.
| Williams still kept his feet and q
semblagc of order was not restored
until the Rev. Newell Dwight Hlllls
OF Brooklyn with felicitous speech
bought laughter that drove ont
anger. The directors. executives.
members OF the Associated Press and
Of the American Newspaper Publishers
| association had met at their joinS
annual banquet at Waldorf-Astoria TO
sink for the moment their wholesome
rivalries as competitors In their pro-
| fcssIon and a realization OF their CO.
operative endeavor TO inform eighty
million OF reading people their sub
! scribcrs and critics.
Bitter Attack Made.
4 DeNcu Sdl upN IL 10 luDlES
and after the coffee the hosts began to
hear things about themselves from
their guests. Mayor GayDor. the guest
OF honor and first speaker. took for
his subject THE press in its relation
TO public officials" He spoke as his
wont and as he had been invited TO
do without mincing words.
In an attack of almost unexanrplod
| bitterness on VIM. 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
Mayor Gaynor of Now York at the
banquet of The Associated Press and
the American Newspaper Publishers
| association said
You have given me the subject
The press In its relation 10 public
offlcials' and told me to speak plainly
| and freely. That is what YOU want
1ou have told us your object in as
sociating together is to improve the
press,
Those having power should exer-
else 1t Justly. kindly and moderately
That makes their acts all the more
effective.
II measure my words in saving your
power for good is great. Your power
Tor evil is not as great as some may
| think. That Is especially 80 when
any OF YOU deliberately try TO do evil
| by falsehood or mere scandal,
The oublic official who tries his best
TO do right and who knows how TO do
right (for both these essential things
do not always exist in the same pub
lie omclal) cannot be hurt by you
Some may abuse, him, even lie aud
forge about him, but they arc power.
less TO hurt him. You can neither
make nor unmake an honest and COM
! petent Official.
| me press aS 4 whole is lust 10
public officials When the election is
over. Its wholesome wish is TO see
tue one elected give good government
and to help him do so, In that just
frame OF mind YOU often forbear much
This is true OF all honest and unsclasn
publishers and editors. But If a puD-
hsner OF editor be himself perennial
ofhcc seeker, he may desire 10 as
sasslnate every one he thinks in his
way and then. alas, what a disgrace
he brings upon Journalism 1t is pain
lul TO mention such exceptions. and
to speak OF their acts. but we should
not shrink from doing il IN n kindly
spirit and for the sake of good. You
expect me to be plain and not abatr
a jot or title. newspaper proprle-
tor or editor who is simply bent on
cutting the Goals Is an awful spectacle.
In no nook or corner of his head CT
his heart, IS there the slightest sense
OF truth or Justice
Let me illustrate by mentioning
one thing out of many AS late as
the fifteenth of this month. w Il.
Hearst printed In his principal news
paper here the facsimile OF draft on
the treasury of the city for $iS, 900
with headlines and an article attribu,.
Ing such draft and the expenditure
10 tho present mayor. The headlines
OF the article assert | fixed the award
and amount and paid !t and the draft
OF the treasury is printed TO prove IL
But when YOU look al the draft. as
gwen in the article (but how few
people scrutinizeed it closely), YOU
perceive the date of # Is left blank.
| huve brought it here as printed in
thie newspaper TO show It to YOU. and
here it is. When YOU look at the
original draft. which / have also
brought here for you to see. Won sec
the date OF it at the top In large
letters and figures as December II
l9ua which is before the present city
government came In. When Won
examine the said original further YOU
sec II also bears plainly the date
audlted and vouched which established
the claim, as a legal liability of the
city, was recorded in the comptrollers
oihce, December %. 1909 This dato
Is also omitted in the ncwspapc;,
copies as YOU perceive. In plain words
two state prison fclonics, namely for
| 5ory and falsi6cation OF a public docu.
ment, wore committed iD the eager.
ness OF this publisher 10 wrong the
n,ayor of the city of New York.
In a day or two afterwards ybon
| he had heard rumors that the grand
! Jury were taking notice of tho mar.
! ter, he published as an excuse. that
| the dates were so faint in the original
draft the photograph did not repro.
duce them. Now Just look at thfs
original draft. The date at the ton
as You see. is in larger and more pro-
nounced letters and figures than any
other part OF the draft | had tho
| draft photographed as test. and hero
| is the photograph. You see that shows
the date as plainly as any other part