Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-23
"As sist- ANGEL"

Have a care, everywhere. Another
glaring at Maine.
A friend at Sanford. Me. who for
got to sign his or her name, and who
typewrote across the top of the clip
ping: Are you willing to play fair
and own up?" has sent us a two-col-
umn would-be attack on the Kenne-
bee Journal. The clipping is from The
New York Call, paper not on our
exchange list and but for our friend"
at Sanford we might never have heard
of this two columns of free advertis
ing.
Apparently our nameless eorrespon-
dent endorsed the idiotieaIly contradic-
tory and blindly furious attack which
defeats its purpose by parallel state
ments that would convict worse
crank than Sehrank.
Consider this: - But it must
not be imagined from this that the story
is of no further use to capitalist Journal
ism generally. The. same charge Is sun
going the rounds of the provincial news
papers, and their editorial work ON the
subject looks suspiciously ike copy
specially prepared elsewhere for country
circulation.
For example, we have received several
clippings from a Maine newspaper, the
KENNEBEC DAILY JOURNAL, pub
lished at Augusta, whose editorial coll
umns palpabiy bear marks of having
been served in this manner by some
reptile capitalist news agency, probably
in New York.
Roosevelt was shot on the 18th instant
The next day this Maine paper published
an editorial in which, while it did not
directly charge that the assassin was a
Socialist still it contrived to leave that
| impression >
| Roosevelt was shot on the 14th in
slant. The next day this Maine paper
published an editoriar'-written by
| some reptile capitalist news agency,
| probably in New York"
OF course we must play fair and
own up" as our nameless Sanford
friend" suggests, by informing our
| readers that specially prepared copy
was in readiness for Roosevelts shoot
| ing and appeared next day in the Ken
nebec Journal. Pretty keen work,
| wasn't it?
Further along in the Calls broad
side of anarchistic rage we find: We
can understand the editor writing his
editorial comment ahead of the news
in the same issue and letting it go
| through" BY that we do not know
| whether our New York assailant
| means that we knew Roosevelt was to
be shot, or that it (the CalD has been
in the practice of preparing editorial
comment on things that it knew was
to happen. We wonder if the Call had
any copy prepared on the dynamiting
of the Los Angeles Times.
A little further on this fellow, who
: | manifestly was seeing red, refers to
! reports in the Kennebec Journal that
| Schrank is not Socialist and Others
| that he is. Probably most of the
:. Kennebec Journals, as we'll as the
| Calls, readers know that the reports
! that have been sent out have beer
contradictory in all the papers, fol
the simple reason that crank who Is
bad enough to be a murderer is likel,
to be a liar and tell one thing one day
and another the next. However, lead
! ing New York papers of all politiea
faiths have told the story of the pro
prietor of the hotel where Schran'
boarded that the assailant of Co
Roosevelt is a Socialist.
Frankly we have not had the advan
tage of Schrank's acquaintance an
J, we do not know. We do not care wha
his political preferences are. That