The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-07-28

tfast NseFs would fF no more fNtsEf.Te
encs Aiih MS dispatches
Alfred Henry LEWIS began g. wrls>
Niagara diSpatch.-lut Ia ~Eu.d
them himself. and Mitchell exhibited
Sagns at relief from responsibility tut
LEWIS went away ~ a feS dass. afsl
the dispatches frcm Ssarsrt. f.r
mich Mitchell beam. again TssIHon-
sioIe 10 the source = tn. news t.. an
once more t. - hFe@b snE up WITH
t.TpolatiurS II w&s "A case "a -. ~
giving Hearst ~nat re wanted.
More Protests aud the fic-pca>s.
Their were NOR. protests tsor
Mitchell and 4 response IN tn. form II
the ~appe.ranc. IN Niagara f.4is 80 am
other member Il tn. Hearst slaf lie
mad worked for Hearst flr several
Years longer than Mitchell lAv lad
become omeuE hat fau.o<ss t. iI.% It
readers a. the author - stories IesA.-
ing Dorothy Arnold al i.Iausslc
places N New York.
The new Hearst recruit at Niagara
explained that h" had corpe a..r.iy
10 help Mitchell since there Wa ~.,ri.
enough Tor two men ka; ne -ay
was deceived by the sunterfuy.
Ihere WAS only work enou.h far
one man honestly Collcritn- thns
news Was what was meant ty work"
bot II Mr. Hearst demanded =, ut=-
thing beside straight news aE.l his
man on the ground WAS TesotutvI, r.
IusihS 10 utStort the news To titarIl
II, then there was ~cTa ror tx. ,a.n.
NJ corps Of correspondents ~ ia
ferpreted the situation. SO dta Mitch
ell. So did the American delegate 4"
= the mediation conference.
. About this time copies II the Hea.st
papers arrived with the "full tea =:
=, the tarranZa message" The = I'll
= text appeared III the midst Of "a .eu-
uine dispatch bearing a niagara Fat'a
, date line From all Appearances II
was as Senuine a. the rest of the a..
patch.
> Reporters and the American lrl.-
! gates We're talking together III -.
= Hotel Prospect when Mr. Mitchell au-
peared, bearing a cops af his pat,~r.
=, Of course, If the text were genuine. aa
important beat was To be registered
against all of the other reporters.
Mitchell went directly 10 judge Ieh-
man. TO whom he had given has per
sonal pledge upon his arrival. that lac
= would deal sGuareiy with fhs news
Il do not want TO ask yea. Judge
said HearSts reporter. IF tins Car
rama message is genuine or not.
merely want TO notifyNyou and uhe
others who gave me their confidence
9 when | came here that this part al
my dispatch did not 40 out over TIA,
( wire from Niagara, and was not par
Of my dispatch. | never saw II natl
:, L found if in my dispatch upon read
Ing the paper.
A New Kind OF Rebellion.
Mitchell UIloWcd this report &
re those who had coniinded in him pItl
e a message to his paper. The mesStg,
n demanded that he Ice Withdrawn from
ay Niagara.
OF In the Hearst office this evidentl
was a new kind Of rebellion. Brad
as ford Merrill, the managing editor. too.
on the matter up with Mitchell by teie
II graph.
OF course, as q WaEe-earnfT and a
st employed hand. Mitchell had ob!iSa
MS tons to his employer. He had oihe
ne obligations to the men to whom Il
ne had pledged his word rs a eentiena
in order to gain access to the genu
"a inc news originating at Niagara. II
chose TO cali into ms confidence som
of the older correspondents; and SO
r. came about that his hot-fre Of tel.
e grams betWeen himself and has Ollie
became known to tins group Of GO
TO respondents, and through there 10 IN
ne American delegates. ON all sides II
se terest in the situation was heighten.
r. by the consciousness that Il ne
OF standard for reportorial conduct ~
lei being fought for at n tremendous pc
TAT sonal cost to the fighter.
as The response to Mitchefis deInar
that he be Withdrawn from NiagaI
In was this:
Me- York, May go. 1914.
Roscoe c. Mitchell,
est Clifton Hotel. \. Falls.
mt All right. Please come bone E
w, night. Always send the news fac
and leave policy to EDITORS. Show III
lie Johnson.
"HRADFOKD MERRILL"
ng To this message Mitchell r.pfi.
ell that ne wonId introduce the reuorf
m sent to help him 10 the other 7
porters-but not to The American Il.
egates OF the mediators. lie add.
lot that upon his arrival in the Hearst q
Ild flee his designation uonla take ef.,
ON The Hearst executives mast ha
vi heep startled Niapara recefycd IN
RI New York, May 80, 1914.
Roscoe c. Mitchell,
one Clifton House. N. Falls. Ont
why resign without Gauss. v
nee sho.ld preat4v regret il Please
ed GOOD soldier and pood hov