The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1914-04-08
HEARST'S VILE NEWSPAPERS
How Their fundamentally |.
On The Side of Destruct-
iveness at All Times.


attitude are sufficiently well known.
President Wilson did not see fit to
be governed by the wishes ofWilliam
Randolph Hearst in the selection of
his cabinet, in his Mexican policy
and in other matters.
Quite probably Mr.. Wilson neg
lected even to ask the advice of Mr.
Hearst abouthow to run the govern
ment. He has certainly neglected to
take Mr.. Hearst's advice, rendered
through his newspapers.
Feeling this neglect-this failure
to appreciate his abilities as a states
man of well-nigh omniscient wisdom
Mr.. Hearst has passed from
astonishment to Indignation, and
from grief to fury.
For weeks past the Hearst regi-
ment of sensation starters, headline
whoopers and caustic cartoonists has
been arrayed in battle front against
the administration and against Mr..
Wilson personally. The assaults
have passed from political dissent
and criticism to personal abuse and
seurrility, especially in the cartoon
The Hearst cartoonists, of eourso
under specific instructions from
their paymaster, are sparing no
pains to depict Woodrow Wilson,
the President and the man. as ridicu-
lous and contemplate, physically,
mentally and morally.
People who know nothing of
Woodrow Wilson save what they
learn OF him in the Hearst newspap-
ers must regard him as the starve-
ling, shallow-witted pedant of the
comic stage tradition.
One who is, whatever his errors,
high-minded American gentleman
and the chief magistrate of this re-
public Is represented in the Hearst
newspapers as silly, brainless
thing. and as a liekspittle for the
British government.
The queer thing about this Hearst
campaign of scurrility in picture and
text Is that its author, William RAN
dolph Hearst, not only seems to
have forgotten a very sore expert
ence of the past, but also appears to
believe that the American people
have neither respect for their Presi-
dent as such nor memory of the vis-
ible results of such a campaign of
contemptuous slander OF a former
President.
Can Mr. Hearst have forgotten
what followed his cartoon campaign
of thirteen years ago against Will
liam Mckinley? that campaign
was on precisely the same lines as
this. used the same methods, and
sought the same objects--the bring
ing into universal and hateful con-
tempt of William Mckinley as Presi-
dent and as a Man.
When William Mckinley was as
sasinated millions of Americans be-
lieyed William Randolph Hearst
guilty in the act. If not in intent, of
suggesting his murder--of fostering
the delusion of a weak brain that
William Mckinley was so hated and
despised that his destruction would
be applauded rather than con-
demned.
This Is very sore subject with
Mr.. Hearst. He has protested
against any such imputation with
wrath and even with tears. He has
exerted himself in every way to per-
suade the American people to forget
the possible connection between his
pictorial suggestion of William Nc
kinley's worthlessness and even vile
ness and William MeKinley's MUIR
der.
But suppose the tragedy of 1901
should be repeated? Suppose the
special kind OF weak brain to which
the Hearst cartoons are now partic-
ularly appealing, with their asser-
tions of fawning observance on the
part of Woodrow Wilson to British
interests, should be moved to repeat
or attempt the repetition of the
crime of Czolgosz?
Would even tolerant verdict of
mot proven" then be granted to
William Randolph Hearot?
The Inter Ocean thinks not Mr..
Hearst has had experience of what
such unbridled license in the press
may lead to. He could not plead
youth and ignorance OF the effects OF
wanton malignancy now as he did
then.
And II Mr.. Hearst has convenient
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