The Washington times., 1917-10-09
Well Paid But Futile Attacks on
Hearst
Officials and Newspapers For Sale Are Not Worth Much
After You Buy Them


The journalistic and political backguards that combine
to attack William Randolph Hearst in obedience to corpora
on orders do not make much progress in their campaign
When they hear from Hearst that he will sue them for
sander and give the corporations that them what they
appropriately squeang explanations as they disappear
head first
For twenty years Hearst has been handling crpoked
corporation gentlemen in beneficial to the public
but irritating to the corporations his latest exploit has
annoyed them extremely.
was decided that the New York Central should have
the pleasure of owning the mayor of New York for four
years more Everything was arranged perfecty-EAcEPT
The corporation candidate was to have first of all and
quite as matter of course the REPUBLICAN nomina-
ton for mayor.
Then he to get other kind of nomination and
he to be called highly moral Fusion candidate and
elected by an overwhelming majority
You can't imagine how the Republican bosses and
newspaper promoters of this scheme felt recently unless
and land the ground All had been nicely arranged
and the whole thing settled the corporation employees for
getting that Hearst talks directly to the people, and that the
people name candidates at the primaries.
Hearst has a morning newspaper-the American
hshed in New York City, with circulation of than
10000 bigger than any other morning newspaper in New
York
In the evening Mr. Hearst publishes in New York news
paper with double the circulation of any other daily
paper in the United States morning evening This
paper the Evening Journal has about forty times the po
cal influence of the corporations and everything journalistic
that they can buy.
In his morning paper and in his evening paper MI.
Corporations, professional Republicans
papers by you RepubII
New corporation
you to ate 10 a RepubI
And the Republican voters took Hearst's advice and
DID nominate Mr. Bennett the Republican and all the lovely
corporation fat in the fire.
The corporations and their newspaper and distn
gushed Republicans held meeting of the steps of
the City Hall and denounced Hearst declaring that only
friend and ally Of the Kaiser could have taken the Repub
nomination away from its ghtfu ownersthe corpora
tions and themselves.
everything perfectly including control of political machin
cry and Of the one worth whe-to have
but have decided not to LET you nominate your at the
Republican primaries. don't approve the man you want
and you can't have him"
Following their usual course when Hearst does disagree
able things like for instance the printing of the Standard
Oil letters that kicked couple of out Of the Senate
the corporations put their blackguards and interested
friends to work in newspapers and in public office
The result story to the effect that certain Bolo
Pasha attended mysterious dinner at which Hearst
present also Pussan conspraors named BoyEd and Won
Papen.
The facts are that guests the dinner addition to
Mr. and Mrs Hearst Mr. Van Anda the editor of the
New York Times and his wife, Julian Gerard brother of
ambassador to Germany and his wife, Jules Bois sent
here by the French government and similar conspators
Won Papen and Boy Ed Hearst has never seen in his life
and they not in America when the dinner happened
Boo Pasha, who, by the way was banking with J. Pier
pont Morgan and using the big Canadian bank in his bbng
transaction presented to m hearst ana TO others as
Frenchman and very nteligeny he travelled almost
clusvely in the company of wellknown Frenchmen and
banked through well-know allied banks
It did not shock the corporation newspapers that Nor
gan Co. should handle the millions of brbe money that
Bolo Pasha alleged to have spent But it did shock them
extremely that Hearst with the editor Of the Times and
the brother of Ambassador Gerard should attend dinner
given in the public dining of Sherry restaurant by
man engaged in sending millions to France through Nor
gan Co.
It was nice little conspiracy of newspaper and official
blackgusrds while it lasted
Citizens who read attacks Hearst of chain of
big and HONEST newspapers throughout the United States
should realize what the country owes to him.
It thanks him than to other man that the
corporations compelled from time to time to realize that
Botton of LastCo