New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-08-09
ISSUE IS JOINED
IN HEARST CASE
AFFIDAVITS FILED
COUNSEL FOR DEFENSE OF
COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
QUOTES EXACT STATE
NENTS ON WHICH ACTION
HAS BEEN TAKEN

Mental plea tor injunction IN TN
Eral court Thursday morning
led on paragraphs in the Wa
News of July 26, and a statemen
q Charles Springer quoted in thu
State Record Plaintiff alleges tina
statements attributed to Syringe,
are an attempt to influence the cour
and in contempt The Hearst plea
states that he believes the Recoro
to be an organ of the Republican
party.
A supplementary answer was tileC
by the defense council denying al
allegations and conclusions of the
plaintiff
Attorney General Patton filed a
separate answer.
Issues were joined in the Hearst
istunction proceedings against the
state council of defense, ct al, yestcr-
day with the filing OF an answer by
the defense, showing cause why they
should not be Immediately enjoined
from the alleged boycott of pub.ica
tions in New Mexico.
Affidavits of several defendants
accompanied the answer, and were
to a large extent admissions of the
allegations set up by Hearst in his
PRAYER for restraining order, In
addition, the reasons for taking such
action as the council of defense adj
mits, on the part of themselves and
on the part of employees in a per-
sonal ca pacity are set forth at length
and form an interesting study in the
form of excerpts from the Hearst
press both before America entered
the war and since that time.
Quotations from actual Hearst edi-
torials and descriptions Of cartoons
which the defense strongly insists
are un-American, anti-British and
pro-German are presented. We ap-
pend a number of the salient and
informing paragraphs from the affi-
davit filed by Guthrie Smith. pub
lcity Agent Of the state council, The
public has asked in effect what are
the specific utterances of Hearst
that the authorities have deemed to
be contrary to public policy durin q
war time" and the following ex-
cerpts answer that question
The affiant says that not longer
ago than about June l3, 1918, he,
the affiant, had a conference last
ing more than two hours with How
ard F. Morton city editor Of
Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner, y
and that IN the. course of that said
conversation, the said Morton told
the said affiant that all of the ma
tionaI editorials of the Hearst news
papers ate prepared in New York,
and BY the said New York office
distributed for publication to all the
other Hearst newspapers.
Affiant declares he was unable to
believe that Hearst had any respect
for, or faith in. the present Ad-
m,nistration the head of which had
been so brutally assailed in many
more than one instance. The aftiant
recalls that in 1914, the said Hearst
through his Los Angeles Examiner"
said of President Wilson, in substance
and effect
The President of the United
States has made an uncondition-
al surrender to Great Britain. He
has been a servile, trucking tool
of the British Empire. He is
traitor to America.
Affiant declares that the branding
Of the President of the United States
as a traitor to America by the said
Hearst. did not end with this edi-
torial, which was one of many of
the same general tenor but was ex-
tended and amplified through car
toons. Affiant calls particular and
especial attention to a cartoon, by
Powers, in the New York American"
of March 6. 1914. labeled: "AND-
WHY NOT?" showing President
Wilson, dressed in suit and cap of
plaid, affixing the United States to
a rope, the other end of which holds
America fastened to the British
crown; to cartoon, by McCay, in
the New York american" of March
IA, 1914, labeled: "AMERICAN HIS
TORY REVERSED-NO. d. Admiral
Wilson Introduces A New Word In
America Diplomacy" showing Presi-
dent Wilson in the uniform of a
naval officer, appearing in the thick
of the fight on board the vessel,
saying to the men under his COM
mand: Don't do that! Always give
up the ship"; under the cartoon
the following explanation: "In the
battle between 'the American frigate
Chesapeake Captain James Law
rence) and the English ship Shannon
Captain Broke), of Boston Light in
1878, Captain Lawrence. mortally
wounded, gave the famous order
DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP which
has since become the keynote of the
American Navy" to a cartoon. by
McCay, in the New York american"
of March ?. 1914. labeled: ain The
Name Of King Georgep showing
President Wilson in the uniform of
British officer and carrying the
British flag. stepping upon the shore
of America, having just landed from
a small boat, a British man-of-war
at anchor nearby. with the following
explanatory and insulting words
under the drawing: Historical
painting, date 20l3, showing the ad-
vance Of the British, under the lead
ership of Lord Woodrow, for the
subjugation of America. Artists
Note-'The Hessians were selected
to lead this advance to make amends
for their ill-treatment by General
Washington at Trenton, N. J., in
1776'"
The affiant further recalls and
says that some two years later the