New-York tribune., 1918-06-17
1t Refuses to Accept Paid
Editorial Defending Pub
lisher's Record
"American's" Attitude
In War Denounced
"Amityville Record" Also
Closes Advertising Col
umns to Editor

SAYV1LLE, l.. l., June 1S.-"Hearst
advertisements are banned here"
This was the answer given by Francis
Hoag, editor of "The Suffolk County
News" when paid advertisement, de-
tending Hearst's' attitude on the war,
was offered for insertion. following
the lead of "The Greenwich (Conn.)
Press" Mr.. Hoag refused to counten-
ance Hearst's efforts to "square him
self" through the liberal use of money,
and stated his reasons for turning
down the Hearst advertisement in the
following editorial, entitled "No Aid
and Comfort for Hearst Here"
"William Randolph Hearst sent to
The News this week SIS advertise
ment which endeavors to bolster up his
case and to justify the un-American
attitude of The New York American
and other Hearst publications. The
News telegraphed the advertising
agency which is sending out the mat
ter. presumably to many newspapers,
saying:
".Hearst advertisements are banned
here
"Tke News" Explains Position
"'The News is heartily in sympathy
with the movement to stop the sale OF
his paper, which for more than q score
of years has pandered to the worst
element and the most depravcd classes,
which has thrived upon demagoguery
and has viciously attacked all of our
Presidents and many of our ablest
statesmen, and has filled it's columns
with un-American propaganda. We
want all the revenue obtainable from
clean and decent advertising. but fre-
quently refuse matter of this class, as
every self-respecting newspaper is
forced to do.
ut is quite apparent that Hearst now
realizes that he has overstepped the
bounds of decency, and the fact that
many cities and good sized villages
have refused to allow his publications
to be sold within their borders, and
hundreds of conscientious newsdealers
have given up their sale, is cutting
seriously into his circulation and
revenues"
"The Amityville (Long Islard) Rec
ord" together with a number of other
newspapers, has Joined "The Suffolk
County News" in its determination to
exclude this Hearst propaganda. The
current issue of "the Record" contains
an editorial, reading in part:
eve will not allow Hearst, nor Mr..
Glynn for him, nor anybody else in be-
half of his campaign, to use the adver-
tising columns of "The Amityville
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readers of this paper. The columns are
closed to this insidious poison, as they
are closed to other improper ADVERTISE
ments.
Praises The Tribune
Gas far as we are concerned the
charge of disloyalty made against
Hearst is proved by the mass of evil
dence adduced by The New York Trib-
une. We believe that that paper is
performing an extremely valuable ser
vice by collecting this evidence and
laying it before the public.
We are not partisan OF The
Tribune. We disagree heartily with
many Of it's editorial utterances and
believe that some of its policies arc
mistaken. We think that its attacks
upon some of the war service branches
Of the government have been unfair
predicated upon insufficient informa
tion and damaging.
But this does not detract an iots
from the strength of the evidence it has
produced against Hearst. We do not
deny to Hearst or any other man the
right to set himself straight in the eyes
of our readers if he believes that any
thing published in our columns has
done him an injustice. To get what i:
due him, he does not need to buy ad
vertising space. He may have space il
the news columns"
The paid advertisements Hearst en-
deavored in vain to get into thes,
two newspapers consisted of an edito
rial written by Ex-Governor Martin II
Glynn, asserting that Hearst was at
tackled because he was friend of tn,
common people," but not answerin,
the charges against him.
In addition, the newspapers receive,
several pieces Of mail matter, includin,
an illuminated copy of President Will
sons Memorial Day address and ex
tracts from the Hearst papers purport
ing to demonstrate their "patriotism.