New-York tribune., 1918-06-19
Resolution Calls 3'Selling or
Buying" Of Papers a
Help to Enemy
Deciding Ballot Is
Cast by the Mayor
Action Is Outcome of 10y
atty Fight Made by Attor-
ney Richard Marlowe
Especial Dispatch to The Tribume)

ELMIRA, n Y, June 18.-The
Hearst forces were routed by the
forces of loyalty at the Common Coun-
Gil meeting last night when the stamp
of unpatriotism was placed upon the
New York American" and "The Even
ing Journal" by the adoption of the
Marlowe resplution condemning those
papers as un-American. All German
publications we're included in the same
category by the resolutions, which
stamped "the selling or the buying" OF
these papers as "highly unpatriotic
and help and comfort to the enemy
of our country"
The Council divided evenly, six to
six, on the Marlowe resolution, the
Democratic aldermen standing for
Hearst. The Mayor, an ardent patriot
with three sons in the service, cast
the deciding vote.
The action was the outcome of a
hard fought struggle by Attorney
Richard Marlowe, father Of the anti
Hearst movement in Elmira. To-night's
session was dramatic. The meeting
was open to the public, and after some
Of the preliminary work had been done,
the Mayor declared the discussion on
the resolution was open.
DR.. harrison Opens Debate
The first to speak was DR.. S. D.
Harrison, who opened the debate for
the anti-Hearst forces. He said the
Common Council should do what it
could to keep Elmira homes clean from
such publications as "The New York
American" and "The Evening Journal. +"
He said the people had the right to de-
eide the thing for themselves and did
not have to wait for Washington to do
anything for them. He thought that
President Wilson was waiting to hear
all the people had to say on the ques-
ton.
The next speaker was Attorney
Lewis Henry. He exposed the shallow
ness Of the argument that this was a
political move, saying that if there
was any politics in it it had been in
jected into it by the Hearst forces.
According to the programme Of the
anti-Hearst forces, Attorney Marlowe
summed up the case against the Hearst
papers and the German papers. He
read extracts from the American" and
the journal" showing that Hearst op-
posed the sending Of soldiers to
France and called the war war car
RED on for the aggrandizement Of
England. Mr.. Marlowe said in part:
we cannot win this war unless we
cut out of our lives everything that is
German and oro-German. We must
cut out of cur body polite, just as
you would cut out cancer from a
healthy body, everything that even
smells of Gcvmany. Our bows are do.
ing their share bravely by fighting the
enemy at the front, and it is our duty
at home to do our share, and do it
bravcly. by fighting the enemy in the
rear--the enemy who is stabbing GU,
boys in the back"
Text of the Resolution
Here, then is the indictment of tn,
Hearst papers. Gentlemen of thu
guilty? There is no middle ground
You cannot be neutral between Amer
lea and the enemy"
The Marlowe resolution follows:
Whereas. it has come tn the atten
tion of the Common Counc of the cit,
of Elmira, N. Y, that The New vorl
American and The New York Journal
newspapers publ shed in New Yorl
City and circulated in Elmira, hav,
published articles. which in the opinion
of this body. are unpatriotic and dis
loyal and tend to hinder the full an,
vigorous prosecution of the war; and
whereas, in our opinion. the cir
culation of newspapers and publica
tions in the German language is un
American and detrimental to the caus
Of freedom for which America is fight
ing; therefore be it
Resolved, that it is the sense O
this body that the selling or buyin
of such publications is highly un
patriotic and a help and comfort t
the enemy Of our country"