The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-31
NEVADA LOYALTY
REPUDIATES
WIN. R. HERlARST
Circulars Fail to Explain
Editorials Praised by
HOhef1zOllern
ATTACKED PRESIDENT
Fl. A. Lennon, Dorector of Nevada
State Council of Defense,
Tells the Story

1t appears to be Mr.. Hearst's in
tention to flood Nevada with circular
letters containing among other
things this pathetic appeal:
"fhe State Council of Defense
=. knowingly or maliciously has
used its great power to hurt an inno-
cent man, or else has suddenly be-
| come blinded to the facts, and on the
strength of hearsay or paid propa-
ganda does Mr. Hearst and his paper
a great injustice"
And then again, in another appeal,
which | assume he will distribute, de-
| clared that the opposition to his pub
hcations may be due to the big inter
ests, which do not approve of his
policy of public ownership abolition
Of booze, clean politics, better wages
and hours, etc., etc. The man who
wrote the stuff is either liar or an
idiot, and the cleverness of it elimi-
mates the latter hypothesis from my
mind.
Above all, Mr.. Hearst now desires
to be judged only by his editorial ut
terances since the United States has
been in the war, but cries Kings
Elk" on anything that went on be-
fore.
MI. Hearst is in a position precise
y Of the detected pro-German who is
compelled by delegation of outraged
citizens to kiss the American flag.
He is vociferous in his suddenly ac-
CURED loyalty, but many of US will
still persist in judging his character
and heart from what he said and did
previous to last May, when the new
espionage law went into operation.
It is trite to say that we are fight
ing for an idea-or, to put it in an
other form, to destroy an idea. Eng
land and France and Canada long
since prohibited the circulation of the
Hearst newspapers in their domains.
Likewise they denied his correspon-
dents the right to use the cables.
Such was the attitude Of our allies,
giving of their hfeblood to a cause
for the support of which we have
pledged our last dollar and our last
man.
However, it is but fair to state that
the belligerent nations are not of one
mind. The Kaiser spoke very highly
of Mr.. Hearst to DR.. Davis and char
acterized the Hearst newspapers as
the only "fair papers in America"
Boio Pasha testified also for Mr..
Hearst, and in an eulogy of him
dilates upon the peculiar character
istics of his idol which would most
probably appeal to a convicted and
ter-to-be-executed traitor like Bolo.
So we have the Kaiser, Bolo Pasha
and Hearst on one side, and Eng
land, Canada and France on the other.
The vote hardly stands to 3.
Just previous to our entrance into
this war-but at time when it was
plain to Mr.. Hearst that we would be
in it-Mr Hearst, in speaking of the
President of the United States, said:
eff this country is going into war
we don't want schoolmaster in the
White House; -. we want
commander in chief who knows hlS
business, and not a vaciliating in
competent who doesn't know either
his business or his own mind
If President Wilson was iva
cillating incompetent" a bit over al
year ago, he must still be so in Mr..
Hearst's mind. Mr.. Wilson hasn't
changed.
Over his own signature Mr..
Hearst justified the sinking of the
Lusitania, which murderous act en-
braces one of the fundamental pur-
poses for which we went to war with
Germany.
Germany was very anxious to STIR
up trouble between the United States
and Japan. Has any American for
gotten how assiduously Hearst lent
the power of his journals for this pur-
pose?
But then it isn't necessary to speak
Of the days before the United States
entered the conflict. If constant
readers and loyal ones-of the Ex-
aminer and other Hearst publications |
are not aware of the fact that their
opinions and their reason are still
being undermined, that fact is the
best possible proof. of the extreme
peril which turks in these organs.
Since we have been at war Hearst