The evening world. Newspaper, October 10, 1917, Page 13

——...-.- e MIALICODUS AND SLANDEROUS ATTAGKS ANS ATTACKS JP. MORGAN FIMSELF DUPED THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDA\ Al OCTOBER 1917. POLITICAL MADE TO HELP MITCHEL | | WERED BY Mi HEARST ” POLIT ICaL Prournren —— 4 PUBLISHER GIVES THE LE ILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST has issued the following statemen “The circulation of the wholly false and fabricated reports of illeved association between Bolo Pasha and myself is a conspiracy to defame, just exactly as the attempt to deprive Mr. Bennett of his rightful nomination in the Republican primaries was a con DETRACTORS ON THE RUN Mr. Hearst Says He Would Have Blamed Himself If He Had Handled the Spy's $1,700,000 Without Investigating the | Source and Purpose of So Much Money. ATTORNEY-GENERAL LEWIS CRAWLS OUT OF HIS BASELESS SLA. DERS By William Randolph Hearst. | Los Angeles, Cal,, Oct. 5.—One by one the false- hoods and malicious slanders in Attorney General Lewis’ statements are being punctured and proven | untrue. y One by one he is retracting his false state- ments, or claiming that he was misquoted by the newspapers, the refuge of most rascals. The false statements and malicious insinuations were pub- lished, nevertheless, and IT have not departed from my determination to sue the whole lot of scurrilous newspapers and unscrupulous politicians, and find » in court who really is responsible for this conspiracy to defame, and what particular big blackguard is back of the whole scheme. | It appears first, that Captain Boy-Ed was not | at the Bolo Pasha dinner. Attorney General Lewis declares that he never said that Captain Boy-Ed | was at the dinner—that he was cruelly misquoted by wicked newspapers. It appears next that Von Papen was not at the dinner. Attorney General Lewis retracts again and again lays the blame on the newspapers. It develops that Boy-Ed and Von Papen were not even in America at the time. There is an old saw which says, ‘‘A liar should have a good mem- ory.”’ The Plunderbund should select their liars with more regard to their memories. It finally appears who really were at the dinner. | I, myself, did not feel at liberty tomake known | the names of the guests and to drag innocent private people into this outrageous mess of newspaper | jealousy and political chicanery. | But since the newspapers have now published the names, I am at liberty to review them here. The guests were Mr. Van Anda, managing editor of the New York Times, and Mrs. Van Anda; | Mr. Julian Gerard, brother of Ambassador Gerard, and Mrs. Gerard; Mrs. Owen Johnson, wife of the distinguished novelist; Mr. Bertelli, noted corre- spondent; Mr. Jules Bois, lecturer and writer of international fame; Miss Helen Smith, and, finally, a very agreeable and wholly harmless looking gen- | tleman, who probably was Mr. Pavenstedt. | The sympathy of all of these people, as far as ean be judged from conversation of a light and idle Mr. Hearst and t spiracy to defraud Los Angeles, Oot. 4 “The same rascally crowd of public plunderers and controlled newspapers and unscru pulous politicians were concerned in both conspiracies The object was the same in each case, to try to help the hopeless candidacy of Mayor Mitchel with the lawless methods which the agents of the Morgan and Rockefeller interests too often employ in business and politics. “T intend to hold Attorney-General Lewis fully responsible for his false statement and libelous insinuations. “T intend to sue the Associated Press for carrying Attorney-General Lewis’ ment, which I warned them was false and libelous. larly do Tintend to prosecute the newspaper publishers who conspired with Attorney General Lewis to concoct and issue this tissue of falsehoods with intent to injure and de “I intend to sue every newspaper which printed this malicious utterance and particu | | fame. “I have had more than enough of this kind of blackguardly attack from the politi. | cal and journalistic servitors of the public plunderers whom I have antagonized in defend ing the rights of the people of New York. kind, was pro-ally. And as for Bolo Pasha, he was to all appearances a particularly patriotic French- man. I do not see, under the circumstances, how I ean blame myself or submit to any blame for not having known that Bolo Pasha was a conspirator. His own paper, the Paris Journal, did not know it. His own French Government did not know it. The Government of the United States, with all its secret service agents, did not know it. The newspapers of New York, with all their sources of information, did not know ‘t. The pro-ally bank- ing house of Morgan & Company, who handled Bolo Pasha’s accounts and distributed his funds, did not know it. So how was I to know it? I merely met the man, like hundreds of others met him, as a visiting French journalist, to whom it was natural and desirable to be kind and cour- teous. I gave him the information he desired as to where to buy print paper for his Paris journal, as print paper was apparently already running low in Paris on account of the war. In return for this small courtesy, he invited me to a dinner served in the middle of the large publie dining room at Sher ry’s—a ditiner whigh was about as sceret as a poli- tical meeting at Madison Square Garden or a re- ligious assembly at Billy Sunday’s Tabernacle. At this dinner were present the wholly repre- sentative and reputable body of ladies and gentle- men mentioned above, who must have been swr- prised to wake up suddenly and innocently yester- day morning and find themselves pictured as dire and desperate conspirators to further the base pur- poses of sordid polities and squalid journalism. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST.” Now, I say that insall this T cannot hold myself in the least to blame, but if T had handled Bolo Pasha’s $1,700,000, as the house of Morgan did and if I had distributed this money in the way the house of Morgan did, and for the purposes injurious to France, for which Bolo Pasha is accused of having employed it, then I would hold myself very much to blame for not having made proper investigation at the proper time of the source and purpose of such an amount of money. But as I did none-of these harmful things, and Mr. Morgan did all of them, and as T had no asso ciation with Bolo Pasha, except a very slight and as Attorney General Lewis admits a ‘purely social’? one, 1 do not intend to permit myself to be attaeked by a crowd of corporation-controlled publishers and press associations, while Mr. Morgan, whose action is really highly questionable, is overlooked or apologized for. Politics, like poetry, has its license, but it also has its limits, and there is no sufficient justification for these seandalous and malicious attacks in the fact that Tam trying to cleect a Democrat Mayot of New York, and Mr. Morgan and Mr. Roe ler and the agents and agencies that they control are trying to eleet a candidate who is a mongrel com- bination of discarded Demoerat and repudiated Republican, I think I know something about the character and opinions of the American people, and 1 can tell the publie plinderers of New York that they will not benefit themselves or their candidate by any such propaganda of base and malicious falsehood and sneaking insinuation. Let us watch the election and see! OTHER SCANDAL MONGERS Social Repast at Sherry’s Painted as an Unpatriotic Gathering by Slanderers; Even Boy-Ed and Von Papen, Who Had Left Country, Were Named as Present. DEFIES LEWIS TO SUBSTANTIATE INNUENDOES OR FACE RESULTS Ry Associated Press Lox Angeles, Oct. 4.—William Randolph Hearst, the publisher, commenting on information made publie to-day in New York by Merton E. Lewis, Attorney Gen- eral of New York, coneerning Mr. Hearst's social rela- tions with Bolo Pasha, alleged German spy, defied Mr. | Lewis to ‘substantiate any one of his own unwarranted ” implications,’’ under threat of proceedings for slander. Challenge to Lewis. In a written statement, Mr. Hearst said: “The statements and innuendoes of the At- torney General of New York in regard to myself and Bolo Pasha are not true. T challenge him to substantiate his utterances, which are distinetly disereditable to him as a political partisan. “LT met Bolo Pasha merely as a French news- paper man, the reputed representative of the Paris Journal, ‘He came to me and said: ‘You use more print paper than any other man in the United States. Vill you tell me where to get it best and cheapest! Print paper is almost unobtainable in Paris.’ |Bolo Seemed Loyal. “‘T told him where we got.our print paper and what we paid for it, and gave him all the informa- tion about the paper market that I could, and that any newspaper man with any courtesy would naturally give to a visiting French journalist. “Bolo Pasha seemed wholly loyal to his own land and I had no reason to suppose that be was not. “He was very polite and appreciative, like all well mannered Frenchmen, and invited me to a dia- ner which he gave to a number of ladies as well as gentlemen, in the publie dining room at Sherry’s. “The conversation was general and tdivial as it is at all such social dinners. ‘“That is all that I have ever known or seen or heard of Bolo Pasha. “T have never met von Papen or Captain Boy- Kd in my life, and Attorney Lewis’s implications to that effeet are unfounded in fact. “I defy the Attorney General to disnrove any word in this statement of mine, or to substantiate any one of his own unwarranted implications, ex- cept his one truthful statement that my acquaint- ance with Bolo Pasha was ‘purely social.’ “Should he fail to do, 1 shall proceed against the small Attorney General of the great State of New York fer petty and premeditated slander made in conspiracy with rival newspapers in the interest of his Dieaas defeated candidate for Mayor.” he Exposed Conspiracy Against Him (AN EDi f ORIAL FROM THE WASHINGTON TIMES OF OCTOBER 9.) The journalistic and political blackguards that combine to had been so nicely arranged, and the whole thing settled--the the Kaiser could have taken the Republican nomination away froin attack William Randolph Hearst in obedience to corporation orders corporation employes forgetting that Hearst talks directly to the | people, and that the people name candidates at the primaries do not make much progress in their campaign, When they hear from Hearst that he will sue them for slander | and give the corporations that own them what they deserve, tho| journalistic rats run into their holes most appropriately, exp.anations as they disappear head first, For twenty years Hearst has been handling crooked corpora. | tion gentlemen in a manner beneficial to the public but irritating | Hearst ba pleasure of owning the Mayor of New York for four years more. | tions and everything journalistic that they can buy. Everything was arranged perfectly—EXOEPT HEARST: HE ~ WASN'T ‘‘ARRANGED.”’ The corporation candidate was to have first of all and quite as ® matter of course the REPUBLICAN nomination for Mayor. Then he was to get some other kind of a nomination, and he was to be called ‘‘a highly moral Fusion candidate’' and elected | nominate Mr. B by an overwhelming majority. You can’t imagine how the Republican bosses and newspaper | | promotgrs Pr of this scheme felt recently, unless you have seen a roller | Republicans coaster with its load fly off the track and land on the ground All and Y In his morning paper and tn his evening paper Mr. Hearst said, | with his usual emphasis; “Corporations, professional Republicans and newspapers con- trojled by them have decided that you Republican voters In New York shall nominate the corporation candidate. | gdvise you to nominate Bennett, who is a Republican.” And the Republican voters took Hearst's advice and DID and his i ennett, the Republican, and all the lovely corpora. ™** tion fat was in the fire, The corporations and their newspapermen a morning newspaper—The American—published squeaking in New York City, with a circulation of more than 450,000, bigger than any other morning newspaper in New York. In the evening Mr. Hearst publishes in New York a newspaper a with double the circulation of any other daily newspaper in the to the corporations, His latest exploit has annoyed them extremely. United States, morning or evening. This newspaper, the Evening 1 was decided that the New York Central should have the | Journal, has about forty times the political influence of the corpora- its rightful owners—the corporations and themselves, It is not pleasant for corporations that have planned every |thing perfectly, including control of political machinery an@ of newspapers—except the one worth while—to have Hearst come in and say: ‘'I am sorry to spoil your plans, but I have decided not to LET you nominate your man at the Repub!'*an primaries, I don't approve the man you want, and you can't have him."’ Following their usual course when Hearst does disagroeable things, like, for instance, the printing of the Standard Oil letters that kicked a couple of men out of the Senate, the corporations put their blackguards and interested friends to work in newspapers and in public office, The result was a story to the effect that a certain Bolo Pasha attended a mysterious dinner at which Hearst was present, also Prussian conspirators named Boy Ed and Von Papen The facts are that guests at the dinner, in addition to Mr. and Mrs. Hearst, were Mr. Van Anda, the editor of the New York Timea, wife; Julian Gerard, brother of our Ambassador to Ger and hig wife; Jules Bois, sent here by the French Govern. ind simliar conspirators Von Papen and Boy-Ed Hearst has never seen in his life, and ment and distinguished! they wore not in America when the dinner happened. held a meeting of sorrow on the steps of the City Hall nounced Hearst, declaring that only « friend and ally of gree and using the pig Qapadian bank in his bribing transaction, | al intelligent man can guess why, Bolo Paha, who, by the way, was banking with J. Pierpont was presented to Mr. Hearst and to others as a Frenchman, and, very intelligently, he travelled almost exclusively in the company ef Sauenewe Frenchmen and banked through well-known Allied a 3. It did not shock the corporation newspapers that Morgan & Company should handle the millions 6f bribe money that Bolo Pasha is 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 a dinner given in the public dining room of Sherry's restaurant by a man engaged in sending millions to France, through Morgan & Co. It was a nice litle conspiracy of newspaper and official blact guards while it lasted, Citizens who read attacks on Hearst, owner of « chain of big and HONEST newspapers throughout the United States, should realize what the country owes to him. It is thanks to him more than to any other man that the corporations are compelled from time to time to realize that the kind of newspaper you can buy isn't worth owning, and the kind of public official you can hire is unable to deliver the goods, There is not a rascal in the State of New York, from the New York Central Railroad trying to steal the people's streets down to the miserable blackguard newspaper man trying to curry finanolal and social favor with the great, that does not hate Hearst, LL SS eS