I know that he has used his power, as Tammany Chief, to protect such robbers of the Public as Belmont, Morgan, Rogers and Ryan, because Mr. Hearst has told me so with “damnable iteration” and convincing emphasis these many years.
At the breakfast table, he reminded me of it in his morning paper, The American.
At the supper table, he recalled the fact to my memory in his evening paper, The Journal.
In fact, he gave me no chance to forget it.
Murphy, a protector of Crime, Murphy, a tool of the Plunderbund; Murphy, the stuffer of ballot-boxes; Murphy, the ally of Murderers and thieves; Murphy, the inciter to assassination; Murphy, who robbed New York in the interest of Ryan and Belmont; Murphy, who ought to be in the Penitentiary garbed in convict stripes—THIS Murphy became so familiar to me in the Hearst newspapers that I would have felt the loss of something habitual, and therefore necessary, had my friend Hearst ceased to grind the coffee-mill.
DREAMING OF 1908.
Yet Max Ihmsen deliberately planned a coalition between denouncer and denounced, between the Angel of Reform and the Devil of Plutocracy, between the Champion of the “Common People” and the hireling of the Plunderbund, between the man who cried “Stop thief” and the rogue who was making off with the stolen goods.
It was too bad.
It shocked the Sense of Right of ten thousands of enthusiastic Hearstites who had believed in him as an honest leader. * * *