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Source: New York Press Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Secretary Hay Blames the Yellow Journals” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: New York, New York Date of publication: 8 September 1901 Volume number: 14 Issue number: 5030 Part/Section: 1 Pagination: 1 |
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| “Secretary Hay Blames the Yellow Journals.” New York Press 8 Sept. 1901 v14n5030: part 1, p. 1. |
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| John Hay (public statements); yellow journalism; William McKinley (criticism); yellow journalism (role in the assassination); McKinley assassination (personal response). |
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| John Hay. |
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Secretary Hay Blames the Yellow Journals
NEWBURY, N. H., Sept. 7.—The Secretary
of State, John Hay, was seen this morning as he was preparing for his departure
to Buffalo. He made the following statement:
“The Yellow Journals for months and years past
have branded the President of the United States as a dictator. It is not to
be doubted that the fearful calamity which threatens the American people is
due largely, if not exclusively, to the unscrupulous methods of politicians
and journalists, who by their utterances have placed the Chief Magistrate of
this Republic in the light of a monster, beyond the pale of known laws and known
rights. The liberty of the press is a principle to be guarded as a sacred heritage
by the American people, but liberty now has degenerated into license and is
a menace to the Republic. The Yellow Journals of America are mere imitations
of the lowest classes of journals in Continental countries, and by their methods
are calculated to inspire sentiments in the minds of their readers that are
not only un-Amercan [sic] but criminal. The recent attempt upon the life of
the President is a case in point. The American people should learn the lesson
that it teaches.”