Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-06-02
TIE Story OF A CANDIDATES PAPER

We have pointed out the valueless quail
ity of the journal founded and conducted
solely to foster the low and gross am
bition of an Office seeker, who is at
the same time its owner. Such sheets
amount to very little more than pla-
cards. Now the San Francisco Eg-
GmiHer is one of these. 1t is plaeard.
1t reads in every line, 81 am George
Hearst l want office. have the money
requisite to buy the toy, and l will have
it," Let us look for moment at the sit.
uation of the paper. 1t has now attained
a position where it is within 81, 900 month
of paying expenses. For paper situated
as it is, that is bad, and it is not bad, Just
as the proprietor may choose to consider
IS just as he may estimate the future to
which, aud his own ambition, he has
mortgaeed the journal Mr.. Hearst was
rich man he is rich man still if he con-
tinues to bleed for the Examiner his fnan-
cisl rating must of necessity be newly
written. Mr.. Hearst, having acquired
wealth, desired to crafty lofty ambition.
Not being possessed of the intellectual
qualifications that command the attention
of men, he turned to his wealth and was
moved by common error to believe that
If with it he could control newspaper he
could "whoop up supporters sufficient to
L. 81
of the Capitol. "a newspaper, he rea-
soned, " is the exponent of public opinion.
If possess newspaper l can control
public opinion, or at least direct it to my
advantage" To that end, then, he bent
his energies, and be soon possessed the
Examiner, and, contemporaneously with
the change of ownership, this " exponent
of pubic opinion entered upon more or
less adroit advocacy of Mr. HeArst's candi-
dacy. But he did not receive the nomiua-
tion ut the hands of the Democratic Con-
vention. Disappointed and exasperated
by his failure, he charged it upon the
railroad companies, on the principle that
il is popular to strike a corporation, and
according to the maxim, Sc In scrimmage
hit the frat head within reach. He had
the exponent of public opinion on his
hands, and Immediately its guns were d.
rected 10 open upon the railroads. This
was not on account of the love the owner
bore the people, hut because he SO hated
the railroad corporations He had encoun-
tered the risk of becoming great, and
failed to appreciate his happy deliveranee.
The public has from all this assumed that
had he been nominated and elected his
exponent of public opinion would have
been the friend of the railroad corporations.
But 1t takes money to run a newspaper
devoted solely to the political ambition Of
a,v man. This man hsd $50, GOO locked
nm in the sheet; some So, 600 more had
gone intoits eaeercrawi in the way of running
expenses. Maligning railroad companies
did not visibly enlarge the income OF the
p,per. He therefore offered the sheet to
: certain parties, agreeing to put up $50 600,
more, they to pay him back in agiven time
the whole s92, 900. The parties considered,
took advice, slept on it, and declined.
T5sreapon Mr.. Hearst, true to the maxim
of the political gambler, nothing venture
nothing have" started his exponent Of
9rR;c opinion upon the scent of United