The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-07-03
OF HIS LIFE
How Growing BOOSTERS Made Him a
Newspaper Editor.
RFGIN HIS CAREER IN SAN FRANCISCO
He is Now Preparing to Start a Big Paper in
Chicago to Be to the Middle West
WHAT the Journ-l is 20
The as.
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Washington. juno 2l.-Scmc loih 'heie
be who boast of being self-made men
There's small merit OF 1t. 1heoooie
Roosevelt is one of this Kilt and once
when be said it David Bennett It'll SAID
in reply that he YVES glad Of 1t Tor MI:
Roosevelt had relieved the Almighty oi
an awful responsibility.
There is one man in publc lie III
America today however who has the man
Illness to say that all he is and most Vi
what he hopes to be he owes 10 the
mother who bore him and to the primer
pies she taught him at her knee.
This man is William Randolph Hearst,
editor and owner of the New YORK
Jorrnal:', the San Francisco examiner
and en- as yet unnamed newspaper IN
the city of Chicago which is about to see
the light. and incidentally President of
the Democratic Clubs Of these United
states.
Between this young man and his wild
owed mother the relict Of the late United
States Senator George Hearst, of Cal
ifornia, there is a devotion that is worthy
of a/noblcr and q better time.
The only child of a marriage between
the greatest natural geOlOgiSt the world
lad ever known and a woman OF marked
distinction of manner and great social
charm. Mr.. Hearst was az parently fore
ordained to become that ephemeral ia
vorite Of fortune, a rich mans only son.
Simply this and nothing more, for mil
lions do not make manhood when they
arc inherited; often times and as a rule
the Californian pioneer has not left a
progeny Of which he can boast with es-
pecial pride.
Mr.. Hearst is almost the only very
rich mans son of the lin de steele period
who has not let the golden spoon born
in his mouth Triangle the aspirations
for greatness that were inherent in his
blood.
That a man worth from thirty to for
millions we'll invested should buckle
down to work at twenty-one and take up
a moribund newspaper in the teeth OF
the fiercest newspaper opposition of any
city in the United States was hardly to
be expected even Of George Hearst's only
son. But he did it. And this is how it
came about. IN 1884 some mad caps al
Harvard, where he was then a student
conceived the bright idea Of celebrating
the election of a Democratic President in
true Democratic style. SO they went tC
Cambridge the night of the election and
DOuSII every CIllCkeu OI III .LIdSCullut
persuasion that could be found. These
they tied by the legs IN the campus OF
the college and when the first pale rays
of rosy dawn began to rise above the
Bay States hills the chanticleers, true
to race and breeding, set up the most
prodigiOus Growing that ever then was
heard. For this offence. which savored
of lese majesty, young Hearst was sum
mOned before the "PreX'' as Professor
Elliott was called. Refusing to give the
names of his cOnSpiratOrs he was ban-
ished from his alma matters chaSte and
classic halls and went out to his home
beside the Golden Gate. His father was
so delighted with the young mans brand
of simon-pure Democracy that he at once
offered him anything he wanted to make
amends for the loss of his diploma and
his college chums.
After due elaboration the young man
chose a newspaper and the old San Fran
cisco Examiner" was purchased at a
fancy price, and the young man given
carte blanche to make OF it what he
could. Mr.. Hearst went to work, and
while a solid million was poured out be-
fore he turned the corner and made the
paper pay he built up the finest monu-
ment to his ability that could be carven
on that coast. Today the EXAMINER
is one of the best paying properties il
the United States. and is much a par
and parcel of the daily life Of the Cali
fOrnians as the climate and The other
things of which they boast.
'Intelligent se~nsatiOnalism: that is
the key note of the newspaper of today
said Mr.. Hearst to the writer in 1898
and it has been this idea that has domi.
natc6 his pntjrQ noWcronor ooroor r ;Lf
Monte Cristo, beyond temptation, he las
become now like Caesars wife, aoove
suspicion, and his papers are ore Of th'
most profound Inspirations for the pub
lie good. In 1895 Mr.. Hearst bought the
New York Journal from John r. Mac
Lean. That astute newspaper manager and
bought 1T from Albert Pulitzer and sought
to make it to New York what The Enquir-
er" was to Cincinnati. He had failed
Col. COckerell, of the old New York.
World had said with apparent truth
that the field in New York was the1
so completely filled hat nobody but 6
fool with money to burn and a Wiling
ness to be satisfied with the smell of the
smoke would ever come there TO star
another Democratic neWGDaGer while II
liter owned the "Norid.' With sever
millions and a half of cash: the proceeds
Of the sale Of his interests in the Ana
conda copper mines, in his pocket, Mr.
Hearst, however, bought the Journal
and to it has since added tie old Al.
vertiser,' which Col. Cockerell ther
owned. He has made of this paper the
most widely read and entirely fearless
journal in the world. To recount its
triumphs would be to fill a tome. Thu
liberation of Cuba was inspired ~ il
when all else had sought to create the
inspiration and failed.
And now that this Republic of ours, that
has become the guide philosopher and
friend of the dOwncast and oppressed OF
all the earth, may remain SteadfaSt-i liz
the faith of the fathers Mr.. Hearst has