The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-28
HEARST FOR PRESIDENT.
Newspaper Man Said to Be Develop
ing Large-sized Bee.

Washington. Nov. 2S.-Wiiiam r.
Hearst Of san Francisco. Chicago and
New York, and proprietor of the E-x-
aminer, the American and the Journal.
is d candidate for the highest political
honor in the land He wants to run for
the presidency. and is planning to secure
the nomination of the labor party and
Of what remains of the Democracy. He
has been elected to congress and will
soon take up his residence in Washing
ton. where ne is planning to start an
other pa per This. it is understood, will
be more a political organ than pur-
veyOr Of news and il will be used with
the other Hearst papers to push along
the presidential plans OF the proprietor.
The idea has been rather well received
by men who make it their business to
anticipate the political wants OF the
people What is needed most by the
party out of power is man. Issues are
sure to develop To bring together the
scattered and dIscOrdant elements OF
what was once a party of opposition a
new man must be found. Now Hearst
steps to the front. He is without a
political record, save for the general
policy of his papers, which have been
from the beginning strongly in favor
of labor and the common people He
always has spelled people with pig
p" His papers have leaned toward
all the doctrines which are dear to the
laboring man. They have consistently
been radical. They have been plously
against the government. No one could
be "A more logical candidate of an oppo-
sition party than the man who has d.
rected that policy
Another advantage to be found In
the candidacy of William F. Hearst IS
found in the fact that he is not the OBJ
J ject of political animOSltIeS. Mention
I the name Of Bryan Cleveland Hill or
/ German and there is an Outburst of nate
I from some quarter or other. There IS no
4 reConCiling their enemies or appeaSlng
their opposition The only hope Tor re-
he fnITnyVjnRS of these
men is to bring forth a new man VINO
+ VIII inspire the confidence Of them all
/ The political managers can think OF no
4 one more likely to do this. or more
. available in other respects than Hearst
The fact that MIR. Hearst is rich
man is not likely to prove serious OBJ
staCle to his candidacy He can urge
in attenuation that the bulk of his
money was let to him. and that he has
done what he could to live this fact
down. He was made his papers pay and
has worried to DO il. He has wieldeI
their influence in favor of the poor and
AGAINST the rich. And then TIE money
Re Ess will come in conveniently in
financing tbs prospective campaign II
has conc 70 PASS n the United states
that unons- is needed to conduct {.
campaign. and if the railroads and cor
porations all contribute to the other
party, there must be found a diderenl
source for the funds wherewith to de-
fray ire cost Of the anti-railroad ana
anti-corDoratiOn campaign.
1t is no new or sudden thought that
has come to William r. Hearst that he
Should run for the presidency. He is u
young man of nxed ideas and of plans
which contemplate years. His scheme
fer string of newspapers across the
continent was devised more than ten
years ago, it is now being worked out
to completion An end toward which
tire newspaper plan tended was d
campaign in which he should be the
central figure. His father was in tbs
United States senate: the son has cher
lshed ambitions for political honors
With the stepping stone of his father :