Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1903-09-23

I'm I'VE yearS-tnankS to the l&fnOuS
Ophir mine, and when he died i'm
1891 he bequeathed fortune to
his only son, besides the San Fran
cisco Examiner which added not
little TO the making of another
fortune.
Young Hearst got his first news
paper experience at Harvard Col
lege on The Lampoon. He was
graduated i'm 1856 and on returning
to San Francisco, he was placed by
his father in full control of The
Examiner, the pioneer of the So
called yellow journals. His
father also gave him 1000, 900,
to put into it. This he invested
every penny-and today the Elk
amincr pays a princely income.
He put fresh vigorous life into it,
illustrated its pages, gave the news
of the day, and from the outset this
paper has been popular with the
masses. He created a desire for
sparkling, crisp, newsy articles on
up-to-date topics. He was quick
to see what the public desired and
spared no expense in catering to
the demands of the hour.
Then he went to New York in
1895 and bought the present Amer
lean and Journal, feeble sheet.
then facetiously called, The Cham
bermaids Own" and with a limit
ed circulation. Newspaper Row"
laughed at him and sought to have
some fun at his expense. Ii was
commonly believed that the youth
had bought a gold brick and would
have the usual gold brick results.
He was caricatured because of his
innocent face and wide blue eyes,
and they represented him as the
Baby Cow Boy charging Park
Row"
Then his turn came. From a
feeble paper he has made it the
most influential in the United
States with circulation unequalled
in the world. Critics and scoffers
ceased their abuse and today look
with wonder on this Napoleon of
the Row. He imported from San
Francisco the cream of the Exami-
ner staff and results tell the story.
Despite his wealth he is in full
sympathy with the people and dares
To plead their cause in large and
lurid type. Mr.. Hearst Is aggres-
sively American. He approved of
the war with Spain and it has been
said that he precipitated that war
through his persistent expose of
the atrocities of Spain in Cuba.
He sent a staff of reporters to the
front with S3S. 900 in gold in order
that his great newspaper might
print facts as they actually existed
and not "doctored' reports that
the world was accustomed TO get
ting in war news columns. He
went TO the front himself, was on
the firing line and in the heart of
the scene as on unattached soldier
rather than as newspaper man.
He gave the government his pri-
vate yacht, THE Buccaneer," and
paid out of his own income for It's
conversion into a gunboat.
Mr.. Hearst has among his pos
sessions a decoration from the Gu
ban Congress for his work in de-
voting his paper TO their cause.
He offered $4,000 for the appre-
hension of the guilty parties who
destroyed the United States bat
tleship Maine.
He killed the Remapo water con-
spiracy, smashed the ice trust, and
fought the coal trust TO the limit.
He Is the warmest and truest friend
of the workingman and persistent
advocate of the rights of the COM
mon people. He is champion of
the public schools and says. THE
public schools should be so good,
and the public wealth should make
make them so superior to any pri-
vate school that no father could af-
ford to send his child to an v save
a public school,
Out in California quite a boom
has been started for w. X. Hearst
as President of the United States.
One paper comments thus: He
is able, vigorous, dashing, rich and
very much in earnest, is personally
popular throughout the country
and has an individual strength
among the masses that no other
democratca approach, is resource
full, energetic and liberal. He