The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-23
OyEZ! LOST!
HEARST'S SPEECH
EffusiOn in Congress Not
TO Be Found.
A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE
Printed Copies Mislaid and Type
Thown Away-No One
Knows How.
A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE

Alas for William Randolph Hearst
and his prize campaign speech.
The speech has disappeared, at the in
stigation of base political enemies il is
alleged. Just now there is a lively, but
carefully suppressed investigation De
ing conducted at the Capitol
1t will be remembered that Nj Hearst
made a speech about trusts before the
judiciary Committee Of the House. IN
which he said things of vast import
sustained by numerous references TO
figures and decisions, and well calcu-
lated to fire the mind Of the horny
handed sons Of toll with a proper desire
to vote the Hearst ticket and forever
crush the octopus.
A Good Thing.
Afr. Hearst spent many sleepless mo
ments figuring out this speech, and
when it was delivered before the com
nittee all the Hearst papers admitted
fl was the best thing of the kind ever
spoken by mortal man, and that on 1t
alone Mr. Hearst should pile UP vast
majority Of the votes of his trust-ridden
fellow-citizens Mr.. Hearst took the
same view Of the matter and desired that
every. earnest seeker after the true in
wardness of the trust evil should have
a COPY of the piece he spoke before the
committee
The speech was ordered printed by the
judiciary Committee. The Public Print
er received instructions 10 get out 500
copies. These copies were as mere
drops in the bucket to the number Mr.
Hearst intended to have printed at MS
own expense to be sent through the
mails under his frank as campaign doc
uments ia the great Hearst trust-oust
ing campaign.
Mystery Falls.
Then came the deep. dark. dank mys-
terry that envelopes these public copies
ana which will probably never b'
solved. even with the aid OF the dead
sure" Journalistic sleuths who have
beer explaining all mysteries 10 lh'
readers of the Hearst papers.
The bundle of speeches was sent (
the Capitol. and from that day to thi
no nan-at least, no Hearst man-ha
seen one Of the anti-capitalistic philip
pics. They disappeared as completel'
as II the Hearst intellectual fires nat
never glowed for hours preparing IN
effusion. They were. and are. gone. an
the prospects of finding them are aoou
as bright as the prospects OF a silNe
Republican becoming President mex
PrestoI Change.
High and low the Hearst emissarie
searched, and about eight Capitol EN-
ployes are now under the cold eye Q
suspicion. Each and every one OF IheT
positively denies ne had anything 10 q
with the disappearing act Of the valt
able bundle The Hearst people say IN
whole thing is a political job deslgne
to keep the public in Ignorance OF tn
weighty truths brought 10 light by the
leader. but this is both denied and r
scented BY the Republicans
IL is also said that when it was four
that the bundle had faded away, and u
Hearstites hustled TO the Governmei
Printing Office to have some more copl
struck off. they found the type oil
tributed and the forms as bare
Mother Hubbard's cupboard
What Mr.. Hearst win do in the dllen
ma is not known, but II IS supposed
will gather his cohorts have anoth
edition OF the speech printed, and ser
out twice as many copies as he intend'
TO send before.