Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-03-29
WHO HEARST Is.
A Sample Of the Stuff That Is Being
Printed About Him.

Printed About Him.
Extracts from a Hearst Write-Up:
William Randolph Hearst Is a self
made man of great ability and
achievement. Although Harvard
graduate, he has been the champion
of labor from his youth, and by his
devotion to the cause Of the plain
people has endeared himself to mil
lions. His democracy is Of the mod
ern school, which believes in doing
things, and If elected president, he
would prove himself one of Americas
statesmen.
What a California Paper Says In Re-
ply.
The truth, in brief. as to William
Randolph Hearst is as follows:
w. r. Hearst-as he was always
known in California for he did not
become William R. Hearst until ne
went to New York, nor William Ran
dolph Hearst until he got into poll
tics-W. R. Hearst is the son OF a
man who was worth s30,000,000. He
nevet did a days hard work In his
life, and never earned dollar In his
life, unless he has made money by the
use of his fathers money. His father
was George Hearst, miner and Cali
fornia pioneer, who was at one time
United States senator.
| w. r. Hearst received his education
from a private tutor. He never went
to the public schools, and never grad
uated from Harvard college. He was
never even admitted to that college,
though he tried for a year to qualify.
But his manner of living was such.
while boy in Cambridge that Pres
dent Eliot would not admit him.
He was given the San Francisco
Examiner by his father, and on his
fathers death got enough millions
from the estate to make his debut as
newspaper proprietor in New YORK.
| AS a newspaper man, he has been
| a success; not as Raymond and
Greeley were. as great editors; nor
as Bennett, is, as a news-gatherer.
But as a panderer to the passing vice
or passion or policy of the people. he
has no superior. He knows how to
please the people, and to change with
them. He never has been a cham
pion Of anything that it did not pay
to champion. No one ever heard OF
his friendship for labor until the la
bor unions became strong and Hearst
himself got into politics. Personally,
he has no use whatever for labor
ing man.
He abused Bryan after Bryan's Sec
ond defeat as he did Cleveland after
his downfall: and he has taken up
every line Of Republican policy, from
the conquest of the Philippines, which
he advocated, to the capture of Pana-
ma, which he endorsed. He is for
big army and a big navy, and would
be for polygamy if he lived in Utah,
and for killing the Jews If he lived
in Russia.
AS congressman he has been
total and laughable failure. Thus far
he has not cast a single vote in the
house, nor made a speech. nor made
a point of order, nor moved to ad-
journ.
He never has made a 10-minute
political speech in all his life. He
never has written ten lines on pol
itical question in all his life. He de-
clines all invitations to speak, and
sends out letters in reply, written by
his clever hired men, but signed
"William Randolph Hearst"
He talks of himself in his papers,
but cannot talk for himself anywhere.
| Hearst does not exist, except on pa
per. He is a creation Of the paid
write up. Bring him into the open, and
force him to scrap with the world.
and he would go down and out in half
a round.
| His chief distinction since boyhood
has been his open and brazen public
association with degraded women,
whose influence upon him has been
superior to that even Of his ambition.
And in the White House he would
present such a spectacle Of indecency
as would cause the nations of the
earth to jeer.
When California is to have pres
ident let him be a man-one whose
whole biography may be published
without too grossly violating the laws
concerning the dissemination of OBJ
scene literature-San Francisco Star.