The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-04-06
WHO HEARsT is.
A Sample of the Stuff That is Be-
ing Printed About Him.
Extracts from q Hearst Write-Up:

| William Randolph Hearst is q self
made man of great ability and achieve
| ment. 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 en-
deared himself to millions. His demo-
cracy is of the modern school, which
believes in doing things, and if elect
ed president, he would prove himself
| one of Americas g statesmen.
WHAT A, CALIFORNIA PAPER
SAYS IN REPLY.
The truth, in brief, as to William
Randolph Hearst is as follows:
W. r. Hearst-as he was always
known in California, for be did not be-
come William r. Hearst until he went
to New York, nor William Randolph
Hearts until he got into politics-W.
r. Hearst, the son of man who was
worth 10000, 900. He never did Il
days hard work in his life, and never
earned dollar in bis life, unless he
has made money by the use OF his
fathers money. His father was George
Hearst, miner and California pioneer,
who was at one time a United States
senator.
I ". r. Hearst received his education
from private tutor. He never went
to the public schools, and never
graduated from Harvard college, He
Was,never even admitted to that col
lege, though he tried FOR year to
qualify But his manner, of living
was such, while boy in Cambridge,
that President Elliott 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 a
newspaper proprietor in New York.
As a newspaper man, he has been
success not as Raymond and Greeley
were as great editors; nor as Bennett,
is, as news -gatherer. But as pam
derer to the passing vice Or passion or
policy of the people he has no supe-
rior. He knows how to please the
people. and to change with them. He
never has been a champion of any
thing that it did not pay to champion.
No one ever heard of his friendship for
labor until the labor unions became
strong and Hearst himself got into
politics. Personally, be has no use
whatever for laboring man.
He abused Bryan after Bryan 'ssecond
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 ne
advocated, to the capture of Panama,
which he endorsed. He is for big
army and big navy, and would be for
polygamy if he lived in Utah, and for
killing the Jews if he lived in Russia.
As a congressman he has been total
and laughable failure. Thus far he
has not cast a single vote in the
house, nor made speech nor made
point of order, nor moved to adjourn.
He never has made lO-minute poll
tical speech in all his life. He never
has written ten lines on political
question in all his life. He declines
all invitations to speak, aud sends out
letters in reply, written by his clever
hired men, but signed William Ran
dolph Hearst.
He talks of himself in his papers,
bat cannot talk for himself anywhere.
Hearst does not exist, exceps on
paper. He is creation of theSpaid
write-up. Bring him into the open.
and force him ito scrap with the world,
and he would 60 down and out in half
around.
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 spectacle Of lndecency
as would cause the nations of the
earth to jeer.
When California is to have presi-
dent let. him be man-one whose
whole Biography may be published
without too grossly violating the laws
concerning the dissemination of OBJ
scene literature. San Francisco Star.