Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-02-25
ALW AVS A MAN
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST 4
PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITY.
Biographical Sketch Of the Distinguished Cit.
zen That has Presidential Aspirations. His
Personality, His Business Capacity and His
Democracy Described.

William Randolph Hearst is now in
his fortieth year.
He is a tall, broad.shouldered man,
deep-chested and in perfect health, the
consequence OF naturally fine constitu'
ton, an athletic outh and temperate
manhood.
He was born in San Francisco and is
the only child of the late United States
Senator George Hearst and Mrs. Phoebe
A. Hearst.
On his fathers side he comes OF South
Carolina stock, while on his mothers
side he is descended OF the Randolphs OF
Virginia. Shortly after the revolutionary
war his ancestors migrated to Kentucky
and later followed in the great train Of
pioneers that had settled Missouri.
William G. Hearst, his parental grand
father, was a trapper during the first
years OF his residence in Missouri in the
early part of the last century. Later he
settle | on u farm in Franklin County
Missouri, end there was born George
Hearst, the father of William Randolph
Hearst. Those were still pioneer days,
and young George Hearst, with such
meager educational advantages as the
backwoods schools afforded, grew to
manhood. He worked ON the farm until
he was twenty.eight years old, and then
.he California gold craze reached the
Franklin county-iarm-in 1S49-and
young Hearst, the rugged farmer, was
caught in its alurement. He got chance
TO drive wagon overland to California
and left the Missouri farm to become a
miner, and later to become United
States Senator from California.
William Randolph Hearst attended
the public schools in San Francisco and
then went to Harvard College. In re-
ligion he follows the faith Of his forbears,
having been baptized in the Episcopal
church, He was united in marriage
April %, 1908, with Miss Millicent
Wilson at Grace Church, New York, by
Bishop Potter, who has been his friend
from boyhood.
His long career as a publisher of
aggressive newspapers has revealed his
possession of great personal courage,
both moral and physical His moral
courage and unfinching nerve force have
been shown repeatedly by his firm stand
for what he deemed to be right, though
the position made potent enemies and
involved personal sacrifice. Powerful
in fuence has been utterly unable to
move him from the defense of his prin-
ciples, just as it has failed to induce him
to take up and support any cause which
he deemed hurtful to public interest.
He risked his life on the firing line in
the Spanish war before Santiago. He
equipped his yacht as cruiser and pre-
scented her to the government, accepting
an ensign's commission in the navy, SC
that his person as we'll as his boat was
at the nations service. He was in the
thick OF battle when the destruction of
Admiral Cervela's fleet sounded the end
of the Spanish war, and with his own
hands effected the capture of a dozen or
more prisoners and turned them over to
the commander Of the United States
forces.
He has never since owned yacht
does not keep a stable, and, in fact, has
never owned horse since those his
father gave him soon after he left college
was sold, about the time of Senator
Hearts death. He is very capable
chauffeur and enjoys automobiling as a
diversion but he has never taken part in
a speed contest and considers contests Of
that kind to be dangerous and foolish
He has frequently said in his Papers that
the automobile in various forms will
ultimately be great boon for those Of
small means who cannot afford horses
and carriages, and he has done every
thing he can to encourage the building
of automobiles that can be sold at q
moderate price.
In his speech he is quiet and convinc'
ing and avoids waste Of words. He
possesses remarkable power of concen
tration. When he has an important
question to consider he dsmisses all else
from his mind, considers the question
carefully and decides it; yet he is quick
in decision, and the best commentary or
the quality Of his judgment is the fac
though he has been man Of affairs and
extensive enterprises for nearly twenty
years, he has never undertaken anything
that has not been a success. In every
part Of the great properties that he has he
carried out his own ideas independently
OF his associates, and often against theil
judgment, but invariably without 6
failure.
AS public speaker, Mr.. Hearst has