The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-10-30
The "Unspeaka, ,le Hearst. j"

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Hearst has read some more Of his
stolen Standard Oil letters. This
last batch involves Gov. William A
Stone, Judge. John Henderson. Judge
John P. Elkins, typical Pennsylvania
Republican politicians. When he
read these letters Hearst went out
| OF his way to drag from their graves
Grover Cleveland. William c. Whit
ney, Calvin s. Brice, Mark Hanna,
and the Paynes in order to connect
the name of these dead statesmen
with his Standard On scandal.
In current magazine. is given a
detailed account of Hearst:s par. In
the theft Of this private anc conf
deptial correspondence, and says the
Augusta Chronicle, after reading IT.,
it is impossible to conceive how any
man who played Hearst's part in this
differing of another mans letter files
can have the effrontery to go before
the public asking for their confidence
and a hearing, much less as the lead
er of political party which essays
to national influence.
And this is true regardless Of the
possible salutary effect Of, these ex-
posures upon public affairs. For,
whatever is to be gained in this di-
rection, there is nothing to be said
in palliation of the contemplate
crime to which Hearst, himself, was
a party. Hearst's accomplices in
this wholesale theft Of private cor
respondence were negro porter and
a white degenerate who was the
friend and associate Of the negro.
Hearst was just as much thief as
either of his accomplices.
William Winfield was the step-son
of Mr.. Archbold's old butler Of
twenty years service, and was en-
ployed in Mr.. Archbold's offic., as
doorkeeper and messenger. Charles
Stump, a young white man. held
minor position in the same office.
Winfield and Stump, as before stated,
notwithstanding the difference in
their color, were boon companions:
played the races together, frequented
the same dives, and finally went into
co-parsnership as proprietors of
negro dive established with the mon
ey paid them by Hearst for stealing
the Standard Oil letters.
1t was this pair of worthless who
sought Hearst with their stolen let
ters; or, rather, it was Stump. him
self, who after receiving the Letters
from Winfield, went to Hearst's
newspaper office and negotiated the
sale. Hearst, or his agents, agreed
to pay something over $4,000 for
the letters, and day after day, Il
batch of stolen letters were brought
to him by Stump, were promptly
photographed by Hearst's photogra-
piers, and as promptly returned to
Mr.. Archbold's files.
This was kept up from day to day,
until. all Of the compromising let
tiers were stolen and photographed,
and the negatives securely put away
in Hearst's safe. This was nearly
four years ago, or from the early
part, of December. 1994,t to the
middle of February, 1905, AMI
Hearst has kept the negatives. of the
stolen. letters in. his. possession from
that day to this. waiting for his OPP
portunity to use them in his effort
to build up national political part"
OF his own.
In the language of the Chronicle
did any political party. in any
country, ever have such beginning?
Was any man ever before shameless
enough to go before the people As a
political leader, with his chief po-
litical stock in trade based on an |
act of common theft? Worse still,
IS the accomplice of negro thief
and his white stool pigeon? We say
again that undoubtedly, much of this
stolen correspondence shows up bad
y for such men as Foraker, Sibley,
and others, but does it place William
Hearst in any more en-
1iable light before that public whose
sense of decency he has so long out
aged?
"Mr. Watterson has referred to him
Is the 'unspeakable Hearst. The
seems most appro-
,riate; for, as must be admitted, it
IS impossible to even contemplate
such man without a blush; wh[e
t is worse than humiliating to Amer
can citizenship to have to observe
hat one of his kind can not only
get an audience among men and wo-
men of this country, but can
through the power Of his inherited
Enthusiastically employ men to
'un as candidates of national party
If his own creation, and perhaps,
90, employ certain number Of
people to vote for them!"