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Show WILLIAM RANDOLPH '5. I ,trar was. - ' .. ur-,.., 'i iii"'"nFept. 16, at d York ior the office of governor ?r.?f J at" tention at the hamir- xLS ---iifTn--One of ihese, writir 111 the Jers, the R'eess meu" -VroorwLciy iominent fftnal chaplairfej gay3 this paper: i 3 fforj William Randolph Hearst, w1. Senator v and n George Hearst and Mrs. Phoebe ngan q-st, was born in San .-Francisco on April SoneO- His father was a Missourian, and his jnoiJV, the daughter of Randolph Walker Apperson, was born in Virginia. At Harvard Hearst gained his first taste of journalism, being business manager of the student paper, the Lampoon. Leaving college he took charge of the San Francisco Examiner, then the property of his father. From the beginning of his business career he has been a champion of organized or-ganized labor, and is proud of the fact that none of his numerous business enterprises has ever been interrupted for one moment by labor strikes. The San Francisco Examiner, under Hearst's management, took on new life and energy. He attacked abuses, made his paper feared by corrupt corporate influences, and championed the cause of the working classes. In 1895 he came to Xew York and purchased the Morning Journal, at that time a paper of small circulation and practically no influence. A year later he established the Evening Journal. The name of the Morning Journal eventually was changed to the Xew York American. Today they are the largest papers in point of circulation in the United States. The Chicago American, the Chicago Chi-cago Examiner, the Los Angeles Examiner and the Boston American had been added to his chain of daily newspapers. In the Spanish-American war Hearst turned over his yacht Buccaneer as a free gift to the United States government. It was through the action of Hearst that the most historic site in Illinois, the old farm homestead home-stead of Abraham Lincoln, is to be preserved a a national park. The property consists of sixty-two acres of land at Old Salem, and Representative Henry T. Rainey of Illinois brought the subject to Hearst's attention. Here is Rainey's story of the transaction: " 'Tn the early part of last spring Mr. Hearst was invited by President Tice of the Chautauqua association to deliver an address at Old Salem. Coiigress was then in session, and we were together much of the time. When I had informed him of the efforts of the trustees to buy the Lincoln site he asked if the property was on the market r if in any manner the owners could be persuaded to sell it. T told him a brewery was negotiating for it. He became indignant. Turninir to me be said: 'If that old homestead can be bought I will buy it. Arrange to get the deeds as soon as you can, won't you?' I began a correspondence that ultimately resulted in the purchase." Hearst has served two terms in Congress, rep- lotf 7j resenting the Eleventh districiof this city. In last October the Municipal Owr""fj rship League was organized, and, on Oct. l- He t was nominated for mayor in its convention, jj JUtis assertion, after the election, that he had been ldfefrauded, and lm vain legal proceedings to obtai the mayor's seat, are a familiar story. Literary pigest. The news published in Mr. I . arst's newspapers may be termed yellow by the wy Md, yet the people are not compelled to read it. . Iany of those who are the loudest in condemning I f !r. Hearst's paper? manifest the greatest avidity w buying and reading read-ing them. r Irrespective of the news col r lr'ts, the editorials are of the highest order, a d contribute im- j mensely to the moral bettermen of the world. The character of Mr. Hearst eanr jt be ignored, and while we do not desire to be ome involved in a political wrangle, we do desire give justice where justice is due. Mr. Hearst fita ight the coal combine com-bine and other illegal combing tions of unscrupulous unscrupu-lous wealth in the courts of tW e land. Those who are secretly violating the la ' are in terror of Hearst, those who believe in fll American laws and free institutions have nothin;'oJ to fear from Mr. Hearst, whether they be rich o-j paupers. The conditions con-ditions existing in our count i, ' today make it imperatively im-peratively necessary for altrui tic men of wealth to bend their energies in th j pursuit -of office. Editor Hearst, while powerful for the public good in the past and present, wou' '1 be more powerful as Governor Hearst of Xew rk State. After all is said and written, this man v hat might have spent his life in ease and luxury e been consistently, ,year after year, at great trl 'uble to himself, a mighty champion, a veritab j e Lincoln, to union labor. The following is the r,J ason that the editor-candidate editor-candidate gives as the causc'V of so much hostility to him from the press : 'l "I feel sure that I could 'ave been more popular popu-lar with my fellow newspap(j ' proprietors if, when invited, I had been willing i! to enter into a trust with them to raise the rat'fb to advertisers and keep down the wages of emjpyes-" s |