REPUBLICANS I had been accustomed to vote for Republicans more frequently than for
Democrats, but I was never a Republican and never a Democrat. In the community,
I was regarded as a Republican, but I had never so regarded myself. As
early as 1865 or '66 I had had this curious experience: that whereas up
to that time I had considered myself a Republican, I was converted to
a no-party independence by the wisdom of a rabid Republican. This was
a man who was afterward a United States Senator, and upon whose character
rests no blemish that I know of, except that he was the father of the
William R. Hearst of to-day, and therefore grandfather of Yellow Journalism
- that calamity of calamities. |
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