Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1900 — CHICAGO AMERICAN [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO AMERICAN

What Its Owner Said Two Years Ago on Expansion. William 11. Hearst, the syndicate owner of the San Francisco Ex:11;. iner. th e New York Journal and the Chicago American. arid who is now the proprietor of the newspapers most anL-titly supporting Mr. Bryau’s election, rCeognized at least that in ti;e west expansion was and is a popular doctrine. In the San Franeisjp publication, over liis own signature, there appeared this paragraph' oil Nov. bi is'.j.s. “The vote of tills election is a vote of approval f>>r the war and the principle of expansion. It is both right and reasonable that the administration which, despite some mistakes, carried this glorious war u> a successful conclusion should receive a vote . of. confidence. It is both right and reasonable that the policy of expansion, ever the policy of the American people since Jefferson annexed the T.ouisianas. should receive the ap- . proval of the American voters, Republican and Democratic.”