"My father was a great man, a very great man in his day." --
William Randolph Hearst.

"It was such men as George Hearst who converted the vast region
between the plains of the Missouri and the Pacific Ocean from what
was supposed to be an uninhabitable desert into prosperous and grow-
ing states." -- Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada in the United
States Senate, March 25, 1892.

"Success such as is achieved by George Hearst is not a mere acci-
dent nor the result of chance or luck. It can only be attained by
those qualities which were his -- industry, perseverance, good judg-
ment, and truth." -- Senator Leland Stanford of California in the
United States Senate, March 25, 1892.

"He has left to his country an unsullied name and the example of
a well-spent life, and his country in turn will embalm his memory as
one of her truest and noblest types of manhood." -- Senator Daniel
Wolsey Voorhees of Indiana in the United States Senate, March 25,
1892.

"During all his long career in that state [ California] no man ever
accused Senator Hearst of one dishonest act." -- Congressman
Thomas Jefferson Clunie of California in the United States House
of Representatives, February 28, 1891.

THE name Hearst, according to the genealogists employed
by the family, is as old as the Anglo-Saxon language. Orig-
inally, it was spelled Hyrst. Prophetic of the far distant future,
the name signified "a thicket."

The family was Lowland Scotch, though some of them

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