WILLIAM ALSO-RANDOLPH HEARST.

WILLIAM ALSO-RANDOLPH HEARST.
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Willle runs a supplement which al- ways beats the news:
Willle runs for president, with noth- ing much to lose-
Willie’s always running, whether .by request or not.
Whenever there’s a vacancy, it’s wil- lle-on-the-Spot.

Frisky Willie, risky Willle, feverish for speed,
Prints a rapid journal, so that he who runs may read.

Willle runs for governor quite regu- lar of late,
Willie runs the government (or tries at any rate).
Willle looks on polities with serious intent,
As a sort of annex to his comic sup- plement.
Willing Willie, wanton Willie, can he, will he quit?
Willle’s always playing tag-and yet he’s never it

Willie ran for mayor once, but when he realized
That he was defeated he was not at all surprised.
In this land, which (Willie says) by grafters is accursed,
Almost everybody has defeated Wil- lie Hearst.

Dreaming Willie, scheming Willie, hitting at the pipe;
He’s one type of journalism-his Journal’s mostly type.

When he saw the puddles were the topics of the hour
Willle got a muck-rake of a hundred- donkey power,
Started up a geyser, shrilly shreeking all the time;
“Don’t you touch my mud! I’ve got a scoop on this here slime!”

Frantic Willie, antic Willie, always on the jump.
Willie found the muck-rake slow, and so he bought a pump

Brimstone is to Willle quite the mild- est of emulsions-
Dowle multiplied by fits and Lawson in convulsions;
Any great calamity that comes the world to curse,
Read it in the “Journal”-and you’ll find that it is worse.

Bumptious Wille, gumptions Willie, running for a prize,
Keeps his circulation brisk by con- stant exercise.
-Wallace Irwin,