The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst (66 page)

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Homer Davenport drew “Dollar” Mark Hanna in a suit of plutocratic plaid.
 
William McKinley campaigning from his porch in Canton, Ohio.
 
William Jennings Bryan, the most dashing candidate anyone had ever seen.
 
The Yellow Kid, an uppity ethnic urchin.
 
Election returns light up the Pulitzer building.
 
Little Egypt danced in “ze altogether.”
 
Stephen Crane looking a little too distinguished.
 
“The Butcher,” Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, and the woman (left) rescued by the
Journal
from her prision.
 
Hearst’s outrage at Spanish misrule in Cuba was not unfounded.
 
The wreck of the
Maine.
 
The
Journal
offers a reward.
 
Frederic Remington provided one of the
Journal
’s most dramatic front pages (left), and its single most controversial story illustration (below left).
 
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