He is in temper a revolutionist.

The disgust and distrust which he excites is the issue of a wholesome political and social instinct, for the political instincts of the American people are often much sounder than their ideas.

Hearst and Hearstism is a living menace to the orderly process of reform and to American national integrity.
Hearst is revolutionary in spirit, because the principle of equal rights itself, in the hand either of a fanatic or a demagogue, can be converted into a revolutionary principle.

He considers, as do all reformers, the prevalent inequalities of economic and political power to be violations of that principle.

He also believes in the truth of American political individualism, and in the adequacy, except in certain minor respects, of our systems of inherited institutions.