The Jewish Daily Bulletin has received a reply to a letter it sent William Randolph Hearst, exponent of sensational journalism, asking whether he would take a definite stand on the John F. Hylan candidacy for Governor.
Hearst, who recently returned here aboard the Nazi liner Bremen after a junket to Germany during which he hobnobbed with Hitler and other Nazi chieftains, also was asked whether he would support either Lehman or Moses in the current campaign, in the event that he should decide against lending his aid to Hylan, whom he has befriended in his editorial columns in the past.
He also was requested to state his views on the entrance into politics of hyphenated groups, such as the German-American Conference and the German-American Independent Voters League.
Hearst’s reply follows:
“I do not believe in arousing class feeling or racial antagonism or sectional or sectarian division among our American citizens.
“I decline to discuss politics in our country from the standpoint of German-American or French-American or Jewish-American or Christian-American agitators.
“What I shall do in the matter of supporting this or that candidate (if anything) will be done according to my conscience and according to my conviction as to what is best for our country and for our people. My purpose and procedure in politics will be in the hope of uniting our people into a harmonious whole instead of dividing them into warring factions.
“I respectfully recommend that you proceed in the same manner.
“I am sure that any other course is likely to bring down disaster not only upon the nation but upon the promoters of an unwise and un-American policy.”
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