Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-29
dARrlelD.s BROTHER.

The Bryan campaign ;has been one
continual round of falsehood, forgery
and misrepresentation. On premises
that were untrue, they have based argu.
ment that has been tissue of falsehood
By interpretations, rank forgeries and
partial quotations they have tried to
bring to their aid the words of great
men now passed away. Washington
whom every American has boosted that
he could not tell lie, they insinuate
would were he alive today be in
favor of dollar that on it's face would
lie 90 per cent. Letters said to be from
the pen OF the martyr Abraham Lincoln
and pronounced forgeries by Lincolns
own son and by his private secretary,
are used TO prove that he, that Lincoln
whom even his enemies would not call
dishonest, would if alive today be sup
porting w. j. Bryan and his democratic
and populistic platform favoring free sill
yer, free trade and state rights. The SOL
der president, Grant, who has written in
the most scathing words of the crime of
reputation is claimed as a man who
would support the several Bryan plat
forms.
James G. Blaine who with all the alb.
ility OF debate and oratory of which he
was master, acclaimed against ninety
two cent dollar, is quoted by the Bryan
party as favoring fifty cent dollar.
One OF their latest claims is an alleged
letter from Thomas Garfield, brother to
the president, James A. Garfield. They
make Mr.. Garfield to say that he is for
Organism and that his brother, were he
alive would be supporting the democrat
populist platform. Under the date of
October 18th Thomas Garfield writes as
follows:
jamestown, Mich, Oct. 13.-CoI. L.
K. Bishop, Chairman Republican Con
Mich; My attention having been called
to letter purporting to have been writ
ten by me in which am quoted as say
ing that | had repudiated the republican
platform as adopted at st Louis, and
that l was in favor of the free and un-
limited coinage of silver and should vote
for Bryan at the coming election, |, in
justice to myself and my fellow country
men, desire, through the columns of the
press, to make the following statement
and to define my present position:
On the 9th day Of October, 1896, two
strangers called at my residence in
jamestown, one purporting to be min
lister OF the gospel and the other claim
ing to be looking over the route OF the
proposed new railroad from Grand Rap
ids to Ssugatuk. During the converse
tiop l was asked il 1 was in favor of
using both gold and silver as money, and
knowing it was the policy of the republi-
can party to use both gold and silver as
money, under such restrictions as should
at all times preserve the parity of the
two metals and make them interchange
able with each other, answered yes.
On being asked if 1 would sign my name
to paper to that effect, for their per-
sonable benefit. said that | would, and
signed the same after it had been read
to me above. Any other statement not
consistent with the above that NAV ap-
pear in said letter was placed there with
out my knowledge or consent and was
done to deceive people by using my
name as a brother of the martyred pres
ident, James A. Garfield.
L further desire to define my position
as being in favor of the principles of the
republican party as laid down in the
platform at st. Louis, and am anxious
ly waiting for the Sd day of November,
when l shall cast my vote for the boy
soldier, the mature statesman, and mag
nlhcent example of American citizenship,
VIM. Mckinley, and the entire republi-
can ticket, the election of which will
bring protection, reciprocity and pros
perlty, and give us assurance of the
maintenance at all times of a sound
financial policy. If my martyred broth-
er were alive his voice would be heard
from ocean to ocean in favor of the re-
publican party and its principles, ard l
should prove myself a traitor to his mem
DRY and to the people who placed him
in the presidential chair, a position the
highest in the gift of the people, were l
to oppose them, when [ believe the prin-
ciples he advocatedsarc as true today as
they were when he was here to proclaim
them. From this time until after
election a banner bearing the names of
Mckinley, Hobart, Pingree and Smith;
shall be seen floating from my quiet lit
tic. home in the township of Jamestown.
THOMAS GARFIELD.
SHOULD NOT FORGET 1T.