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That is a splendid sendoff for Uncle"
Horace and ought to be good for num-
Der of votes If skillfully utilized by the T
Democratic managers. But as Hender-
son has margin of about 5000 votes the
chances are that the Press and the fac
to dislodge him.
The Globe Democrat should read that
editorial, digest it and then
make the amende honorable to me; but
it will never do 1t.
Mendacity.
The Globe Democrat is caught lying
about seven days in each week on an
Here Is fair sample of Its
everyday lies-lies that are nailed as
fast as they are uttered. The follow
ing is from the st. Louis Republic:
Mr.. Irwin L. Page. editor OF the Bonnie
Terre Star, was in st. Louis yesterday.
An editorial in the st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat Of Friday was shown to him. The
editorial said:
'Mr /. L. Page, editor of the Bonnie
Terre (Mo) Star. has put himself forward
to deny facts perfectly well known and
to call the Globe-Democrat liar. Mr..
Pages letter may not have been written
by Sam Cook, but its publication will in
sure for the Bonne Terre sheet the con-
stitutional amendment advertising"
Mr.. Page said in comment on this at
tack:
las for the advertising the Globe lies,
as usual. The contract for the advertis-
ing has been made and not with my pa
per. So, you see am free from bias on
that account. According to the evidence
the Pennington dispatch about Governor
stones speech. The Globes regular
Pennington correspondent. Mrs. T. D.
Fisher, told me emphatically that she:
sent q report OF the Stone meeting and
that the Globe used merely line or two
of it. That part Of the published dis
patch purporting to give what Governor
Stone said about the technical constitu-
tionality OF the school certificates was
not sent by her. and she says that Gov
ernor Stone said nothing of the sort.
Unless the Globe can prove that some-
body sent an extra dispatch from Farm
ington It must confess that the report
was fake concocted in the Globe Of
fee. Certainly the burden of proof is on
the Globe: Mrs. Fisher has been the
Globe correspondent at Pennington for
I fifteen years. 1t is most improbable that
, the Globe ordered a separate report from
anybody else If 1t did, it was because
the Globe knew that Mrs. Fisher would
not send political lie. Anyway you put
1t the Globe has concocted and published
as news deliberate political falsehood of
fact. In view Of the savage attack made
by the Globe on the country editors gen.
orally am certain that the whole pro-
fession will thank the Republic for ex,
posing the forgery OF Democratic editors
| signatures to an invented letter In re-
cent issue of the Globe"
Taking the Cork Under.
Those Democratic newspaper CORE
spondents in Washington must be a
guileless set who will allow themselves
to be hoodwinked into sending to their
papers impossible tales to the effect
| that the trusts will not contribute to
| the Republican campaign fund because
4 Roosevelt has uttered few beautiful
platitudes on the subject of their con-
| troll. Republican talk Of controlling
the trusts cannot be very sincere when
it comes from men who were elected
with funds furnished by trust mag
mates, who voted for the tariff law
| that brought the trusts into existence
| and who refuse to vote for law to
control the trusts, who also refuse to
enforce the present law against trusts
and who are opposed to any alteration
4 of the tariff law that makes the trusts
| possible. OF course it takes good
deal of gall to enable them to put uI
plant that is SO palpably false, but
gall has always been the long suit OF
the Republican party.
But it is strange that the correspond
ents of Democratic newspapers vii
bite at the false bait-in fact, they
take the cork clear under-and sent
the narrowing tale to their papers
The real truth is that the Republican
campaign managers always have
enough money to enable them to squan
der it lavishly, while at the presen
time, as always, the Democratic cam
paign committee in Washington ha.
not enough money to more than pay
| postage.
| The editor Of the Fulton (Mo) Ga
zette hits the nail on the head in tn,
following:
Discerning people will take with grail
of salt all Of the utterances Of j. Pier
pont Morgan that President Roosevelt
must not be elected q second time be
cause of his supposed unfriendliness t
the trusts. Mr.. Roosevelt may have erred
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tioning the trusts, but he has not we
given the country any suggestion of prac
teal legislation, and his latest idea con
corning the tariff-that Is, that its regula
ton should be put in the hands of
commission-smacks so much of old worl
imperialism that 1t will not even receiv
respectful consideration. 1t is apparen
that Mr.. Morgans hostility is bit Q
! stage play to deceive the voters, just a
was the canard that Chairman Griggs Q
the Democratic congressional committe
had been to New York looking for fund
and found that the trusts and money bag
Of Wall street were willing to honor hi
drafts for any amount, while Chairma
Eabcock of the Republican committee ha
been turned down at every place he ap
piled for funds. Reasoning folks will no
for minute doubt that there Is an at
tempt to impose upon the credulity Q
the people. The very nature Of the sto
ries SO far current indicates that there
an agreement between the political pow
ers that be and the money powers tina
be to take advantage of the unpopularit
of the trusts to secure the return Of
Republican congress. Fortunately, tn
nature Of the stories show on their fac
the impossibility Of truth.
Some Truth From the Post.
: The Washington Post has an abb
editorial page, and even its Republica
leanings cannot stitle the clear trut
that the Republican party is the part
Of political fraud and misrepresenta
ton. Just read this editorial leade
from the Post, printed under the head
) ing Astonishing Misrepresentation:
Deliberate misstatement of indisputabl
facts is never polite. While 1t may b
excusable for a party organ to ignore @