Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-10-09
Journalistic Mendacity.


about seven days in each week on an
average. Here is fair sample of it's
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 Bonne
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. I. L. Page, editor of the Bonne
Terre (Mo) Star, has put himself forward
to deny facts perfectly well known and
to call the Globe-Democrat a 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:
'As 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
obtainable, the Globe deliberately faxed
the Pennington dispatch about Governor
Stones speech. The Globes regular
Pennington correspondent, Mrs. L. d.
Fisher, told me emphatically that she
sent a report of the Stone meeting and
that the Globe used merely line or two
OL IL. lndC part OI The QuUllSleQ us
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 a fake concocted in the Globe Of
flee. Certainly the burden of proof is on
the Globe. Mrs. Fisher has been the
Globe correspondent at Pennington for
fifteen years. 1t Is most improbable that
the Globe ordered a separate report from
anybody else. If it did, it was because
the Globe knew that Mrs. Fisher would
not send a political lie. Anyway you put
it the Globe has concocted and published
as news a deliberate political falsehood of
fact. In view of the savage attack made
by the Globe on the country editors gem
orally I 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 a 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
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 a law to
| control the trusts, who also refuse to
| enforce the present law against trusts
and who are opposed to any alteration
of the tariff law that makes the trusts
| possible. OF course it takes a good
deal of gall to enable them to put up
a plaint 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 will
| bite at the false bait-in fact, they
| take the cork clear under-and send
| 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 present
time, as always. the Democratic cam
paign committee in Washington has
not enough money to more than pay
| postage.
The editor Of the Fulton (Mo.) Ga
zette hits the nail on the head in the
| following:
Discerning people will take with grain
of salt all of the utteranceS of j. Pier
pont Morgan that President Roosevelt
must not be elected second time be-
cause of his supposed unfriendliness to
| the trusts. Mr.. Roosevelt may have erred.
from the trust standpoint. in ever men
tioning the trusts. but he has not yet
| given the country any suggestion of prac-
tical legislation. and his latest idea con-
cerning the tariff-that is. that it's regula-
ton should be put In the hands of a
commission-smackss SO much of old world
| Imperialism that 1t will not even receive
respectful consideration 1t Is apparent
that Mr.. Morgan's hostility is a bit of
stage play to deceive the voters, just as
| was the canard that Chairman Griggs of
the Democratic congressional committee
| had been to New York looking for funds
and found that the trusts and money bags
Of Wall street were willing to honor his
traits for any amount while Chairman
Babcock OF the Republican committee had
been turned down at every place he ap-
piled for funds. Reasoning folks will not
for a minute doubt that there is an at
tempt to impose upon the credulity of
the people. The very nature of the sto-
ries SO far current indicates that there is
an agreement between the political pow
erS that be and the money powers that
be to take advantage of the unpopularity
Of the trusts to secure the return of a
Republican congress. Fortunately, the
nature of the stories show on their face
the impossibility of truth.
Some Truth From the Post.
The Washington Post has an able
editorial page, and even its Republican
leanings cannot stifle the clear truth
that the Republican party is the party
of political fraud and misrepresenta-
| ton. Just read this editorial leader
from the Post, printed under the head
| ing Astonishing Misrepresentation:
Deliberate misstatement of indisputable
| facts is never polite While it may be
excusable for party organ to ignore or
dodge such facts 1t never pays to misrep-
resent them. To state that which Is the
reverse of true as to the proceedings of a
CONGRESS OI SO T6CSuI d udle DIS tuG 4 llLS-
sixth is to display something more repre-
hensible than unwisdom. Nothing in the
proceedings of that congress, with the
single exception of its badly botched gold
standard act, attracted wider attention or
Is more distinctly remembered than the
farcical treatment 1T accorded the trust
question. 1t was, as the Post has here
| tofore explained and as every live news
paper in the United States understands. a
| farce-comedy in two acts under the man
agement of the house judiciary commit
tee.
The first act ended with the defeat of
| an antitrust amendment by the solid vote
of the Democrats. Had there been the
| ghost of chance of effecting the pro-
| posed change in the fundamental law of
| the nation no one suspects that 1t would
| have been introduced. Its presentation
| was a feature of carefully prepared
scheme to "put the Democrats in hole"
| manufacture capital for the then pending
presidential campaign of 1900.
The second act was the passage through
| the house by a practically unanimous
vote of stringent antitrust bill amenda-
| tory of or supplementary to the Sherman
| antitrust law. That bill met its pre-
J destined death in the senate at the hands
of the Republican majority in that body.
The senate refused to consider 1t. An OPP
position senator on the eve of the ad-
journment of congress made a vigorous
plea for an opportunity to vote on that
measure, which had received the vote Of
every Republican member of the house,
but his appeal had no effect. The bill is
still on file in a senate committee room.
Such are the facts. and it would be q