The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-10-31
BRYAN Scored by Cleveland.

Il DA Nh
The New York Times recently pub.
lished a letter purporting to have
been written by the late ex President
Grover Cleveland, in which the writer
expressed appreciation of the high
character and exalted attachments oil
Judge VIM. Fl. Taft and attested his
admirable fitness for the duties and
responsibilities of the presidency. The
authenticity Of this letter having been
questioned. the Times took the initiative
| in setting on foot a judicial inquiry
to determine whether the document is
genuine or forgery, and Brougbton
/ Brandenburg, the literary agent from
whom the letter was obtained, has been
indicted and arrested. It is but just
to the accused to say that he protests
his innocence and that the executor oil
the Cleveland estate assured the news
paper of the authenticity OF the letter
before it was published.
Whether this particular letter was q
forgery or not, however, there can be
no doubt as to the deep-seated distrust
and distress with which MIR. Cleveland
viewed the prospect of MIR. Bryan Is
denomination as the pre- i'd II /
candidate of the Democratic party.
The sentiments of the distinguished
ex president in this regard are plainly
and forcibly set forth in the following
letter appearing in the New York
Times on Friday of last week, the 23rd
instant, accompanied by statement
from Col. Felix A. Reeve of Washing
ton, D. c., the gentleman to whom the
communication was addressed, th at it is
q true copy Of the original in his pos
session:
Tamworth, N. H, July IA, 1906.
MY dear Mr.. Reeve desireto thank you for
your very friendly letter of the 18th instant /
recovered sufficiently q few days ago to under
| take the journey to our summer home here,
where. amid pure air and family delights, l ex-
pect to entirely regain my health.
note what you say in regard to the nnfortu-
nate plight of Democracy. I am dumbfounded
when see its apparent willingness to turn again
/ to Bryanism-sugar-co coated, but otherwise uII-
changed-as manifested by the cool and charac-
i
published IN the newspapers of yesterday.
cannot put out of my mind the idea that
however good party platform may be, it can
not cover the unrepented sins of the candidate.
am more saddened by present political con-
ditions that have thought / could be in any
| such circumstances. am,
Very sincerely, GROVER CLEVELAND.
The interview to which reference is
made in this letter was one to which
Mr.. Bryan submitted in London on
July Il, 1906, while on his trip around
the world, and the following extracts
will indicate the substance and tenor
OF the expressions made by the globe
trotting candidate on that occasion:
notice that am now described by some as
conservative, and in order that there may be no
misunderstanding on that subject, permit me to
say that in one sense have always been con-
sentative. The Democratic policies are conser-
yative in that they embody old principles APP
piled to new conditions. There was nothing
new in principle in either of the platforms on
which stood.
II, however by the word conservative they
mean that have changed my position on any
public question or moderated my opposition to
corporate ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, they have surprise
waiting for them. am more radical than was
IN 1896, and have nothing to withdraw upon
economic questions which have been under dis
cussion. The only question which we discussed
IN 1886 upon which there has been any apparent
change is h5aslver question, and that has not
been change in the advocates of binetallism
but in conditions.
believe in hiTnetallisnl. and believe that the
restoration of silver would bring still further
prosperity, besides restoring par in exchange be-
tween gold and silver using countries; but ]
recognize. as do all other bimetallists whom
have met abroad. that the unexpected and un.
precedeIted increase in gold production has for
the present removed the silver question as an
issue.
What Mr.. Cleveland saw and OBJ
iected to IN 1906 is equally apparent
and Objectionable in 1908: that Mr..
Brs an is at heart as much of free
silver, hair Drained theorist as ever.
and that his election as president
would be national misfortune.