The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-10-31
REPUBLICAN LEADERS SHOULD
BE IN COURTS FOR vIoLAT-
ING ANTITRUST YAWs.
THE WEST COOL TO TAFT
FORGERY OF Ex-PREslDENT
cLEvELAND's NAME BY
REPUBLICANS.
Mr.. Taft Carries Three Press Agents
or a Luxurious Train, and Has to
Send Out Postal Cards to Get
People to Greet Him In
the Cities.

the CttteS.
Chicago, ILL.,, September, Especially !
Ollie James OF Ken
lucky. who made the speech of the
L,enver convention in seconding the
of Mr. Bryan, has ar
ranged speaking dates in Illinois, In
diana, Ohio, Kansas and Nebraska
Mr. James is a popular speaker and
shere are as many demands for his
On the stump as any 9TH
er campaign orator. While visitor
mt Democratic national headquarters
this week, he said:
Bryan will be elected president In
November by the greatest landslide
the country has ever known. Inc
record breaking crowds that greeted
Mr. Bryan in Judge Tafts home city
and state bespoke the sentiment OF
5oters throughout the nation
Ex-President Cleveland's Name For
gerry.
"The dishonest and corrupt method
the Republican party is resorting to
in its desperation to defeat Mr.. Bry-
nm should cause all honest men to re-
huke it," continued Mr.. James. The
circulation of the pretended article Dy
Grover Cleveland against Mr.. Bryan
shows to what extent the Republican
party is willing to go in order to en-
trench in power for four years longer
the agents of the monopoly and the
servants of plutocracy. They were
willing not only to desecrate the mem
DRY of Mr.. Cleveland but to forge his
name to an assault upon Mr.. Bryan as
well as an arraignment OF the Demo
cratic party. A party that Is willing
to desecrate the dead and prostitute
the memory of a great ex-president
will hesitate al nothing that is neces-
sary. We may expect them again to
invade the trust funds Of widows and
orphans held by insurance companies;
we may expect them again to write
other letters to My Dear Hartman
who was a director In 80 railroad cor
porations, corporations that had ere
ated trust upon transportation and
monopolized the highways OF COM
merce, telling Hartman we are prac-
teal men and asking him to gather up
a quarter of a million dollars to be
used to elect the Republican party
Standard Oil Buys Newspapers.
What difference can the people dis
tinguish between the Standard Oil
Company sending $4,000 to Senator
Foraker to buy up newspapers and
further the cause of the Republican
party, and Hartman, who at the be
hest of President Roosevelt got the
trusts and monopolies to contribute
| $3.50, 100000 to be used directly on the
voters, except that in the first in
stance Senator Foraker returned the
money to the Standard Oil when hi
| found out he could not purchase the
newspapers; but Roosevelt allowed
| the Republican party to use the mon
ey that Hartman contributed t.
| aid in mis- election. II the presiden
| desires in some way to make amends
he should at least see that his part,
returns the money which Harrimal
contributed, to the widows and or
| phans of the insurance companies
whose funds were depleted by a con
scienceless band of pirates in the in
terest of the Republican party.
Republican Treasurer Trust Magnate
1.-THE treasurer OF the Republican
campaign fund is a well known trus
magnate. a director in many monopC
lies: he is force and power in Wa
street. Mr.. VIM. Nelson Cromwell, who
we are informed, contributed $50, 90
to the Republican campaign fund.
also a director in many trusts tina
the Roosevelt party should have b.
fore the courts answering indictment
for violating the antitrust law rathe
than contributing to the Republica
campaign fund.
MIR. Du Pont has resigned, the p,
pers tell us, from the chairmanshi
of the speakers bureau. / presum
he resigned from the speakers bl
| reau so he could give more time
the preparation Of his defense for tn
violation of the antitrust law"
The fact that the alleged letter frol
ex-President Cleveland, published o
iginally in the New York Times, is
forgery, created no surprise at Dem
} cratic headquarters. From the ver
| first the publication of this letter
one of the most partisan papers SUI
porting Judge Taft was regarded as
, campaign trick. After exploiting II
forgery in Republican papers, car
paign managers of the party had tn
MISREPRESENTATION of the dead pres
dent circulated as campaign doc
ment. The New York Times has bee
forced to admit that 1t DETAINED M
Cleveland's memory when it publishe
, the fake interview. Very natural
Mrs. Cleveland and the executor
the late ex-president's estate ha,
come forward and exposed the mo
!. | v.llainoul misrepresentation of Il
l memory of 2. dead president with
the history of the nation.
Newspaper Mans viSxs.
; Speaking of the exposure of Il
: Times story, Mr.. Josephus Daniel
chairman Of the press bureau, sal,
Il was in New York when Il
| Times printed the fraudulent Clev
land letter. To my mind, 1t bore up,
its face the evidences that 1t was
o~,,ao forQerv doing violence fo N