The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-10-03

RO10 VIII Cost MI
Bryan thousands
of Votes

NEW YORK. Oct urcrThIon
Branderburs the literary afent
through whom after he has arraussl
wtta the Cleveland estate TO share ia
the profits, The Times purchased the
Grover clevelnnd political arlIeIa
l,Finted ON August 80 and since caIlel
n qiiestien by r. S. Haslinss eSeou.
Ftor oi tae Cleveland estate. after r'.
peatea eerllficatlons Of ita aulaeu-
tieity gave. his version OF the trans
action to District Attorney Jerome
Nh Brandenhurs spent an bour with
sir. Jerome. who. at The Times ra.
quest, is now Investigating the charge
thel fire article was not written b4
Aif Cleveland. and that the ex.presI
dents signature attached to 1t WAS
forged.
After his conference Mr. Branden-
burg made to reporters statement
which he said was a summary Of thai
wnfeh he had made to the District At.
teraey. He sald
Having known Mr.. Cleyeilrd and
obtained various interviews and state.
tnents from him. was engaged late
IN hast February TO obtain from him
am article ON Personal Llbefty fs.
Fnhiic Policy meant to have bear.
ing On the Hughes racing Legislation
ami tlie temperance movement mot
the eN-Prezident bv appointment I'm MS
ONCE I'll Madison Avenue and got
what wanted. 1n3ihe course cf nls
fati' WITH me he complained Of the
way in which he mad been niisaro,-
led and misropreseused BY newspaper1
Eanl Id thai now that the oampn|sa
was opening he was already being ss
set Tor interviews.
Il suggested to him that Innsmnch
rs MS pen was source Of secondary
income to him that he write what he
had 10 say and let me sell 1t. I BE-.
ing able TO place ct to better advan-
taee than ne. We discussed the mat.
ter' and he accepted my oner Of t2
ooe fer three articles. cne to appear.
say, hi August on the field OF noli-
tics; cue in September on the develop
Ted issues. aud one in late October on
the doubtful states. pressed him
for the FIRST article and outlined the
sort OF thing taat was compatible with
Ills dignity and would sell best at
home sna abroad. Being aware thal
ftne PRINCIPAL objection to his articles
IN maeazlne circles was their usual
cbscurity and involved pnraseoloey
j ventufed to mention this fact. where
upon he aughed and really dld make
nm effort to write shorter sentences
and simpler phrases fear however.
70 the detrlment OF his style.
placing the date by incidental cir.
enmstances II was tno 5ih OF March.
when ] visited him in the morning
and uiade IN appointment for the an.
ernoon Iie was then at work writing
ON the thinks we had decided we've
the foremost topics. returned In thn
afternoon. md he had ready q bundle
OF little sheets some yellow and SONS
white on which he bad written on
eaca subject. notably The larIn we
sat down and went over them. and
showed him how. in discussing candI-
dates not yet mentioned though &c
was certainty taat Taft would be-
TO phrase his lines 81 That the article.
when it appeared Ia magazine after
tiie conventions should not bear thn
marks OF having been written before.
He had two paragraphs on llr.
Bryan. one ON ais record and one on
his personality. and because IL was
not certain that Mr.. Bryan would bs
nominated apd because magazine ar.
ticIes intended FOR sale should never
offend any large gronp of people. !
persuaded him to lesye devoid Of any
suggestion 81 personal animus When
we had gone thoroushly over thc sub
lect matter he gave ME the mono
graphs TO group and todype This 7
did 1t once. returning DE original
matter and the type COPY. having ei-
tered ]; only as inserted few words
or phrsse here and lnere 90 connect
tie detached monosrarhs Again be-
corrected. interlined scratched ont.
and wrote over and tool, the Whale
away to my domc and retynad IT,
/ 'While II was In my possession a
number Of persons saw It and can Ies.
tiiy to its existence. some sesoral
days irter I went back to him on his
return to the city takIns 4hc otie|us|
for comparison and the new typed
article. ! road lt TO him and he teai
II over and taen alsncd Il with an a|r
OF satisfaction should mention
here that he told me IN our talks that
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