Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-10-07
A TRUST RIDDEN PARTY
REPUBLICAN LEADERS SHOULD
aE IN COURTS FOR WoLAT.
ING ANTITRUST yAws.
THE WEST COOL TO TAFT
FORGERY OF Ex-pREsIpEhr
cLEvELAND's NAME BY
REPUBLICANS.
Nj. Taft Carries Three Press Agents
on Luxurious Train, and Has to
Send Out Postal Cards to Get
People to Greet Him In
the Cities.
THE WEST COOL TO TAFT

Send Out Postal Cards to Get
People to Greet Him In
the Cities.
Chicago, ILL.,. September, Especially
Congressman Ollie James of Ken.
lucky, who made the speech of the
Denver convention In seconding the
nomination of Mr.. Bryan, has ar
ranged speaking dates in Illinois, In
diana, Ohio. Kansas and Nebraska.
Mr.. James Is a popular speaker and
there are as many demands for his
appearance on the stump as any 9TH
er campaign orator. While visitor
at Democratic national headquarters
this week, he said:
Bryan will be elected president in
November by the greatest landslide
the country has ever known. The
record breaking crowds that greeted
Mr.. Bryan in Judge Taft's home city
and state bespoke the sentiment of
voters 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-
an should cause all honest men to re-
buke it." continued Mr.. James. THE
circulation Of the pretended article by
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 men,
ory 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 great ex-president
will hesitate at 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 director in 30 railroad cor.
porations, corporations that had ere
ated trust upon transportation and
monopolized the highways of COM
merce, telling Hartman we are prac-
tical-men and asking him to gather up
a quarter OF 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 monopoiies to contribute
S250,000.00 to be used directly ON the
voters, except that in the first in.
stance Senator Foraker returned the
money to the Standard Oil when he
found out he could not purchase the
newspapers; but Roosevelt allowed
the Republican party to use the mon
ey that Hartman contributed to
aid In his election. II the president
desires in some way to make amends
he should at least see that his party
returns the money which Hartman
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 Maanate.
THE treasurer OF the Republican
campaign fund is well known trust
magnate, a director in many monopo-
lies; he is force and power in Wall
street. Mr.. VIM. Nelson Cromwell, who.
we are informed, contributed $4,000
to the Republican campaign fund, is
also director in many trusts that
the Roosevelt party should have be-
fore the courts answering indictments
for violating the antitrust law rather
than contributing to the Republican
campaign fund.
Ii Mr.. Du Pont has resigned, the pa
perst tell US. from the craftsmanship
of the speakers bureau. I presume
he resigned from the speakers bu-
reau 30 he could give more time to
the preparation of his defense for the
violation Of the antitrust law"
The fact that the alleged letter from
ex-President Cleveland, published or
iginally in the New York Times, is a
forgery. created no surprise at Demo
! cratic headquarters. From the very
first the publication of this letter in
one of the most partisan papers sup
porting Judge Taft was regarded as a
| campaign trick. After exploiting the
forgery In Republican papers. cam
paign managers of the party had this
misrepresentation of the dead presi-
4 dent circulated as campaign docu-
ment. The New York Times has been
forced to admit that 1t DETAINED Mr..
Clevelands memory when it published
the fake interview. Very naturally,
Mrs. Cleveland and the executor Of
the late ex-presidents estate have
come forward and exposed the most
villainous Misrepresentation of the
memory Of dead president within
the history of the nation.
Newspaper Mans Views.
Speaking OF the exposure of the
Times story, Mr.. Josephus Daniels.
chairman of the press bureau. said:
Il Il was In New York when the
Times printed the fraudulent Cleve-
land letter. To my mind, it bore upon
its face the evidences that it was a
crude forgery. doing violence to the
] known sentiments of Mr.. Cleveland.
Il found that most of Mr.. Cleveland's
friends and nearly all the newspaper
men believed 1t to be a fake. Mrs.
4 Cleveland has protected the memory
of her distinguished husband by her
course In the matter, for the letter as
published did violence to his utter.
ances and to his public career. was
informed at the time that the forged
letter was offered to the New York
Herald and to the New York World
but they refused to touch 1t. The New
York Times has good motto: "All
the news that's At to print."-it would
!, do well now to add-"no fake stories
printed that other journals refuse
Those Republicans who have been
spending money derived from trusts
8 to circulate the fraudulent Cleveland