New-York tribune., 1908-09-26
MR.. HASTINGS RECANTS
Said CIereIand IArhcIe Has Genuine
-NO7c RepUdiates 1t.

..Tbe New York Times prints this morning a
letter from F. 5 Hastings. executor OF Grover
Cleveiand's estate. repudiating Inc lohg aI'i0''
published I'm that paper on August 80 over eA-
President Cleveland's signature. and quoting MN
-,s favoring Judge Taft for President and opposing
William Jennings Bryan. Immediately folIo"lhs
she receipt OF this letter The Times enoea'oieu
10 learn what evidence Mr.. Hastings had ooialheu
10 dscredit it's authenticity il gives the history
of the article follows:
The article was brought tc The Times once
bv Broughton Brandenburg, newspaper ,ra aire
magazine writer II was typewTltIeh SilG .oy,eT &c
Cleveland Before considering pnoSa'l%on % 90 % an an
article The Times qena6aebb Produced the
following agreement he had mace WIN + -
10 SO froadway. New York. August FL 1919,
Estate Of Grover SIeTelannd, . >!aIlS Y6rK
Esq Executor, No so broadway Ne" io'A
My Dear Mr. Hastings: beg to make YOU oya the he
the series which | had under way with MI e Giere-
aa,ent to sale ana payment for this article viii
pay the estate $500 out Of sales price OF %SoV: @
SUI ,I aS he sale of the original manuscript
itSeiI "'i- tfBa tHBaRorGHToN eG PfT BRkNDENBURG.
6shs d qt With fhf the knowledge and consent
Mrs Frances Cleveland hereby accent I L3e 1ore
going %, r 2, ,,.ar ;, f1As2 ;21areIand
Mr. Brandenburg explained 10 , Inc ~, lIIifs esla m
land about March TO write series OF three
articles the coming Presidential campaign lndl
the first article written by MI CIeVeiano I ana
given TO him to copy in typewriting AFTER M. MI
again typewritten and signed by him at his office
IN the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Build
ing some time between the 18th and the 18th ot
March 1t IS just to Mr.. Brandenburg TO state
that there several witnesses who have Iestl-
fed that he had long interviews with MI EleVe-
land in the latters office on the days he claimed
TO have seen him.
In order to use every precaution possible The
Tines sent trusted ebeT Of itS & stan b 10 MI ME-
article and Nfr Cleveland,s signature Mr.. Hastings
at once wrote the following letter:
Indian Harbor' Greenwich com Is'
Dear Sir. 1 am cognizant of an article written
by Grover Cleveland which by oral agreement he
assigned 10 Mr.. Brandenburg. and. with Mrs
Cleveland's assent. have given Mr.. Brandenburg
exclusive right to said article. including the right
TO dispose OF it as he may See MT Y0gTs very
truly, (Sgnedl +. 3 HASTINGS
Executor Estate G. Cleveland
Shortly after the article was published Mrs
Cleveland informed The Tines that she had her
doubts about its genuneness- Inquiry was made
Of MI Hastings. and he sent Grover Cleveland's
signature TO compare with the the article
Several leading Democrats then questioned its au-
thenticity and on September . The Times
printed an interview with Mr. Hastings in which
he quoted saying:
During the course Of my investigation I have
unearthed design among certain prominent
Democratic leaders who have asserted that IN
order to offset the effect Of this article Of Mr..
C1eveland's II would be necessary for them 10
question its authenticity. OF this have abundant
proof which can be produced any time if nee
essary.'
When the letter from MI Hastings repudatng
the article was received by The Tines yesterday
a representative was sent him. In the letter
he wrote he had evidence disprove the authen-
ticity of the article. According The Times,
he said however, that he had no evidence, and re
ferred the representative to John G. Carlisle, who
refused 10 discuss the article.