The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-13
SOME FRANK CANDIDATES.

Supposed Utterances In Keeping With Remarks About General Grant. Wireless Specials to New York Even ing Post
 Mentor. O.. June 21--speaking here today, at the unyeiling of a monument to President Garfield, Secretary Taft his candor and frankness. He dwelt upon the unhappy side of Garfield's s life. referred to his reported disagree ment with members of his family, and on this sad theme was to show how. by rising above a little personal weakness, man could still reach the Presidency. The Cabinet member of MT Garfield's family and others were present.
 Lincoln. Neb.. July 4--Mr. Bryan re- ferred today to some of the little known incidents in the life of George Washington, and touched delicately on certain aspects of his career for the purpose. as he explained, of showing that the first President was not a creature of a marble heart, as common ly represented. Some indignation was who belong to the Sons of the Revolu- tion and by the members of the Society of the Cincinnati
 Pittsburg, June 22-Senator Knox, throng in Pittsburgs largest theatre on President Andrew Johnson, gave particular attention to the charges that Lincoln's successor was too frequently
 
 this. as he stated. not to cast a slur upon Johnson's memory, but to show that while. even in those days there were envious tongues. the present public temperance. Several kinsmen of President Johnson were interested listeners.
 Philadelphia. July 1--,Repeating here today his eloquent address on Alex ander Hamilton, first delivered before the Hamilton Club in Brooklyn last winter, Secretary Cortelyou intimated that there were several facts about Hamiltons birth in regard to which if would be inadvisable to speak too free ly. He touched upon the regrettable circumstances in the presence of some relatives of Hamilton, not to hurt their feelings, but, to show how. even with such a handicap. man might rise to be. like himself. the secretary of the treasury.
 before the joint assembly of the Chris tion Endeavor Society and the W. c. T. U., Uncle Joe" Cannon expressed his adherence of that trait in Abraham Lin- coin which led him. the greatest sNn words, and tell stories decidedly off color in order to make a point. He himself had, he declared, never used single oath in his whole eareer1not stories. he abominated the practice. (Cheers and cries of 'Glory Hallelu- jah") He was sorry to touch on this dark side of the Emancipator's career. particularly in the city in which some of his family lived, but it was duty the older Reservation owed to the younger to set forth the moral lessons to be drawn from the lives of its great men. He yielded to none in his affec- tionate admiration for Lincoln.
 Cohoes, N r., August l-Dwelliug here today on the race track evils, now happily abolished in this State, Cover nor Hughes said he regretted to learn that a distinguished son or New York, Chester Arthur, was reported to have visited the race tracks on more than one occasion. He mentioned this sad fact in order to assure the Sunday School children before him that the true way to happiness was to read their own hearts and not to act so as to create talk in the newspapers It was necessary to dwell on the private errors of our public men if We were to profit
 st, Paul. Minn., August s--Governor Johnson today, in addressing the Swed- ish Home Rule Society, said that he was distinctly a Jeffersonian Demo crat By that he must not be under stood to approve of those human weak nesses of Jefferson which preeminently stamped him as a creature or me eighteenth century, and were undouht- edly due to his close contact with the manners and morals of the French RsVolution. He was sorry thus to have to touch on the frau side OF JetIer-