Times-promoter., 1908-10-16
THE WEST COOL TO TAFT
FORGERY OF Ek-PRESiDENT
cLEvELAND's NAME BY
REPUBLICANS.
Mr.. Taft Carries Three Press Agents
on Luxurious Train, and Has to
Send Out Postal Cards to Get
People to Greet Him in
the Cities.


tucky, 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 a 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 mem
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 a 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 80 railroad cor
porations, corporations that had Gre
ated a 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 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 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 con-
scienceless band of pirates in the in
terest of the Republican PARTY.
Republican Treasurer Trust Magnate.
"The treasurer of the Republican
campaign fund Is a well known trust
magnate, director in many monopo-
lies: he is a force and power in Wall
street. Mr.. VIM. Nelson Cromwell, who,
we are informed, contributed $4,000
to the Republican campaign fund, is
also a director In many trusts that
the Roosevelt party should have be-
fore the courts answering indictments
for violating the antitrust law rather
campaign fund.
"Mr. Du Pont has resigned, the pa
pers tell us, from the chairmanship
of the speakers bureau. I presume
he resigned from the speakers bu-
reau so 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 q
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- |
dent circulated as campaign docu-
ment. The New York Times has been
forced to admit that 1t DETAINED Mr.. |
Cleveland's memory when it published |
the fake interview. Very naturally,
Mrs. Cleveland and the executor of |
the late ex-president's estate have |
come forward and exposed the most |
yillainous misrepresentation OF the
memory OF a dead president within
the history of the nation.
Newspaper Mans Views.
ST eaking Of the exposure Of the
Timss story, Mr. Josephus Daniels,
chairman u the press bureau. said: !