Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1908-10-13

THE WEST COOL TO TAFT

Chicago. Ill, Oct. 1.-Special.-
gresham Ollie James, of Kentucky,
who made the speech of the Denver
convention in seconding the nomina-
ton Of Mr.. Bryan, has arranged
speaking dates in Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, Kansas and Nebraska. Mr..
James is popular speaker, and there
are as many demands for his appear
ance on the stump as any other cam
paign orator. While a visitor at Dem
ocratic National headquarters this
week, he said:
Bryan will be elected president in
November by the greatest land slide
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 cIeveIand's Name
Forgery.
1.-THE dishonest and corrupt method
the Republican party is resorting to in
its desperation to defeat Mr.. Bryan
should cause all honest men to re-
Duke it." continued Mr. James. 1.-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 monopoly and the serv-
ants of plutocracy. They were will
ing not only to desecrate the mem
DRY of Mr.. Cleveland, but to forge his
name to an, assault upon Mr. Bryan
as well as an arraignment of the Dem
ocratic 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 thirty railroad
corporations, corporations that had
created trust upon transportation
and monopolized the highways of
commerce, telling Hartman we are
practical men and asking him to gath
er up quarter of million dollars
to be used to elect the Republican
party. What difference can the peo-
pie distinguish between the Stand
ard Oil company sending $4,000 to
Senator Foraker to buy up newspapers
and further the cause of the Repub-
licaR party, and Hartman, who at the
behest of President Roosevelt, got the
trusts and monopolies to contribute
$4,000 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 allowou
the Republican party to use the money
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 re-
turns the money which Hartman con-
tributed, to the widows and orphans
of the insurance companies whose
funds were depleted by conscience
less band of pirates in the interest of
the Republican party.
Republican Treasurer Trust Magnate.
"The treasurer of the Republican
campaign fund is we'll known trust
magnate. a director in many monopo-
lies; he is force and power in
Wall street. Mr.. VIM. Nelson Crom-
we'll who, we are informed, contribut-
ed $4,000 to the Republican campaign
fund, is also a director in many trusts
that the Roosevelt party should have
before the courts answering indict-
ments for violating the antitrust law
rather than contributing to the Re
publican campaign fund
"Mr. DUPONT has resigned, the
papers tell US, from the Craftsmanship
of the Speakers Bureau. ! presume
he resigned from the Speakers Bureau
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
originally in the New York Times, is
forgery. created no surprise at DEM
ocratic 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 that party had this
Misrepresentation of the dead presi-
dent circulated as campaign docu-
ment The New York Times has been
forced to admit that it DETAINED Mr.
Clevelands' memory when it pub
lished the fake interview. Very nat
urally, Mrs. Cleveland and the execu-
tor of the late Ex-Presidents' estate
have come forward and exposed this
most villainous Misrepresentation Of
the memory of a dead president with
in the history of the nation.
Speaking Of the exposure of the
Times story. Mr.. Josephus Daniels,