Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-10-13
TRUST RIDDEN PARTY
Republican Leaders Should Be
in Courts for Violating
Anti. Trust Laws. !
THE WEST COOL TO TAFT
Forgery Of Ix-Prssident Cleveland's
Name by Republicans
Hr. Taft Carries Three Press Agents
on Luxurious Train and Has 10
Send Out Postal Cards to
Get People to Greet Him
In tho Cities.

0OS OVRAC W 1rctC k1AAu
In tho Cities.
4
Chicago. ILL.,. Oct. 1.-Special-Con
gresham Ollie James. of Kentucky,
who made the speech of the Denver
convention in seconding the nomina-
ton OF Mr.. Bryan. has arranged
spsaking 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 visitor at Dem
ocratic National headquarters this
week. he said:
Bryan VIII bs elected president in
November by the greatest land slide
the country has ever known. The,
gscord breaking crowds that greeted
Mr.. Bryan in Judge Taft's home city
and state bespoke the sentiment OF
voters throughout the nation"
Ex.Prssidsnt cisveiand's Name
Forgery.
The dishonest and corrupt method
the Republican party 10 resorting to in
it, desperation to defeat Mr.. Bryan
should cause all honest men to re-
buks it." continued Mr.. James. "The
circulation of the pretended article by
Grover Cleveland against Mr.. Bryan
shows to what extent the Republican
party II 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 desecYats the nom.
CRY of Mr.. Cleveland. but to forge his
name to an assault upon Mr.. Bryan
~ well ~ an arraignment Of the Dem
oeratic party. A party that is willing
to desecrate the dead and prostitute
the memory Of great sx-president
; will hesitate at nothing that il neces-
ssry. 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
ether letters to My dear Hartman
who was director In thirty railroad
corporations. corporations that had
created q trust upon transportation
and monopolixsd the highways Of
commerce. telling Hartman we arc
practical men and asking him to gath
Or up . quarter OF q million dollars
to be used to elect the Republican
party. What difference can the peo.
pie distinguish between the Stand
ard Oil company sending $50, O00 TO
Senator FORAKER to buy up newspaper
and further the cause Of the Repub-
lican party. and Hartman. who at the
behest Of President Roosevelt, got the
trusts and monopolies to contribute
$3.50. 900 to be used directly on the
voters. except that in the hrst 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 money
that Hartman contributed to aid In
his election. II the President desires
In some way to make amends he
should 1T least see that his party re-
turns the money which Hartman con
tributsd. to the widows and orphans
OF the Insurance companies whose
funds we're depleted by conscience
less band Of pirates in the interest Of
the Republican party.
Republican Treasurer Trust Maanats.
The treasurer Of the Republican
campaign fund II q well known trust
magnats. . director in many monopo-
lies; he 10 force and. power in
Wall street. Mr.. VIM. Nelson Crom-
well who, we are informed, contrtbut-
ID $4,000 to the Republican campaign
fund. Il also q 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, i the
papers tell US. from the Craftsmanship
|of the Speakers Bureau I presume
hs resigned from the Speakers Bureau
70 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
Arst the publication of this letter in
one OF the most partisan papers sup.
porting judge Taft was regarded as q
campaign trick. After exploiting the
fssgsry In Republican papers. cam.
paign managers of that party had this
Misrepresentation of the dead ypresi
dent circulated as campaign docu
lment. The New York Times has been
forced to admit that 1t DETAINED Mr.
Clsvelands' memory when 1t 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 dead president with
In the history Of the nation.
Speaking of the exposure of thu
Times story. Mr.. Josephus Daniels
chairman Of the Press Bureau. said:
7 was in New York when the Times
printed the fraudulent Cleveland let.
ter. To my mind. 1t bore upon its
face the evidence that 1t was crude
forgery, doing violence to the known
sentiments OF Mr.. Cleveland. found
that most OF Mr.. Cleveland's friends
and nearly all the newspaper men be-
/ lieYed It to heNa fake Mrs Cleveland