The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-23

HIRE THEM
TO DECEIVE
Are Going Among the Labor
ers and Telling. False
hoods on Republicans
COMMITTEE PAYS THEM
And Defrays Their Expenses.
Voters Are Warned to
Be on the Lookout.


1t may be impossible to catch up
with all the lies sent out by Demo-
cratic correspondents to Democratic
newspapers wherever Republican
meeting is held. but. perhaps, the
truth may reach some points where
these Misrepresentation have been
made and reveal to the people the
true character of the plan of cam
paign instituted by the Democracy.
The Taft demonstration in this city.
where 10000 people, at the most con
tserYative estimate. had gathered TO
/ honor the next president of the Unit
ed State, and where enthusiasm ran
not, was designated by the morning
Democratic organ of this city as a
frost" The proper reading of that
expression, if any were attempted,
would mean that the great outpour-
ti1g OF the people on that occasion was
frost on the hopes of the Demo-
cratic party of this state.
The romancer of the Democratic
party; however. is doing better
things than this in the way of try
| ing to deIude the people by plain,
! simple lying. For instance, in tele-
! graphing an account of the RePub-
| lfcan meeting held at the court house
here on Wednesday evening, when the
Hon. w. E. Glasscock. Senator n.
B. Scott and the Hon. Stuart F. Reed
( addressed the people the turgid fool
who furnishes lies at so much per.
/ had this to say in the opening para
graph of his dispatch:
Fearing the effects of the con-
tinual diminished crowds which have
] been greeting Candidate w. r. Glass
| cock since he opened his campaign,
! the Repu blican state committee Sc
! cured the services of Senator n. b.
! Scott for the advertised meeting here
tonight. Eight hundred people heard
/ the address at the Court house, a
/ crowd one-third smaller than the one
which greeted the Democratic orators
/ the night before"
| In place of diminishing crowds at
/ tending the meetings of Mr.. Glass
! cock the contrary has been, and that
| is what is eating the heart and con-
! fdence of the Democratic managers.
| Mr.. Glasscock's rGeeting last night
/ was known but few days prior TO its
advertisement in the Telegram OF the
afternoon of the night of the meet
+ ing. In spite of that short notice to
! the public the court house was
crowded with the most appreciatiYe
/ and responsive audience ever gather
ed within its walls. The statement
! that the crowd was one-third small
er than the one which greeted the
democratic orators the night before,
( is a most pa1pahle lie, and the ro-
mancer is convicted out of his own
mouth when he comedies that 500
were present at the Republican meet
! ing. That is all tn Groom viii hold
crowded to its fullest capacity.
There was another paragraph in
/ that mendacious dispatch that de-
serves some attention. In speaking
of Mr.. Glasscock' remarks the dis
| patch stated:
Gle tried 10 make light of the
| speech of George Bryne in Wheeling
a few night ago; but he refused to
commit himself to the negro planks. =
If any severe condemnation has
been handed out in comment on a
public speakers utterances than Mr..
/ GIasscock characterized the foul and
! degrading mouthings of Bryne we
! have yet to hear of it. Just
what the last phrase, The refused to
commit himself 10 the negro planks,
means is hard to determine. IT 1t
Is sought TO convey the impression
4 that Mr.. GIasscock refused to en-
dorse the negro planks in the Demo-
cratic platform, including Byrne's
acknowledgements plank, then the re-
mort Is eminently correct. But If it
means that Mr.. Glasscock did not de-
fend and espouse the cause of the
negro as exemplified in the plank
treating on that subject in the Re
publican platform then the report is
4 a lie and the correspondent is liar.
This ought to be plain enough for any
4 Intelligent person, without the ad-
dltion Of single explanatory foot
note.