The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-29
Are Going Among the Labor
ers and Telling False
hoods on Republicans
COMMITTEE PAYS THEM
And D.efrays 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-
servative 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-
ng Of the people on that, occasion was
a 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 delude the people by plain,
simple lying. For instance, in tele-
graphing an account of the Repub-
lican 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. E. Glass
cock since he opened his campaign,
the Republican 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-
fidence of the Democratic managers.
Mr.. Glasscock's meeting 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 appreciative
and responsive audience ever gather
ed within its walls. The statement
that 1.-The crowd was one-third small
er than the one which greeted the
Democratic orators the night before,
Is most palpable 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 til Groom will hold,
crowded to its fullest capacity.
There was another paragraph in
that mendacious dispatch that de-
serves some attention. In speaking
of Mr.. Glasscock's remarks the dis
patch stated:
He tried to make light of the
speech of George Bryne in Wheeling
few night ago, but he refused to
commit himself to the negro planks.
II any severe condemnation has
been handed out in comment on a
public speakers utterances than Mr..
Glasscock characterized the foul and
degrading mouthings of Bryne we
have yet to hear OF it. Just
what the last phrase, he refused to
commit himself to the negro planks.
means is hard to determine. II it
is sought to convey the impression
that Mr.. Glasscock refused to en-
dorse the negro planks in the Demo-
cratic platform, including Byrne's
disfranchisement plank, then the re-
port is eminently correct. But If it
means that Mr.. Glasscock did not de-
fend and espouse the cause Of the
negro as exemplifled in the plank
treating on that subject in the Re-
publican platform then the report is
a lie and the correspondent is a liar.
This ought to he plain enough for any
intelligent person, without the adj
dition of single explanatory foot