Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-10-22
4 TRUST RIDDEN PARTY
REPUBLICAN. LEADERS SHOULD
BE IN COURTS FOR VoLAT-
ING ANTITRUST YAWs.
THE WEST COOL TO TAFT
FORGERY OF Ex-PRESIDENT
CLEVELAND'S MAZE BY
REPUBLICANS.
Mr.sTaft Carries Three Press Agents
on Luxurious Train, and Has to
Send Out Postal Cards to Get
People to Greet Him in
the Cities.

Chicago, Ill.,, September, Especially
Ollie James of Ken
lucky, 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.
I 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 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.
1.-THE dishonest and corrupt method
the Republican party is resortfng to
in its desperation to defeat Mr.. Bry-
an should cause all honest men to re-
buke 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 the monopoly and the
servants of plutocracy. They were
willing not only to desecrate the mem
DRY of Mr. Cleveland but to forge his
name to an assault upon Mr.. Bryan as
we'll as an arraignment of the Demo-
cratic 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 80 railroad cor
porations, corporations that had ere
ated trust upon transportation and
monopoliZed the highways of COM
MERGE, telling Hartman we are prac-
tical men and asking him to gather up
a quarter of a 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
S25O,00O.00 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 mis- election. If the president
desires in some way to make amends
he should at least see that hts 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 Maenate.
"The treasurer of the Republican
campaign fund is we'll known trust
magnate. a director in many monopO-
lies; he is a force and power in Wall
street. Mr.. VIM. Nelson Cromwell, who,
we are informed, contributed 5000
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
than contribute g to the Republican
campaign fund.
'sMr. Du Pont has resigned, the pa
pers tell US, from the Craftsmanship
of the speakers bureau. l presume
he resigned fsom the speakers bu-
reau so he could give more time to
the preparation Of his defense for the
collation. of the antitrust law"
The fact that the alleged letter from
ex-President Cleveland, published or
iginally in the New York Times, is a
forgery. created 10 surprise at Demo
cratic headdrs tiers. 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
nlisrepre sentaticn of the dead pFesi-
dent circulated as campaign docu-
ment. The New Ye..k Times has been
forced to admit that it DETAINED Mr.
Cleveland's memory when ii 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
villainou5 Misrepresentation OF the
memory. of a dead president within
the history OF the nation.
Newspaper Mans Views.
Speaking Of the exposure of the
Times story, Mr.. Josephus Daniels
chairman of the press bureau. said
81 was in New York when tie
Times printed the fraudulent CleYe
land letter. To my mind, it bore uDou
its face the evidences that it was a
crude forgery, doing violence TO the
known sentiments Of Mr.. Cleveland
/ found that most of Mr.. Cieveland's
friends and nearly al the newspaper
men believed it to be a fake. Mrs
Cleveland has protected the memory
of her distinguished husband by he,
course in the matter, fo- the letter as
published did violence to his utter
ances and to his rublic career. / was
informed at the time that the forged
letter was offered 10 ire Kew York
Herald and to the %e@ ycfA &c. Id