The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-29
THE WEST COOL TO TAFT
Forgery of Ex-President Cleveland's
Name by Republicans
Mr. Taft Carries Three Press Agents
ON n Luxurious Train and Has TO
Send Out Postal Cards to
Get People to Greet Him
in the Cities.

convention In seconding the nomina.
ton Of Mr.. Bryan, has arranged
speaking dates in Illinois, Indiana
Ohio, Kansas and Nebraska. Mr.
James ID 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 sad
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 cleveland's Name
Forgery
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.
buke It," continued Mr.. James. "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.
ory of Mr.. Cleveland, but to forge his
name to an assault upon Mr.. Bryan
as we'll 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 a 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-
lican party, and Hartman, who at the
behest of President Roosevelt, got the
trusts and monopolies to contribute
$25O,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 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 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 Masnate.
"The treasurer of the Republican
campaign fund is a we'll known trust
magnate. 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 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 chairmanship
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-
Gent circulated as campaign docu-
ment. The New York Times has been
forced to admit that 1t DETAINED Mr..
Cleyelands' 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 the
Times stsry. Mr.. Jossphus Daniels.
chairman of the Press Bureau, said:
Il was In New York when the Times
printed the fraudulent Cleveland let |
ter. To my mind, II bore upon its |
face the evidence that 1t was a crude
doing violence to the known
sentiments of Mr.. Cleveland. l found
that most OF Mr.. Cleyeland's friends
and nearly all the newspaper men be-
ieYed IL TO be a fake. Mrs. Cleveland |
has protected the memory of her dis
inguished husband by her course In
he matter. for the letter. as pub
ished. did violence to his utterances
md 10 his public career. l was In.
ormed At the time that the forged