The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25
Chairman Mack Says This Is
 What Democrats Fear
FAKE LETTER STILL USED.
Mack Says Republicans Are Still Send ing Out the Alleged Cleveland Let ter as a Campaign Docu-
 ment to Voters.

Washington, October 24.-(Special)-
 "rhey are on the run" announced Chair man Mack of the democratic national
 committee in an interview in New York
 this afternoon. He added: President
 Roosevelt's sending his cabinet out shows
 very clearly that he is frightened. If they don't nall him down he will probably go out himself. He knows-and the re-
 publican leaders know-that Bryan is
 making tremendous gains.
 Personally. I wish the President would ] take the stump. I think it would do us a lot of good. It would be conclusive
 evidence that the republican party Is in bad state of panic. Mir .Bryans re- ception in New Jersey yesterday was an eye-opener to the republicans. I never
 saw anything like it in my life. Why,
 the people fairly mobbed him at several
 places and wouldn't allow his train to move.
 Bryan is elected today" continued
 Chairman Mack. "Of course, understand
 that the republicans will use every means
 
 the situation within the next nine days.
 They have a tremendous 'slush fund.- which they will apply. I hear that it is as
 large as $S,0O0 OoO."
 Big Slush Fund. Docs MT. Bryan think the republicans nave such fund?'' Chairman Mack was
 asked.
 q don't know that he has an idea of
 the amount, but he does know that they
 have big 'slush fund.-
 "Mr Bryan is absolutely confident of
 his election He has been confident all
 along, and is more convinced now that
 he has come east and received the same remarkable welcome which greeted him in the west We will carry New Jersey by a tremendous majority and after he
 has warmed them up in New York this state will be made safe for him" Chairman Mack then reached into
 pocket and drew out a printed pamphlet
 which is being circulated by the republic
 an national committee, the alleged letter
 of the late Grover Cleveland on Bryan, which was printed by the New York Times. and the authenticity of which has
 been denied
 "This is an outrage" said Charman Mack, with indignatio 'I think this is
 the limit in infamous political methods.
 Here is a letter which has been absolutely discredited and the purveyor of it under arrest. Yet the republicans continue to
 send it out, and no longer ago than last Wednesday it was distributed at a meet ing in Paterson. l think it is an outrage on decency."
 Hearst Eliminated. The practical elimination of MT. Hearst s | Independence league Is growing more ap- parent as the election approaches. The latest sign Is furnished by M $. Holt, mayor of Weston, w. Va, who sends Tn | his resignation as member of the execu- tive committee of the independent party. Holt says that Hearst has virtually de-
 serted Hisgen, thrown off the mask and 1 concentrated his efforts in behalf of Taft and against Bryan, whom he supported | in two former campaigns and only | through revenge now assails him because | he had the foresight patriotism and WIS | dom to refuse to nominate Hearst for | the presidency in 1904, which act adds | laurels to the crown of MT. Bryan. un- | equalled in brilliancy by any other act l for the public veal.
 l In his letter of resignation Mayor Hoit 1 says: Tt was by the often repeated as- | surances so glowingly pictured in the l Hearst papers that 1 accepted posi- 1 ton on the national executive committee, 1 hut that at the Chicago convention he l found fin the main the delegates were not | of the elf-sacrificing, patriotic, intehec- | tual class that the Hearst papers de- | scribed them to be, but majority Of | them were of the bowling heeler variety. | Later, he says, he found that the pro- I moters of the new party have entered into | a conspiracy to delay and defeat the re- | forms advocated by MT. Bryan" ''He has concluded" he writes, that MT. Hearst by his dishonest methods, l will sink into political oblivion" Taking the Stump. | It developed today at the White House l that Postmaster General Meyer Is taking | the stump much against his wishes. The !! President has billed him for several close l districts in Ohio, and the Postmaster 1 General asked the President what would | happen if the democratic vote was in- | creased in them. Then the President told | a joke on himself, saying that when | Henry Cabot Lodge first ran for Con | gress in Massachusetts he went into four l towns of the district and made speeches | for Lodge. Each of the towns gave a | heavier democratic vote than ever be- | fore.
 1 Lodge would never let me speak for | him again." said the President with l laugh. w. s.