Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1908-10-16

his MAST
chairman of the Press Bureau, said:
81 was in New York when the Times
printed the fraudulent Cleveland let
ter. To my mind, it bore upon its
face the evidence that it was a crude
/ forgery, doing violence to the known
I sentiments of Mr. Cleveland. | found
that most of Mr. Cleveland's friends
and nearly all the newspaper men be-
/ lieyed it to be fake. Mrs. Cleveland
has protected the memory of her dis
/ tinguished husband by her course in
the matter, for the letter, as pub
i lished, did violence to his utterances
! and to his public career. / was in
/ formed at the time that the forged
letter was offered to the New York
/ Herald and to the New York World,
/ but they refused to touch it. The
New York Times has a good motto
All the news that's At to print."-It
would do well to add-"no fake stor-
! les printed that other journals refuse
Those Republicans who have been
spending money derived from trusts
/ to circulate the fraudulent Cleveland
letter must, if honest, spend as much
money to circulate pamphlets saying
that the letter they circulated was a
+ clumsy fraud"
Post Card System.
When Mr.. Taft learned that the
mountain would not come to Mahomet,
+ he decided that Mahomet must go to
/ the mountain. When he found that
! the people would not come to him and
listen to his speeches from the golf
liaks at Hot Springs and from the
front porch of Brother Charles pala-
tial residence in Cincinnati, he deter
mined to go out among the people.
Apparently, however, there is grave
fear among the Republican leaders
/ received by the people. In order to
overcome this difficulty and in an eff
fort to bring out a crowd to greet Mr..
Taft, the Chicago managers have
found it necessary to send out postal
| card notices to the faithful, begging
them to go to the railroad station and
give the distinguished visitor "a cor
dial welcome" During the past few
| days prominent Republicans have re-
ceived the following notice from Fred
w. Upham, assistant treasurer of the
Republican National Committee:
| Chicago, September 81, 1908.
Hon. VIM. H. Taft. the Republi-
can party's candidate for president
and the peoples choice, win arrive
in Chicago, Wednesday september
23) evening at 5 o'clock, at the La
| Sale Street station Of the l.. s. &
M. S. Ry. Please be at the station
with your friends and give him a
cordial welcome 1t will be Mr.
| Taft's first visit since the famous
convention which nominated him
for president. Very truly yours.
| Fred w. Upham.
| Small Hall for Taft.
To give Mr.. Taft an opportunity to
explain his attitude toward labor and
| his injunction record. in city where
hundreds of thousands Of lahoring men
| are interested In what he has to say
| the Republicans selected a hall with
! a capacity OF less than 1000 and pro-
| vided for admission by card only in
| order than none but those who agree
| with him might be allowed to enter
| This hall was selected in the heart Of
| the business section after an option
| or a hall with $1,000 capacity in the
center of the working mems district
| had been refused The inference is
| plain that the Republican managers
! feared to have their candidate appear
| in a distinctively laboring district
| where all who would might come and
hear, lest the great welcome planned
for might be turned into demonstra-
ton for his political opponent. or that
Mr.. Taft might be asked embarrassing
| questions.
Stamping Falls Flat.
The fact of the matter Is that Mr..
Taft's stumping experiment has fallen
fiat, he has produced absolutely no
| enthusiasm among the voters, aud he
has said or done nothing which will
improve his chances Republicans are
unable to conceal their feelings of dis
appointment over the poor showing
which their candidate has made. Mr..
Tafts progress thus far. and the man
ner in which he has been received is
complete vindieatien OF those Repub-
| lican leaders who from the first op-
posed the plan of having him take to
the rear platform. They advocated a
front porch campaign wherein the can
didate should be kept in the back
ground, and others allowed to make
his canvass upon Roosevelt's record.
The advocates of stamping cam
paign prevailed, however, and now
they are sorry 1t was ever begun.