Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-10-15
REPUBLICAN LEADERS SHOULD
BE IN COURTS FOR VIoLAT-
ING ANTITRUST YAWs.
THE WEST COOL TO TAFT
FORGERY OF Ex-PRESIDENT
cLEvELAND'S NAME BY
REPUBLICANS.
Mr.. Taft Carries Three Press Agents
on a Luxurious Train, and Has to
Send Out Postal Cards to Get
People to Greet Him in
the Cities.

Chicago, Ill, September, Especially
Congressman Ollie James of Ken
lucky, who made the speech OF the
Denver convention in s%econding the
nomination of Mr.. Bryan, has ar
ranged speaking dates in Illinois, In
diana, Ohio, Kansas and Nebraska.
Mr.. James is a popular speaker n
there are as many demands for his
appearance on the stump as any 9TH
err campaign orator. While a 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. Inc
record breaking crowds that greeted
Mr.. Bryan in Judge Taft's home city
and state bespoke the sentiment OF
voters throughout the nation
E~x-President CIeveIand's Name For
gerry.
"The dishonest and corrupt method
the Republican party Is resorting to
in its desperation to defeat Mr.. Bry-
an 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 the monopoly and the
servants Of plutocracy. They were
willing not only to d~esecrate the mem
DRY of Mr.. Cleveland but to forge his
name to an assault upon Mr.. Bryan as
well as an arraignment Of the Demo
cratic party. A party that is willing
to desecrate the dead and prostitute
the memory of a 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 a director in 80 railroad cor
porations, corporations that had Gre
ated a trust upon transportation and
monopolized the highways of com
merce, telling Hartman we are prac'
teal men and asking him to gather up
q 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 Oh
Company sending $4,000 to Senator
Foraker to buy up newspapers anc
further the cause of the Republican
party, and Hartman, who at the be
hest of President Roosevelt got the
trusts and monopolies to contribute
$3.50, 900. 90 to be used directly on thu
voters, except that in the first in
stance Senator Foraker returned tn
money to the Standard Oil when h,
found out he could not purchase tn
newspapers; but Roosevelt Above
the Republican party to use the MOI
ey that Hartman contributed t
aid in his election. If the p~residen
desires in some way to make amend
he should at least see that his part
returns the money which Harrima,
contributed, to the widows and O.
phans of the insurance companie
whose funds were depleted by a col
s%cienceless band of pirates in the il
terest of the Republican party.
Republican Treasurer Trust Magnat'
"The treasurer of the Republica
campaign fund is a well known trus
magnate, a director in many monop'
lies; he is a force and power in Wa
street. Mr.. VIM. Nelson Cromwell, VIII,
} we are informed, contributed 5000
: to the Republican campaign fund,
also a director in many trusts tn;
the Roosevelt party should have b
fore the courts answering indictment
| for violating the antitrust law rattle
; than contributing to the Republics
campaign fund.
"Mr. Du Pont has resigned, the p
1 pers tell us, from the chairmanshi
of the speakers bureau. l presun
. he resigned from the speakers b
reau so he could give more time
the preparation of his defense for IL
violation of the antitrust law"
The fact that the alleged letter fro
~ex-President Cleveland, published c
y iginally in the New York Times, Is
g forgery, created no surprise at Dem
cratic headquarters. From the We
first the publication of this letter
G n of the most partisan papers su
porting Judge Taft was regarded as
i campaign trlck. AFTER exploiting q
l. forgery in Republican papers, cal
n paign managers of the party had til
misrepresentation of the dead pre-
# dent circulated as a campaign doc
/ ment. The New York Times has be,
forced to admit that it DETAINED N
Cleveland's memory when 1t publish
the fake interview. Very natural
Mrs. Cleveland and the executor
the late ex-president's estate ha'
le come forward and exposed the me
ID villainous misrepresentation of t
ID memory of a dead president with
" the history Of the nation.
ID Newspaper Mans Views.
% Speaking of the exposure of t
Times story, Mr.. J~osephus Dante
IL chairman of the press bureau, sal