The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-10-05
THE WEST COOL TO TAFT
FORGERY OF Ex.PREslDENT
q cLEvELANos NAME BY 4,
REPUBLICANS. ~ 4
Mr. Taft Carries Three Press Agents
on Luxurious Train, and Has to
Send Out Postal Cards to Get
People to Greet Him In
the cities.

Denver convention in seconding the,
nomination of Mr. Bryan, has ar.
ranged speaking dates in Illinois, In
diana, Ohio, Kansas aud NebraskaJ
Mr.. James Is popular speaker and.
there are as many demands for his
appearance on the stump as any 9th
cr 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. The
record breaking, crowds that greeted
MIR. Bryan i'm Judge Taft's homo city
and state bespoke the sentiment of
voters throughout the nation"
Ex.Presldent cIeVeland's Name For.
~ gerry.
"The dishonest and corrupt method
The Republican party Is resorting TO
In its desperation to defeat MIR. Bry-
an should cause all honest men TO re-
bube it, continued Mr.. James. Tho
circulation Of the pretended article by
Grover Cleveland against Mr.. Bryan
shows TO what extent the Republican
party is willing 10 go in order TO en-
treuch In power for four years longer
the agents Of tho monopoly and the
servants Of plutocracy They we're
willing 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 Demo
cratic party A party that Is willing
TO dcsecratc the dead and prostitute
the memory Of n great cX.president
will hesitate at nothing that is neces.
sary. We may expect them again to
invade the trust funds of widows aud
orphans held by insurance companies;
we may expect them again 70 write
other letters to My Dear Hartman,
who was n director in so railroad cor.
Doratlons. corporations that had Gro
ated trust upon transportation and
monopoliZcd the highways Of com
merce telling Hartman we are prac-
tical men and asking him to gather up
quarter of million dollars to bo
used to elect The Republican party
Standard Oil Buys Newspapers.
What difference can the people dis
tinguishCbet the Standard Oil
Company sending $4,000 to Senator
Foraker 10 buy up newspapers and
further the came OF the Republican
party, anu fihlIllndus NuO AT TIC b'-
hest of President Roosevelt got the
trusts and monopolies to contribute
s250,0O0.00 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
cy that Hartman contributed to
aid In mis- election. n the president
desires in some way TO make amends
he should at least sec that his party
returns he 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
tcrest Of the Republican party.
Republican Treasurer Trust Msgnate,
"'rhe treasurer OF the Republican
campaign fund is a well known trust
magnate, a director in many monopo.
lies: be is force and power in Wall
street. Mr. Wm. Nelson Cromwell who.
we are informed, contributed 100000
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 contributing 10 the Republican
campaign fund. $3.50
"NIr. Du Pont has resigned, the pa
pers tell us, from the chairmanship
OF the speakers bureau | presume
he resigned from the speakers bu-
reau 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.Presidcnt Cleveland, published or.
iginally in the Now York Times, is n
forgery, created no surprise at Demo
cratic 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 the party had this
Misrepresentation OF the dead presi'
dent circulated as campaign docu-
mont, The New York Times has been
forced TO admit that II DETAINED Mr..
Clevclands memory when It published
the fake interview. Very naturally,
Mrs Cleveland and the executor OF
The late eS-president's estate have
come forward and exposed the most
villainous misrepresentation of the
memory of dead president within
the history of the nation. b.
Newspaper Mans Views,
Speaking of the exposure Of the
Times story, Mr. Josephus Daniels,
chairman of the press bureau, said:
II was in New York when the
Times printed the fraudulent Cleve-
land letter. To my mind, II bore upon
It's face the evidences that II was a
crude Forgery, doing violence TO the
known sentiments of Mr. Cleveland.
| found that most OF Mr. Cleveland S
friends and nearly all the newspaper
men believed ii to be a fake, Mrs
Cleveland has protected the memory
of her distinguished husband by her
course in 'he matter, for the letter as
published did violence to his utter
onoep onf in his nuhlfo napooY 7 u.au