Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-09-04
FORMAL
BY DE|M0cRA IS
National Committee Answers
Cleveland Article.
USES BITTER LANGUAGE

jshn NJ. Atwood, Chairman Of the Com
/ tSttee on Speakers, Wrote the An.
swsr-Declares the Fair Fame Of
One Who In His Lifetime Had Been
q Great Man Was Sold for an
Amount Of Money.
Chicago, Sept. "A formal reply
10 the ante-mortem article written by
former President Grover Cleveland,
advocating the election Of Taft, came
from the headquarters of the Demo.
cratic national committee. It was
Written by John M. Atwood, member
Of the committee from Kansas and
chairman Of the committee on speaks
(gs. The reply which Mr.. Atwood
five out follows: .-
Never since DR.. Rufus Griswold
i betrayed the trust that was his as
literary executor Of Edgar Allan Poe
end mutilated the nemery of him
whose literary representative he was
has there been such fragrant be-
trRyal of trust by one sustaining a
1iduciary relation toward illustrious
dead as when Mr.. Frederick s. Hast
ings sold for money the fair fame OF
one who in his lifetime had been a
great man.
''The Grover Cleveland article
which has been exploited by the Re
publican national committee was in
tended by it's publishers to lead the
reading public to believe that if Mr.
Cleveland were living today he would
be one of Mr.. Taft's political cham
pions.
ut must be borne in mind that
this article, cenceding it's unperverted
authenticity, was written before the
Republican national convention; be
fore the character of it's delegates
could have been known; before it was
known that these delegates were sc
Tar from being untrammeled repre-
sentatives of free people as to be
marionettes moved by the will of an
other; before the convention had re
fused to speak for honesty in cleo
lions by refusing TO declare for pre-
election publication of campaign con
| tributions; before the convention pro
| mulgated socialism, by declaring tina
the government should go into the
| banking business; should establish
postal savings banks.
Twice Made Cleveland President.
"The worst enemy of the dead pres
tdent could not have more perfectly
| misrepres ented his mental attitude to
| ward public affairs than to proclaim
that, if living, he would have advocat
| ed the candidacy of one who was ar
rayed as leader against the part,
that had twice made him president
one who was standing on a platform
that placed that candidates party out
side the pale of common 4honesty; {
platform that promulgated a politica
tenet that had for it's central though
9 soocialistic seed. For a party toda!
that will not proclaim the source
Of it's campaign income is for tina
party to say that it expects income
from sources that it dare not proclaim
Can anyone imagine Grover Cleve
land, whose primal characteristic wa:
honesty, advocating the election of
candidate who stood for admitted dis
honesty of purpose?
"1f tho postal savings bank is estah
hsd, the federal government goe!
eto the banking business, and SO
aIalfsm is jusst that. viz: the introduc
ton Of the government into the feel,
4 private enterprise. Can anyon,
Imafipe that stern old individualist
Grover Cleveland, advocating the cleo
ton Of one who stood for even semi
socialism?
ITO misquote the dead, who hav'
known naught but private life, is
shameful thing; to misconstrue TIL
dead, whose life is a part of the couu
try's history, and to exploit that mis-
representation as a political asset, /
both shameful and a wicked thing,