Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1908-10-16
Forgery Of Ex-President Clevelands
Name by Republicans
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,

tloH OF Mr. bryan, mas arranged
speaking dates in Illinois, Indiana
Ohio. Kansas and Nebraska. Mr.
James is popular speaker, and there
are as many demands for his appear
ance on the stump as any other cam
paign orator. While visitor at Dem
ocratic National Headquarters this
week, he said:
Bryan will be elected president in
November by the greatest land slide
the country has ever known. The
record breaking crowds that greeted
Mr., Bryan in Judge Tafts home city
and state bespoke the sentiment of
voters throughout the nation"
Ex-President cleveand's Name
Forgery.
1.-THE dishonest and corrupt method
the Republican party is resorting to in
its desperation to defeat Mr.. Bryan
should cause all honest men to re-
Duke It," continued Mr. James "rhe
circulation of the pretended article hy
Grover Cleveland against Mr.. Rryan
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 monopoly and the seYy-
ants of plutocracy, They were will
ing not only to desecrate the mem
DRY Of Mr.. Cleveland, but to forge his
name to an assault upon Mr.. BRYAN
as we'll as an arraignment of the Dem
ocratic party A party that is wiI'rg
to desecrate the dead and prostitute
the memory of a great ex-president
| will hesitate at nothing that is neees-
sary. We may expect them again to
invade the trust funds CT widows and
orphans held by insurance companies:
we may expect them again to write
other letters to My dear Hartman
who was director In thirty railroad
corporations, corporations that had
created trust upon transportation
ana monopolized the highways of
commerce, telling Hartman we are
practical men and asking him to gath
er up a quarter of a million dollars
to be used to elect the Republican
party. What difference can the peo.
pie distinguish between the Stand
ard OIL company sending $4,000 to
Senator Foraker to buy up newspapers
and further the cause of the Repub-
lican party, and Hartman. who at the
behest of President Roosevelt got the
trusts and monopolies to contribute
$3.50, 00c to be used directly on the
voters, except that In the first in
efo Il.
money to the Standard Oil when he
found out he could not purchase the
newspapers? But Roosevelt allowed
the Republican party to use the money
that Hartman contributed to aid in
his election. II the President desires
| in some way to make amends he
| should at least see that his party re-
turns the money which Hartman con-
tributed, to the widows and orphans
| of the Insurance companies whose
funds were depleted by a conscience
less band of pirates in the interest of
the Republican party.
| Republican Treasurer Trust Maonate.
THE treasurer of the Republican
campaign fund is a well known trust
| magnate, a director in many monopo-
lies; he is a force and power in
| Wall street Mr. VIM Nelson Crom-
we'll who, we are informed, contribute
ed $4,000 to the Republican campaign
fund is also a director in many trusts
that the Roosevelt party should have
before the courts answering indict-
ments for violating the antitrust law
rather than contributing to the Re
publican campaign fund.
Mr., DUPONT has resigned, the
papers tell US. from the craftsmanship
of the Speakers Bureau. l presume
he resigned from the Speakers Bureau
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- President Cleveland, published
originally in the New York Times, is
a forgery, created no surprise at Dem
ocratic 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
| paigu managers of that party had this
Misrepresentation of the dead presi-
| dent circulated as a campaign docu.
ment. The New York Times has been
| forced to admit that 1t DETAINED Mr..
I Clevelands' memory when it pub
lshed the fake interview Very nat
urally, Mrs. Cleveland and the execu.
| Uor of the late Elk Presidents estate
have come forward and exposed this
most yillainous Misrepresentation of
the memory Of a dead president with.
in the history Of the nation.
Speaking Of the exposure OF the
Times story. Mr., Josephus Daniels,