The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-09
REAL R0MANCES OF
 THE BUSINESS WORLD
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 for free circulation Some persons thought 1t was true and some persons did not. Although Wayland exploited him self in this particular issue. he generally keeps in the background, but the Appeal to Reason never ceases to talk about itself-what 1t has done and what it is going to do.
 No one has benefited more by fighting with the United States postal authorities than has One Horse Wayland One in stance of his trouble with the postal au- thorities attracted national attention. When Governor Goebel of Kentucky was assassinated and former Governor Tay lor fled to Indiana, Ferd D. Warren, the editor of the Appeal to Reason, made use of the tragedy In the columns of the Ap- peal for all it was worth. Later he offered a reward of 5000 to any one who would kidnap Taylor and return him to Ken lucky. Next he had this reward printed in red type on all the envelopes of the Appeal to Reason. He was arrested for violating the postal laws and was found guilty. He appealed, and the case went from court to court, until at last it reached the United States circuit court of appeals
 Each decision and each appeal served to furnish plenty of ammunition to Way land to illustrate how the Appeal to Rea- son was persecuted for trying to have an indicted man returned to the state from which he had fled. There was a tremen- dous outburst of sympathy when the highest court affirmed the decision sen tencing Warren to jail and to pay fine. y Many persons appealed to President Taff to pardon Warren, but Warren did not want pardon. and Wayland did not nj to n nar1On NOtbiDn could have done more to make Warren a martyr and to advertise the Appeal to Reason than to have Warren go to jail
 Warren presented himself at the Leav- enworth prison to serve his sentence The warden informed him he had been par doned by President Taft but Warren re- fused to accept the pardon, saying he hal not applied for a pardon and did not want one, He insisted he was acting AS a good citizen and was within his constitutional right of free speech and of a free press in endeavoring to apprehend former Gov ernor Taylor who was under indictment in Kentucky He went within the prison despite the warden's protests.
 The Appeal to Reason got lot of sub scribers out of that Taylor sensation It got a lot of subscribers. too, when the McNamaras were arrested in Indlanap- oils and practically kidnapped and car rled away to Los Angeles. The McNama- ra case was a shriek over and over again to the Appeal to Reason. There was a fine contrast between that case and the Taylor affair. The McNamaras, labor leaders. were kidnapped by officers of the law while Warren was prosecuted for offering a reward for the Kidnapping of a rich man, a former governor, who was under indictment
 There was more trouble with the postal authorities over the publication of q se- ries of articles exposing alleged immoral ities in the Leayenworth federal prison As a result of this publication several of the prison officials were dismissed. An attempt was made to exclude the Appeal 10 Reason from postoffice circulation on the ground that 1t was printing indecent matter, but 1t did not succeed.
 The first great baclSset the Appeal to Reason got was when the MeNamara brothers confessed. Coincdent with the confession of the McNamara brothers George H. Schoaf who wrote the articles exposing conditions in the Leavenworth prison. mysteriously disappeared.
 The Appeal to Reason had fought the fight of the McNamaras, had proclaimed their innocence and declared their arrest and Kidnapping were but part of a great conspiracy to destroy the labor leaders.