Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-10-29
.A DELIBERATE MISREPRESENTATION
Alleged Reputation of Davis and Ind of DOna
hey by Cleveland Ministerial Union Democratic
Frame Up.

In the American Issue of October
22nd appears an article announcing
cyerr helming vote the
Ministerial Union of the Clevelan!
Federation Of Churches" repudiated
II rry l.. Davis. Republican Candi-
date for Governor and endorsed
A. VI Donahey, Democratic Cands-
date.
A prominent citizen of Wauseon
wrote to inquire as to the au ned-
ticlty of this statement and as TO
its accuracy. The following is the
reply received from one who had
made investigation and secured IN
formation srom competent witness
es:
''The action taken by the Cleve-
land ministers was framed up by
the Democrats. The meeting was
addressed by an attorney, which
is entirely out of order for the min
isters to have an outsider come in.
This attorney is a close personal
friend and business associ1'e of
HGal Donahey, Vic DonaheyS bro
ther. The information on which
they based their Endorsement was
furnished them by a former police
man by the name Of Mangan, who
was up for charges seven ,lnes and
dismissed from the force twice.
There y>ere twenty-five ministers in
attendance out OF a total member
ship of about two I hundred and
eighty, Some of the ministers were
not in sympathy with the move and
tried : to protest but were not per-
mitted to take the floor"
The above is an exract from a
letter to the citizen named, signed
by C. A. Jones executive secretary
of the Ohio Republican State E.s-
executive Committee and we are dis
posed to give it full credence for
we know that it has not been the
policy either to circulate mls-re-
presentations in regard to candi-
dates Iofi the opposition party nor
to state anything but facts in re-
gard to, the candidates Of the Re-
publican party.
The statement in the American
Issue in our opinion is in line with
other Misrepresentation that have
heep and are being made by the
Democrats in their desperate at
tempt to save the office of governor
of Ohio for the Democrats. 1t is
IN line with the efforts to make the
farmers of the State believe that
Mr.. Davis is a single taxer OF
classificationist. or pnything else
that might be Objectionable to the
farmers. 1t is in line with the
statement made to some of the de-
legates at the w. c. T. U. Con-
vention last week, to the effect that
the letters endorsing Mr.. Davis
both as TO character and efficiency
as a public officer from five of the
leading clergymen of Cleveland,
were old letters that had been
written for Mr.. Davis in a previous
campaign when he had been running
fol 1anothet office-Everyope of
these letters makes specific mention
of Mr.. Davis candidacy for COVER
nor and Mr.. Davis has never been
a candidate for governor of Ohio
before this year. In regard to
those letters; the writer of this ar
ticle has known DR.. Dan Freeman
Bradley, pastor of the Pilgrim Con-
gregational Church of Cleveland
for the past twenty years and he
knows him 10 be absolutely reliable,
straight forward. honest and poss-
essed Of extraordinary intelligence
and further the writer knows that
when Dan F. Bradley writes over
his signature that he KNOWS