Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1900 — That Fake Cleveland Inter view. [ARTICLE]

That Fake Cleveland Inter view.

Up north, last week a Kensse laer Republican overheard George Besse, Democratic candidate for Commissioner being introduced as a former “life long” Republican. If Mr. Besse lias been a “life long Republican” it must have been in some other world than this. We have known him since lo! these many years, and never knew him to be a Republican. He has beeu a Greenbacker, a Populist and a Democrat, but if he ever was a Republic"xr it was 20 years or more ago, at least,. and not for a very long tim£, then.

An alleged interview from ExPresident Cleveland, published Tuesday, in which he was made to predict Bryan’s election, was as rotten a fake as that dead cat sensation, at Cedar Lake, and exploited about as vigorously by that vile sheet, the Chicago Un-American, the great “Dead Cat Daily.” Mr. Cleveland denies the interview in these words. “The whole thing from beginning to end is an absolute lie. with out the least foundation or a shadow of truth. Ihave never uttered a word to any human being that affords the least pretext for such a mei dncicus statement I have already telegraphed the Philadelphia Times to this effect.” Mr. Cleveland also sent a telegram to James H. Ecklee, at Chicago, denying the interviewin these words. Princeton, N. J., Oct. 30, 1900. Hon. James H. Eckels, Chicago, 11l. —Alleged interview is an absolute unmitigated falsetto* d from start to finish. Grover Cleveland. Wednesday’s Times Herald publishes on its front page an ex act sac-simile of the telegram on the regular blanks of the Western ■ Union Telegraph Company.