Show BEHIND fHE TH PRESIDENT Republicans Are Evidently 4 Ashamed of Record of Last Session of oJ Congress DEMOCRATS ARE HOPEFUL I STATEMENT ENT GIVEN OUT BY BY CHAIRMAN GRIGGS Washington Sept 8 Chairman GrIgs gs of the Democratic national committee issued the following state statement mont ment today All this talk about the closing of any branch bruch of the Democratic national headquarters hO is utterly without foun bun foundation foundation dation The Tho press bureau in this city under Robert Miller which has been conducted by the national committee I for tor several years is still sUll working v out j its regular supply of matter for the v J 4 Democratic press throughout the coun try The rhe force was decreased a day or 01 two simply because the additional work of compiling data for the cam cani campaign campaign book under the supervision of the committee which had been put upon that bureau was completed and there was therefore no longer any ne necessity necessity necessity for the services of these peo pie pIc That is all there is to this inci mci incident dent The effort of the Republicans to tomake tomake tomake make the president the sole issue of If this campaign is significant and will prove futile In fu tile Ashamed of the Record lilt It n would appear from the frantic fr ef efforts efforts efforts forts of certain distinguished Republican Republican lican speakers to make the president the issue that they are ashamed of the record of the Republican house of con congress gress griss gl ss I do not know how it is and an L therefore t he foro do not charge that they the are ashamed of its guilt If they are not why Wh are they so earnestly ignoring the record of that body and attempting to hide behind the president While in New York recently at the reception of Mr Bryan I met mot Demo I prats from all an over the country and anda a havo have never seen them more determined r earnest and hopeful Mr Mi Ir Bryan will take part pare in the thel campaign l and will speak wherever he heran ran do tho the most good for fo the party |