Show DENIAL Tt AND IND AFFIDAVIT T IN CLEVELAND INTERVIEW Special to The Herald Philadelphia Pa PR Oct 30 The Times tomorrow will say sa editorially e The following dispatch was received yesterday by the editor of the Tithes Times Th es relating to the alleged Interview with Cleveland on the national political contest and published d prominently prominently prominently in this yesterday esterd y morn morning lug ing Princeton N J T Oct 30 O 0 1900 Editor Philadelphia Times The al alleged alleged interview with me published in inthis this thI mornings Times is an absolute and outrageous fabrication Signed GROVER CLEVELAND Mr emphatic denial of the interview on the political situation published In this Journal yesterday esterday morning is accepted as conclusive The Cleveland interview was brought to the Times office at a late hour on Monday night by Mr fr R P J T Black a resident of Iowa He had letters of recommendation from J T Sterling Mor for Morton Morton forton ton a member of Mr cabi cabinet cabinet net and from other close friends of the He stated that he had hall come from Irma a visit to Mr ME Cleveland Clelland that he had discussed the political pol 1 sit situation situation nation fully full with Ith him and arni bad had carefully taken down Mr air Thus accredited and at an tn hour toe late to verify the interview the editor in charge fully fuU convinced that no im irn imposition position Was vas intended prominently published the interview As soon as ae Mr 11 Black whose initiate were signed to the dispatch heard hearil yes yea iS afternoon that Mr Ir Cleveland had denied the interview he lie ly Iv came to the Times office and made the the following affidavit Philadelphia Oct 3 30 I Robert J T Black had an interview with Grover Groer Cleveland on the of October 1900 in his home at Princeton N X J T and during a talk with him in his parlors he told me he fa favored favored favored Bryan Br an and said My boy you will see a landslide for Bryan on the day after atter election that he also said Bryan was a great orator Signed R J T BLACK Vinton Iowa Witness John A Bradler Sworn and subscribed before me this hIS t mth lOth day da of October 1900 JOHN A THORNTON rate of or court No 23 1 |