The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-21
BILL SAPP WRATHY
He Does Some Debating TO
{. {. Brown.
BROWNS VIGOROUSEREPLY
Don't Make a Fool of Your
self" Says Mr.. SappD

There is promise of good lively scrap
before the banquet Of the Sunfiower Lea
que is over here next week. 1t was ru-
mored that because c. D. Schrader of
Oklahoma had made a speech at the OK
lahoma Populist convention in which he
said W. J. Bryan had told him he
thought he could take the Democratic
party into the Populist party Mr.. Bryan
would be challenged on the statement 10
tell whether ne is a Popuhst or Demo-
crat and whether he made the statement
that he could take the Democratic party
into the Populist fold. This trouble was
charged up to E. E. Brown, the father
OF the Sunflower League, and President
Bill Sapp wrote Mr.. Brown as follows:
'Galena, Kan, April II, 1900
''E. 2. Brown, Esp, Guthrie. o. T.
'Dear Sir: I invited you to the ban
quet at Wichita, not thinking that the
purpose Of your going there was to ere
ate a disturbance, but because you desir-
ed an dasked it, but should not have
given it if 1 had supposed that you had
intended to go there to create discord.
1t does not matter what you may think
what I may think or what the papers
may say, Mr.. Bryan will be the candi-
date for the Democracy this summer, and
the wise thing TO do is to treat Mr.. Bry-
an decently when a guest. and I do not
want you to go 10 that banquet and
make fool Of yourself, or insult any of
my guests. Now you understand that.
Very truly, VIM. F. SAPP."
To which Mr.. Brown replied vigorously
as follows:
Guthrie, O. T, April 10, 1900.
Mr. W. F. Sapp, Galena, Kansas.
Dear Sir: Your favor of the 18th re-
ceived, and in reply viii say that l adj
dressed a letter to Mr.. Bryan at Wichi-
ia, asking him whether or not it was
true that he told C. D. Schrader, chair
man of the Populist territorial conven-
ton, or any other person, that he be-
leved that he, Bryan, could bring the
Democratic party with him into the Pop
ulist fold.
''In view of the fact that the younger
element of Democracy are opposed to
dickering and trading with Populists, it
IS no more than right that Mr.. Bryan
should answer this question, because it
is time to know whether or not the man
who aspires to be standard-bearer Of the
| Democratic party is a Populist or Demo
crat. OF course it is in your power, as
you indicate in your letter, TO withdraw
my invita- ton. Whether you do or not
1 would like to ask permission whether
1 can go to Wichita on that day and be
a guest at my own expense at some
hotel
You say in your letter I do not want
you to go to that banquet and make a
fool of yourself or insult any OF my
guests. Now you understand that" Do
you assume to be the whole thing In
the Sunfower League, a league that I
inaugurated, and through my solicita-
ton that you became president Of? Has
this league begun machine tactics and
is it being run by one man power. Mr.
Sapp? l want you to understand that l
am not a man 10 be 'buffaloed,' or bull
doZed / shall be in Wichita on the oath
whether you withdraw my invitation or
not and will see this thing through. You
may call it disturbance, oeating dis
cord or anything that you may, but I
propose to know now whether or not Mr.
Bryan's aim is to bring the Democratic
party down to the level of Populism
Very truly yours, E E. BROWN