New-York tribune., 1901-10-20
BRYANI7E WAR ON SHEPARD.
LEAGUE WILL ACCUSE HIM OF CHARG.
ING TOO HIGH FEES AS RAPID
TRANSIT COUNSEL.
Remember &c."

Remember &c."
This is the slogan raised by the Bryan Demo
cratic League Of New-York City to rally the
broken ranks OF those who voted the free silver
ticket five years ago and renewed the hopeless
fight in 1900. The Bryan men are determined
that Edward NJ. Shepard whom they recognize
as an avowed foe Of free silver and binetallisrn
shall not be the next Mayor OF New-York CITY
AS announced in yesterdays Tribune they have
decided 70 join the political fray on the side of
Seth Low. or, at least. against Edward NJ.
Shepard.
Perhaps the revolt OF The Bryanites would not
be particularly harmful to Tammany in a
good" Democratic year, but in this year OF
grace, when Tammany certainly needs every
hundred votes II muster in order to win its
desperate battle. the detection of a few thou
sand Democrats is extremely serious hap
pening The Bryan Democratic Leagues mani
festo printed in yesterdays Tribune. caused the
Tammany managers a great deal of uneasiness
yesterday, and last night they threatened to
give A. c. McNulty, the young lawyer. of No.
132 Nassau-st, who has just resigned from the
Tammany Hall General Committee in the
XVuth Assembly District, a political flaying.
Yesterday the Tammany people began their
attack upon Mr.. McNulty by asserting that he
never was a member of the general committee
IN the XVIIth Assembly District and that, no
matter what he said or did, he was only polit-
seal joke. anyway.
Mr. McNulty, though, is personal friend Of
William J. Bryan Senator Jones' of Arkansas.
and James d. Richardson of the Democratic
National Committee He is by birth South
erner full Of fight. and has secured the neces-
sary funds to set up headquarters at the Metro
politan Hotel. Broadway and Twenty-seventh-
ST. He is associated with the following members
of the executive committee of the Bryan Demo-
cratic League: Charles Campbell, president; c.
A. Hunter and NJ. NJ. Bannemeyer, vice-prasi-
dents and W. b. Hunter, treasurer.
Mr.. Shepard viii be attacked by the Bryan
Democratic League on his record as an associate
Of trusts The Bryan men have had their agents
looking through the files of newspapers in some
OF the public libraries, and last night they said
they had discovered that in the published report
OF the Commissioners accounts on February 5
1898 Mayor Van Wyck criticised Edward NJ
Shepard for excessive charges for legal services
as counsel OF the Rapid Transit Commission
They will also attack him because of his in
innate association with the American Sugar
Refining Company which, they assert is the
very mother OF the trusts. In the literature
which they viii begin TO issue next week they
Will ask all loyal Bryan men to remember that
William J. Bryan is unalterably opposed TO
trusts he in 1896 and that if Mr.
Shepard was enemy TO the Bryan cause then
he is no less an enemy now.
AS matter Of fact. the local Bryan men al
lege thar they have discovered a plot on the
part Of the Gold Democrats to reorganize the
Democratic party strictly gold lines. They
think they see in Mr.. Shepard possible Moses
of Democracy, but he is not the brand of Moses
that Bryan men fancy. The sudden outbreak
OF the Bryan men against Shepard is proba bly,
inspired by the national Bryan leaders who
seem TO be determined that the national body
shall not be reorganized without the consent of
their idolized leader. Mir. Bryan. Just where
the Bryan men are going raise funds to
prosecute the campaign they have mapped cur
s something Mr. AcNuiCy viii not discuss.
Edward n shepard is represented TO have
said 10 the agents Of the Bryan League, Il do
not believe il to be eNpedient 10 mix national
politics with local issues, as they have no bear
ing municipal affairs
This alleged declaration caused great deal of
comment yesterday, inasmGch Mr.. Shepard
has declared himself aYowed partisan, and
the Tammany men asserted that Mr.. Shepard
never said H. When Mr. McNulty was seen yes
terday afternoon by Tribune reporter at his
Office in Nassau-st-, he said:
It's up TO Mr.. Shepard 10 deny that our allie
cations true. AS he denies them
shall produce our proof that he made the
statements attributed to him IN our resolutions
We will open our headquarters in the Metro
politan Hotel on Monday, and our campaign
literature. which is now being prepared will be
Bryan men fully aware Of the possible re-
suits following an organized revolt against Mr.
Shepard. do not think any truce will be de-
Clared"