Arizona republican., 1901-10-26
EMBER 1886"
The Byanite Battle Cry in
 New York
The Followers of Bryan Will Embrace This Opportunity to Punish Tam many for Its Treachery in ''the First Battle"

New York, Oct. 25.-"Remember 1S96," This is the slogan raised by the
 Bryan democratic 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 de-
 termined that Edward NJ. Shepard.
 whom they recognize as an avowed foe
 of free silver and bimetaIlism. shall not
 be the next mayor of New York city.
 As announced yesterday. they have de-
 cided to join the political fray on the side of Seth Low. or, at least. against
 Edward M. Shepard.
 Perhaps the revolt of the Bryanites
 would not be particularly harmful to
 Tammany in good" democratic year
 but in this year of grace. when Tam
 many certainly needs every hundred
 votes 1t can muster in order to win its
 desperate battle. the defection of a few
 thousand democratis is an extremely
 serious happening. The Bryan demo-
 cratic leagues manifesto, printed in
 yesterdays papers. caused the Tam
 many managers a great deal of uneasi- ness yesterday and last night they
 threatened to give A. c. McNulty, the young lawyer of No. 132 Nassau street.
 who has just resigned from the Tam
 many hall general committee in the
 XvIIth assembly district. a political
 haying Yesterday the Tammany peo- pie began their attack upon MT. Me-
 Nulty by asserting that he never was a member of the general committee in the XV1Ith assembly district, and that. no matter what he said or did. he was only a political joke. anyway.
 MT. McNulty. though. is a personal friend of William J. Bryan. Senator
 Jones of Arkansas and James D. Rich ardson of the democratic national com mittee. He is by birth a southerner.
 full of fight. and has secured the nec- essary funds to set up headquarters at l the Metropolitan hotel, Broadway and Twenty-seventh street. He IS associ- ated with the following members of the executive committee of the Bryan dem ocratic league: Charles Campbell. president: G. A Hunter and M. M. Bannemeyer. vice presidents. and W. ! B. Hunter. treasurer.
 MT. Shepard will 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 fof the public libraries. and last night they said they had discovered that in | the published report of the commis-
 sioners' accounts on February 5. 1898. Mayor Van wyck criticized Edward M. | Shepard for excessive charges for legal
 services as counsel of the Rapid Tran sit commission.
 | They will also attack him because of
 his intimate association with the Amer | ican Sugar Refining company, which. ' they assert. is the very mother of the 1 trusts. In the literature which they
 will begin to issue next week they will ask all loyal Bryan men to remember | that William J. Bryan is as unalterably | opposed to trusts now as he was in
 1896. and that if Mir. Shepard was an 1 enemy to the Bryan cause then he is no
 less an enemy now
 As matter of fact. the local Bryan
 men allege that they have discovered [ a plot on the part of the gold democrats to reorganize the democratic party on
 strictly gold lines. They think they sec ! in Mir. Shepard possible Moses of de- l mocracy. but he is not the brand of l Moses that Bryan men fancy. The
 sudden outbreak of the Bryan men 1 against Shepard Is probably inspired i by the national Bryan leaders. who seem to be determined that the na- l tional body shall not be reorganized | without the consent of their idolize.l | leader, Mir. Bryan Just where the Bryan men are going to raise funds l to prosecute the campaign they hav',
 mapped out is something MT. McNulty l will not discuss
 | Edward M. Shepard is represented to
 have said to the agents of the Bryan | league. "I do not believe it to be ex- pedient to mix national politics with | local issues, as they have no bearing on | municiDal affairs