Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-09-08
Angry IIIinoiSan Alleges He
Would Fain Make the Party
an AutoCraCy With Himself
Dictator in Chief,
CALLS NEBRASKAN WORD
JUGGLING PETTIF0GGER
Brands UtteranCeS as DeIiber-
ate, Premeditated, MaIiC-
iouS, EquivocaI, Dishonest,
False, and MendaCiouS,

New YORK Sept. 7.-ROger e. Sullt-
van, member from Illinois of the Ma
tional democratic committee, tonight
issued a lengthy statement in which
he replies to the recent attacks made
upon him by Mr.. Bryan. Following
is an abstract of Mr.. Sullivan's re-
marks:
''In his Jefferson club banquet
speech in Chicago Tuesday evening.
William j. Bryan again saw fit 10
make me the excuse for exploiting
his new ambition to convert the dem
ocratic party of the United States
into an autocracy, with himself upon
the dictators throne. | regret that
he has done SO as l would regret any
incident or circumstance tending to-
ward discord in the democratic party.
If portions of Mr.. Bryan's speech
mean anything, they mean that he
would rather have his own way than
have the democrats elected to con-
gress or any other office
"As a democrat | regret that M.
Bryan's rule or ruin disposition has
led him to make such misuse of his
influence. But, in so far as Mr..
Bryan's banquet speech applies to me
personally, to my character, to my
business, to my associates, to my dem
ocracy and to my political acts,
welcome the issue, and upon that is
sue | challenge Mr.. Bryan to the
proof of his truthfulness, his honesty
and his slncerity--that sincerity
which he boasts is his political
asset.
Il yield to no man in my adher-
ence to democratic principles as laid
down by the great founder Thomas
jefferson. Judged by that standard
invite comparison of my democracy
with that of Mr.. Bryan
Attacks Mr.. Bryan's Friends.
Continuing Mr.. Sullivan scores Mr..
Bryan for the company he keeps,
and attacks particularly the character
of Theodore Nelson, Judge owen y.
Thompson, Millard Fillmore Dunlap
and Henry T. Rainey. These men
are indorsed by Mr.. Bryan in his Paris
interview. Mr. Sullivan describes
them as Mr.. Bryan's confidential
agents, in the publication of Illinois
politics, and asks, rs Mr.. Bryan IN
exception to the rule that a man is
known by the company he keeps?
Mr., Bryan has said" continues
Mr.. Sullivan, by innuepdo, that |,
as an official of the Ogden Gas COM
ernment profit and favor by Illicit or
corrupt means.
Among my associates in that
company we're the late Governor John
2. Altgeld and Judge Thomas p.
Moran of Chicago. Does Mr.. Bryan
dare mpugn their memOries?"
Mr.. Bryan was not honest and he
was not sincere when he commission
ed Nelson, Thompson, Dunlap and
Rainey to purify Illinois politics,
and claimed morality as his motive.
10 h f,l ttyb ha ~
up in Chicago Tuesday evening to ex-
plain his position.
The very first paragraph of Mr..
Bryans speech on me and the Illinois
situation contains a deliberate un-
truth. Practically every succeeding
paragraph contains a deliberate un-
truth or an equvocation of that kind
we expect only from the shifty, word
juggling pettifogger. Mr., Bryan says
he wrote me letter asking me to re-
sign in the interests of the demo-
cratic party. That is not true. Mr.
Bryan knew that 1t was not true
when he said it, He never wrote me
a letter. He did write a letter t1
Judge o. P. Thompson He told the
judge to tell me that he (Bryan)
wanted me to resign from the demo.
cratic national committee"
Mr.. Sullivan then declared thai
Mr., Bryans assertion that he held
his seat on the national committed
by fraud was refuted two years ago al
st. Louis by the national convention
itself.
'"Mr. Bryan says: I examined into
his (Sulllvan's) conduct of the Spring
field convention before / took part IL
the attempt to uhseat him, and a
the st. Louis convention | had in writ
ing request for his reputation sign
ed by more than half the delegates t
the convention.
That statement is not true. Mr.
Bryan knew 1t was not true when HI
made T..
Mr.. Bryans statement that he ha'
in writing a request signed by NOR
than half the delegates to the Spring
field convention, is a statement tina
has been made before. II was mad
at the st. Louis convention and IL
truth was there challenged. Mr.
Bryan has never substantiated II b.
evidence"
Mr.. Sullivan then reviews the 81
Louis contests, again accusing Nj
Bryan OF untruthfulness and repeat
ing that he did not seek indorsemen
at the hands of that convention, an
saying he did not attempt to link hi
name with that of Mr. Bryan. Fl
accuses Mr.. Bryan with having ad
Vised his particular friends in Illinoi
to bolt the democratic party, and asks
rs this the measure of Mr. Bryan
party fealty? Is this the way MI
Bryan proposes TO help elect q demo
cratic congress?
TO test Mr.. Bryan's boasted SIN
cerity little. | challenge him to this
III hold my position on the demo
cratic national committee by fraud