The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-08
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linois to bolt the Democratic ticket. and
asks:
us this the measure OF Mr.. Bryan's
party fealty? Is this the way Mr.. Bryan
proposes to elect Democratic congress?"
Money and Politics.
Mr.. Bryan says; My political asset
is the confidence the people have in my
sincerity Mr.. Bryan has twice led the
Democratic party to defeat, the second a
worse defeat than the first. If he is
proud of that evidence of the peoples
confidence in his sincerity, ne is well
come to it. But his boast Of sincerity
merits further consideration. He insin-
yates that made money out of politics,
and that his sincerity therefore compels
him to oppose my participation In Dem
ocratic affairs. The plain inference is
that Mr.. Bryan thinks it wrong to make
money out of politics This boast of his
puts the stamp of insincerity all over him.
If Mr.. Bryan thiT'~~ r wrong to make
money out of politics he should
making money. M. an has not one
but politics. He tried to be lawyer, he
was a failure at it. He tried to be
newspaper editor; he was a failure at
that.
Fortune Due to Candidacy.
He is now a man Of property. AS
fortunes go he is a rich man. He made
every dollar of his fortune out of poll
Tics as a stone 10 ln6 lSCLuTe
platform. Mr.. Bryan discovered many
years ago that he could make his political
prominence pay. He is a shrewd adver-
tiser and in his way clever bushes
man. He has discovered that so long as
he is a candidate for president and a pos
sible nominee, gifted with the ability to
weave flowing sentences into well round
ed periods, the public will come to hear
him at so much a head. He is In poll
tics because 1t helps the gate receipts.
Like the actresses who have discarded
the stolen diamond dodge for the greater
publicity of a divorce suit, Mr.. Bryan will
quit running for president and will quit
politics just as soon as he discovers that
some other form OF advertising will bring
more dollars to the box office when he is
announced to appear in stage.
Mr.. Bryan has said that / owed my
election to the national committee to
fraud in the Springfield convention OF
two years ago and that the Peoria con-
ysnt Sd Sf THIS year which refused to do
Both statements, as I have said before.
are untrue.
Nearly Two to One.
Mr.. Bryan's fraud issue was before
the convention frankly and fully. The
question at issue, namely, Mr.. Bryan s
desire that resign from the national
committee, was presented to the conven-
I,Oss against Mr.. Bryan's request to $40
for It. This result throws a little more
light on Mr.. Bryans sincerity when he
talks about 'asphyxiation.' This result
ought 10 be, 1 think. in the view of any
sober-minded person, enough to settle Mr..
Bryan's issue as to me. He seems not
willing TO accept II.
ITO test Mr.. Bryan's boosted sincerity
n little. I challenge him 10 this: If
hold my position on the Democratic COM
mIttee by fraud. I ought TO resign. II
Mr.. Bryan has falsely accused me Of
profiting by fraud, then he ought to quit
NTT fF,f vHrp fna h.lo l.
FIT TO be a candidate for that high office
who goes out in public and lies about any
member Of his party.
"CaII the Roll"
Therefore I propose that Mr.. Bryan
and put the issue as between US upon
the men who sat as delegates TO the
Springfield convention OF two years ago.
Those delegates are still living In Illinois
they oan all be found, Mr.. Bryan said
that a majority OF them we're opposed TO
me for national committee man; he has
said that he had at St. Louis letters from