Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-08-16
Sullivan Declares He Got Title
of National Committeeman
From Higher Authority Than
NebraSkan,
.SAYS BRYAN IS USED
ONLY AS A TOOL
Illinois Democrat Declines to
ConCede Leader the Right to
Question the Brand of His
Democracy,

Chicago, Aug. 15.-Democratic Ma
tlonal Committeeman Roger c. Sulll-
van gave out today statement which
he has prepared and mailed broadcast
throughout Illinois in reply to William
]. Bryan's demand that he resign
from the national committee and his
subsequent assertion that his opposi-
tlon to Mr.. Sullivan was prompted
solely by his belief that Roger Sui
Ivan and John P. Hopkins had de-
llberately robbed the democrats of II
linois of their political right"
Mr.. Sullivan in his rejoinder de-
clines to concede to Mr. Bryan the
right to question his democracy or his
membership in the national commit
tee.
Judgment as to my democracy"
he says, "rests with the democrats Of
the district in which l live. My title
to membership in the national COM
mittee has been conferred and con-
firmed by higher authority than Mr.,
Bryan"
Continuing, Mr.. Sullivan says:
"Mr. Bryan may have written tho
letters in which my resignation or re-.
mOval is advised, although the chan
mel through which the letters have
come throws doubt on their authenti-
city"
The purpose of the demand made
by Mr.. Bryan, Mr.. Sullivan asserts to
be to create new factlonal strife in
the place of factionalism that has now
disappeared.
Actually" he declared This de-
mand emanates from two men, Millard
Fillmore Dunlap and owen p. Thomp.
SON OF Jacksonville BY misuse D;
Mr.. Bryan's name and popularity they
hope to stir up enough discUrd at Pc
oria to enable them to pose again as
leaders and as representatives of Mr.
Bryan
'In the letters attributed to Mr..
Bryan there is this plain statement.
Mr.. Sullivan was selected as national
committeeman by delegates who We're
not chosen by the convention. If this
statement is Mr.. Bryan's, then he per-
sists in q contention that was declared
by the last democratic national con-
vention to be Misrepresentation. He
cannot in fairness maintain this posi-
tion. 1t Is true that the seats of cer-
tain of those delegates were contested,
But these contests were not decided
by fraud, and Mr.. Bryan knows IT.
Does Mr.. Bryan deny the authority OF
the democratic national convention?
can hardly believe 1t. The national
convention by a vote of G47 to 209
confirmed the right of the legal Illi-
nois delegates to their seats. Those
delegates elected me national commit
teeman by a vote of 40 to 5. The ma
tional convention again confirmed that
action. To allege fraud against my
right to a seat in the national commit
tee Is to indict the last national con-
vention and its leaders for compound
ing felony. Can even Mr.. Bryan sim
cerely and honestly do this? lie can
not If he expects to accept presiden-
tlal nomination two years hence, for
such a nomination must come from
those men have named and their is
sociates. No man, not even Mr.. Bry-
an can afford to accept any nominal
ton, much less nomination for the
presidency, at the hands of men whom
he believes to be abettors of high
crimes and misdemeanors and perpe.
traitors Of fraud"