The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-08
BRYAN is ASSA|LED.
Democratic National Committee
man Sullivan of Illinois At
tacks Nebraskan.
CALLS THE LATTER INsINcERE
Chicago Man Says He is Falsely
Charged With Holding Political Po-
sition by Fraud-ChaIIenge Accuser
to Present Charge Before Springfield
Delegates of Two Years Ago.

New York, Sept. S-Roger @. Sulli-
van, member of the Democratic ma
tional committee from Illinois, whose
resignation is sought by William j.
Bryan, is at the Waldorf-Astoria, arm
ed to the teeth for William j. Bryan.
Mr. Sullivan sent for reporters, gave
them 1000 words on paper and then
said things that raised the tempera-
ture. He is willing to meet Mr.. Bryan
anywhere and will retire from the ma
tional committee, so he says, if he can
not prove the Nebraskan to be insin-
cere and a defender in Illinois of well
known criminals. In his typewriter
attack Mr. Sullivan says:
"Just word as to the company Mr.
Bryan keeps. When he ran for president
the first time there was great re-
joicing in the Bryan circle over the
bankers who were supporting him.
There were four such bankers in Illi-
nois. They were Charles w. Spaul-
ding, E. S. Dreyer, Paul o. Stensland
and Millard Fillmore Dunlap. Spaul-
ding and Dreyer have been in the pen
itentiary, and Stensland is coming
back from Morocco to be sent to the
penitentiary. Dunlap is still in Mr..
Bryan's train"
Challenges Bryan's Endorsement.
Sullivan then said that Bryan in his
Paris interview had given a certificate
of character to four men "as purifiers
of Illinois politics." Sullivan named
these four men in his interview and
said one escaped state prison by plead
ing the statute of limitation, that the
second bought his nomination as judge
at $50 head for delegates, that the
third is one of the mileage steaP' rep
resentatives and that the fourth is a
plain everyday CRATER.
"Mr. Bryan was not truthful when
he stood up in Chicago Tuesday even
ing to explain his position The very
first paragraph in Mr. Bryan's speech
on me and on the Illinois situation
contains deliberate untruth. Prac-
tically every succeeding paragraph
contains either deliberate untruth or
an equivocation, says Mr. Sullivan.
After challenging Mr. Bryan to a test
of honesty and sincerity Sullivan says
he will cheerfully resign his office if he
cannot prove he is in every way a bet
ter man than Bryan from the point of
integrity. Sullivan says:
Corporation Connection Defended.
"Mr. Bryan harps on my connection
with the Ogden Gas company, as if
that connection were disreputable. The
public press will show that the only
offense this corporation ever commit
ted was to reduce the price of gas.
Among my associates in that company
We're Governor John P. Altgeld and
Judge Thomas A. Moran of Chicago.
Does Mr.. Bryan dare impugn their
memories?"
Sullivan asserts that in the national
convention fight Bryan was anxious to
make a deal with Hearst and actually
proposed one, and that it does not be-
come him now to put on a suit of po-
litical morality Sullivan continues:
"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 worse defeat than the first.
If he is proud of that evidence of the
peoples confidence in his sincerity he
is welcome to it. He insinuates that
make money out of politics and that
his sincerity therefore compels him to
oppose my participation in Democratic
affairs. If Mr.. Bryan thinks it wrong
to make money out of politics he
should quit making money. Mr. Bryan
has not dollar that he ever made out
of anything but politics. He tried to
be lawyer; he was failure at it. He
tried to be newspaper editor; he was
a failure at that. He is now man of
property AS fortunes go, he is a rich
man. He has made every dollar of his
fortune out of politics as stepping
stone to the lecture platform"
SuIIivan's Challenge.
Mr.. Sullivan's statement winds up as
follows
ITO test Mr.. Bryan's boasted SINGER
ity little challenge him to this: If
hold my position on the Democratic
national committee by fraud l ought
to resign. If Mr.. Bryan has falsely
accused me of profiting by fraud, then
he ought to quit running for president,
because no man is fit to be candidate
for that high office who goes out in
public and lies about any member of
his party. Therefore ! propose that
Mr. Bryan and 1 put the issue as be-
tween us up to the men who sat as
delegates in the Springfield convention
of two years ago. These delegates are
still living in Illinois; they can all be
found. Mr.. Bryan said that a majority
of them were opposed to me for ma
tional committeeman. He has said that
he had at st. Louis letters from more
than half of those delegates, in which
they repudiated the action of the con-
vention which resulted in my becom-
ing national committeeman. Let us
poll those delegates. Let us have this
poll made under the direction of the
chief justice of the supreme court Of
Illinois. If the majority of those dele
gates will support Mr.. Bryan's present
contention and win s.ty that was
elected to the national committee by