The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-08
SULLIVAN HITS
BACK At BRYAN
Illinois Committeeman ChaI-
lengeS Truth of Statements
Made in Chicago Speech.
DEMAND MADE FOR PROOF
CLAIMS TO BE A SIMON PURE
DEMOCRAT.

New York. Sept. Roger c. Sullivan,
member from Illinois of the national
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 remarks:
I'm his Jefferson club banquet speech
at Chicago Tuesday evening. William J..
Bryan again saw fit to make me the eX-
cuse for exploiting mis- new ambition to
convert the Democratic party of the Unit
ed States into an autocracy with himself
on the dictator's throne I regret that
he has done so. as l would regret any
incident or circumstances tending toward
discord in the Democratic party.
Means Defeat in Illinois.
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 congress or any
other office. He has invited all Illinois
Democrats who agree with him In his
opposition to me to bolt the ticket. If
there are any Democrats in Illinois who
are disposed to act on this BryaneSque
advice, many of them unfortunately will
be found in congressional districts which
are close, but in which, with united ef-
fort we have good chance to elect Dem
ocratic congressman. If these districts
send Republicans TO the next national
house of representatives the Democratic
party Of the nation will have Mr.. Bryan
to thank.
Challenges Bryan's Veracity.
LAS a Democrat regret that Mr.. Bry-
ans 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 asso-
ciates, to my Democracy and to my polit-
zeal acts, welcome the issue, and on that
I challenge Mr.. Bryan to the proof of his
truthfulness, his honesty and his sin
cerity-that sincerity which he boasts is
his political asset. L yield TO no man in
my adherence 10 Democratic principles
as laid down by the great founder,
Thomas Jefferson. Judged by that stan
dard | invite comparison of my Democ-
racy with Mr. Bryan's."
Continuing, Mr.. Sullivan scores MIR.
Bryan for the company he keeps" and
attacks particularly the characters of
Theodore Nelson, Judge Owen Z. Thomp
son, Millard Fillmore Dunlap and Henry
T. Rainey. These are the men endorsed
by Mr.. Bryan in his Paris interview. Mr..
Sullivan describes them as Mr.. Bryan's
confidential agents I'm the publication OF
Illinois politics, and asks;
that a man is known by the company he
keepS?"
Defends Ogden Gas Company.
Mr. Bryan has said" continues Mr..
Sullivan by innuendo that /, as an Of
fetal of the Ogden Gas company of Chi
cago. have secured government favor and
profit by illegal or corrupt means. He
harps on my connection with the Ogden
Gas company as If that connection were
disreputable. The public press will show
that the only offeIlse this corporation
ever committed was to reduce the price
of gas. Among my associates in that com
pany were Governor John Z. Aitgeld and
Judge Thomas Moran of Chicago. Does
Mr.. Bryan impugn their memOries2'
Mr. Bryan was not honest and he was
not sincere when he commissioned Mel
son. Thompson, Dunlap and Rainey TO
purify Illinois politics and claimed mo-
rality as his motive. He not truth
full when he stood up in Chicago Tuesday
evening TO explain his position
Says Bryan Lied.
THE very first paragraph in Mr.. Bry-
ans speech on me and on the Illinois sit.
uatiOn contains a deliberate untruth.
Practically every succeeding paragraph
contains either a deliberate untruth or
an euuivocation of that kind that we ex-
pect only from the shifty, word-juggling
pettifogger. Mr.. Bryan says he wrote
me a letter asking me to resign IN the in
terests of the Democratic party That
is not true. Mr.. Bryan knew it was not
true when he said it. He never wrote me
a letter. He did write letter TO Judge
O. p. Thompson In which he told the
Judge to tell me that he (Bryan) wanted
me to resign from the Democratic ma
tional committee"
Mr.. Sullivan declares that Mr.. Bryans
assertion that he holds his seat on the
National committee by fraud was re-
futed two years ago at st. Louis by the
national convention itself, and that he
(SulliVan). had not asked for an endorse
ment from the state convention instead
of resigning in the interests OF the party,
as Mr.. Bryan said he had.
Another Statement Challenged.
"Mr. Bryan says: 4 examined into his
(Sullivan's) conduct of the Springfield
convention before 1 took part in the at
tempt to unseat him, and at the ST Louis
convention L had in writing a request
for his reputation signed by more than
half the delegates to the convention
That statement is not true. Mr. Bryan
knew it was not true when he made it.
MIR. Bryan's statement that he had in
writing a request signed by more than
half of the delegates to the Springfield
convention is a statement that has been
made before. 1t was made at the st.
Louis convention. and it's truth was there
challenged Mr.. Bryan has never sub
Stimulated it with evidence.
Contest at ST. Louis.
MIR Bryan and his associates in that
contest at st. Louis made the statement
that some 800 delegates IN the Springfield
convention had signed petitions or let
ters repudiating the action of that con-
vention. They never presented to the
committee on credentials of the national
convention any such number They pre-
scented some. The other side at the same
time presented kilograms and affidavits
certifying that nearly all of the signatures
presented by MIR. Bryan and his associates
were forgeries.
THE discussion of that Springfield con-
vention and its action from Mr.. Bryan's
side is always coupled with the innuendo
that the elements Of the party with which
L was connected had perpetrated a fraud
by unseating hundreds Of legally elected
delegates. That innueEdo is false in
spirit and false in the suggestion it con-
veys."
Mr.. Sullivan then reviews the st. Louis
again accusing Mr.. Bryan of
and repeating that lie did
not seek endorsement at the hands of
that convention and saying he did not at
tempt to link his name with that of Mr.
Bryan. He accuses Mr.. Bryan with aaV-