Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-18
WILL BRYAN TAKE
UP BAILEY'S CASE
ROGER SULLIVAN ASKS IF THERE
is GOING TO be ANY DlscRlM.
1NATIoN


1NATIoN
Thinks BalIey's Connection With the
Standard OIL Company Sufficient to
Place Him in Category With the os-
den Gas Officers.
assas u
$50 sseAe
.s{ Chic : .ssnnss,ss;isn 5s 3si sFHs 9ss
"coisaeyo realty" to be rudied by
Will Jennings Bryan against Sena-
tor Joseph w. Bailey of Texas, Demo
cratic leader on the floor Of the United
States Senate and presidential possi-
b1lity, as was pronounced against
Roger c. Sullivan, mere national COM
mitteeman? Mr.. Sullivan and his
friends will demand an answer to this
question from the apostle that the
Prophet of the Platte" will not dare
to apply the same rule of party right
eousness to one so high as Senator
Bailey in the councils of the party
even though the Texas senator has
been branded as legal agent of the
Standard Oil Company, an object Of
attack by both his state and the ma
tional government.
1t was said last night by the smiling
SuIlivanites that Mr.. Bryan was be-
tween two withering fires. Politicians
who watched the events Immediately
prior to Mr. Bryan's return from
Europe have repeatedly declared that
the controversy with Mr.. Sullivan
was but part Of a cleverly laid scheme
Of the party leaders who have never
loved Mr.. Bryan to embroil him event
ually with all the strong men of the
party.
Shift Center to Texas.
The denouement came in few days
instead Of possible weeks, and the Sui
livan followers have not been slow to
take advantage Of it and shift the
from the head of municipal gas cor
poration to the agent of the greatest
trust in the world and strong man of
the party
Mr.. Sullivan and his friends do not
care so much to oust Senator Bailey
from the party as they do to embarras
from the party as they do to embarass
him they have other questions, the
chief of which is:
Why lis Mr.. Bryan SO opposed to the
Ogden Gas Company now when he did
not object to it paying his campaign
expenses in Illinois in 1895 and 1900
when Thomas Gahan was national
committeeman and president of the
corporation?
/ In directing the attention of Mr.
Bryon to Senator Bailey, Mr.. Sullivan
\ is for once in harmony with William
i Randolph Hearst and his followers
who for months have been pouring
out the walls of their wrath on the
j Texas senator.
Connections Long Known.
Senator Bailey: connection with the
Standard Oil company has been com
mon knowledge for years, and has been
i investigated by the Texas legislature
and congressional committees. At the
last session Of congress he made no
table speech in reply to the structures
of Hearst, explaining his connection
/ with the corporation and eXcusing him
self from any unfaithfulness to natior
or party AT that time the political at
mosphere was not surcharged by the
Bryan-Sullivan controversy. The proc
!, lamation had not gone forth that ne
man tainted by corporations could be
a democrat.
The senator's Standard Oil connec
tions were again brought into the
limelight last Saturday and it was
then that the Sullivan men determined
to pop their question to Bryan Thi!
latter revelation as to Senator Bale.
came when H. Clay Pierce, acknowl
euged head Of The southwestern branc1
of the Standard Oil company, inadver
tently involved him while he was testi
flying in the Gruet case at st. Louis
The Standard Oil man swore that Sen
ator Bailey was so much a trusted lie
gal representative Of the corporation
that $13,000,000 of Its securities wer,
in his hands. Mr. Pierce also brough
out again the fact that it was through
the efforts Of the Texas senator tina
the Waters Pierce Oil company,
!. branch of the Standard, had securet
a license to operate in Texas after tn
Standards license had been revoket
by the state on account of violations C
the antitrust laws.
Broadside Is Recalled.
, When Mr.. Bryan delivered his las
t broadside against Mr.. Sullivan, h
said:
: Il hold that no man who is off1ciall
3 connected with corporation that i
> seeking privileges ought to act as
member of political organization, be
5 cause he cannot represent his corpora
/ tion and the people at the same time
: He cannot serve the public while he !
l seeking to promote the financial inter
j est of the corporation with which b
q is connected"
e Il hardly think there is any metho
/ of reasoning by which anyone can sa
Y that the Standard Oil company is les
: a corporation than is the Ogden Ga
S company" said Mr.. Sullivan yeste1
day. 81 think Mr.. Bailey is one of tn
strong men of the party. Disregard