The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-01
 Z RESIGNATION
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prepared to accept it as genuine. ai@ though the character of the men whom Mr, Bryan appears to have chosen as his confidants is such that there might be serious doubts as to It's authenticity. If the letter was written by Mir. Bryan. it furnishes proof that MT. Bryan has allowed himself to persist in what the Democratic National Convention of 1g0A declared was a misrepresentation and libel It Is proof that he Is mis- taken again as he was when he per- mitted himself to cut SO unenviable q figure as he did in the Bennett will controversy
 'It Is apparently Mir. Bryan's misfor- tune to jump to conclusion too read- fly and to be misled by men whose ass stunned friendship for boyhood com panion Is not sufficiently great to pro- hibit their attempting to place him in an awkward and false light before the great majority of the Democrats of H. iinois. The men to whom I refer. Mil lard Fillmore Dunlap and Judge Owen F. Thomson, the leaders of the fac- ton known as the Jacksonville fac ton, are mon who have been twice utterly repudiated by the Democrats of the State.
 "The fact that my name happens to be Sullivan is by far a more potent reason to them for attempting to dis credit me than any that they have or can be urged The real reasons for their opposition to me-. believe MT. Bryan to be ignorant, of. .au
 Tt Is not the first time that MT. Bry@ an has been deceived by those men. He was inveigled into pleading their cause two years ago. He gave their claims the only merit they possessed by presenting them at St. Louis.
 Lost Case Before.
 "What was the verdict? He pleaded for them before a subcommittee of the Democratic National Committee and the Committee decided against them. He renewed his efforts before ths Dent oeratic National Committee and again lost his case. 4 Committee on Cre- dentials composed of Democrats, rep- resenting every State and Territory in the Union next declared the men whom Mir Bryan now champions to be liars and viilihers. Finally the highest tri- bunaI to which an appeal could be taken heard MT. Bryan's plea for Dunlap and Thompson and the result was as before
 MT. Bryan says I hold my seat on the Democratic national committee by fraud. That seat came to me by vir- tue of vote of 49--to in my favor. It Is one to which a Democratic national convention declared I was entitled to. If hold my seat by fraud then MT. Bryan must accuse Senator Tillman, or south Carolina; Senator Culberson, of Texas; Senator Dubois of Idaho; John sharp Williams of Miss; Clark Howell, of Georgia; the Democratic leaders in the solid South. the majority of those in the east, north and the west, Of compromising a felony.
 "Jf am unfit to associate with hon., est Democrats as Mir. Bryan says. then the men who stood by me are also and surely MT Bryan cannot accept norn- itnation which must come. If come 1t does, from the men who decided that I was fit and that Dunlap, Thompson and the Jacksonville cabal were not only unfit but had He'd slandered and villified not myself alone, but the ma ojrity of the delegates who sat in the Springfield state convention or 1904 and by virtue of whose votes
 Couldn't Possibly Resign.
 Even if I were willing to resign as requested. could not do so under present conditions. If I did after the charges which Mir Bryan makes. I would be declaring not only that was guilty of fraud but three-fourths of the Democratic leaders In the coun- try were equally guilty.
 "A word as to my corporate con- nections' upon which MT. Bryan seems to place so much importance The only corporation with which am con nected Is the ogden Gas Company, ot which have the honor of being presi- dent. It came into existence because of a demand for cheaper gas in this city. It gave to the people of the community for 90 cents what they were then paying s1,10 for.
 "In conclusion I would like to re- mind Mir Bryan that the 'fundermentaI principles of Democracy" which he speaks of. do not include recognition of political ezardom. Democrats may have their leaders, the leaders may have their followers. but their leaders will never be autocrats and the follow CTS will never be serfs. obedlent to the orders prompted by court favo- rites"