Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-09-08
SAYS BRYAN TWICE LED PARTY
TO DEFEAT.
He HAS A HOT ROAST
Statement that He Is in Politics fol
Money Is Untrue and Says the
Party Has Vindicated Him.


livan. member of the nationol dem
ocratic committee from Illinois to-
night issued lengthy statement, in
which he replies to the recent at
tacks made upon him by Mr.. Bryan.
Following is an abstract of Mr.. Sui
liyan's remarks:
"ln his Jefferson club banquet
speech at Chicago Monday evening,
William j. Bryan again saw tit to
make me the excuse for exploiting
his new ambition to convert the dem
ocratic party of the United States
into an autocracy with himself as
the dictator. | regret that he has
done so, as | would regret any incl
dent or circumstance tending toward
discord in the democratic party.
"If portions of Bryan S speech
mean anything, they mean that he
would rather have his own way than
to have democrats elected to con-
gress or any other Office. He has
invited all Illinois democrats to agree
with him in his opposition to me to
bolt the ticket. If there are any
democrats in Illinois who are dispos-
to act on this Bryanesque advice,
many of them unfortunately will be
found in the congressional districts
which are close, but in which, with
united effort, we have good chance
TO elect democratic congressman. II
these districts send republicans to
the next national house of represen-
tatives, the democratic party of the
nation will have Bryan to thank. AS
democrat, | regret that Bryan S
rule or ruin disposition has led him
to make such misuse of his influence
But insofar as Bryan's banquet
speech applies to me personally, to
my character, to my business, to my
associates, to my democracy, and to
my political acts, | welcome the Is
sue, and on that issue | challenge
Bryan for proof of his truthfulness,
his honesty and his sincerity, that
sincerity that he boasts is his point
zeal asset. yield to no man IN
my adherence to democratic princl-
pies as laid down by the great found
.er, Thomas Jefferson.
"Judged by that standard, | IN
vite comparison of my democrac!
eith Bryan s.'
Continuing, Sullivan scores Bryan
for the "company he keeps" and at
tacks particularly the characters OF
Theodore Nelson, Judge Owen T.
Thompson, Millard Fillmore Dunlop
and Henry 7. Rainey. These are the
men endorsed in Bryan's Paris IN
terview.
Mr.. Sullivan describes them as
Bryan's confidential agents in the
publication of Illinois politics, and
asks: els Bryan an exception to
the rule that man is known by the
company he keeps ~
"Bryan has said" continues MIR.
Sullivan, "by inuendo that |, as an
official of the Ogden Gas company, OF
Chicago, have secured government IA
yor and profit by illegal or corrupt
means. He harps on my connection
with the Ogden Gas company as II
that connection were disreputable.
The public press will show that the
only offense this corporation ever
committed was to reduce the price OF
gas. Among my associates in that
company were Governor John p. Alt
peldt and Judge Thomas Moran. OF
Chicago. Does Mr.. Bryan mean to
impugn their memoriesf
"Bryan was not honest and he was
not sincere when he commissioned
Nelson, Thompson, Dunlop. and Raj
ney to "purify" Illinois politics
and claimed morality as his motive.
He was not truthful when he stood
up in Chicago Tuesday evening and
explained his position.
"The very first paragraph in Mr..
Bryan's speech on me and on the
Illinois tituation was a deliberate
untruth. Practically every succeed
ing paragraph contained either de-
liberste untruth, or an equivocation
of that kind that we expect only
from the shifty word juggling petit.
fogper. Mr.. Bryan says that he had
written a letter asking me to resign
in the interest of the democratic par
ty. That is not true Bryan knew IT
was not true when he said 1t. lie
never wrote me a letter. lie did
write a letter to Judge C. p. Thomp-
son. in which he said TO the judge to
tell me that he Bryan wanted me