Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-08


that we expect only from the shifty.
word Juggling pettifogger. Mr.. Bryan
says he wrote me letter asking me
to resign in the interests of the denn-
ocratic party That is not true. Mr..
Bryan knew it was not true when he
said it, He never wrote a letter. He
did write to Judge O. p. Thompson
in which he told Judge Thompson to
tell me that he, Bryan. wanted me to
resign from the democratic national
committee"
Mr.. Sullivan then declares that Mr..
Bryan's assertion that he held his seat
on the national
was refuted two years ago at st.
Louis by the national committee it
self, and that he, Sullivan, had rot
| asked for an Endorsement from the
state convention, instead of resigning
in the interests Of the party" as Mr..
Bryan said he had.
Mr.. Bryan says:
Says Bryan Lied.
81 examined into his (Sullivar's)
conduct of the Springfield convention
before / undertook an attempt to un-
seat him, and at the st. Louis con-
vention l had in writing request TOR
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 1t.
Mr.. Bryan's statement that he had
in writing a request signed by more
| than half the delegates to the Spring
| field convention is a statement that
has been made before. 1t was made
at the st. Louis convention and its
truth was challenged. Mr.. Bryan has
never substantiated with evidence.
Mr.. 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 letters repudiating the ac-
ton of that convention. They never
presented ( to the committee on Gre
dentials OF the national convention any
such number. They presented some.
The other side at the same time pre-
sented kilograms and affidavits certi-
flying that nearly all the signatures
presented by Mr. Bryan and his asso-
ciates were forgeries.
"'rhe discussion of that Springfield
convention and it's action from Mr..
Bryan's side is always coupled with
the innuendo that the elements Of the
party with which I was connected had
perpetrated fraud by unseating hun
dreds of legally elected delegates. That
innuendo is false IN spirit and false In
the suggestion it conveys"
Mr.. Sullivan then reviews the ST.
Louis contest, again accusing Mr.. Bry-
an of untruthfulness and repeating
that he did not seek Endorsement at
the hands of that convention and say
ing that he did not attempt 10 link
his name with that of Mr.. Bryan. He
accuses Mr.. Bryan with having ad-
vised his particular friends in Illinois
to bolt the democratic ticket. and
asks:
\ as this the measure of Mr.. Bryan's
party feeling? Is this the way Mr.
Bryan proposes to help elect "a dem
ocratic congress-"
Bryan's Money.
"Mr. Bryan says: My political as
set is the confidence the people have
in my sincerity Mr.. Bryan has twice
led the democratic party to defeat. the
second a worse defeat than the first.
If he is proud Of that evidence of the
PEOPLES confidence in his sincerity, he
is welcome to it. But his boast OF
sincerity merits further consideration
He insinuates that I make money out
of politics and that his sincerity there
fore compels him to oppose my par
ticipation in democratic affairs Inc
plain inference is that Mr.. Bryan
thinks it wrong to make money out OF
politics. This boast of his puts the
stamp Of sincerity all over him. If Mr..
Bryan thinks it wrong to make money
out of politics, he should quit making
money. Mr.. Bryan has not one dollar
that he ever made out of anygh1ng Dut
politics He tried to be a lawyer; ne
was a failure at it, He tried to be
newspaper editor, he was fallure at
that.
"He is now man of property. AS
fortunes go he, is a rich man. He made
every dollar of his fortune out OF poll
itics as stepping stone OF the lee
ture platform. Mr.. Bryan discovered
many years ago that he could make
his political prominence pay. He is
shrewd advertiser and his way clev-
err business man. He has discovered
that so long as he is a candidate for
president and peoples nominee, gilt
ed with the ability to weave flowing
sentences into we'll rounded periods,
the public will come to hear him at so
much a head. He is in politics be-
cause it helps the gate receipts. Like
the actresses who have discarded the
stolen diamond dodge for the greater
publicity of e. divorce suit. Mr.. Bry-
an will quit running for president and
will quit politics just as soon as he
discovers that some other form OF ad-
yertising will bring more dollars to the
hox office when he is announced to APP
pear on the stage.
"Mr. Bryan has said that owe my
election to the national committee to
fraud in the Springfield convention of
two years ago and that the Peoria
convention of this year, which refused
to do his bidding, was 'aspllyxiated' by
me. Both statements, as l nave sald
before, are untrue.
"Mr. Bryan's fraud issue was before
the convention frankly and fully. The
question at issue, namely, Mr.. Bryan's
desire that / resign from the national
committee. was presented to the con-
yention in plain terms. The roll call
was 1,03S against Mr.. Bryan's request
TO $40 for it. This result throws
little more light on Mr. Bryan's sin
cerity when he talks about 'asphyxia-
ton
This result ought to be. / think, in
the view of any sober minded person,
enough to settle Mr.. Bryan's issue as
to me. He seems not willing to ac-