New-York tribune., 1906-03-28
HEARST TRAITOR
NICOLL LAUDS BRYAN.
Democratic Club Cheers Vice-Chair-
man of National Committee.

Delaney Nicoll, vice-charman OF the Demo-
cratic National Committee. in a highly sensa-
tlOnal speech last night at the Democratic Club.
with August Belmont presiding denounced Rep
resentstve William r. Hearst as a scoundreI
and a political traitor and assassin The attack
came as a surprise to the Assem- bIed guests. Mr..
Ncoll's denunciation was received with the clos
est attention and when he had finished the room
rang with cheers
He charged William r Hearst and Max F
Ihmsen, his political lieutenant with accepting
the hospitality of the Democratic National Com
mittee. using the committees money and then
stabbrg the candidates Of the party in the
back.
At the same time that he denounced Hearst
he euIogized William J. Bryan describing him
as hon. able man. and holding Hearst up In
contrast with Bryan
Mr.. NicolI was one Of tine late speakers on the
programme. Mr. Belmont. Representative
Towne. Justice Cfiegerich and Lewis Nixon had
preceded him. Then Mr.. Belmont introduced
Mr. Nicou. who. with William F Sheehan. ran
the Parker campaign two years ago. Mr.. Bel
mont said that ne did not know what Mr.. Nicoll
was going to talk about.
Mr.. NicoI told of a number of the humorous
phases Of the campaign He said that there
was bureau and literature for every national
ity, and he told in facetious way Of the hard
time he and others at headquarters had in har-
monizing jealousies He said:
We were told that there were three thousand
Italians I'm the State of Connecticut and that if we
would send up six thousand pieces of italian lit
erature would get the entire vote We sent up
the six thousand pieces of literature. and the
/ morning after election / looked I'm vain for the
/ three thousand Italians. | think that every one
Of them voted for Roosevelt. II is hardly neces-
sary TO bring up all the features of that cam
paigu Events have vlndicated the allegations
made by standard bearer You know what
B allegations / go M hat
just now You all understand what am driving
at. l spent hve months of my life and many
thousands of my i'll gotten gains in the effort 70
/ elect the ticket.
We didn't draw any one but ourselves
We did what we believed ought to do and it
was all right. There was one disa agreeable ex-
perience, and only one that I recall at this time
I have referred TO the various bureaus which
were housed at national headquarters i'm that
campaign. There still another bureau that
! had headquarters with US. and il is about that
| that I going to speak, because it was the
one thing that irritated me. discouraged me, and
outraged me.
There was one bureau that sneaked In and
took up quarters on the fourth floor" continued
the speaker. We paid for its room we fur
nished it all that IT asked. We welcomed il as
a part of the Democratic army at work for the
election of the whole ticket. 1 refer to that
crowd headed by William Randolph Hearst and
Max F. Ihmsen.
They came to me and said that they wanted
to come in with US. We said. Come on in: we
are glad to have you with us Come and use
our office help. Come and put your knees under
our mahogany. Come and share our work and
whatever we have. and then when they were in -
declared Mr. NicoH bringing his fist down on
the table with resounding thump. when they
were in by -, after they had received from us
every Kindness and help that we could give
them then, by -. they tried to stick the knife
into the national ticket candidates"
The snaak ker looked around M, Focc. oa,v,a
with anger and emotion. All the men at the
guest table leaned forward TO hear every word
uttered. Quickly resuming. Mr. Nicou said:
THAT is exactly what they did. Some of you
have known of this for a long time and YOU know
that what l say is the truth. They came Hearst
and Ihmsen, to our headquarters, asking for a
place with and they accepted our hospital
it's, they took our money and then they tried to
stab us in the dark"
When recall the ueacherous record of this
man Hearst l am compelled TO contrast il with
the record of another mana man with whom
we have not always agreed. l am led to con-
trast the treacherous record Of this man Hearst
with the honorable record OF William j. Bryan.
1 know true Democrat from false one. Mr.
Bryan did his best with his great eloquence and
the power of his great personality after he was
defeated in the convention to elect the candi-
dates Of his party. He not with US in spirit
perhaps he did not believe as we believed; but
when the platform was adopted and the candl-
dates named he supported the ticket loyalty He
did the brave thing-the honorable thing as be-
tween man and man. He went on the stump and
advocated the election of Judge Parker
He couldn't control all mis- friends, and we
knew when he went the stump that he would
not be able TO control them but he didn't sneak
into our headquarters with promises OF feaIty TO
Continued IN fatVtl,