The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
Illinois Committeeman Charg-
es Great Commoner With
Falsehood and lnsincerity
Among Other Things.
CHALLENGES BRYAN TO
SIGNIFICANT COMBAT
Sullivant Wants to Take a Poll
of Convention Delegates to
Ascertain Whether He
Bought His Election.
Publishers, Pressf

New York, Sept. Roger Sullivan.
democratic committee man from Ili-
nois, talked back to William j. Bryan
tonight for the first time since their
political duel commenced with Bry-
ans demand for Suilivan's resignation
from the national committee. Sulli-
vans parry to that was his endorse
ment by the Illinois State convention.
Bryan's responding thrust was his
public attack on Sullivan at the Jeffer-
son Club banquet at Chicago Tuesday.
In the form cf statements of ex-
haustive detail Sullivan charges Bry-
an with falsehood and insincerity and
denounces some of his associates in
such terms that he invites them to
bring suits for slander. He closes by
hurting a gauntlet of some spectacular
propositions at the Nebraska leader
Since Bryan charged Sullivan with
having been selected committeeman
by fraud, Sullivan challenges the Me-
braskan to a grand combat. If by a
poll of delegates to the Springfield
convention of 1904. it appears that
over half of them, as Bryan alleges,
accuse Sullivan of fraud, in his eIec-
tion, Sullivan will resign; il not on
the other hand this poll, conducted by
the Chief Justice of the illinois Su-
preme Court. develops this not to be
the case, Bryan is to forego his aspira-
tions for the presidency. sEn. xs
About Bryan's Friends.
Sullivan said he was willing to
match his integrity and associates
with Bryan's. Four men to whose
character Bryan had certified In
Paris interview, Sullivan held up for
inspection.
Theodore Nelson, who presided at
the banquet Tuesday evening" he
said, had been protected by the sta
tute of limitations. Judge Owen p.
Thomas he called political judge
who had bought his nomination i'm
81 with delegates at $50 head in
the nominating conventions; Millard
Fillmore Dunlap. he called the demo-
cratic end of a political private bank.
a republican partner getting the de-
posits of state funds when republi-
cans are in power: Henry T. Rainey,
he said was mileage steal con-
gressman who still claims he could
defend the collection of mileage that
Was never spent. lie
Just another on the company Mr..
Bryan keeps. When he ran for
president the first time. there was
great rejoicing in the Bryan circle
over the bankers who were support
ing him. There were four such
bankers in Illinois. They were Chas.
w. Spaulding, Z. S. Dreyer, Paul 0
Stensland and Millard Fillmore Dun
lap. Spaulding and Dreyer have been
in the penitentiary and Stensland is
coming back from Morocco to be sent
to the penitentiary. Dunlap IL still
in Mr.. Bryan's train.''
One of Bitterest Shots.
One of Sullivans bitterest shots
was as follows:
He insinuates that I make money
out of politics and that his sincerity
therefore, compels him to oppose my
in democratic affairs.
The plain inference is that Mr. Bryan
thinks il wrong to make money out
of politics. This boast of his puts
the stamp of insincerity 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 doll3N that he ever made out of
anything but politics. He tried to be
a lawyer, he was failure at IT, He
tried to be a newspaper editor; he
was a failure at that.
A Man of Property.
He is now man of property. AS
fortunes go he is a rich man He has
made every dollar of this fortune out
of politics as a stepping stone to the
lecture platform. Mr.. Bryan discov-
cred many years ago that he could
make his political prominence pay
He is a shrewd advertiser and in his