The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-08
SULLIVAN WHACKS AT BRYAN.
ILLINOIS MAN ACCUSES HIM or
TREASON TO THE PARTY.
Calls the Bryan Backers IN That state
Some Hard Names and suggests a suit
for SANDER Charges the Nebraskan
with Making Money in Politics.

WIN MAKING Money IN rOhttcs'
Roger @. Sullivan Of Illinois. who was
road out OF the Democratic party by Will
lam Jennings Bryan in his Chicago speech
last Tuesday night, on charges that his
interests with certain corporations made
him an unfit man to represent the interests
Of his party in the national COMMITTEES,
IN q typewriter interview which he gave
out at the Waldorf yesterday hit back at
The Commoner.
Just before the meeting Of the Peoria
convention last month Mr.. Bryan sent q
message to Judge o. p. Thompson, one
Of he powers in Illinois Democracy, say
ing that Sullivan should be ruled out Of
The national committee or Bryan would not
consider the Endorsement Of the Illinois
Democracy worth having. When the con-
vention met Sullivan was Endorsed In the
same set Of resolutions that backed Bryan
Tor President.
The Nebraskan spoke before the Jener-
ron Club of Chicago last Tuesday night
and ACCUSED Sullivan OF being the tool Of a
monopoly, and in effect communicated
him If my nomination for President
were deperdent upon the votes ,of, such
men as Mr.. Sullivan he was quoted a..
u WOuHN NrIure suob hOutlhiaJlOnN
In his Jefferson Club address William
Jennings Bryan saw At again TO make me
the excuse for exploiting his new ambi-
ton TO convert the Democratic party Of
the United States into an autocracy, with.
himself on the dictator's throne" readg
Mr.. Sultvan's philippe. Il regret that
he has done so. and regret It a. I would.
regret any incident or circumstance tending
SaUrnW1 Ag.aN~1 - A. -
Mr.. Sullivan goes On to regret that many
Democrats who have been asked by the
Nebraska statesman to bolt Sullivan are
men from close Congressional districts
where disharmony in the Democratic ranks
will mean triumph for the Republicans
In the coming Congressional elections.
If these districts send Republicans to
the next national House Of Representa-
tives the Democratic party of this nation
will have Mr.. Bryan to thank says Mr..
Sullivan.
After inviting compa rison between his
Democracy and that Of Mr.. Bryan. with
the added suggestion that Mr.. Bryan's
forefathers we're Kn~ownothings. the OUT
ragged committeeman Of Illinois gets down
to present day facts. In answer to the
charge that Sullivan was associated with
men whose business tenden,is were -suoh.
as to cast 4 smirch on all who were near
them Mr.. Sullivan says: .
"A column at least of racy reading could
be made Of the names and characteristics
of men in Chicago. New York and
throughout the country Who have been
Mr.. Bryan's political associates and the
possessors of his confidence during the
last ten years"
Mr.. Sullivan then proceeds to denominate
Theodore Nelson. who presided at the
jefferson Club banquet in Chicago. an
s~unconvicted felon." to say that Judge
Owen p. Thompson bought his nomination
IN 1897 at the scheduled rate of $50 a head
steal Congressman He adds:
Mr.. Bryan said by innuendo that I. az an
official of the Ogden Gas Company. have
secured Government favor and profit by
illegal or corrupt means. he did not dare
say 80 In direct statement He e now a-mAn
of property and for such a SANDER 7 would
my remedy. Let Mr.. Bryan and his
purifiers" Of politics understand In this con-
thata1s too, am a man uf.annaa prop-d
erty. II ! utter SANDER on him or them the
courts are open to them.
Mr.. Sullivan continues to d~enounoe az
an untruth Mr.. Bryan's statement that he
had written a letter from Europe directly to
stating that the Sullivan seat in
national committee was held by fraud.
The letter IN question, says Sullivan, was
to Judge D. p. THOMPSON of Illinois.
Also the Bryan statement made in Chicago
that Sullivan asked for an Endorsement nv
illinois State convention is declared
TO be a fabrication. MIR. Bryan knows il
is not true. The question at issue never
would have been presented to the State
convention II it had not beer forced Ia
there by Mr.. Bryan's agent.
That Bryan tried to get the suppo of
Mr.. Hearst when. he first thought Of oppos-
ing Mr.. Sullivan's aspirations to a seat IN |
then national committee is the next charge
made by the irate committeeman from !
illinois. And he brings forth the statennfsnk \
Of Bryan's man Friday" Mr.. Dunlap. 10 j
substanttate II. According to Dunlau's !
statement, prior to the st. Louis convention |
q Two years ago Bryan sought the aid Of
Mr.. Hearst In unseating Sullivan as a
national committeeman, but that GENTLE
man did not care to jeopardize his own
interests IN the convention or do anything
to belittle his Endorsement"
Inc nlinoisan enteTs upon an intricate
associates strove to get a majority OF the
State convention to throw ont
name as a national COMMITTEES
man from that State 10 the st. Louis con-
ventlon: he says that they sent letters
the name Of Sullivan to the Gre
dentials committee at st. Louis, but that
sufficient proof 70 brand all of those let
ters as gross ~forgeries prevented the com
mtttee OF the national convention from
deciding the contest against Sullivan.
n i~nsinuates that I make money out of
continues Mr.. Sullivan, -and hat
sincerity compels him to oppose INV
participation in Democratic affairs. The
plain inference Is that Mr.. Bryan THINKS
Is wrong to make money out OF politics,
This boast Of his puts the stamp Of insin-
ceTity all YER him. II Mr.. Bryan thinks
10 wrong to make money out of politics
should quit making money.
Mr.. Bryan has not one dollar that he has
made out OF anything but political
Sullivan say later: Bryan viii quit running
FOR President and will quit politics Just az
rs he discovers that some other form
Of advertising will bring mora dollars 10 the
oface when he is announced to appear
IN the stage
Committeeman Sullivan closes his de-
nunciation OF Bryan by the proposal that
OF them put their names before the !
delegates to the Springfield convention OF
years ago and allow them TO decide bv
= vote made under the direction OF the
Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court III
Illinois whether Sullivan should be- kicked
out Of the national committee or BRYAN
should quit running for President.
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