The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1906-08-07
SULLIVAN GETS BACK
STRONG AT BRYAN
Strong Language Used For
His Opponents

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tion as national committeeman
from Illinois, Roger Sullivan
used just as much, and a little
more, fireworks than did the
Democritic chieftain. He en-
phatically refuses to resign and
in commenting on the matter
said:
CRITICIsEs BRYAN.
81 have seen the letter purport-
ing to be written by Mr.. Bryan,
and am prepared to accept it as
genuine, although the character
of the men whom Mr.. Bryan ap-
pears to have chosen as his con-
fidants is such that there might
be serious doubts as to it's authen-
ticity. If the letter was written
by Mr.. Bryan it furnishes proof
that Mr.. Bryan has allowed him.
self to persist in what the Demo-
cratic national convention of 1904
declared was a Misrepresentation
and libel. 1t is proof that he
is mistaken again as he was when
he permitted himself to cut so
unenviah' figure as he did in (
the Bennett will controversy.
1T is apparently Mr.. Bryan's
misfortune to jump to a conclu-
sion too readily and to be misled
by men whose assumed friend
ship for boyhood companion is i,
not sufficiently great to prohibit !
their attempting to place him in >
an awkward and false light be- .
fore the great majority of the :,
Democrats of Illinois. ;,
''Then men to whom | refer, >
Millard Fillmore Dunlap and !,
Judge Owen p. Thompson, the :
leaders of the faction known as ;;
the Jacksonville cabal, are men =
who have been twice utterly re- >;
pudiated by the Democrats OF
the State. The fact that nv
maine happens to be Sullivan is a
by far more potent reason to AZ
them for attempting to discredit "
me than any that they have or ~ ~
can be urged. The real reasons 81
for their opposition to me, | be-
lieVe Mr. Bryan to be ignorant OF ~
Has BEEN DECEIVED.
''It is not the first time Mr..
Bryan has been deceived by these
men. He was inveigled into
pleading their cause two years uI
ago. He gave their claims the !"
only merit they possessed by
presenting them at st. Louis,
"What was the verdict? He
pleaded for them before a sub
committee of the Democratic ma ou
tional committee and the commit sc
lee decided against them. He III
renewed his efforts before Dem III
1cratic national committee and III
again lost his case. A commit IA
zee on credentials, composed of q"
Democrats representing every ~
State and territory in the Union, pc
next declared the men whom Mr.. VI
Bryan now champions to be liars we
md villifiers. Finally the high III
sst tribunal to which an appeal su
could be taken heard Mr.. Bryan's oe
,lea for Dunlap and Thompson, io
and the result was as before.
"Mr. Bryan says ! hold my Va
'eat on the Democratic national
committee by fraud. That seat =
.ame to me by virtue of a vote u.
# 49 to 8 in my favor. 1t is one of
o which a Democratic national -
declared | was en- =,
tiled to. If | hold my seat by :
raud, then Mr.. Bryan must ac-
use Senator Tillman of South 80
carolina, Senator Culberson, of ~
'exas, Senator Dubois OF Idaho, ~
ohm Sharp Williams, of Missis- o..
ipi, Clark Howell of Georgia, = :
he Democratic leaders in the n,a
Gid South. the majority Of those On.
4 the East, North and the West,
t compounding felony. T
ISLANDER AND VILIFICATIoN. did
eff / am unfit to associate with ent
honest Democrats, as Mr.. Bry- ma
n says, then the men who stood der
Y me are also, and surely Mr.. goo
ryan can not accept n0mina- aud
on which must come, if come it 7
pes, from the men who decided last
lat was fit and that Dunlap, yer
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