The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08
Submit Dispute to Members Of
the 1904 Convention.
CALLS HIM A LIAR.
Accuses the Nebraskan Of Tell
ing Deliberate FalsehOOds
And Of Being in Politics for the
Gate Receipts.

DEW YORK, Sept. s.-Roger C.
Sullivan member from Ill-
nOis of the Democratic ma
tional committee, last night
issued a lengthy statement IN
80 which he replies to the re-
cent attacks made upon him by MI.
Bryan. The following is an abstract OF
1Sr. Sullivans remarks:
in his JEFFERSON club banquet speech
st Chicago, Tuesday evening, William
g. Bryan again saw 1T to make me the
excuse for exploiting his new ambition
to convert the Democratic party OF the
S5nited States into an autocracy, with
himself on the dictatOr's throne I re-
Rret that he has done so, as I would
regret any incident of circumstances
tending toward discord in the Demo-
cratic party.
IF portions of Mr.. Bryan's speech
mean anything, they mean that he
would rather have his own way than
fortunately viii be found in congress
or any other Office. He has invited all
Illinois Democrats who agree with him
in his opposition to me to bolt their
ticket II there are any Democrats IN
Illinois who are disposed to act on this
Bryanesque advice, many of them un-
fortunately viii be found in congress
sional districts which are close, but in
which, with united effort, we have
good chance to elect Democratic con-
gressmen. If these districts send Re
publicans to the next national house Of
representatives, the Democratic party
Of the nation VIII have Mr.. Bryan to
thank.
Company He Keeps"
las a Democrat regret that Mr.
Organs rule or ruin disposition has led
him to make such misuse of his infiu-
ence. But insofar as Mr.. Bryan's ban
quet speech applies to me. personally,
to my character, to my business, to my
associates, to my Democracy and to my
political acts, I welcome the issue, and
on that issue I challenge Mr.. Bryan to
the proof of his truthfulness, his hon
esty and his sincerity-that sincerity
which he boasts is his political asset
] yield to TO man in my adherence to
Democratic principles as laid down by
she great founder, Thomas Jefferson.
judged by that standard, invite COM
parison OF my Democracy with Mr..
Bryan's.'
Continuing. Mr.. Sullivan scores Mr..
Bryan for the company he keeps and
attacks particularly the characters Of
Iheodoi Nelson, Judge Owen P. Thomp-
son. Willard Fillmore Dunlap and Henry
r. Ratney. These are the men indorsed
py Mr.. Bryan in his Paris interview.
MI Sullivan describes them as Mr.
Bryan's confidential agents in the purifi-
cation OF Illinois politics and asks:
Is Mr. Bryan an exception to the
rule that a man is known BY the com
pany he keeps?"
Says Bryan Lied.
Mr.. Bryan has said,n continues Mr.
GAA1FdD, pY llnuGnQO L0aE /, as
official of the Ogden Gas company. of
Chicago, have secured government favor
and profit by illegal OF corrupt means
He harps on my connection with the
Ogden Gas company as if that connec-
fi0n were disreputable. The public press
viii show that the only offense this
corporation ever committed was to re-
duce the price of gas. Among my as
sociates in that company were Governor
John P. Altgeld. and Judge Thomas
Moran, Of Chicago. Does Mr.. Bryan
dare impugn their memories?
Mr. Bryan was not honest and he
was not sincere when he commissioned
Nelson, Thompson. Dunlap and Rainey
TO purify Illinois politics and claimed
morality as his motive. He was not
truthful when he stood up in Chicago
Tuesday evening to explain his position.
The very first paragraph in Mr..
Bryan's speech on me and on the Hi
nols situation contains a deliberate IN
truth Practically every succeeding
paragraph contains either a deliberate