The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-08
SULLIVAN STRIKES
 BACK AT MR. BRYAN
ILLINOIS NATIONAL COMMIT TEEMAN TAKES HIS INNING
 IN THN FIGHT.


 Tried to be Newspaper Editor and
 He Was Failure at That--NOw
 Man of Pr0perty--A Rich Man as
 Fortunes Go.
 New York, Sept. 7-Roger c. sulli- wan, member from Illinois of the dem- poratic national committee, tonight is sued a lengthy statement in which he replies to the recent attacks made up- on him by MT. Bryan, The following Is an abstract of MT. Sullivan's re- marks:
 Tn his Jefferson club banquet speech at Chicago Tuesday evening William J. Bryan again saw fit to make me the eX- cuse for exploiting his new ambition to convert the democratic party of the United States into an autocracy, with himself on the dictator's throne.
 If portions of MT. Bryans speech mean anything, they mean that he would rather have his own way than have democrats elected to congress or any other office. He has invited all Illinois democrats who agree with him in his opposition to me to bolt their ticket. If there are any democrats in Illinois who are disposed to act on this typically Bryanesque advice, many ot them unfortunately will be found in congressional districts which are close, but in which, with united effort, we have good chance to elect democratic congressmen. If these districts send republicans to the next national house of representatives, the democratic par ty of the nation will have MT. Bryan to thank. As a democrat l regret that MT. Bryan's rule-or-ruin disposition nas led him to make such fisuse of his in- fluence.
 "But in so far as Mir. Bryan's pam uuet speech applies to me personally, to my character, to my business, to my associates, to my democracy and 10 my politicat acts, welcome the issue, and on that issue I challenge MT. Bryan to the proof of his truthfulness, his hon. esty and his sincerity-that sincerity which. he boasts, Is his political asset. yield to no man in my adherence to democratic principles as laid down by the great founder-Thomas Jefferson. ,Judged by that standard, I invite com parison of my democracy with MT. Bryan's."
 Continuing MT. Sullivan scores MT. Bryan for the company he keeps, and attacks particularly the charactert of Theodore Nelson, Judge Owen F. Thompson, Willard Fillmore Dunlap and Henry T. Rainey. These are the men endorsed by MT. Bryan in a re- 4 cent Paris interview. MT. Sullivan de- clares MT. Bryan was not honest when he commissioned these men to purify Illinois politics, deties MT. Bryan to show anything wrong with his Chicago gas connection and continues: F3ryan's speeCMF'W x5s@%&xZ@&&- "The very first paragraph in MT. tBryan's speech on me and on the Illi- nAois situation contains deliberate un- truth Practically every succeeding par { ftgraph contains either a deliberate un- Hsruth or an equivocation of the kind hthat we expect only from the shifty afword-juggling pettifoger"
 MT. Sullivan declares that MT. Bry- ans assertion that he held his seat on the national committee by fraud was refuted two years ago at St. Louis by the national convention itself, and that < he Sullivan, had not asked for an endorsement from the state convention < instead of resigning in "the interests of the party" as Bryan said he had MT. Bryan says: T examined into < his (Sullivan's) conduct of the Spring { field convention before I took part in the attempt to unseat him, and at the St Louis convention l had in writing a request for his repudiation signed by more than half the delegates to the \ convention That statement is not true Mr. Bryan knows 1t was not true when he made it.
 Mir. Bryans statement that he had in writing request signed by more than half the delegates to the Spring field convention is a statement that has been made before. I was at the St. Louis convention, and its truth was there challenged MT. Bryan has never substantiated it with evidence
 "Mr. Bryan and his associates in that contest at St. Louis made the state ment that some 800 delegates in the Springfield convention signed petitions or letters repudiating the action of the i convention. They never presented to the committee on credentials of the na- tional convention any such number. { They presented some The other side at the same time presented telegrams and aftidavits certifying that nearly all of the signatures presented by MT. Bryan and his associates were for geries.
 "The discussion of the Springfield convention and it's action from MT. Bryan's side is always coupled with the inuendo that the elements of the party with winch I was connected per petrated fraud by unseating hundreds of legally elected delegates. That in- uendo is false in inspiration and false sn the suggestion 1t conveys
 "Mr. Bryan says: My political asset Is the confidence the people have in my sincerity
 ''Mr. Bryan has twice led the demo- cratic party to defeat, the second a worse defeat than the first If he is proud of that evidence of the people s confidence in his sincerity he is well come to it. But his boast of sincerity merits further consideration. He in- sinuates that I make money out of pol
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