The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08

untruth, or an eQuiVOcation of that kind
that we expect only from the shifty,
juggling pettifogger. Mr.. Bryan
says he wrote me a letter asking me to
resign in the interests of the Demo-
cratic party That is not true. Mr..
Bryan knew it was not true when he
said it. He never wrote me letter. He
did write a letter to Judge o. P.
Thompson IN which he told the judge
to tell me that he, Bryan, wanted me to
resign from the Democratic national
committee
st. Louis Row Reviewed.
Mr.. Sullivan then declares that Mr..
Bryan's 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 cOnven-
ton instead of resigning in the in
terests of the party" as Mr. Bryan
said he had.
Mr. Bryan says: I examined into
his (Sullivan's) conduct of the Spring
field convention before took part in
the attempt to unseat him, and at the
St. Louis convention 1 had in writing
a request for his reputation signed
by more than half the delegates to
the convention That statement is not
true when he made it.
Mr. Bryan's statement that he had
in writing a request signed by more
Springfield convention is a statement
that has been made before It was
made at the st. Louis convention and
its truth was there challenged. Mr..
Bryan has never substantiated it with
evidence.
that contest at st. Louis made the
statement that some 500 delegates in
the Springfield convention had signed
petitions or letters repudiating the ac-
ton of that convention. They never
presented to the committee on creden-
tails of the national convention any
such number. They presented some.
The other side at the same time pre-
scented kilograms and affidavits certi-
flying that nearly all Of the signatures
presented by Mr.. Bryan and his asso-
ciates were forgeries.
That Springfield Convention.
''The discussion of that Springfield
convention in its action from Mr.. Bry-
ans side is always coupled with the
/ innuendO that the elements of the par
/ ~ with which 1 was connected had
| perpetrated a fraud by unseaung hun
/ dreds of legally elected delegates. That
/ innuendo is false inspiration and false
! III the suggestion it conveys"
Mr. Sullivan then reviews the St.
! Louis contests, again accusing 1fr.
Bryan Of untruthfulness and repeating
1 that he did not seek endorsement at
| the hands of that convention and say
ing he did not attempt to link his
name with that of Mr. Bryan. He ac-
cuses Mr.. Bryan with having advised
his particular friends in Illinois to
bolt the Democratic ticket and asks:
rs this the measure of Mr. Bryan's
party fealty? Is this the way Mr..
Bryan proposes to help elect Demo-
cratic congress?
Mr.. Bryan says: My political asset
! is the confidence the people have III
| my sincerity Mr. Bryan has twice
led the Democratic party to defeat, the
I second a worse defeat than the first
If he is proud of that evidence of the
/ peoples confidence in his sincerity he
cerity merits further consideration. He
4 inSinuates that I make money out of
/ politics. and that his sincerity there
fore compels him to oppose my par
f ticipauon in Democratic affairs.
In Politics for Gate Receipts
The plain inference is that Mr.
/ BRYAN thinks it wrong to make money
out of politics. This boast of his puts
/ ths stamp of insincerity all over him.
If Mr.. Bryan thinks it wrong to make
| money out Of politics ne should quit
making money. Mr. Bryan has not
one dollar that he ever made out of
anything but politics. He tried to be
a lawyer, he was a failure at it, He
tried to be a newspaper editor, he was
a failure at that.
He is now a man of property. AS
fortunes so, he is a rich man He
made every dollar of his fortune out
of politics as a steppingstone 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
way clever business man. He has
discovered that so lone as he is a can
didate for president and a possible
nominee. gifted with the ability to
weave flowing sentences into well
rounded periods, the public Will come