Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-09-13

-
New York, Sept. 8.-Roger C. Sui
Ivan, the Illinois member of thu dem
ocratic national committee, last
night issued lengthy statement in
which he replied to recent attacks
made upon him by Mr.. Bryan. Sui
hvan said in part:
In his Jefferson club banquet
speech at Chicago Tuesday evening
William ]. Bryan again saw fit to
make me the excuse for exploiting
his new ambition to convert the dem
ocratic party into an autocracy with
himself on the dictator's throne
If portions of Bryan's 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 Of
them unfortunately will be found in
congressional districts which are
close, but in which, with united eff.
fort, we have good chance to elect
democratic congressman. If these
districts send republicans to the next
national house of representatives the
democratic party will have Bryan to
thank"
Challenges Bryan to Prove.
Sullivan challenges Bryan to prove
personal his assertions against him
and invites comparison of his demo
cracy with Bryan's. Sullivan scores
Bryan for the company he keeps"
and attacks particularly the charac-
tiers of Theodore Nelson, Judge Owen
p. Thompson, Willard Fillmore Dun
lap and Henry T. Rainey. These are
the men endorsed by Bryan in his
Paris interview. Sullivan describes
them as Bryan's confidential agents in
the publication of Illinois politics and
asks:
rs Bryan an exception to the rule
that man is known by the company
he keeps? Bryan was not honest
and he was not sincere when he com
missioned Nelson, Thompson, Dunlap
and Rainey to purify Illinois poll
tics and claimed morality as his mo.
tive. He was not truthful when he
stood up in Chicago Tuesday evening
to explain his position. The very
first paragraph in Bryan's speech on
me and on the Illinois situation con-
tains deliberate untruth. Practi-
cally every succeeding paragraph con-
tains either deliberate untruth, or
equivocation of the kind we expect
only from shifty, word-juggling pet
tifogger. Bryan says he wrote me
letter asking me to resign in the
interests of the democratic party. This
Is not true. Bryan knew it was not
true when he said it. He never
wrote me a letter, but he did write
Judge Thompson, in which he told
Judge Thompson to tell me that he,
Bryan, wanted me to resign from
the democratic national committee"
Plain Charge Of Liar.
Sullivan then declares Bryan's an
sertion that he held his seat on the
national committee by fraud was re-
futed two years ago at st. Louis by
the national convention itself, and
that he, Sullivan, had not asked for
endorsement from the state conven-
ton instead Of resigning lin the in
terests of the party" as Bryan said
he had. Sullivan says Bryan's state
ment that he had written statement
from delegates Of the Illinois con-
vention repudiating him is untrue and
Bryan knew 1t was untrue when he
made IL"
Sullivan says that statement was
made at st. Louis and was there chal-
leaged, nut Bryan never substan-
tiated it with evidence.
And Forgery Too!
Bryan claimed to have 500 sigma
lures to that statement, Sullivan says,
but never presented any such num-
Der. They presented some. The
other side at the same time presented
a telegram and afildavits certifying
that nearly all the signatures pre-
scented by Bryan and his associates
we're forgeries."
Sullivan accuses Bryan with hav-
ing advised his particular friends In
Illinois to bolt the democratic ticket,
and asks:
Us this the measure of Bryan's
party fealty. Is this the way he
profits to help elect a democratic
congress-" Bryan says:
NY political asset is the conf
dence tive people have in my SINGER
ity.v Bran has twice led the dem
ocratic party to defeat, the second .
worse defeat than the first. If he -
proud Of that evidence Of the peoples