The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-06
GUFFEY REPLIES
 ID W. ]. BRYAN Says That The Charge Of Con-
 spiracy Is False STATEMENT IS CAUSTIC Says the Pennsylvania Delegation Was Not Taken From the Nebraskan Against the Wish of the
 Voters.
STATEMENT IS CAUSTIC

Denver, Col, July 5.-Col. J. M. Cuff fey of Pennsylvania, who was yesterday attacked by Mir Bryan in a speech at Lincoln today issued the following state ment in reply:
 Tn the course of his Fourth of July speech to F or 15 out of the 6S dele- gates from Pennsylvania, Mir Bryan charged that the Pennsylvania delega- ton was taken from him by conspiracy against the expressed wish of a great majority of the democratic voters. This statement is false. The state convention voted down a resolution indorsng his candidacy by substantial majority, and there is no basis whatever for MT. Bry- ans assumption that the members Of that convention did not accurately rep resent the voters who had elected them delegates. MT. Bryan personally forced the issue before the people when in flat contradiction of his boastd policy of non- interference he came to Pittsburg, plead ed his own case in the field against the regular candidates. The result of his fervid appeals was the election of Sh Bryan delegates and 26A anti-Bryan del- egates to the state convention.
 MT. Brya6 further asserted with all solemnity that his opposition to me for national committeeman was the first in stance of any interference on his part in local or state politics. I believe, he unctiously declared, that the people in each community know better what they done than any outside person can know Therefore he virtuously observes he has abstained scrupulously from taking part in these controversies. What, then, was l he doing i'll Kentucky during the last campaign for senator? How does he or can he explain his opposition to MT Me Graw in West Virginia or his begging appeals to democrats in Indiana to de- feat MT. Taggart? Did he or did he not try to humiliate Roger Sullivan and drive him off the committee?
 What kind of 'scrupulous abstention' from interference does MT. Bryan call that and what particular brand of hy pocrisy is indicated by these salving words uttered by MT. Bryan at the Iro- quois club last December when he stood up and said:
 1 What Mir. Bryan Said.
 We must forget the past and work for the future. We must forget all and forgive all. For myself, I may say I have no grievance I no longer judge d man by what he has done. The future is everything to me. I want to know what he is going to do in the future
 How can we account for this abrupt change from brutal assault to smirking palaver? Had Mir Sullivan changed? Was not his office held by fraud then as much as in 1906? What had happened to suddenly make it possible for honest democrats to associate with him? Sim ply this, as everybody knows
 MT. Bryan wanted the Illinois delega- ton to this convention, and to accomplish this purpose he did not hesitate an in stant to eat his own words.
 "Mr. Bryan views me with sanctimon- ious horror as a political boss who shall never be in the party organization except over my protest as a 'bushwhacker who should not be put into my councils to be- tray me- My councils, indeed, is the democratic party really absorbed? Has it no councils? Is MT. Bryan the whole ! organization? Let the people rule he l shouts and forthwith pleads to dictate not only every act, every office and every ! resolution of this convention, but also to put the ban on every man from any state
 
 platform. Does he turn his yituperation against me because I am boss? Not at l all. I am no more of a boss now than I was during the two campaigns when won his appreciation by trying to elect him.
 Another Reason.
 "But there is another reason. I am a corporation man. Well, I am. I was in 1896 and 1900 and am today. But I
 
 1 tions. There is not a dollar of mine in 1 any company which is not an incorpora- l tion of my own private business, and | which I absolutely control. That, how l ever, makes no difference. I am cor 1 poration' but 1t is only when MT. Bryan l Is opposed to me that I am considered un- worthy of association with the one living honest democrat My counsel and my l help are no longer desired. It was not all ways so In 1896 and 1900 the late Sen l ator Jones many times declared there 1 were just three men upon whom he never | called for financial assistance in vain, l One was the late Marcus Daly, another was William R. Hearst, the third was myself Through his friend and manager Mir Bryan not only accepted gratefully 1 but beseeehingly sought our aid and we gave freely thousands and thousands of 1 dollars And what followed?
 After his defeat Mir Hearst became his patron and paid him thousands of dol 1 lars, only to be turned upon without d aualm, though now when again a eandi- date MT. Bryan lawns upon him in the hope of gaining his support I reap my l reward in a vicious, brutal attack from the man who professed to be my friend. i MT. Daily died soon enough not to feel the ingratitude of one who accepts a mans assistance and at the first refusal to serve a selfish purpose spits in his l face"
 | Farview. Lincoln, Neb., July 5,-Mr. Bryan had retired for the night and was l asleep when the statement of Colonel Guffey, national committeeman from ] Pennsylvania, replying to MT. Bryan's l charges made yesterday, reached here. 1 Mrs Bryan declined to disturb him.
 Elder Statesmen to Meet.
 TolSio,, July 5-The elder statesmen have been summoned to meet July '. when