Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-10-02
FROM THE
COMMONER
MIR. BRYAN'S PAPER
A REPUBLICAN ANSWER TO MR..
SHERMAN.

In q speech delivered at Wilkes.
barre, Pa, September 16, Congress
man James S. Sherman, the Republic
an nominee for vice president. said
that If Mr. Bryan's party was better
than he then he pitied Mr.. Bryan and
that il the party was not better than
Mr.. Bryan no one could honestly sup.
port it, Then Mr.. Sherman asked:
What act of the Republican party
has brought harm, has brought dis.
tress or disaster to our people? Our
party has been commissioned by the
people, almost without interruption,
Tor half century, to administer the
ara1rs of government. Is there in that
record of faithful discharge of duty
aught to excite fear, to arouse appre
tension? In BRIEF what is that record
OF accomplishments under our party's
leadership"
Let the Springfield (Mass) Repub.
hcan. a paper that is supporting Taft
and Sherman, answer Mr.. Sherman 8
question.
In its issue of Thursday, June 25,
after the Taft and Sherman ticket had
been placed in the field, the Spring
field Republican printed an editorial
from which the following is taken:
ITO suppose that Mr.. Sherman's
nomination will make the Empire
state. or the east generally the safer
for the Republican ticket Is a curious
idea. The Illinois delegation was
swung to the New Yorker by Speaker
Cannon, one of whose lieutenants in
congress Mr.. Sherman has been for a
number of years and whose presiden.
tial candidacy Mr.. Sherman had ia
vored SO long as New York state had
remained uncommitted to another. II
(Mr. Sherman's nomination. is politi
cally damned by Mr.. Sherman's record
as solicitor of campaign funds. AS
chairman Of the Republican campaign
committee in 1906, Mr.. Sherman was 9
collector Of money for use in the fall
elections. To illustrate the extent OF
his activities in that position, it is
sufficient to quote from the CORE
spondence made public by Presiden,
Roosevelt year ago last April in an
swer to the celebrated letter Mr.. Har
riman had written to Sidney Webster
In the letter Of October 6, 1906, which
the president wrote to Mr.. Sherman
occurs this passage:
AS ! am entirely willing
| that you should show this letter to E
II. Hartman, | shall begin by repeat
| ing what fol ha
| on the occasion last week when yol
| went to ask him for contribution tl
the campaign fund
If Mr.. Sherman ever did anything
In public life to attract national atten
ton. prior to his nomination to the
presidency. it was his appeal t.
Hartman for campaign funds in 1906
as revealed by the presidents letter
Hartman at that time had not be
come so notorious and SO obnoxiou.
to the American people as he became
somewhat later, yet his business char
acter and political standing we're al
| well understood in the autumn Of 1906
by Republicans like Mr.. Sherman a:
they are to-day. Taken in connection
with the campaign fund publicity is
sue, the Sherman nomination seems t.
be as audacious-we will not say in
solent-a performance as the Repub
lican party In these later year!
of Its history has been guilty of. Tn,
party was primarily responsible To-
the failure Of congress at the last SEES
sion to enact a publicity law; tn,
party convention this week has de
feated publicity plank by $50 to "a
and its record now eliminates in tn,
nomination for the vice-presidency o
man who less than two years agt
went, hat in hand, to Harriman's of
fee begging for that sinister creature.
money to help elect Republican con
gressmen"