Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-10-14
FROM THE
COMMONER
MIR. BRYAN'S PAPER
A REPUBLICAN ANSWER TO Mr..
SHERMAN.

In a speech delivered at Wilkes
barre, Pa. September 16. Congress
man James S. Sherman, the Republic
an nominee for vice-president, said
that IL Mr.. Bryan's party was better
than he then he pitied Mr.. Bryan and
that If the party was not better than
Mr.. Bryan no one could honestly sup
port IL. 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,
for half century, to administer the
affairs 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-
llcan, paper that is supporting Taft
and Sherman, answer Mr.. Sherman's
question.
In its issue of Thursday, June rs,
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. 1t
(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 a
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 President
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 l am entirely willing
that you should show this letter to E.
H. Hartman, l shall begin by repeat
ing what you told me he said to you
on the occasion last week when you
went to ask him for a contribution to
the campaign fund
eff Mr.. Sherman ever did anything
in public life to attract national atten-
ton, prior to his nomination to the
ice-presidency, it was his appeal to
Hartman for campaign funds in 1906,
as revealed by the presidents letter.
Hartman at that time had not be-
come so notorious and so obnoxious
to the American people as he became
somewhat later, yet his business char
acter and political standing were as
well understood in the autumn of 1906
by Republicans like Mr.. Sherman as
they are to-day. Taken in connection
with the campaign fund publicity is
sue, the Sherman nomination seems to
be as audacious-we will not say in
solent-a performance as the Repub-
lican party in these later years
of its history has been guilty of. The
party was primarily responsible for
the failure of congress at the last ses-
sion to enact a publicity law; the
party convention this week has de-
feated publicity plank by $50 to "a;
and its record now eliminates in the
nomination for the vice-presidency of
a man who less than two years ago
went, hat in hand, to Harriman's Of
flee begging for that sinister creatures
money to help elect Republican con-
gressmen."