Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1908-10-08
FROM THE
COMMONER
A REPUBLICAN ANSWER TO MIR.
SHERMAN.
MIR. BRYAN'S PAPER

In speech delivered at wilkes
barre. Pa. September i6. Congress
man James $. sherman. the Republic
an nominee FOR vice president said
that II Mr. Bryan's party was better
than he then he piticd Mr.. Bryan and
that II the party was not better than
Mr.. Bryan no one could honestly sup
port H. Then MIR sherman asked:
What act Of the Republican party
has brought harm. has brought dis
tress or disaster TO our peoplee Gu,
party has been commissioned by the
people. almost without interruption.
Tor half a century. 10 administer the
Affairs of government Is there In that
record of faithful discharge Of duty
ausht TO excite fear. 10 arouse appro
hcusion? In brief. what is that record
Of accomplishments under our partys
leadership"
Let the Springfield tMassD Rcpuh
iican. a paper that is supporting Taft
and sherman. answer Mr. Shermans
question
Ia its issue of Thursday. June -.
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:
To suppose that Mr. Shermans
nomination will make the Emuire
state. or the east generally. the safer
Tor the Republican ticket Is curious
idea. The Illinois delegation was
swung 10 the New Yorker hy Speaker
Cannon. one Of whose lieutenants in
congress Mr. sherman has been for a
number % years and whose prrsiien-
tial candidacy Mr. sherman had "a
vored sp long "a New York state had
remained uucommittcd to another. Il
tMr Shermans nomination. Is pulitl-
cai'y damned by Mr. Shcrmans record
as a solicitor ~ campaign funds As
chairman ~ the Republican campaign
Committee Ia 1906. Mr. sherman was a
collector of money for use In the fall
elections To illustrate the extent ~
his activities in that position II Is
sufficient to quote from tho corr,-
spondeuco made public by President
Roosevelt a year agp last Apul. in an
sscr io ihe celebrated l-tter Nr Har
riman had written 10 sidney Webster
IN %. letter 10 October q. 1906. which
th" president wrote 10 Mr. sherman.
occurs this passage:
As ! am entirely willing
thar you should show this letter 10 r
II Hartman I shall begin hy repeat
ing What you told M. b. said "a you
ga the oecasiou last wevk When you
went "a ask him for a contribution 10
the eamra.gn fund
If Mr. sherman ever dii ANYTHING
In public life tn attract national atteu-
tiou. prior a. his nomination 70 the
vice presidency ID was his appeal To-
Hartman for campaign funds Ia isas.
as revealed by the presidents letter
Hartman at thar time had uot be-
come 50 notorious and 50 obnoxious
To the American people as be- became
somewhat later. yet his business char
acter and political standing Werr as
well understood ia the autumn of 1896
by Republican, ike Mr. sherman as
they are to-day. Taken tn connection
with the campaign fund publicity is
sue. the sherman nomination seems TO
b. as audactous-wc 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 az the last ses-
sion TO enact publicity law: the
party convention this week has de
feated a publicity plank by $50 TO 81.
and its record uuW eliminates In the
nomination for the yiee-presidency Of
man who less than two years ago
went. hat in hand. to Harrimans OF
fee begging for that sinister creatures
money To help elect Republican con
gressmen."