The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-06
.GUFFEY CALLS
 BRYAN A LIAR Says Nebraskan Made False Statement. MAKES COUNTER CHARGES Explains Why Pennsylvania's Dele
 gates Were Uninstructed. Colonel sufzey Handles Mir. Bryan With cloves on and Charges Him
 With Being Hypocritical and
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 Denver. Colo. July 5.--coIonei J, M Guffey, of Pennsylvania who was yes- terday attacked by MT. Bryan in speech at Lincoln, today issued the fol- lowing statement in reply:
 Tn the course of his Fourth of July speech to twelve or fifteen out of the sixty eight delegates z from Pennsyl- vania. Mir. Bryan charged that the Pennsylvania delegation was taken from him by conspiracy against the expressed wish of great majority of the Democratic voters. This statement ia false. The State convention voted down resolution endorsing his candl- dacy by a substantial majority and there ia no basis whatever for MT. Bryan's assumption that the members of that convention did not accurately represent the voters who had elected them delegates. MT. Bryan personally forced the issue before the people when In flat contradiction of his boasted poll icy of non-interference. he came to PittsburR, pleaded his own case in the field against the regular candidates. The result of hIs fervid appeal was the election of three and one half bryan delegates and twenty-six and one half anti Bryan delegates to the State eon- vention.
 The Kentucky Affair.".
 aMr. Bryan further asserted with ali solemnity that his opposition to me for National committee man was the first instance of any interference on his part in local or State politics: I be- Iieve he unctiously declared, that the people of each community know better what they want done than any outside person can know Therefore he vituously observes he has abstained scrupulousiy from taking part in these controversies. What then was he do- ing in Kentucky during the last cam paign 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 tc de- feat Mir. Taggarta Did he or did he not try t0 humlliAte Roger Sullivan and drive him off the ccTnmittee1
 aWhat Kind of scrupuioue absten- tIon' from interference does Mir. Bryan call that and what particular brand of hyproericy is indicated by these salv-- ing words uttered by Mir. Bryan at Iriquois Club last December when he stood up and said:
 "'we must forget the past and work for the future. We must forget all and forgive all For myself may say have. no grievance, I no longer judge man by what he has done. The flu. ture is everything to me. I want to know what he is going to do in the flu. ture.'
 How can i've account for this abrupt change from brutal assault to smirk- ing palaver? Had Mir. Sullivan chang ed? Was mot his office held by fraud thon as much as in lS0s7 What had happened to suddenly make it. pos sible for honest Democrats to asso- ciate with him? Simply this. as every body knows: Mir. Bryan wanted the Illinois delegation to this convention. and to accomplish this purpose he did not hesitate an instant to eat his owp words.
 'Mr. Bryan views me with sancti- monious horror as a political boss who shall never be in the party organization whaclxer who should not be .,ut into my councils to betray me- My conn- cils indeed--is the Democratic party really absorbed? Has it no councils? Is Mir. Bryan the whole organization? Let the people rule he shouts; and forthwith pleads to dictate not only every act. every offlce and every reso- lution of this convention but also to put the ban on every man from any State who Is. opposed to his candidacy or his platform. Does he turn his vi- tuperation against me because I am boss? Not at all. am no more of boss now than I was during the two campaigns when I won his appreciation by trying to elect him.
 Is Corporation Man.
 But there is another reason. am a corporation man. Well. am. was fin 1Sse and 1900 and am today. But l have been connected with corporations. There Is not dollar in any company which is not an incorporation of my own private business. and which ab- solutely control. That. however. makes no difference. am a corporation man but 1t is only when MT. Bryan is opposed to me that I am considered unworthy of association with the one living honest Democrat My counsel and my help are no longer desired. It was not always so In 1896 and 1900 the late Senator Jones declared there was just three men on whom he never called for financial assistance in vain. One was the late Marcus Daly: another was William R. Hearst, the third was myself Through his friend and man. ager. Mir. Bryan not only accepted gratefully but .beseechingly sought our aid and we gave freely thousands and thousands of dollars And what fol- lowed?
 After his defeat. Mir Hearst became his patron and paid him thousands of dollars only to be turned upon with out a qualm, but though now when again a candidate, MT. Bryan lawns upon him in the hope of gaining hIs support. reap my reward in q vi- cious brutal attack from the man who professed to be my friend. MT. Daily died soon enough not to feel the ingrat- itude of one who accepts a mans as- sistance and at the first refusal to serve a selfish purpose. splits in his face"