, 1908-10-12
IS vER|EST
bUNC0MbE
BRYAN's PAST SHOWN UP BY
STATEMENTS COMING FROM
HIGH AUTHORITY IN HIS
OWN PARTY.
erotherIn-Law Tommy Allen Did Not
Obey Plain Terms Of Nebraska
Law -Four Years Aso-People's
Party Candidate for Vice Presi-
dent Not Slow to Spike Democratic
Guns-Taft is Gaining Ground.

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Chicago, ILL.,, Oct. 12.-With the ar
rival at Chicago headquarters oil
Chairman Hitchcock the center Of cam
palgn a~cticity again was transferred
from New York to the middle west.
Financial matters and the publicity
Of campaign funds has assumed an i'm.
portant part in the political discussion
during the last few days. Secretary
william Hayward of the republican ma
tional committee has given Mr.. Bryan
one severe puncture. Mr.. Hayward
said that Mr.. Bryan's plea for public
ity was the veriest deInagogism, call
lag to mind the $3.50 0 which the New
YORK Wor d stated some time ago was
sent to Nebraska by Thomas f. Ryan
OF New York to further Mr.. Bryan's
candidacy for the senate in 1904. Mr..
Bryan at first denied that this had
oeen received, but recons1dered anu
admitted finally that the money HAD
cone from the democratic national
committee.
eryan s%idesterpins.
1T is evident" said Mr.. Hayward,
that Bryan is following his usua.
,actics and sidestepping the issue.
The corrupt practice act of Ne
braska provides that all campaign
moneys must be disbursed through the
treasurer of the political committee,
and that this treasurer must file a re
port within fifteen days after an cleo
tion, giving all the facts as to receip.
AID expenditures.
Law Evaded Plainly.
IN 1904 Tommy Allen, MIR. Bryan's
brother-in-law, was chairman Of the
state central committee. No account
ing "a made by him or by his trea-
.urer of the $4,000 received from Wall
street. The law was evaded plainly.
h question which arises is, did
Bryan want his brother-in-law to obey
the law? 4 he iit and Yet was bot
able to control him, how a it be ex-
pected hat he would or could control
a man like Haskell and compel him to
account for the oil obtained by him
for 'lubricating' the democratic party
machinery up to the time of his enforc.
ed resignation? Such a wilful and per,
niciucs violation of the Nebraska law
should convince any fair-minded man
that their campaign publicity talk is
the ~veriest demagogism and not made
with any intention other than fooling
the people"
TibbIes Tells How.
Corroborative evidence of Mr.. Hay
wards charge was found later in an
article written by Mr.. T. H. Tibbles,
candidate of the peoples party for vice
president in 1904, in Tom Watson's
Magazine for June, 1905.
In this article Mr.. Tibbles tells how
Bryan sought for fusion with the popu-
lists and promised to go to Arizona for
his health and refrain from making
political speeches. He adds:
The chairman of the democratic
state committee went to New York,
saw Parker, Sheena, Belmont, Tom
Taggart and the rest of the band of
financial and political pirates. He
came home with money for campaign
expenses. linen Mr.. Bryan hired u
special train and started out speech
making in Nebraska and in other
states. The surprising rapidity with
which hos lungs healed has been
equalled in all history of medicine
Keeps Bryan Explaining.
1t is such things as these coming out
of Mr.. Bryan's past that keeps the can
didate explaining. He has been placed
in this attitude so much that the peo-
pie of the west are growing tired of it.
Of Mr.. Bryan's closest advis-
ers in this campaign also have been
called on to do some explaining within
the past few days. John E. Lamb,
vice-chairman Of the democratic ma
tional committee, has been branded as
a corporation lobbyist by his home
paper, the Terre Haute Star. The
Star says he also helped to break
up the street car mems union in 1902
in Terre Haute.
Sold Out to Tobacco Trust.
Colonel Moses c. Wetmore of st.
chairman of the finance commit
tee of the democratic national commit
tee, has been shown to have a peculiar
antitrust record. In 1899 he was presi
dent Of the Liggett & Meyers Tobacco
company of st. Louis. That year he
sold out to the trust for SIS. 900, 900.
Since that time he has helped to I'm
ance democratic campaign and allied
with Mr.. Bryan's antitrust
platform. The New York Sun of May
10, 1899. says:
Colonel Nose stands on his record.
He al afford to wage war against the
trusts. They have furnished him with
several millions. He has forced the
Zoe to contribute to its own d.scomf-