The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-06
COMMONER GETS
WORST LASH|NG
HE EVER RECEIVED
Colonel Guffey of PennsyIva-
MIA, Says Bryan Is Worst
BOSS" the Democrats
Have Ever Had.
''HE Is A BLACK
GUARD AND A LIAR.
Pennsylvania as White as
His Own Mustache, Raves
As He Walks Floor With
CIinched Fists.

DenNer, Col., July o.-Nllildm Jen.
nings Bryan Sunday received the
worst verbal pummeling that ever a
candidate for the first office of the
land sustained at the hands of a man
in his own party.
Colonel Guffey. of Pennsylvania, the
national committeeman whom Bryan
pilloried from his Fairview porch.
came back in long statement in
which he called Bryan an migrate. a
falsifier. the most impudent and arro-
CANT boss the democratic party has ev-
er known" and defined what he calls
Bryan's absorption of the party"
The statement was given out amid
exciting circumstances. Guffey strode
about his quarters in the Adams hotel
with his tightened fists and face as
white as his snowy mustache.
When he handed the copy Of his
statement TO the Hearst News Service
correspondent. he said:
Read it. and tell me what you think
of it,"
Before any reply was made he ner-
vously strode off. saying as he went:
If you don't like it you can substitute
for il that Colonel Guffey says Bryan
is blackguard and a liar"
The keynote to the statement is in
the acrimonious references to Bryan's
ingratitude. Guffey says that Bryan
accepted his money and his aid only to
turn upon him as soon as he was
fought in Pennsylvania; that he simi-
larly outraged William r. Hearst by
attacking him after he had accepted
his support and that he is now 'fawn-
ing" upon the New Yorker-to win his
support again. Marcus DAILY" says
Guffey, died too soon. fortunately. to
feel the sting of Bryan's ingratitude."
In Violent Mood.
Guffey was in a violent mood all
day. To all who spoke TO him of
Bryan he ragged and vituperated.
Colonel Guffey's statement in full
follows:
In the course of his Fourth of July
speech TO twelve or fourteen out of
the 6s delegates from Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Bryan made certain explicit decla-
rations. He charged that the Penn
sylvania delegation was taken from
him by conspiracy against the ex-
the democratic voters. This statement
is false.
Mr.. Bryan further asserted. with
all solemnity, that his opposition to
me for national committeeman was
the first instance of any interference
on his part in local or state politics
I believe he unctuously declared,
that the people of each community
know better what they want done than
any out side person can know There
fore, he virtuously observes he has
'abstained scrupulously from taking
part in these controversies What,
then. was he doing in Kentucky. dur
ing the last campaign for senator?
How does he, or can he explain his op-
position TO Mr.. McGraw in West yir-
ginia, or his begging appeals to dem
ocrats in Indiana TO defeat Mr.. Tag
CART? Did he. or did he not. try to
humiliate Roger Sullivan and drive
him off the committee? Did he, or
did he not. write this letter to his
friend, Judge o. P. Thompson, Of ILL.,
nois, on July Il, 1906:
Another Reminder.
What kind of 'scruoulous Austen
ton from interference does Mr.. Bryan
call that particular brand OF hyproc-
risy is indicated by these salving
words uttered by Mr.. Bryan at the
Iroquois 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 a man by what he has done
The future Is everything to me.
want TO know what he is going TO do
in the future
How can we account for this alb
rupt change from brutal assault TO
snirking palaver Had Mr.. Sullivan?
Was not his office held by fraud then
as much as in 1906? What had hap
pened to suddenly make II possible
for honest democrats TO associate
with him. Simply this. as everybody
knows: Mr.. Bryan wanted the Illinois
delegation to this convention and to
accomplish that purpose he did not
hesitate for an instance to eat his own
vicious words.
"Mr. Bryan views me with sancti-
monious horror as a political boss
who shall never be in the party organ
ization. except over my protest az q
bushwhacker.' who should not be put
into my councils to betray me- Ny
councils. indeed. Is the democratic
party really absorbed? Has II no
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