The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06

Socidte Win MIN as a member OF the
committee.
1--WE must forget the past and
work for the future. For myself I
may say have no grievance. 1 no
longer judge man by what he has
done. The future is everything to
me. want to know what he is going
to do in the future
He Wanted Illinois.
How can we account for this
abrupt change from brutal assault to
smirking palaver? Had Mr.. Sullivan
changed? Was not his Office held by
fraud then as much as in 1905? What
had happened to suddenly make It
possible CD for honest Democrats to
associate with him? Simply this. as
everybody knows. Mr.. Bryan wanted
the Illinois delegation to this conven-
ton and to accomplish that purpose,
he did not hesitate an instant to eat
his own vicious words.
mr.. Bryan views me with sane
timonious horror as a polite boss,
who shall never be in the party
organization except over my protest as
a 'bushwacker' who should not be put
into my councils to betray me. My
councils indeed. Is the Democratic
rule. he shouts, and forthwith pleads
to dictate not only every act, every
Office and every resolution of this
convention, but also to put the ban
upon every man from any state who
is opposed to his candidacy or his
platform. Does he turn his vitupera-
ton against me because I am boss ?
Not at all. / am no more of a boss
now than I was during the two cam
paigns when 1 won his appreciation
by trying to elect him. The only
boss he hates is the boss opposed
to his own arrogant self-the' most
impudent, domineering. devastating
boss the Democratic party has ever
known.
He's a Corporation Man.
But there is another reason. I am
corporation man. Well, am.
But I have been connected with cor
porations. There is not a dollar in
any company which is not an incor-
poration of my own private business
and which I absolutely control. That,
however, makes no difference. I am a
corporation man. but it is only when
opposed to Mr.. Bryan that 1 am con-
sidered unworthy of association with
the only living best Democrat My
counsel and my help are no longer de-
sired. 1t was not always so. In 1896
and 1900 the late Senator Jones many
times declared there were just three
men upon whom he never called for
financial assistance in vain. One was
the late Marcus Daily, another was
William r. Hearst, the third was my
self. Through his friend and manager,
Mr.. Bryan not only accepted CRATE
fully, but beseechingly sought out aid,
and we gave freely thousands and
thousands of dollars.
Mr.. Bryan knew then and knows
now that I was as much of a corpora
ton man in 1896 and 1900 as am in
1908, but did he scruple abstemfously
to use our money to help his canvass
Let him answer at his leisure And
what followed? After his defeat Mr.
Hearst became his patron and paid
him thousands of dollars only to be
turned upon without a qualm, though
when again a candidate Mr.. Bryan
fawns upon him in hope of gaining his
support. I reap my reward in a vicious
brutal attack from the man who pro-
fessed to be my friend. Mr.. DAILY died
soon enough not to feel the ingratitude
of one who accepted a mans assist
ance and, at the first refusal to serve
a selfish purpose, spits in his face
Il have replied to Mr.. Bryan's vitu-
perative assault upon me with calm
ness and restraint. The use of ex-
spletives is clearly q unnecessary
This simple recital, of plain facts
should be sufficient to tenable any fair.
minded man to determine with certain
ty at a time when harmony is the CHIEF
requisite of party success, who is the
self-convicted falsifier, who the hypo.
critic. who the real and most arrogant
boss ever known in the Democratic
party and who, I regret to add, the
ingrate."