The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-08
Hon. John W. romlInson. Birmingham. i

Dear ssr--Your letter of April il, ask : ing me to support you for delegate at large to the Denver Convention is re-
 Accompanying said letter were ex- tracts from q number of papers printed Tn Alabama. recommending your elec- ton, basing said accommodations up- In perfect accord with Mir. Bryan. etc.
 The Birmingham Daily Ledger is quoted as saying, among other things. He r,In Smeansns yono has slyays been srSsn % We all Erow ssd sbis asa wlta thsr: ar should be no effort to prevent his go- ing t, Denver from the State at
 need not refer to the other papers. the extracts from which were enclosed with your letter, further than to say they all acknowledged your devotion
 You will pardon me if I present to you, and the editors of the papers who have urges your election as delegate at large to Denver. a brief history of upon the people. as President of this Republic, which history neither you, nor the other satellites of Bryanism will deny. basing said denial on your regulations for truth and veracity. < In 1892 Mir. Bryan played second fid- dle for Mr. Weaver, the Populite cam didate. who ran against Mr. Cleveland, and did everything in s,,p his power to to
 
 received the largest vote ever. given any candidate in the political history of this nation, up to that time. MT. sns eanadsts sSss rsesv.a sss s''s eioss Mr Cleveland's electoral vote was 277; MT. Bryan's candidate received 22.
 On March IT,. lsss. at MT. Vernon, M D sas sad sas ss csso Rrsan ssa in speech ri am not Democrat. He further said in that speech NO power in Heaven or hell' could induce him to vote for the nominee on other than
 Commenting on the above utterafees of your candidate, Mr: Tomlinson, The New York Sun said: What have Defn- ocrats to do with man who has pro: claimed that he is not a Democrat and who is now, after two years or more of intriguing with the Populites, the Pop. ulist candidate on Populist .platformf his character afford to vote for this Populite combination under the name of DemocrAcyT'
 In the Chicago Convention of lsee there were not sufficient delegates to constitute a two-thirds majority. nec- essary under Democratic usages to elect, What was the result7 Every from Nebraska, headed by your can didate. was seated against the regu- lars, until the necessary two.thtrds were obtained, and your candidate, MT. IOH1tlnbOnf was nOIkttuAISus AAtNh AS- iivering one of the most infiammatory speeches ever delivered in a conven. ton closing with the. sentence: You shall not press this crown Of thorns not cruelty mankind upon a cross of
 In spite of the predictions of MT. Bryan, you and the so-called pemocrat. ic Campaign Committee that he would sweep the country, he carried ten Western, States carried by Cleveland, with forty-fve electoral votes,s and lost seven carried by Cleveland in 1882 with
 In 1900 Mir. Bryan carried four Western States with thirteen electoral votes and lost eight with thirty-nine
 with the party den1oraiissd and pois- oned with the virus of Fopuilsm the record is still verse. In Isa4 MT :. Roosevelt carried thtrty.three states sissss4 Slt Gi t0lsys nn iSss tRs he psmocrstle Paf ty controlled twenty-three States of the forty-four-th Republicans sev- enteen. In the Senate there were for- .lfcans Tn the House there were 220 Democrats 12S Republicans,
 What was the condition. MT Tom
 in:SE last NSgsS%Ssr xSnos oSansa tS IdSSs sg Sa an clubs and asking to be, sent to Denver to foist Mir Bryan on the Ignorant and unwarY voters. After his many ma more in 1s0O, and his hundreds of speeches in 1907 and 1908; after all his misrepresentations and assertions. after charging Roosevelt with navlns look. based on twelve years leader ship of your candidate. and what ID the result of that leadership7. Not 2 Democratic Senator from a Northern
 In 1892 Mir. Cleveland carried mi nois by 10000 majority. the nrst since MT. Lincoln defeated Judge Douglass in 1858 Mir. Bryan was s aeieateS h,, Sros, m So, ,OO0 to 100. .00o. Tn 1893 there were in the United States Senate, Demo cratic Senators from California, llli- New york Ohio and Wisconsin.
 In 1907, after twelve years of MT: Bryan's leadership and your untiring efforts, MT. Tomlinson. to mould pup : lie sentiment in favor of Mexieanizing inc finances of this Government--Gov" ernment ownership of railroads and utiiities-the dlvorcing of capital and isbor' together with kindred heresies s Mr the pysn saG M Tsns Ea rsfSTS sSo% to the mass of voters fin Alabama and the other States of this nation as an inducement for them to vote for Bryan?
 In. 1907 there was not one Demo- Senate from a Northern State. The Republicans had gained Senator from Colorado, one from Missouri and one States in the North and without Dem ocratic representation in Congress. There are but six Dem ocratic Cover nors north of the Ohio.
 You. Mir. Tomlinson. are n1iEtak~n if you. living in a State so devoted to the word Democracy, that the voter will cast his ballot for any heresy labelled Democracy, believe all the States are like Alabama, the record is against you.
 tional Alliance, and editor of The Economist, wrote "A party or organ ization cannot thrive by doubtful Hethods-disaster 5s sure to follow evil practices" Whether he coined the sentence or not 1t is nevertheless truism, and applies to Bryanism.
 Let us examine the methods adopted by MT. Bryan and his packers in 1ses and 1900. Mir. Bryan was the bene- ficiary of Coins Financial School, got the silver trust, thirty eight of the members of which financed the cam paign of Mir Bryan i-. 1896 to the tune cannot say, Mir. Tomlinson. that silver mine owners, but you were, if I mistake not the president of the Silver League of Alabama, and candi- date for Governor.
 Free coinage ac ratio of IS to 1 as a means to produce bimetalism was the paramount issue of both those campaigns. MT. Bryan. according to his own statement made 500 speeches in 1896. It is far to suppose he eaualisd those in 1900 .vnr n aSt Tne S ta neither dld his friends in Congress or out of Congress. A definition of both was uue the .t,. Hute so.r oS sucressfuI