The Nevada County picayune., 1908-10-08
FROM THE 
 MIR. BRYAN'S PAPER
4 REPUBLICAN ANSWER TO MIR.
 SHERMAN.

Tn a speech delivered at Wilkes barre. Pa. September 16, Congress- man James $. Sherman, the Republic an nominee for vice president. said that if MT. Bryan's party was better than he then he pitici Mir. Bryan and that if the party was not better than Mir. Bryan no one coald honestly sup port it. Then Mr. Sherman asked
 What act of the Republican party has brought harm, has brought dis tress or disaster to our people? Our party has been commissioned by tbe people, almost without interruption, for half a century. to administer the affairs of government k there in that record of faithful discharge of daty aught to excite fear, tu arouse appre- hension? In brief, what is that record of accomplishments under our partys leadership"
 Let the Springfield (Mass9 Repub- lican, q paper that is supporting Taft and Sherman, answer MT sherman s question.
 In it's issue of Thursday, June 9, after the Taft and Sherman ticket had been placed in the field the Spring. field Republican printed an editorial from which the following is taken
 "To suppose that Mr Sherman's nomination will make the Empire state, or the east generally. the safer for the Republican ticket is a curious idea. The Illinois delegation was swung to the New Yorker by Speaker Cannon, one of whose lieutenauts in congress Mr. sherman has been for a number of years and whose presden- tial candidacy Mir. sherman had ia vored so long as New York state had remained uncommitted to another It (Mr. Sherman's nomination. is politi, cally damned by MT. Sherman's record as solicitor of campaign funds. As chairman of the Republican campaign committee in 1906, Mr Sherman was a collector of money for use in the fall elections. To illustrate the extent of his activities in that position it is sufficient to quote from the core spondence made public by President Roosevelt a year ago last April. in an swer to the celebrated letter Mir liar riman had written to Sidney Webster In the letter of October 6, 1906. which the president wrote to MT Sherman, occurs this passage:
 -. As 1 am entirely willing that you should show this letter to E. H. Hartman, l shall begin by repeat ing what you told me he said to you on the occasion last week when you went to ask him for contribution to the campaign fund
 If Mr. sherman ever did anything in public life to attract national atten- tion, prior to his nomination to the vice. presidency, it was his appeal to Hartman for campaign funds in 1906, as revealed by the presidents letter. Hartman al that time had not be- come so notorious and so obnoxious 10 the American people as he became somewhat later, yet his business char acter and political standing were as well understood in the autumn of 1906 by Republicans like Mr sherman as they are today. Taken in connection with the campaign fund publicity is sue, the sherman nomination seems 10 be as audacious-we will not say in solent-a performance as the Repub- lcan party iu these later years of it's history has been guilty of The party was primarily responsible for the failure of congress al the last ses. sion to enact a publicity law; the party convention this week has de feated a publicity plank by SS0 to 94; and its record now eliminates in the nomination for the yiee-presideney of man who less than two years ago went, hat in hand, 10 Harrimans of flee begging for that sinister creatures money to help elect Republican con gressmeni"