The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-08-22
PETT|GREW CALLS
WILSON A MEMBER
OF THE AR|STOCRACY
Comes From Family
of Slave Holding
Democrats
%REITERATEs BOLT
However, Former South Da-
kota Senator is Nom Com
initial on Roosevelt
R%ElTERATEs BOLT

Spokane, Merchandising
William Jennings Bryan as a modern
Judas who had betrayed his friends
for hope of personal preferment, and
~denouncing Woodrow Wilson as a
more violent reactionary than Pre-
sident Taft, former Senator r. f..
Pettigrew, of Sioux Falls, S. d., a ma
tional figure in the democratic party
last night announced to the Spokes-
man-Review that he would not sup
port the democratic national ticket.
Senator Pettigrew and Mrs. Petit
grew are at the Spokane hotel, hav-
ing arrived i'll the city yesterday mor
ming from Ephrata, Wash, where
they have been visiting their son.
Woodrow Wilson is today more
of a reactionary and less of a pro-
gressive and has a deeper hatred
for those who champion the cause OF
the people than any of the candidates
who sought the nomination at Balti-
more. No true progressive democrat
can vote for him and maintain his
self respect.
Says Bryan a Demagogue.
civilian Jennings Bryan can no
longer claim to be the champion and
leader of progressive democracy, but
now stands out as the selfish, ambi-
tious political demagogue, seeking
only the advancement of his own per-
sonal interests.
Bryan vas a candidate at Balti-
more and hoped by destroying Clark,
who was the leading candidate and
the man of the people to secure the
nomination for himself. His state
ment, carefully prepared in advance,
which he made on the floor of the
convention announcing hat Clark
had formed an alliance with Tam
many and the corrupt interests seek
ing special privileges was an abso-
lutte falsehood and was known by
Bryan to be untrue when he made
it.
Bryan Joined with the 80 delegat-
es from New York, headed by Charley
Murphy; the SIS delegates from llli-
nois, absolutely controlled by Roger
Sullivan, and the delegates from Vir-
ginia, which Thomas Fortune Ryan
held in the hollow of his hand, to
unseat the Clark delegation from
South Dakota and seat the Wilson
delegates from that state, which had
been defeated at the primaries by -
500 votes.
"If Clark had formed an alliance
with Murphy, Sullivan and Ryan,
does any sane man suppose they
would have voted to ignore the re-
port of the credentials committee and
unseat this Clark delegation?
"On the New York delegation were
IL Wilson men, headed by Senator
O'Gorman, a Tammany leader in New
York. Bryan and O'Gorman were
constantly together in close consul.
tations; proposed the platform, fol
they were both on the platform com.
mittee, and l am credibly informed
that these IL Wilson delegates from
New York arranged with Bryan in
advance to have the New York dele.
cation vote for Clark, with the un'
derstanding hat he was to immed'
lately withdraw his support from
Clark, break his instructions as {
delegate from Nebraska and thu:
take from Clark the majority of the
delegates, which the action of the
New York delegation had given him
81 do not believe Bryan, at thi.
time, expected to nominate Woodrow
Wilson, but hopel to secure it fol
himself. ~.
Claims Bryan Got $4,000
"That his denunciation of Parker
was the act of demagogue was vel
known to every delegate in the con
v%ention, and Governor Dix of New
York told George Fred Williams ant
me that Bryan had supported Parker
for president and had taken the
stump for him in 1904 after Parker's
friends had paid him SIS, 900 fol-
his services.
Wilson is an aristocrat. He comes
from a long line of slave-holdint
democrats in the past; has no sym
pathy with labor and always express
ed his contempt for the men who
toll. l defy any man to find anything
in his writings or speeches that does
not indicate contempt for the toilint
masses of the country and for thu
principles of progressive democracy
Mr.. Pettigrew says he will not sup
port Wilson or Taft.
Shes at Senate.
Although nominated without oppo
sition at the primaries last June b.
the democrats of his state as thei5
candidate for United States Senator
Mr.. Pettigrew has not definitely de
cided whether he will enter the race
The only thing that Senator Petit
grew has settled upon in regard tt
the present campaign is that he viii
not support either Wilson or Taft
whom he regards as equally quail
fed to be classed as premier react
ionaries.
Says He Is Progressive.
1.-THE democrats of South Dakota a
) the June primaries unanimousl.
nominated me as their candidate 70
United States Senator said Mr.. Pet
tigrew. land, while l have not full
decided whether l will accept. l fee
that because l do not support Wood
| row Wilson for the presidency is n
Impeachment of my progressive dem
ocracy, nor is it any reason why
| should not receive the support O
the progressive democrats who nom
mated me-"
Asked if he would enter the pre-
: pressive party and support Roose
t welt, Senator Pettigrew refused