Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1912-08-30
EX-SENATOR PETT1aREW SAYS
THAT BOTH ARE HYPoUR1TEs
AND ARIsTocRATs.

Bryan as a modern Judas who had be-
trayed his friends for the hope of
personal preferment, and denouncing
Woodrow Wilson as more violent re-
dictionary than President Taft, form
er Senator R. F. Pettigrew of South
Dakota, announced in st. Paul today
that he will not support the democrat
ic national ticket. He did not say
that he would support Theodore
Roosevelt, but said he is considering
the matter and will decide soon. He
I.predictd that Roosevelt will carry
South Dakota. "The time 8 ripe for
a new party" he said. Mr.. Pettigrew
arrived today with his wife from the
west, having been on visit to their
son at Ephrata, Wash. He said:
"Woodrow Wilson is today more of
a reactionary and less Of a progres.
sive and has deeper hatred for those
who champion the cause Of the people
than any of tn candidates who sought
the nomination at Baltimore. No true
progressive democrat can vote for him
and maintain his self-respect.
civilian Jenning 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 personal
interests. "!:st&i.'. --~~ia
"Bryan was q 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 con.
vention announcing that Clark had
formed an alliance with Tammany and
the corrupt interests seeking special
privilege was an absolute falsehood
and was known by Bryan to be untrue
when he made it.
"Bryan Joined with the ninety dele
gates from New York, headed by
Charley Murphy; the ffty-eight dele.
gates from Illinois absolutely controll-
ed by Roger Sullivan, and the dele.
gates from Virginia, which Thomas
Fortune Ryan held in the hollow of
his hand, to unseat the Clark delega-
tion from South Dakota and seat the
Wilson delegation from that state,
which had been defeated at the Pill
maries by $500 vots.
eff Clark had formed an alliance
with Murphy, Sullivan and Ryan, does
any sane man suppose they would
have voted to ignore the report of
the credentials committee and unseat
this Clark delegationi
81 do not believe Bryan expected
to nominate Woodrow Wilson, but
hoped to secure 1t for himself.
'tThat his denunciation Of Parker
was the act of a demagoghe was well
known to every delegate in the con.
vention, and Governor Dix Of New
York told George Fred Williams and
me that Bryan had supported Parker
for president and had taken the
stump for him in 1904 after Parker g
friends had paid him $4,000 for his
services. -: "!'
'Wilson Is an aristocrat. He comes
from long line Of slave-holding DEM
ocrats in the past; has no sympathy
with labor and always expressed his
contempt for the men who toll. I defy
any man to find anything in his writ
ings or speeches that does not indi-
cate contempt for the toiling masses
of the country and for the principles
of progressive democracy"
Mr.. Pettigrew says he will not sup
port Wilson or Taft.