The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-22
ETTIGR
AGAINST WILSON
Democratic Nominee For Senator
Bolts Ticket

uhiiiiiCdpOiiS JOuhirl. Siidl aCCCK-
izing William Jennings Bryan as a
modern Judas who had betrayed his
friends for the hope of personal pre-
ferment and denounclng Woodrow
Wilson as q more violent reactionary
than President Taft. former Senator
r. F. Pettigrew of South Dakota,
announced in st. Paul today that he
will not support the democratic ma
tional ticket. He did not say that he
would support Theodore Roosevelt,
but said he is considering the matter
and will decide soon. He predicted
that Roosevelt will carry South Da-
kota. The time is ripe for a new
party" he said. Mr. Pettigrew ar
rived today with his wife from the
west, having been on a visit to their
son at Ephrata, Wash. He said:
Woodrow Wilson is today more
Of a reactionary and less of a pro-
gressive and has a deeper hatred for
those who champien the cause of the
people than any of the candidates
who sought the nomination at Balti-
more. No true progressive demo-
crat ear vote for him and maintain
his self-respect.
William 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
personal interests.
Bryan was 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 that Clark
had formed an alliance with Tam
many and the corrupt interests seek
ing special privileges was an absolute
falsehood and was known by Bryan
to be untrue when he made 1t.
Bryan joined with the ninety
delegates from New York, headed by
Charley Murphy; the fifty-eight dele
gates from Illinois, absolutely con-
trolled by Roger Sullivan. and the
delegates from Virginia, which
Thomas Fortune Ryan held in the
hollow of his hand, to unseat the
Clark delegation from South Dakota
and seat the Wilson delegation 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 san man suppose they
would have voted to ignore the re-
port of the credentials committee
and unseat this Clark delegation?
Il do not believe BRYAN expected
to nominate Woodrow Wilson. but
hoped to secure it for himself.
That his denunciation of Parker
was the act of demagogue 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's
friends had paid him Sis, 900 for his
services.
Wilson is an a~ristocrat. He
comes from a long line of slave-hold-
ing democrats in the past; has no
sympathy with labor and always ey.
pressed his contempt for the men
who toll. defy any man to find
anything in his writings or speeches
that does not indicate contempt for
the telling masses of the country and
tor the principles Of progressive
democracy"
Mr. Pettigrew says he will not sup
port Wilson or Taft.