The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-23
Bryan WiIl Get Ont.

Inc bryan scandal growing out or
an investigation into the Illness Of
James N. sullivan, Bryan's "courag-
eous" friend, to be American minister
to the Dominican republic ought to
drive him out OF the Wilson cabinet.
The fearful mistakes he has made
there need not be taken into consider
alton at all, as this climax is an all
sufficient reason on the part OF the
American people to clanor for his inn
mediate resignation. How the Wilson
administra can keep him there
longer and retain decent respect is
not apparent in view OF the startling
revelations brought out In the inves-
tigatton. TAFT had his Ballinger, hut,
1t the exposures just made about Bry-
an are true. and there is no good .rea-
SON to believe that they are not true
as they are backed up by evidence Of
more than one man and by actual
documentary evidence, the BaIlfnger
incident pal1es into oblivion compared
with the Bryan scandal
Wiiltam g, Beer, an attorney for
the Banco Nacional Of Santo Dunftn-
go, which has been accused OF seek
ing to exploit public contracts in the
Dominican republic, was quoted t!lris
week att the inquiry into the fitness
of Slflliyan, says the Associated Press,
as having said he expected to share
what profits he made In the alleged
with Secretary OF State
Bryan, Martin II. Glynn, former gov
ernor of New York, and Congressman
James A. Hamill OF New Jersey. q.
M. "a Davis, Of New York, con-
tractor for supplies testified, he had
been SO informed by Beer while the
two were on their way to Santo Do
mingo, Davis, with the expectation OF
securing government contracts, which
he said Beer had REPRESENTED TO him
were to be had.
That Minister Sullivan had encotir-
aged the Dominican government to
lombard the city of Puerto Plata dur
ing a revolution IN October, 1913. in
spfte of the fact that 1t would endan-
ger American PROPERTY there, was
charged in the Testimony of e. o..
Baker, a construction engineer. Ba-
ker had contract for building pow
er house in that city for a Boston
concern and said he protested to MIN
lister Sullivan, asking Intervention
against threatened attack upon the
city by Dominican gtinboat patrols
ing the river.
The city was at that time in the
possession of the revolutiontsts and
although 1t was defended by a So
called fort Baker said it was in no
sense fortified as the entire artillery
-of the fort consisted or one one
Founder gun. Sullivan, ne said, had
insisted that 1t was a fort and that
the gunboat had a right to lombard.
Baker said he then entered a protest
DIN writing to the minister. To this
Sullivan replied in letter that was
put In evidence in which occurred the
sentence:
This does not mean that the att
tack on the town will be stopped BY
the UNITED States; On the contrary we
WITH encourage it,
The matter of sharing profits with
Bryan must be taken seriously. IT
Is a charge Bryan can not pass over,
lightly, and 1t is not to be believed
that IT was made without foundation.
1t ts entirely too serious for that.
The Bryan connection, indeed, with
Dominican affairs through sullivan
appear too shady not to have basis
! OF fact. Such a scandal In admdnis-
tration affairs has not been chronicled
within the lifetime of the present gem
eration. Even Ballinger was not ac-
c'lsed of using his portfolio for per-
sonal graft.
Bryan may mot gel. out OF the cab
met under fire. but it is a safe bet
that he Will go all the same.
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