The Frontier
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REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.
COUNTY TICKKT
For county attorney, W. E. Scott of Atklnabn
For representatives, S. W. Green of Ewing
and IX M. Stuart of Stuart.
State senator.F. W. Phillips of Holt
STATE TICKKT
Governor.Geo. L. Sheldon of Cass
Lieut. Governor.M R. Hopewell of Burl.
Sec. State. .G. C. Junkln of Gosper
Auditor.E. M. Searl(lnonriibont)
Treasurer.L. >1. Brain of Boone,
Attorney General.... VV. T. Thompson of Hall
Railway Commissioners.
.M.J. Wiunettof Lunoister
. Robert Cowell of Douglas
.J. A. Williams of Pierce
Lund Commissioner il. M. Eaton (incumbent)
Superintendent_J. L. MoBrein (Incumbent)
U. S. Senator. Norris Brown of Bulfalo
CONOIIKSSIONAI. TICKET
Congressman 0th dlst, ,M. I*. Kinkaiud, M. C.
Political quotations show a sharp
decline in the Bryan presidential
boom.
Its remarkable the number of edi
tors now claiming discipleship to
Edward Rosewater.
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Others are of the same opinion as
“Uncle Joe.” Roosevelt is tlie prob
able successor of himself as president.
From democratic sources tire in
formation is vouchedsafe that thellon.
Dick Johnson of Stuart contests the
ritfht of Ed Whelan to the nomination
for county attorney.
Mr. Bryan appeals for the dignity
of the American laboring man. It will
be remembered that he voted for a
tariff reduction bill that drove some
hundreds of thousands of American
laboring men to the free soup count
ers.
The pledges made by Omaha dem
ocrats previous to the municipal
election last spring are still on the
list to be redeemed. Great things
were going to happen when Omaha
went democratic—but they haven’t
happened.
A few months ago our esteemed
contemporary went into spasms be
cause The Frontier published the
advertisement of an out of town
mercantile concern. Last week the
Independent contained a large adver
tisement of a Sioux City firm. The
Independent’s “local patriotism” is
of the same brand as its political
reform.
The democratic papers of the Sixth
district manifest a strange lookwarm
ncss toward their candidate for con
gress, G. L. Shumway of Scotts Bluff
county. The Sixth had a long ex
perience with worthless congressmen
before Judge Klnkaid redeemed the
district and the voters are not willing
now to swap off their active and able
representative.
Martin Sanders of Ewing is the
fusion nominee for state senator. He
is the cleanest candidate from the
ranks of fusion in this county put up
in a long while. The corrupt gang of
populist bosses want to make a show
of decency once more and have been
forced into taking a man of honor and
good standing into their circles.
Norfolk must be striving to regain
a lost reputation for lawlessness.
A tragedy occurred there the other
day which the executive authority
of tlie town, with a little effort, might
have averted. There is a continual
cry for the enactment of some new
law, while the greatest need is men of
decency in places of authority who
will enforce the statutes as they are.
Our flighty editorial sister on the
west jumps at conclusions without a
shadow of fact to substantiate her.
She is very mad at the Holt county
republican delegation for voting as it
did and lays it all to Dickson. The
action of the Holt county delegation
needs no explanation or apology. They
voted as their best judgment dictated.
Mr. Dickson was not at the state con
vention, but The Frontier happens to
know that his judgment with respect
to a candidate tor United States sen
ator was to divide the county delega
tion somewhere near equally between
the leading candidates. The Ledger
editor has the right to favor
any candidate she sees tit—and
it is probably neither here nor
there with the candidate—but she
lias no right to allow a dense ignorance
of political things to make herself out
a falsifier.
PHILLIPS FOIt SENATOR.
The nomination of Frank W. Phil
lips for senator by the republicans of
the Thirteenth district is in strict ac
cord with the popular demand for
clean and capable men in official po
sitions. The Frontier knows of no
man it could recommend more highly
to the voters of the district. Mr.
Phillips is not a flighty, impulsive
or oily politician, but a practical, con
scientious citizen who has a large
fund of more than ordinary good
sense.
Mr. Phillips has served the taxpayers
of Holt county for a number of years
in tlie capacity of chairman of the
board of supervisors and lias been
of real service to the county in his
careful and business-like way of doing
things. He was reelected to the board
last year from the Second district,
carrying all but one of the six
precincts in the district and getting
all but two votes in one precinct.
Mr. Phillips has served as chairman
of the republican county central com
mittee for the past two years and
every voter in the county is familar
with his name.
lie has never sought political honors
and consented to become a candidate
for the senate only on the solicitation
of friends after Dr. Gllligan decided
that he would not be able to accept
the nomination on account of business
matters. Mr. Phillips will be a credit
to his party, county and district if
elected. _
SULLIVAN TO BRYAN.
Illinois Committeeman “Goes After”
the Peerless.
New York, Sept. 7.—Roger C. Sulli
van, member from Illinois of the
democratic committee, tonight issued
a lengthy statement in which lie re
plies to the recent attacks made upon
him by Mr. Bryan. The following is
an abstract of Mr. Sullivan’s state
ment:
“In his Jefferson club banquet speech
at Chicago Tuesday evening William
J. Bryan again saw lit to make me the
excu.-e bn exploiting his new ambition
lo convc11 i he iL .iiociiH ic party of the
United Steles into an autocracy with
himself on the dictator’s throne. I re
gret that he has done so, as I would
regret an incident or circumstance
tending toward discord in the demo
cratic party.
“If portions of Mr. Bryan’s speech
mean anything, they mean that he
would rather have his own way than
have the democrats elected to congress
or any other office. lie has invited
all Illinois democrats that agree with
him in his opposition to me to bolt
their ticket. If there are any demo
crats in Illinois who are disposed to
act on this typically llryanesque ad
vice, many of them unfortunately will
be found in congressional districts
which are close, but in which, with
united effort, we have a good chance
to elect democratic congressmen. If
these districts send republicans to the
next house of representatives the de
mocratic party of the nation will have
Mr. Bryan to thank. As a democrat
I regret that Air. Bryan’s rule-or-ruin
disposition has led him to make such
misuse of his influence. But insofar
as Mr. Bryan’s oanquet speech applies
to me personally, to my character, to
my business, to my associates, to my
democracy and to my political acts, I
welcome the issue, and on that issue I
challenge Mr. Bryan to the proof of
his truthfulness, his honesty and his
sincerity—that sincerity which he
boasts is his political asset. I yield to
no man in my adherence to democratic
principles as laid down by the great
founder, Thomas Jefferson. Judged
by that standard, I invite comparison
of my democracy with Air. Bryan’s.”
Continuing, Mr. Sullivan scores Air.
Bryan for the “company he keeps” and
attacks particularly the characters of
Theodore Nelson, Judge Owen P.
Thompson, Millard Fillmore Dunlap
and Henry T. Rainey. These are the
men endorsed by Air. Bryan in his
Paris interview. Air. Sullivan des
cribes them as Air. Bryan’s confident
ial agents in the purification of Illinois
politics, and asks:
is Mr. Bryan an exception to the
rule that a man is known by the com
pany he keeps? ”
Mr. Sullivan then continues:
“Mr. Bryan has said by innuendo
that I, as an official of the Ogden Gas
company of Chicago, have secured gov
ernment favor and profit by illegal or
corrupt means. lie harps on my con
nection with the Ogden Gas company
as if that connection were disreputable
The public press will show that the
only offense this corporation ever com
mitted was to reduce the price of gas
Among my associates in that company
were Governor John P. Altgeld and
Judge Thomas A. Moran of Chicago.
Does Mr. Bryan dare Impugn t.' eir
memories'!1
“Mr. Bryan was n<Jt honest and l;e
was not sincere when he commission
ed Nelson, Thompson, Dunlap and
Rainey to ‘purify’ Illinois politics
and claimed morality as his motive.
He was not truthful when he stood up
in ChicagoTuesdayevening to explain
his position.
"Tlie first paragraph in Mr. Bryan’s
speech on me and on the Illinois situa
tion contains a deliberate untruth.
Practically every succeeding paragraph
contains either a deliberate untruth,
or an equivocation of the kind, that
we i only from the shifty, word
juggling pettifogger. Mr. Bryan says
he wrote me a letter asking me “to re
sign in the interests of the democratic
party.” That is not true. Mr. Bryan
knew it was not true when he said it.
He never wrote me a letter. He did
write a letter to Judge O. P. Thomp
son In which he told the judge to tell
me that he (Bryan) wanted me to re
sign from the democratic national
committee.”
Mr. Sullivan then declares that Mr.
Bryan’s assertion that he held his seat
on the national committee by fraud
was refuted two years ago at St. Louis
by the national convention inself and
that he (Sullivan) had not asked for
an endorsement from tlie state conven
tion instead ot resigning in “the inter
ests of the party,” as Mr. Bryan said
he had. He continued:
“Mr. Bryan says: ‘I examined into
his (Sullivan’s) conduct of the Spring
field convention before I took part in
the attempt to unseat him, and at the
St Louis convention I had in writing
a request for his repudiation signed by
more than half the delegates to the
convention.’ That statement is not
true. Mr. Bryan knew it was not true
when he made it.
“Mr. Bryan’s statement that he had
in writing a request signed by more
than half the delegates to the Spring
field convention is a statement that
has been made before. It was made
at the St. Louis convention and its
truth was there challenged. Mr. Bry
an has never substantiated it with
evidence.
air. tsryan ana ms associates in the
contest at St. Louis made the state
ment that some 500 delegates in the
Springfield convention had signed pe
titions or letters repudiating the ac
tion of the convention. They never
presented to the committee on creden
tials of the national convention any
such number. They presented some.
The other side at the same time pre
sented telegrams and affldavitscertify
ing that nearly all of the signatures
presented by Mr. Bryan and his as
sociates were forgeries.
“The discussion of that Springfield
convention and its action for Mr.
Bryan's side is always coupled with
the innuenpo that the elements of the
party with which I was connected had
perpetrated a fraud by unseating
hundreds of legally elected delegates.
That innuendo is false in inspiration
and false in suggestion it conveys.”
Mr Sullivan then reviews the St.
Louis contests, again accusing Mr.
Bryan of untruthfulness and repeating
that he did not seek endorsement at
the hands of that convention and say
ing he did not attempt to link his
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name with that of Mr. Bryan. He ac
cuses Mr. Bryan with having advised
his particular friends in Illinois to
the democratic ticket, and asks:
“Is this the measure of Mr. Bryan’s
party fealty? Is this the way Mr.
Bryan proposes to help elect a demo
cratic congress?
Mr. Bryan says: “My political asset
is the confidence the people have in
my sincerity.” Mr. Bryan has twice
led the democratic party to defeat
— the second a worse defeat
than the first. If he is proud of that
evidence of the people’s confidence in
his sincerity he is welcome to it. But
his boast of sincerity merits further
consideration. He insinuates that I
make money out of politics and his
sincerity therefore compels him to op
pose my participation in democratic
affairs. The plain inference is that
Mr. Bryan thinks it wrong to make
money out of politics. This boast of
his puts the stamp of insincerity all
over him. If Mr. Bryan thinks it
wrong to make money out of politics,
he should quit making money. Mr.
Bryan has not one dollar that he ever
made out of anything but politics. He
tried to be a lawyer, he was a failure
at it. He tried to be a newspaper
editor, he was a failure at that.
“He is now a man of property. As
fortunes go he is a rich man. He
made every dollar of his fortune out of
politics as a stepping stone to the lec
ture platform. Mr. Bryan discovered
many years ago that he could make
his political prominence pay. He is
a shrewd advertiser and in his way a
clever business man. He has discov
ered that so long as he is a candidate
for president and a possible nominee,
gifted with the ability to weave flow
ing sentences into well rounded periods
the public will come to hear him at so
much a head. He is in politics because
it helps the gate receipts. Like the
actresses who have discarded the stol
en diamond dodge for the greatest
publicity of a divorce suit, Mr. Bryan
will quit running for president and
will quit politics just as soon as he
discovers that some other form of ad
vertising will bring more dollars to the
box office when he is announced to ap
pear on the stage.
“Mr. Bryan has said that I owed my
election to the national committee to
fraud in the Springfield convention of
jtwo years ago and that the Peoria
convention of this year which refused
to do his bidding was ‘asphyxiated’
by me. Both statements, as I have
said before, are untrue.
“Mr. Bryan’s fraud issue was before
the convention frankly and fully. The
question at issue, namely, Mr. Bryan’s
desire that I resign from the national
committee was presented to the con
vention in plain terms. The roll call
was 1,038 against Mr. Bryan’s request
to 570 for it. This result throws a lit
tle more light on Mr. Bryan’s sincerity
when he talks about ‘asphyxiation.’
This results ought to be, I think, in
the view of any sober-minded person,
enough to settle Mr. Bryan’s ‘issue’
as to me. He seems not willing to ac
cept it.
“To test Bryan’s boasted sincerity
a little, I challenge him to this: If I
hold my position on the democratic
national committee bo fraud, I ought
to resign. If Mr. Bryan has falsely
accused me of profiting by fraud, then
he ought to quit running for president,
because no man is fit to be a candi
date for the high office who goes out
in public and lies about any member
of his party. Therefore, I purpose
that Mr. Bryan and I put the issue as
between us up to the men who sat as
delegates in the Springfield conven
tion of two years ago.
“Those delegates are still living in
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