| Show SULLIVANS N REPLY TO 10 W JI BRYAN r rHe He Denies Emphatically the Lead leads Leaders Leaders ers Right to Question His I Democracy CAN BE DONE BY HIS DISTRICT To o Allege IIrI Iris His tight Night Is Ii IsTo IsTo i To 10 Indict last 1 Con CUll Contention Chicago Aug Au Democratic IS Na tia National a Roger C Sullivan p Face fae e out cut today u a I statement which he heri has ri s prepared and mailed broadcast throughout Illinois In reply rElph to William Williamj j Bryans I demand that ho he resign from t national lI lIal committal and his hla subset wu t assertion that his hla opposition to toM toI M I 1 Sullivan was wak prompted solely by lief that Roger Hoger Sullivan and j I 1 P Hopkins had deliberately T I J oj the Democrats Lerner D is of ot Illinois of ofa ofer er a l political right t tI M N I r I Sullivan In his rejoinder declines I t accede to Mr Ir Bryan Aryan the tho right to q 4 option his Democracy D or hie member p in the national committee Judgment as liS to my ro Democracy he hI het t TOMS reals with the Democrats of the theu i u I l I t in which 1 i live My I title tIlle to toi toJ i J in the national committee JM to h been lIt 11 by b a higher author authors s that Mr 1 Bryan Mr Ir Sullivan says Mr Ir p f n may roa have written the letters In Inu u Ii my III or removal U la ad nd Adr i j r although the channel through 11 a Mill II this Ila letters have come conic throw throws 11 It mi n their authenticity purpose lle ut of the deman made by byr V r Mr Ir Sullivan attain to be bc to toi tote i ate ite new now factional strife In tho the place c factionalism H ti that hue has now j A he declares declarer this demand demandt t Iron two men Kill Fill Killi rr i Dunlap and Owen 1 I V Thompson i Jalk i By misuse of ot Mr tr t r rl i ans an 8 name and popularity they the hope hopet i t Mir cur II r up enough at II t Peoria to toi tor i r thir hI them to 10 pose pote again as 1111 leuders leaders i eat us as a of ot Mr h in th lh letters attributed to 10 Mr Jr Uh II a i tin Un re 11 Is in plain statement Mr Ir Sullivan was elected fix ar nall ln i man by who r 1 not chosen by b the contention If lC this Ibis statement Is II Mr Bryan Bryans nn he h It persists In a II contention that thal thatis thata is JI a declared by the last Democratic ratio i Is tto al convention contention to b be a t He lie cannot In fairness main maint t t in this thin position U It t Is true truo that the thee thet t e as Sa of certain of ot those delegates were t Hut But these contests were not r r 11 1 by fraud and Mr Ir Bryan knows known 1 t Do Does Mr r Bryan lIrlIn deny den the authority he the Democratic national convention contention 1 n hardly believe It lt Tho The national bv by b a 1 wrote ote of 00 to con cons conf f i t the right tight of ot the legal Illinois Brats r ut sates s to II their seats Those dele dole doler r elected me national commIttee i Lo ca by hs b a vote rote of oC 49 43 9 to 5 6 The national Y again confirmed that action T fraud against m In tny right to toh h in the national nation committee committee Is to tn toa f a h he last national convention and leaders for compounding a fraud r f wn TI Mr Bryan sincerely and hon hone hondo hondo do this ll lie Ile cannot It If he cx ex i is III s to accept a presidential nomina t two years reArs hence for such nuch n a 1 nom 1 inn l must raffle com orne from Crom the men I 1 IMP MP I named and their heir associates f No Noan 0 in an not nit even po Mr Ir Bryan can afford n much lees lell n a 1 tl a for far the tM presidency at tt tho the hinds of If men whom he believes to bo be betra torn tra if rC r f high crime and r rl T anora und umi perpetrators of or fraud |
