The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-01
A Wonderful cnmnnirn.

Mr. Bryan has been steadily and hard
at work ever since his nomination at Chi
eago. Immediately after the convention
he took the stump, and has since stuck to
1t with such presidency that many Of his
close friends and advisers have felt appre-
hensive that he would override his
strength. But they have been unable to
prevail upon him to take more than a
few days rest. He is young and strong,
is in love with his work, and feels equal
to the task that he has taken upon him
self 1t is to be hoped that he has not
miscalculated his strength. for a break
down at this time might tend to lessen
his now bright prospects of success.
There is. however, no indication Of a
breakdown. His voice is about as good
as It was at the beginning, and is better
than 1t was week after the opening of
the campaign.
The amount of work that Mr.. Bryan has
already accomplished is prodigious, as APP
pears from figures compiled by the New
York World. He has travelled more than
5000 miles in twenty-five states. making
more than two hundred speeches in near
ly two hundred towns and cities. These
speeches contained about a quarter of a
million words. 1t would require some-
thing like two hundred columns of small
type to contain the speeches. The speeches
averaged about eleven hundred words
each. 1t would have been great task
had Mr.. Bryan merely repeated the same
eleven hundred words to each of his au-
diences. But he did nothing of the sort.
Each speech has been different from the
others, except in the line of argument,
and the majority of them have contained
matter especially applicable to the local
ity in which it was delivered.
With a month to spare before the cleo
ton, Mr.. Bryan has broken the record of
miles travelled and speeches made by a
candidate for the Presidency and is still
as enthusiastic as he was the day he left
Lincoln on his way to be notified in New
York. 1t is a great pity that his enthu-
siasm and willingness to work is not
shared by some of the leaders from whom
he has a right to expect spirited assist
ance. For instance, there are Bland and
Boies, who were candidates before the
convention, and who accepted the conven-
tons degree in good part, and promised
to do what they could in support of the
candidate. Yet, so far as the information
goes, neither of these gentlemen has given
himself a great deal of trouble about max
ing speeches or otherwise aiding in the
campaign work.
In connection with Mr.. Bryan's splendid
record on the stump, may be noticed the
latest and most extraordinary campaign
story being circulated by some of the anti
Bryan papers. 1t is to the effect that
critical examination of his speeches by
scientific men shows that his mind is
failing. An expert in nervous diseases
first made the announcement, and the
New York Times found several doctors
who agreed with the expert. One of the
doctors pointedly said that Mr. Bryan
presented unmistakable signs of degenera-
cy. A more cruel and baseless campaign
canard could hardly be devised. 1t
amounts to the charge that the candidate
is crazy man; which everybody knows
to be untrue. 1t is hard to conceive how
craftsmanship could induce people to bring
such assertions against a man who is not
only enjoying the best of health, but is
proving every day of his life that he is in
possession of about one of the liveliest
and clearest minds to be found in the
country.