The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-12
THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION.

THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION.
He was by long odds the best and
| strongest of the free silver candidates
in the ield.-Challesto News and
| Courier
| Mr.. Bryan will give MIR. Mckinley a
| battle royal for the Chief Magistracy
: of the cuntry. What the silver Repub-
| Leans and Populsts will do, will go far
| to determine the result.-Norfolk
Pilot.
| He is undoubtedly a man of ability,
| and his remarkable oratorical powers
| produced a great impression when he
| was member of the last Democratic
House of Representatives. As to sill
| yer. his record is at least sincere and
consitent.-N Norfolk Landmark.
| Against Mr.. Bryan, personally, Moth
| inc can he said The Chicago cOnven-
| ton could have selected no man who
| was better fitted to be the leader of the
silver forces. Young, ardent and en-
| thusiastic. he is precisely the sort of
| man to head scuh a movement His
record in Congress as a tariff reformer
| and as an eloquent and earnest advo-
| carte of whatever he espoused Will
| very considerably strengthen the
| cause he represents in a campaign like
| the present.--Baltimore Sun.
Mr.. Bryan fits the platform admira-
| bly,. In the matter of government
ownership of railroads he is in advance
| of Eastern sentiment, burt in the West
| his views in respect to this question are
more popular The convention was
| ready to be captivated by the young
| Nebraska orator and eX-Congressman,
| because it could not fully approve
either Boies or Bland. Mr. Bryan will
unquestionably be strong in the West,
and. all things considered, was proba-
bly, the most available and the best of
the foremost candidates for the nominal
tlon.-Richmond Dispatch.
He has no record msstalesmansiliY.
He was 30 young to assert his patriot
ism thirty-tive years ago. What
schemes of government, what social
theories occupy his brain, no human
being can disclose. He is young, he is
ardent. he is ambitious, he is gifted
with the power to sway mems minds,
he is a born leader, an attractive figure
ON the stage, and that is all we know.
Whether the American people, after
four months of solemn deliberation,
will confide their destinies to his I'M
tried hands. we do not undertake to
prophesy. What we do know is that
William Jennings Bryan is the most
dramatic product of our National poll
tics. the most sensational and pictures
que creation of our ge.-Washington
Post.
Hurrah for Bryan! Nine cheers and
a big rousing majority for the young
statesman of Nebraska. < 4 OF all
the excellent men named in connection
with the nomination, the right man for
the right place was selected. He is,
take it all in all, the best possible can
didate under all the circumstances.
He is a strong man, true
Democrat a most faithful friend Of
silver, and has done a great deal to
make 1T popular. He has very
brilliant talents, is a capital speaker
and campaigner, is of excellent char
| acter, is extremely popular, has made
a great hit in politics, and no doubt
will make a campaign long to be re-
membered Look out for great land
slide in the Northwest and West Bry
| apWard. The South must do it's duty.
Now for a long pull, a strong pull,
and a pull altogether. Hip! Hip!
Hurrah!.! Bryan forever.-Wiiming
ton Messenger.
This man is also one of very ex-
cellent ability. He has been richly
endowed with the power of speech
and as an orator no man on the conti-
nent ranks him. Yet a young man,
he is yet not SO young as to be with
out the wisdom Of experience, and
none of those who were named along
side OF him at Chicago is filter or
worthier TO be trusted with the grave
duties which fall to the head of this
mighty and expanding public. He is
an ADLER man bhan Mr.. Bland, Mr..
Boies or Mr.. Matthews; a safer man
than Mr.. Bland or Mr.. Blackburn; a
Shower man than any Of them. 1t
will be read of him in a thousand Re
publican papers this morning that
some two years ago, IN monetary rrl-
tation with the Democratic party on
account OIL us lnulIeFeHb dGblOuue TO-
ward silver, he abjured it and declared
his purpose to join the Populist party.
1t makes no difference that he did.
He remained a Democrat as to all
things else, and the severance of his
relation with his party, if indeed it
went further than hasty speech, was
not for long. He is in full fellowship,
in full sympathy, with it now, and
that is sufficient. 1t was no argu-
ment at all, the fact used against Mr..
Boies before the convention, that he
had not always been a Democrat