The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-08-08
WHY VOTE FOR BRYANT
Hon. A. II. Garland Tells Why the
Nebraskan Should be Elected.

Chicago Record
Why should the people of Arkansas
vote for Bryan for President2
The reasons are numerous and eogent !.
Arkansas recently went through q
canvass from center to circumference
on the question of gold and silver for a
period of full year, ard, after most
thorough discussion of the subject,
decided by very large majority for
bimetallism, and TO restore silver back
as before the characterization act of 1873
and Bryan is for this and has been for
years earnestly and zealously for it.
| He first made his name conspicuous
by advocating a tariff in accordance
with the views of the people OF
Arkansas.
He has grown up and become famous
in a great Western state which is
emphatically with Arkansas on the
leading political questions of the day
He is young and active possessing
in an eminent degree, the qualities,
mental and physical, to meet fairly and
squarely the perplexing and exacting
duties of the executive o. the nation.
He is a fine talker, but not this alone
he is thinker and a worker. He has
tlit rare tOiuDiHdtlui W thihh NOiit W
speak we'll and to execute well.
And all the questions and many of
the duties public that await him If
elected have been his special studies
almost from boyhood.
His record in all respects is pure and
sound, and it challenges the closest
scrutiny.
In himself he is worthy, and he is fit.
But recently great and wise conven-
ton of the party to which most of the
people of Arkansas belong put him
forth as candidate for the Presidency
with an applause rarely witnessed.
This convention met with the purpose,
among others of selecting some one for
that great office, and its will should be
respected and sustained by all claiming
to belong to that party. There could
be no differences on the subject after
the convention had spoken-not one.
Conventions are great political
agencies to settle all differences and to
unite the voters upon men and
measures. They are valueless If after
they speak we are to disregard their
actions. 1t is rare indeed that anyone
is entirely pleased with all a convention
does, but he must not set up his judg-
ment against its work, and desert.
Conventions are undone, social
machinery is undone. and political
machinery, social life, is undone if this
rule is to obtain. We have heard of
the one wise and dutiful juror standing
out against the obstinate eleven-of the
mountain and Mohammed-of the tail
wagging the dog, etc. In the language
of our Judge Thurman: This won t
do, sir.
The boy argument used or attempted
to be used against him is of no avail
when we see and know his deeds and
acts, and when we reflect that many of
the ablest and best generals and states
men and jurists have made their impress
deep and solid upon history before they
were his age. From Cicero to Bacon,
and from Bacon to our own Judge
Story, we see this fully illustrated.
Instances upon instances could be
added, but it is useless. His utterances
and his works show ample maturity,
and it is simply case Of an ''old head
on a young body.
The trust he has, up to date, held and
discharged breaks the force of any such
argument as this, If there be any force
in it. A. FL. GARLAND,
Elk Attorney General of the is.
Hominy Hill, Ark.