The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-15

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Up by shrey,d Correspondent.
Bryan Man without Vices and
with a Good Voice.
From the New York Journal
Chicago. July l0.-The county Is about
70 hear a vast deal Of William Jennings
Bryan. He stands to-day on the threshold
OF national advertisement. No apology is
needed as preliminary to telling all one
knows OF him.
Ny first glimpse OF Bryan was during
the speakership fight, when Crisp won
over Mills. December, 1891. and was given
the House gavel in the Fifty-second con-
gress Bryan had been elected from one
OF the middle districts OF Nebraska. He
made his advent in Washington about two
weeks before congress convened At once
DE attached himself TO the Springer boom
for the speakership. 1t wasn't much of a
boom. but IL was big enough for Bryan,
and he voted for Springer to the bitter
end
There were Ave candidates at the start:
Mills. Crisp, Hatch. Springer and McMH-
lin. 1t came finally to two-Mills and
Crisp Bryan, whose name on the caucus
list was called earlier than Sprnger's,
had already voted for the Illinois states
man, and he let IL stand. Bryan never
voted for Crisp.
Bryan was given position on the ways
and means q coign of legislative vantage,
for which all House members struggle.
bryans elevation by Crisp TO this EN-
nent House perch was due to two matters
geography and Springer Bryan was In
the right spot on the map. Aside from
that, when Springer agreed to bring his
people TO crisp, II was distinctly specth-
cation that Spr.ngers friends were to be
cared for. The deal was made in the
House lobby.
for Crisp" said OFerrall, now governor
of Virginia. then one of Crisps three chief
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Cochran and Gen.
Tom Catchngs were the others-"if you
are ever going to the aid of Crisp" re-
peated O'Ferrall, speaking to Springer
and Holman, the time TO do so has ar
rived, 1t Is now or never"
Can you VIM asked Springer, anx-
lousy. If / bring you the few friends
who are left TO me, can you elect your
mun2'I don't ask on my own account. But
I've held these men of mine in a slaugh-
ter pen for two days. l won't lead them in
another"
We can elect Crisp If you will help us,
declared OFerrall, land every friend Of
yours will be looked after"
Il ask nothing for myself, said Spring
er," but l want these men who have stood
with me through heat and trouble taken
care Of"
1T shall be done" said oFerran. MY
word and honor on it,"
nhat was the deal which made Crisp
Speaker, and which proved the tap root Of
Bryan nomination FIVE years later at Chi
cagO. O'Ferrall and Springer little thought
as they conferred in the House lobby that
they were selecting democratic candidate
for the. Presidency five years from that
time. But, none the less, they were. It
elected Crisp to the chair, placed Bryan
ON the ways and means with Springer
chairman, and opened an avenue to House
prominence for the young Nebraskan that
| proved his political beginning in a nation
al way.
The Fifty-second congress which follow
| ed the overthrow of McKinleyism was
| rife OF young men. Among the most prom
| inent of these We're three from Massa-
| chusetts-Andrew, George Fred Williams.
| and sherman Hoar. These were about
| Bryan's age. They were early In meeting
| the boy from the Platte. and they Visibly
| felcitated themselves on ther-as they
! took it-superiority over him. AS day
/ drlfted in the wake of day this superior
| ity' they joyed in was found to be imag-
| mary, not real.
Bryan is in person of middle height.
strongly, and without giving anyone
| fatty impression, stockily built. His
| shoulders are broad enough to excite the
| approval of a Morse viking; his chest is
| as deep as that of race horse. Nor Is
| he overabundant about the waist, and he
| looks what he is, man of perfect health
| and immense physical power
Mounted on Bryan's square shoulders
is square head. His hair is black ana
| brush and comb, and tumbles and losses
| with a method of its own. This wayward
| black hair, coarse as a pony's, would give
| Bryan shaggy effect were 1t not for the
| relief he brings the situation by complete
! ~ shaving his face. No beard, no mus
! tache. has the freedom of Bryan's visage
| Every trace is carefully moved away
with the light Of each new day. and when
| the world meets the young statesman he's
| as SNUG and smooth as a pulpiteer
There is nothing soft, yielding or effemi-
| nate about Bryan; nothing of the willow
| His eye Is dark, his complexion swarthy
with the British not the Spanish swarthi-
ness; his nose an emphatic curve his
/ mouth well widened and firm, and the
! whole face founded on jaw, the very
| seat of power, and as square hewn and
indomitable as If cut from the living
/ rock
1t is mistake to call Bryan 'popu
listic blatherskite," as a paper with more
| of billlngsgate than brains recently ala
| Bryan's whole instinct is conservatives
| He goes not easily to the new Like ali
! well balanced, all well built men, BRYAN
is a creature of his environments He is
| Tor low tarin; yes. He is for an income
| tax, an anu-option bill, free silver dol
| lar; yes. He is for all of these Whv?
| Because they are as naturally Nebras-
kan product OF principle as corn is a nat
ural Nebraskan product of the soil
There would be neither sense nor ius-
| tice in alarming an east, not much ac-
quainted with the man at best. by pictur-
! INK bI All as sOile OdnlOn or some Robe
| sphere, the apostle of disorder. bent to
cast all into chaos and then cement chaos
! with blood. Bryan Is nothing of the sort
He is wise, he is faithful TO a trust; hon
est with the probity of the sun: morally
as well as physically brave, and. above
all, as much the patriot as any. who
at our countrys beginning, suffered
through Valley Forge to rejoice at a
! Yorktown
Bryan is what they call magnetic. !"
Men like him. He is pleasant to the eve
TO the ear. and soothes by his presence
and never troubles. No man ever saw him
in a passion. He is cool and of aawless
temper. No flush of irritation ever red
dened his cheek, He is of good poise and
his emotions sit steadily, as becomes me
emotions Of one who, with care for him
self eats thrice a day. SCOTS at dyspepsia
and sleeps soundly at nights
Bryan is wei, even highly educated
He has dug through books and tunnelled
learning equal with any dusty musty col
lege professor of them all More than
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