The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-11-12

take in nominating man for President
who was barely past the constitutional
age. But they did not entertain this
idea long. His great speech in the
Chicago convention was only sample
of what the people we're to get in the
campaign. He made short tour
through Illinois and Iowa on his
way home from Chicago, making a
different speech at each town and the
people were simply astounded at his
wonderful command of language and his
superb tact in grasping all vital ques-
tions. On August he started on his
grand tour to New York where he re-
ceived the notification of his nomination.
A speech was madein every town of any
consequence and in no speech did he
repeat himself. He returned by another
route addressing thousands and tens of
thousands of people at every important
| centre. He afterwards made a tour
through the South and as far east as
Maine and then back to Nebraska again.
The day before election he started from
his home in Lincoln going west to Grand
Island and then back to the eastern part
Of the state, winding up at Omaha in
the evening. He travelled over 800
miles and made % speeches in one day,
and this marvellous exhibition of energy
and endurance was given after he had
already travelled $1,000 miles and made
over 500 speeches, the most of them in
the open air. No such campaign was
ever made before in the political history
of any country in the world.
Mr.. Bryan is beyond question the
greatest campaigner and stump orator in
the country. When we consider that
he was deserted by at least million
Democrats; aggressively and vindictively
opposed by the railroad corporations
and the combined powers Of all the
trusts and syndicates in the country, and
then fired upon by Hanna's heaviest
guns from which belched forth volleys
of Doodle, it is great wonder that he
carried any states at all. Mckinley is
a great campaigner but he never saw the
day that he could match Bryan on the
hustings. Blaine was great man to
fire the Republican heart with new zeal
and make them enthusiastic for the
principles he advocated, but he would
have broken down physically before
reaching the quarter pole in the canvass.
Douglass, in his day, was the Rupert OF
, debate and the Rienzi of the people, but
he could not have made the effective
campaign that Bryan did against multi
piled power with odds seemingly insu-
perable. In fact there was but one ma 1
in the country that was equal to such a
: contest and that man was William j,
Bryan.
But Mr.. Bryan is not dead politically,
and he will be heard from in the future.
He is defeated in this contest because
corrupt engineries we're more than a
match for public opinion. But the vic
tors of today are more than likely to be
, the vanquished in four years from now.
The battle to restore silver to the place il
occupied prior to 1873 is conflict as
irrepressible and one-sided as that be-
tween freedom and slavery, and it is
only question of time and short time
t at that, when this great economic ques'
ton will be settled on the side of the
people. Then will the blessings Of
. government like the dews from heaven
be dispensed alike upon the rich and the
poor, the high and the low.