The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-07-29

!ioS UIusH anu coIHp, ana tumDleS and
losses with a method Of its own. This
hayward black hair, coarse as a ponys.
would give Bryan shaggy effect were
1t not for the relief he brings the situation
by completely shaving his face. No
beard, no mustache, 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 pulpiteer.
There is nothing soft, yielding or ef.
Terminate about Bryan; nothing of the
willow. His eye is dark. his complexion
swarthy. with the British, not the Span
ish swarthiness; his nose an emphatic
curve. his mouth we'll widened and Arm.
and the whole face founded on a Jaw. the
very seat of power, and as square hewn
and indomitable as if cut from the living
rock.
It is mistake to call Bryan a "Popu-
listic blatherskite," as paper with more
of billingsgate than brains recently did.
Bryan's whole instinct is conservative.
He goes not easily to the new. Like all
well balanced, all well-built men, BRYAN
is creature Of his own environment. He
Is for low tariff; yes. He Is for an in
come tax, an anti-optiOn BILL q free silver
dollar; yes. He is for all of these. Why?
Because they are as naturally a Nebras-
kan product of principle as corn is a nat
ural Nebraskan product Of the SOIL
There would be neither sense nor Justice
in alarming an east, not much acquainted
with the man at best, by picturing Bryan
as some Danton or some Robespierre; the
apostle of disorder, bent to cast all into
chaos with blood. Bryan is nothing Of the
sort. He is WISE he is faithful to trust
honest, with the probity of the sun; NOR
ally as well as physically brave, and,
above all, as much the patriot as any
who at our country's beginning suffered
ttNvs~rr rrtS "nl1 -
town.
1t skills not, aids not, yields nothing to
the comfort or glory of the gold or any
other cause to belle this man. Give him
his due and tell Of him the truth as one
would have done had he arrived from
Massachusetts instead of Nebraska or
in his political upcome been able to show
railroad or bank in his pedigree. His
honesty, his sincere patriotism are not
to be irnpugned. What he asks for ma
tionally may be proper subject of debate,
and perchance refusal, but the man HIM
self is no more to be corroded than gold !;
no more to be corrupted than diamond,
Personally, Bryan will win all who APP
proach him. AS a man, none who know
him will refuse him resepct. Politically,
Jefferson would adopt him; Jackson take
his hand and espouse his cause. Young
as he is, Bryan is of the old party, and
in his nomination the careful searcher
L
Gent Democracy.
It is excellent in Mr.. Bryans favor that
he is founded on himself. No coterie
controls him; no syndicate has paid his
debts and holds in it's strong box $11S, 900
of his uncanceled notes of hand to be some
sword OF Damocles suspended over him as
man or president. All there is OF Bryan Is
Bryan, unless one excerpts his wife, who,
, with all that's good about him, is the best
thing about him still. She is woman
tender and true, cultured and refined, and
has been a stimulus and as well a star to
guide in all Of Bryan's life. She will win
we'll AMI wear long. should fate find her on
March next 'the first lady of the land
3 Bryan is called magnetic Men like
him. He is pleasant to the eye, to the ear
and soothes by his presence. and never
troubles. No man ever saw him in a
passion. He is cool and Of fiawless temper.
No flush Of irritation ever Redeemed his
cheek. He is of good poise and his emo
lions sit steadily, as becomes the emotions
OF one who, with care for himself. eats
thrice day. SCOTS at dyspepsia and
sleeps soundly of nights.
Bryan is we'll, even highly educated
He has dug through books and tunneled
learning equal with any dusty, musty co.,
lege professor fthem all. More than
books, he has studied men and their lives
have been his lessons. He has memory
like wax, and all he has heard, or read, or
Bryan is not so profound as quick; and
with an intellect rather military than phil
oSOphical, he makes weapons of all he
knows and every scrap ct learning belong
ing to him is at prompt and ready hand
to be either defensive or offensive, as his
swift genius for combat may decide.
It is not too much to say Of Bryan that
the arena OF politics presents no one today
who, with fuller information, more pleas
Ing address. more ready eloquence and q
ready wit, can cope with and overcome
him. / don't want to discourage anybody
about to follow that leader In the chains Of
a syndicate. but in any form OF politics
Bryan would out-top and overpower Nc
Kinley as might a man child
During the Fifty-second congress the
tariff affairs of the Democracy went limp
ing. The popgun bills that Springer
framed had neither dignity nor tone. They
were quietly sreere1 at by the Democrats
and jeered and scoffed at by the Republi-
cans in every high and open place. 1t
was not until Bryan made his first tariff
speech in the house that the Democracy
took heart and regarded life worth living.
Il It wasH wonderful thing in oratory, this
first tariff speech Of Bryan. 1t was even
more Of triumph than the Chicago elo-
auence of the other day.
On this tariff question the Republicans
with the cynical Reed at their head, were
there to carp and say sharp things, and
ask sharp questions and make bitter in
terruptions. One after another the ora
ter Of the Democracy, some Of them old
IN forensic war. had been riddled by
Reeds sarcasm and made to ny. Crisp,