The Irish standard., 1896-07-25


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him He stsspleas ant to the eye, to
and soothes BY his prgsence and lieVsal
stroubles man ever saw HIM IN
passion. HIS Isl cool andsof haWless temper
No flush of sirrft atlpn ever Redeemed his
Cheek. He is OF good poise and his emo.
tio1ls SIT steadily as becomes the eIl1otIoni
Ct sonea who cslaeS fer hilnlsel eau
thrice q day, SCOTS at dyspepsia ~ and
sleeps soundly OF nj hts.
81 Bryan is well. even highly educated
He has dug through books and tunneled
learning equal with any dusty, nusty col,
lege professor o. fthem all. More thar
books, he has studied men and their lives
have been his lessons. He has a memory
like wax, and all he has heard, or read, 81
seen, abides With him. #s1ssz8.
BRYAN is not SO profound as quick; and
with an int elect rather military than phil
ogophical, he makes. weapons of all he
knows. and every scrap Of 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 Isl not too much to say Of Bryan that
who, with fuller information, more pleas
ing address, more ready eloquence and:a
ready wit, can cope with and overcome
him I don't want to discourage anybody
about to follow, that leader in the chains OF
syndicate, but in any form Of politics
Bryan would out-top and overpower Nc
Kinley as might a. man a 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
We're quietly sreered 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
1t was wonderful thing in oratory, this
first tariff speech of Bryan. It was even
more of triumph than the Chicago elo-
quence Of the other day.
On this tariff question the Republicans
with the cynical Reed at their head, We're
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 fly. Crisp,
in the chair, was also in despair. al last
Bryan was sent into the thick of house
battle. He came with the advantages Of
a musical voice, bright eye and a pleas
ing personality. Nor did he talk ten min
utes until he developed the fact that he
was a master of English, and had as well
such command Of the subject as comes
only to men who have burned the mid
night lights of studious preparation
1t is of no avail peculiarly to go in de-
tail over debate that's long since over
and gone. Suffice it that Bryan's speech
was the event OF the session. Every
thrust of Reed he parted; every blow he
stopped and countered. Time and again
the Big Man from Maine was made to
draw back from collisions he had sought
himself, discontinue in his face, while
the house howled. 80 as
For a new mara young man, one who
had never talked ten minutes in the house
before-the feat was marvellous. At the
close of his effort Crisp and the fathers
Of the house congratulated him, and even
Republicans, while disagreeing came over
and shook him by the hand. That speech
saved the reputation of the house Democ-
racy and fixed forever Bryan's standing
as master Of forensic fence.
What was to be admired was the abso-
lutte stability of the man; no more to be
than mountain; no more TO
be. put to flight than a tree.
In the Fifty-second and the Fifty-third
Bryan was in the fore-fronts
of the party battle many times. In his
second congress, while still! member of
the ways and means, with Wilson at the
for the Wilson bill, but speech SO full
and exhaustive for free silver, 16 to L., that
Of Texas himself the Socra-
ties of the house Democracy, said: n
6 ''That exhausts the subject. It's the
best possible setting forth that the cause
of free silver can get 4.{5 =
During his congressional career Bryan
led up the forces for low tariff, free silver,
free sugar. the income tax, fought to re-
peal the national bank acts, and consist
emily aided Uncle William Hatch to pass
his anticipation. On appropriations Bryan
was against extravaganza, and stood as
the persistent champion of economy With
his own people he was always leader,
and the Nebraska senators came often to
the house to gain his views.
Bryan is a Presbyterian in religion He
is often in the pulpit as a lecturer. Po-
litically he refuses no call to speak,. He
once addressed cOncourse of preachers
and then talked politics from saloon bar
on the same day When the house held
a Sunday session Bryan left his seat for
an hour to lecture on the divinity Of Christ
at a church on Capitol HILL
Bryan In his habits is decorors and we'll
within the moral line. He has none of
the vices. When he is president should
that time come, the White House cigar
bill will represent only the consumption
Of visitors, and the wine will be as lacking
as in the abstenious days Of Hays. For
the second time, the world will witness a
White House
Bryan, while master of eloquence. pre-
pares his speeches with care. He writes
them, prunes, pares and rehearses them.
He told me once that he would no more
speak (, without preparation than he'd
plunge wfngless and reckless into an
abyss. His life is quiet, except so far as
he disturbs. it with his pilgrimages of poll
tic. He has no circle of friends; pays and
receives no social visits. He is in no sense
a lady's man. He is not a flower Of So
ciety.
{ In dress Bryan could not be called a
fop. Neither would he excite the car
toonist by any Greeleyan peculiarities of
raiment. His garb is modest and Of dark
reserve. Bryan will win no notice for the
clothes he wears. .4
In epitome Bryan is the west. He
stands by his game and his guns But
ne has nothing Of malice for the east. His
life is simple With his wife as COM
oanion, going. nowhere she might net 60,
ne makes up, existence meeting men, read
ng books, making speeches to further his
political beliefs. j
Such is a. hit or miss sketch of a man
who has ever been consistent; who served
:wo terms in congress without a mark to-
1is discredit; and who only failed Of RE-
election to his third frim an overproduc-
ion of Clevelandisn. He is not O mug
uump, not Populist, but a Democrat
who gets his principles and his inspira-
ions in a party past, before the cancer of
had poisoned its blood. The
party need not blush In shame for it's nom
nee. It has selected as good asDernocrat
Ind as true an American as any who ever
bought bond or owned bank. ~
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