The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-10-15

language of laymen. in Gov. Flowers
characterization OF Bryan as unsteady
ana unsafe. This aracterization has
peeh borne out more strongly by what
Mr.. Bryan has been saying and doing
since than what he had said and done
before. The Times some weeks ago gave
compilation OF the most extravagant
anu sehseiess or his utterances up 20
that time The compilation is much ex-
panded and brought down to date in the
current number OF Harper's Weekly by
Mr.. FRANKLIN Mathews; and the result Is
very striking. Nobody can look through
u without feeling that these are not the
sayings OF a sane and sober mind An
other document OF almost equal import
ance. Is the series of three Photographic
snap shots at Bryan in the act of de-
hvering an Grafton. originally published
IN an Iowa newspaper. They have been
republished in more than one periodical
in this city. but they deserve a much
Wider circulation. No impartial person
VINO had looked at them. even il he had
no other evidence on the subject. could
believe that the person thus represented
was ut TO be the chief magistrate OF
great nation.
IL does not follow that these indications
OK an unbalanced and Inlsound mind are
Indications or sucn lack of balance AMI
possessor OF 1t Is insane, in a legal or
medical sense. but that he is afflicted
with decisions as 10 matter of fact That
Is a question Tor expert alienisrs and our
correspondent suggests the view that ex-
perts are likely TO take of IT, But il can
not have escaped the attention OF any
reader Of the reports that there is a pro-
gFesSiFe increase in the recklessness and
the vanity OF the candidates speeches.
h.1
collection OF them will form a valuable
psychological document. the history OF a
ease" IL is extremely unlikely that
whsn he first took the stump Mr. Bryan
would have had either the reclklessnesz
or the vanity TO say OF the westward
movement Of gold that Il had been caused
by his nomination. This monssrous as
ser,ioa is almost equally significant and
dlscouraging whether we regard IL as
having bee0 honestly or dishonesty
made. Equally amazing in it's reckless
ness is his invocation In Brooklyn of the
name OF Beecher in behalf OF the free
coinage OF silver az a false ratio. II was
this reckicssnesE that enabled Mr.. Depew
20 counter upon him with terrific force
by quoting Bescher's explicit declaration
in favor CT the gold standard.
What. however, mos, o, all entities IA
10 say that Br. Bryan ia of unsound
MIND. whether we cAN MS condition I'M
soundness in English or insanity in Latin.
81 that his procedures are not adaptations
az INTEL gent means 20 intelligent ends.
His os;enssh,e object Is TO be elected to the
presidency. aud hts speeches are supposed
70 be means "a that end. Why. then does
he not make them where there is a chance
that they may be effective. IN the doubtful
states Of the Vest Why does he speak in
Philadelphia. in Brooklyn In New Eng
land after the elections in Vermont and
Maine have shown him v hat ne has 20 ex-
peef theres can IL be possible that he re-
CARDS PENNSYLVANIA and New York and
New Eng and as doubttul- Has ne the
diseased vanity 20 suppose that anything
he can say VII affect the result IN these
ccrnmuat.es= or is * that his vanity Is
satlafed ard his real object Is attained
when re addresses crowded houses n Phil
a6eirhlA and Brooklyn. and faces Soaa
people on Boston Common. that talking
- with hin not a means. bat an end7 In
ether case = Il not plain ;aat the mans
mind Is net sound. and that lis unsound-
ness Is increasing