The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-23

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He is for low tariff; yes He is for an
income tux, an anti. option bill, n free
| silver dollar; yes. He is for all of these.
| Why! Because they are as naturally q
Nebraskan product of principle as corn is
a.natural Nebraskan product of the soil.
There would be neither sense nor JUS
| tice in alarming the East, not much ac-
| quainted with the man mt best, by pictur-
ing Bryan as some Danton or some Rob
espierre, 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 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
Mt our country's beginning suffered
| through Valley Forge to rejoice at n
Yorktown. 1t skiIls 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 ar
rived from Massachusetts instead of Ne
braska or in his political upcome been
| able to show a railroad bank in his
pedigree. His honesty, his sincere pa
triotism are not to be impugned. What
he asks for nationally may be proper
subject of debate and, perchance, refusal,
but the man himself is no more to be cor
rupted than diamond.
Personally, Bryan will win all who ap-
proach him. AS man none who know
him will refuse him respect. 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 search
er will find only renaissance of the an
Gent Democracy. 1t is excellent in Brv-
ans favor that he is founded on himself
No coterie controls him; no syndicate has
paid his debts and holds in his strong box
Sis, 600 OF his uncancelled notes of hand
to some sword of Damocles suspended
over him as man or President. All
there is of Bryan is Bryan, unless one ex-
cepts his wife, who, with all that's good
about him, is the best thing about him
still. She is Il woman tender and true,
cultured and refined, and has been a
simulus as we'll as II star to guide, in all
of Bryan life. She will win we'll and
wear long should fate find her on March
A next ''the first lady of the land.''
Bryan is what they call magnetic. -
Men like him. He is pleasant to the
eye, to the ear, and soothes by his pres
ence 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
",
come the emotions of one who, with care
for himself, eats thrice ii day, SCOTS at
dyspepsia and sleeps soundly at nights
Bryan is well, even highly, educated
He has dug through books and tunneled
learning equal with any dusty, musty col
lege professor of them all. More than
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 or seen abides with him.
Bryan is not so profound as quick, and
with an intellect rather military than
philosophical, he makes weapons of all
he knows and every scrap of learning be-
longing to him is at prompt and ready
hand to be either defensive or offensive,
as his swift genius or combat may decide
1T is not too much to say of Bryan that
the arena of politics presents no one to.
day who, with fuller information. more
pleasing address, more ready eloquence,
ana a quicker wit, can cope with and
overcome him. / don't want to discour-
age anybody about to follow that leader
in the chains of a syndicate, but in any
form of politics Bryan would outtop and
overpower Mckinley as might a man a
child
During the Fifty second Congress the
tariff affairs of the Democracy went linn
ing. The popgun bills that Springer had
framed had neither dignity nor tone
They were quietly sneered at by the Demo-
Gratis and jeered and scotfed at by the
Republicans in every high and open place
1t was not until Bryan mades his first
tariff speech in the House that the Demo.
cracy took heart and regarded life worth
living. 1t was wonderful thing in ora
tory, this first tariff speech of Bryan.
1t was even more of a triumph than the
Chicago eloquence of the other day. On
this tariff occasion the Republic ans with
the cynical Reed at their head, were there
to carp and say sharp things and ask
sharp questions and make bitter inter
ruption. One after another the orators
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. At last Bry-
an was sent into the thick of the House
battle. He came with the advantage of
musical voice, bright eye, and pleas
ing personality. Nor did he talk ten
minutes until he developed the fact that
he was master of English and had as
well such a command of the subjects as
comes only TO men who have burned the
midnight lights of studious preparation.
1t is of no avail peculiarly TO 90 In de-
IAN over debate that's long since over
and gone. Suffice it that Bryan's speech
was the event of the session. Every
fhrIfu1 of Reed no