Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-11-04
BRYAN AND SEWALL.
Tom Watson Sums Up Candl-
date Sewall's Trouble.
Why BRYAN AVOIDED MAINE.

Tho southern Candidate Declare. That
Unis. MIR. sewaii Is shaken There Il
No Hope Eor snver-says That Mr..
sewall's Nomination Was Intenced a..
Balm For tho Mouopolies and Trusts.
why Does Bryan Avoid tho Tarlr?
Bryan's Invasion OF the Enemy's Coun-
try.
BY THOMAS f. WATSON.
FURNISHED Exclusively to tho New York
Worldly
THOMPSON. Ga. Aug. IT,
Mr.. Sewalfs speech OF acceptance was
modest echo of Mr.. Bryan's. and Mr..
Bryan's dwelt upon one topic alone-the
silver question. IL is true that no made
a few general references to trusts and
devoted paragraph to the income tax.
but the one subject which he dwelt upon
was silver.
Upon this issue Mr.. Bryan spoke Mt
length and with great power OF state
ment and reasoning. He himself would
hardly claim that he has originated any
new argument upon u question which
which has been so thoroughly handled
In speeches, books and editorials during
the last 10 or 10 years.
His presentation of silver claims was
not so comprehensive as that made in
tho elaborate speech Of Senator John z.
Jones in Nevada in 1900; his arraiVn-
ment Of the evils OF contraction was not
so graphic as that made by Congress.
man Charles Towne in 1895, or that
made by Congressman William III. Eel.
ton OF 1876, nor were his answers TO the
objections made 10 free coinage so ample
as those made in the recent speech Of
Senator Daniel.
But we think that never before have
the merits % tho case against the single
gold standard been better stated in the
same number OF words than Mr.. BRYAN
stated them IN his Madison Square ad-
dress.
Was the New York Trip n suocessP
This much being said. the question
still remains: WAS the trip to New
York SUGGEST" Did the invasion Of
the enemy country result in triumph ?
We think MT. Mr.. Bryan wrote his
speech ut his home in Nebraska and
went TO New York for the express pur-
pose of wif"ing great personal victory
by delivering it. He hoped TO electrify
his hearers and put his campaign on "a
boom. IL was said confidently that he
would go ri6 1t ON from Eew York and
''invade' New England. The Gulf
stream OF the Bryan oratory was relied
upon to roll genially through those chilly
regions and to warm the icebergs of
Maine itself into thaw.
The results have been quite different.
Mr. Bryan ON his way TO New York
spoke so often and so much that when
the time came for him 10 make the great
speech he oodld not make it. He WIS
worn out. His throat was sore andEnis
voice husky, and when the audience
saw that they must sit in the swelterinR
heat for two hours while an exhausted
orator read n speech they could not hear,
they very naturally began to walk out.
knowing that the newspapers would all
have the speech the next morning.
Lost His Audience.
The people went away by thousands
while the plucky but tired ont orator
painfully plodded through his manu-
script. No man living could under these
circumstances have done better than Mr..
Bryan, possibly no other man could
have done 80 well As an essay on tho
silver question his paper was success.
1t will live and IL will convince thou.
sands of readers and make thousands OF
votes. But as a speech it was failure.
The success of an essay is judged by
its influence upon those who read, but
the success of n speech must ever be
judged by it, effect upon the audience.
II is rema kable that in his speech of
acceptance Iir. Bryan should have com
pletely Ignored those planks In his
platform reL.ting to national banks. to
railroads. AID TO the tariff. To each OF
these plankF the people who will follow
Mr. Bryan's future attach vast import
ance. Upon no subject did Mr.. Jeffer-
son, so often quoted by Mr. Bryan, ex-
press himself more forcibly or more fire.
quently than on that OF national banks
Of issue He hated them, feared them
and fought them with all the zeal of a
fanatic. yet his brilliant young disciple
is forced 70 keep silent upon that issue,
although 1t is inseparably connected
WIN NA' '4ShNy NepatADhs WHICH uB 30
ably discussed.
why He Ignored tho TariR ana the
Trusts.
Why did Mr.. Bryan have to keen
mum on that topic? Because OF the fact
that Arthur Sewall, his running mare.
is n national banker Again, there was
the question of the tariff. The last
legacy which the patient public re.
ceived from a Democratic Congress
was q tariff bill which even Cleveland
would not sign. a Democratic Presi.
dent indicted IL a. being Che offspring Of
party perhdy and party dishonor." It's
sugar schedule was sold in advance 20
the Sugar <frust and was written ns
Havemeyer wanted 10 by Cabinet Off.
Ger It's eight-year Government loan OF
more than hundred million every year
80 the Whisky Trust was Democratic
surrender to a Rrasping syndicate All
through th.s unsigned tariff bin ran the
protective feature Illustrating class
legislation in iis most nnpudemt and Oh.
pressivc forfa. AID yet Mr Bryan. who
FIRST won fame by lbs ariT-reform
speech, uttcrs no prOscst against this
protective tariff
= Poor Way 20 Feat Mckinley.
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