The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-09-19

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sentence which summed it all up. that
sentence which is now a household
pr aver in every saddened and distressed
home. that sentence which has been
taken up all over the land by those who
are compelled to toll all day. week
in and week out, as their rallying ory
of hope and deliverance In this oam.
paigD, as that sentence closed and the
speaker left the platform the whole Con :
vention arose like one man and cheered
and cheered and chsered.
"Of his success in this campaign his
friends have never for moment
doubted. 1t is destiny. The people all
over the country are flocking to his
standard. He will carry very Southern
and Western State. He will carry New
York, New Jersey and Maryland, If the
people are true to themselves. Yes. If
the people are wise, if they are tue. If
they are sincere, ell the banks, all the
corporations and all the millionaires in
the land cannot stop the tidal wave for
William ]. Bryan.
civilian sULZER.
Then follows the biographical sketch
At the head Of this chapter appears a
new name. by William Sulzer." IL
reads. ''and Walter Scott What Mr..
Scott had to do with 1t is not apparent
in the text. Every paragraph bears the
ear marks of Sulzerian style. The fol.
lowing anecdote is pleasing and instruc-
tive:
"It was this habit Of studioas reese arch
acquired In these early days that caused
a young lady employed as stenographer
In his law office at Lincoln to remark
years afterward, Mr.. Bryan was never
at loss for word while debating his
speeches, his briefs, or his corr espond
enos. He never looked in the diction-
AIRY. Why should hef He had read it
all through, and he never forgot a word
In it.
Then the eulosist takes up his desorip-
tive pen, with this result:
"The residence in which Mr.. Bryan
was born is still standing nsar tho vii :
lags of Salem. 1t il of an ordinary type
OF Western farmhouse, nearly square, Ave
windows and a single door in front, To-
Dated few rods back from the road, is
surrounded by dozen shade trees, and
1t would be regarded as mere cottage
in an Eastern town."
A little later he makes this interesting
declaration:
st il not true that Mrs. Bryan writes
his speeches for him..
Mr.. Bryan is still ignorant of the fail
ure Of the book. He is quite sure that
there will be another edition right away.
In this fond hope he has revised the
work while at Irvington with John
Rrisben Walker. In the present edition
Mr.. Sulzer has dwelt upon the Boy Ora
tors remarkable youth:
CAS- boy young Bryan was unusual
~ difident, preferring to wander over
the prairies studying fauna and fora
rather than indulging In the sports en-
joyed by his youthful companions. -
Mr.. Bryan now desires this to read
'As boy young Bryan was rather
difident." Tho rest il to be omitted.
Mr.. Bryan also requests Mr.. Ogilvie
to remove the quotation marks wherever
they appear enclosing the "orowD of
thorns, cross of gold" passage, "inas-
much" he says, "as they are not quoted
from anybody" Even where the para
graph 10 printed in facsimile after
copy specially furnished the publisher by
Mr.. Bryan, he has crossed out the quo
tation marks-presenuing the original
oopy-with heavy black pen Gil marks. 1t
would seem that his sensitiveness on the
point has extended so far that he refuses
to admit that the passage is a quotation
from his own speech. 1t is original,
he seems to claim, each time he repeats
it.
A Sun reporter was informed yesterday
that Mr.. Sulzer had communicated to
Mr.. Ogilvie during the day an assur-
ance that 1t would be best to run the
edition up to 100000 anyway. as the
Popoorat National committee was going
to use the book as a campaign document.
Mr.. Ogilvie would neither affirm nor
deny this statement.
II want a more definite assurance of
sales than I've had yet." said he, "be-
fore even consider printing another
edition. New York Sun.