The Brinkley argus., 1898-03-24
A M. ]. BRYAN CONVERT

Bryan, who has been making | tour thro' the South for the no.. few weeks, is everywhere makin. converts to the cause of si)ve, .Among the many was Editor Iav
 ess. of the Macon, (Ga.) News
 lis "confessioi'' is quite inser. csting and reads as follows:
 'It is putting it mildly to say that Mr. Bryan's speech, deliye, ed in this city to an audience as2 five or six thousand people lsst3 night, even amazed his most ar.a dent admirers and most devoted adherents of bimetallism.
 "It did more; itconvinced, con. verted more people who were on, posed to the free silver theory than any argument, oral or writ ten, ever presented to them he. fore. And, after all, the best way to judge of speech is by tba] result-the effect produced upon1 them to whom it is addressed.
 sWe believe we do not exageer.1
 
 ate the effect of MT. Bryan's effort] in Macon when we say it convert.] ed nearly every man who was opep] to conviction. Mind, we do not| say it converted every gold stand. ardist who heard it, for thers were many such-even though they will not admit it-who, fof| some reason ol another, are not open to conviction.
 Speaking for ourselves, and! we think we also speak for several hundred others, we were not ofl MT. Bryan's way of thinking onl the financial problem. We .ac.| cepted' but could not .indorse'l the Chicago platform. For thel sake of party regularity, and for| the sake of other interests and] other principles which democracyI involves, we preferred to swalloV| the free silver plank rather than| jump overheard, to be picked up| bya craft manned by a crew asso.| citation with whom is worse thau| submission-yea, debasing and unbearable to one for whom dem ocracy has done so much, and to| whom republicanism has done its worsta southern born whitl ]snan.
 s.For these and other reasons1 we. preferred to saccept'~the Chia cago platform, free silver plaui and all.Twelve months of rd publican rule had helped to recon cile us even more to that platfo1 but we were still unable to honesh2 ly believe in it's free silver plaul we were simply on the mourR CTS bench. And it has been ou observations that there were thou sands of other democrats ill out fix. We went to hear BryanI viking to be, but not expecting be, converted. We came avn with the scales removed from ol eyes-completely converted, m happy in our conversion. Au from conversation with scores bother democrats who were i'll sou 1 fix, we find that their conversio was as complete as our own. l s.Mr. Bryan's visit to Macc4 has demonstrated, beyond th shadow of a doubt, that bimetal flism is the surest, swift solutiol Iof the present problems, and .tha Ithis conviction will grow the mon lthis great champion of 'equ1 rights to all, special privileges none expounds to them the tra principles of that doctrine.
 "It has been jour privilege hear some of the ablest argument ever uttered in opposition to ME Bryans theory of finance, but V fail to recall any objection tha Mr. Bryan did not fully anssd and completely annihilated h night.
 Speaking for ourselves, V are glad that we have been con vinced, and like man, we inaglaa who has found the light of reliS ious faith, we want everyone elA to become convinced-to sec ias flight.
 Democracy, with it's free sl'
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