The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-03-26

fHHH'ff- OF me temperate parry W.
wants 20 arouse the masses OF the Dem
ocrats. and commit them again 10 the
dangerous and suicidal Chicago platform.
Otherwise his political lie VIII be snuffed
out But will Mr. Bryan succeed Tho
people do not mind living IN an uDroar
three months IN every four years but
can he get the body Of the citizens stirred
Hp 20 1--we tn a froth and fury for eighteen
months. For our part. we prefer quietude
and business. and nothing Is 10 be gained
0y attempting 20 slap man I'm the face
who extends you courteous invitation
10 dinner.
4 learned Judge Of Virginia who IN his
enthusiasm for free silver. left his bench
10 make stump speeches Tor Bryan re-
marked upon reading the correspondence
between Mr.. Bryan and Mr. Belmont.
"Wel Bryan has al last killed himself
This is perhaps too extreme view 20
take OF this. Virginians are conservative.
They do not ike such clap-trap methods
as the young Westerner introduced into
this dinner business But 10 may enable
not only Vi-ginians but other people 10
take "a nearer and clearer view OF Mr..
Bryans personality. Heretofore the
Bryan that has existed IN the magma
tions Of the Virginia people has been the
ideal BRYAN. not the real man. lie ilared
upon them like a young comet out Of the
SKY by his Chicago speech. and In the
hard. distressful years of 1895 -. he look
I'd as il he were A champion OF the fun-
damental rights Of man. AT any Tate.
they id0lized him as such. They had
never heard him before and their whole
impres eion 81 him came during the glow
paicn. They would not hear any thing
detrimental 20 him they would not look
iehind the stage 10 watch the machinery
and the creaking cords and puileys aud
wires by means OF which bee produced his
effects They applauded him just as an
audience would applaud "a great traseoian
who walked the boards with heroic pose
and shook his INST az the tightening and
just as an audience would not know the
same man If they should meet nina on
the streets the next day. $50 the people.
seeing BRYAN only in grand stagic DAYS.
have never known him as a real man liV-
ing an every day existence. His own state
of Nebraska seems 10 boz finding him out.
and although it is a Western state. and
a strictly agricultural State. and Is said
10 be largely plastered with mortgages.
and the temptation held out 20 pay those
mortgages of I'm cheaper dollars. yet that
State has repudiated SIR. Bryan. and has
turned it's back ON the allied silver Re
pubncans. Populists and Democrats. and
sends Mr. Hayward, q svaight-out gold
Republican 20 the United States senate
II Mr.. Bryan cannot hold his own state
I'm line. where ITS people have every I'M
centive 70 take Up with free silver doc
trines. and where they can live and JOY
IN his personal presence. why should he
De the personal dictator TO the Democratic
party
Behind the ideal Bryan there is self
seeking Bryan Who is $50 unwise Co.. think
that these flying trips from banquet to
banquet across the continent. these ado
dresses before this body and that body.
this abandonment OF any Legitimate pro-
fession. this leaving Of home and hreside.
does not mean that there is seething in
his bosom q personal ambition? 10 is not
the compelling and Oyermasterng love
OF his race and Of down-trOdden human
fly such as his blind followers would try
90 make MS believe. At the Chicago Com
ycntion. before Bryan had made his
tcross Of gold" speech. his personal
friend Charlie Collins OF Little Rock.
said that they were there as a delegation
Ostensibiy for Bland. but that they eN-
pected 10 nominate Bryan. Bryan had
visited Collins home q short while before.
and I'm the parlor of Collins house was
a large portrait OF his friend. Bryan. Was
there not IN this little treachery 90 good
old farmer Bland2 We heard with our own
ears al Chicago young friend OF Bryan
from Nebraska come down 10 the railing
and send an assistant sergeant-dt-arms
over 10 BryaH's seat and bring him 10
where he was for his conference
and this young man told Mt
prvon that DE had seen the
Kentucky delegates and that. after Joe
blackburn was dropped. they had agreed
10 come to Bryan. This also was before
Mr Rrvan's speech So that 10 Is delu-
sion 10 think that Bryan was nominated
without also laying the wires and triggers
beforehand. He. too. knows something
about machine politics. and. they say
runs very effective one in the state
of Nebraska one of the United states
Senator's whose name is a synonym tor
probity and courtesy. who was well aware
Of all these efforts OF Mr.. Bryan. re-
marked when Mr.. Bryan was nominated
and the platform adopted. The Whole
thing has gone to h-li" And then the
honorable Senator came home 60 cheer
his people on by the magic Of his elo-
quence to an acceptance Of Bryan and
the Chicago platform.
Back Of the self-seekine BRYAN Is the
busy-body Bryan. He talks about the
gall and efrontery" Of the New York
Democrats In celebrating Iener-on's
birthday. "The gall and effrontery' OF
this young Nebraskan is sublime. lie Is
the heaven-appointed prophet OF Democ-
racy. He waits not 10 consult with others
He fires loose a telegram from Jackson
VILE the minute he is free from the army
committing the Democratic party to the
ratification OF the treaty OF peace with
ont any provisions In that treaty which
would have avoided this horrible and in
termnable war. In the Philippine Islands.
He T. equally sharer with Mckinley i'm
prccirltating that war and creating the
confusion and entanglements existing
there. Mr.. German. and Senator Daniel
A. Vest and az hers would b.,-. L.a -