The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-03
Jim Lane, Burton and BRYAN, the Orator

The attractive and does any
more than the public writer speaker teacher
The gift Of CAB does necessarily indicate an extra add
fionaI endowment of brains. people are prone
value public by so much what he gets off at the
end of his tongue by way gets it off 1t was the
pebble carried under the tongue Demosthenes
the amount quality gray matter carried in his
Uranium, that brought and sent his name bound
ing along the bowling alley of time Whether
the pull the eloquent orator on the public
has ever been analysed PROFESSIONALLY
that pull The of a Moody, or the speech of a
Bryan reduced print upset anybody in
tcular The power facility possessed by these men to
others found in their words in their ar
Tangement in what they or convey It must
therefore nhere in the delivery or in personal
presence, or in gances infections or in all
these combined 1t is that undefnabe thing called eo-
which depends upon occasion and upon the
personal perspective upon any extraor
binary profundt He may neither great nor learned
only loquacious
1t is the dispatches that Bryan is going
away to the Pacific coast for rest Nobody
believes that Bryan is either mentally or physically tired
1t greater for him to make speech than it is
with his neighbor whrng about the country at forty
miles an hour in all kinds weather making from three
TO haldozen speeches every day. for weeks from the
end Of his tire much less exhaust this
who captures conventions enhras his superiors and
parayzes the by his gift of gab And so it is
predicted by those know and have heard him that
Bevedg recently to the United States SEN
ate from Indiana, in possessing in superior degree this
undesirable thing named eoquence will in the exercise Of
1t sway the heads and hearts of the compers that
body the heads Of grain beneath the press
IRE Of the passing breeze, near future
Without Bryan's imposing presence and stalwart
physique Jim was like orator It mattered not how
convictions or how adverse from his own conc
sons the opinions audience in the start at the finish
he had his Will And alike untiring in winding
up his last was then known as Southern
Kansas time only railroads in the state were
in the minds eye Grim Chieftan having made
speech the previous at Council Grove he started
down the old Santa Fe trail stopping short talk at
Charley Withngtons delivered set speech
at Wilmington in wabaunsee county before noon another
after dinner Burngame Usage county the fourth at
Auburn Shawnee county and the fifth at Topeka between
and an hours caucussing with the bows
fresh team landed him in Lawrence between
daybreak and sunrise fresh ready for his
breakfast He had driven distance of nearly one hun
dred miles made five speeches. talking continuously to his
companions between stations of politics the events Of the
war and his fear of Missouri invasion and had not failed
to carry every Of his audiences for political
expedent which all the politicians of the state in
Guiding the then governor were opposed And YET thai
Lane was either orator military genius or an eo
quest statesman still questioned by many and denied in
toto by
Among all the later public men and orators Of Kansas
Ralph Burton Lane as speaker than an,
other Burton has the polish and method of II,
school but less Of the subtlety of Lane Tror
1emporzes where Lane have unanimously plunged
in But in other respects on the platform Burton +
like Lane
Paul Morton on Railway Pooling