Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-04-28
BRYAN
The Man, Politician ,and
Statesman.
A: Presbyterian in Religion
Speaks in Church and Sa-
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Bryan began his public career in
81; four years later six and one-half
million OF voters sought at the ballot
box to make him President. He was
elected and robbed of the election.
1t was money against the peoples
wish, and money won. Bryan is to
day far and away the leading can
didate for nomination in 1900. If
he cultivates breadth and subdues
some natural fanaticIsm, which be-
longs with him he'll be named.
Bryan is Presbyterian in relig-
ion. He is often in the pulpit as a
lecturer. Politically he refuses no
call to speak. He once addressed a
concourse of preachers and then
talked politics from sa.oon bar on
the same day. When the House
held Sunday session Bryan left his
seat for an hour to lecture on the
divinity of Christ at a church on
Capitol Hill.
Bryan in his habit is decorous and
we'll within the moral line. He has
none of the vices. When he is
President, should that time come,
the White House cigar bill will rep
resent only visiting consumption,
and the wine will be as lacking as in
the watery days of Hays. For the
second time the world will witness
temperance White House.
In epitome, Bryan is the west. He
stands by his game and his guns.
But he should not for that overlook
an East, willing to aid while able to
defeat. His life is simple. With
his wife as a companion, going no
where she might uot go, he makes
up existence meeting men, reading
books, making speeches to further
his political beliefs. Bryan served
two terms in Congress without
mark to his discre lit and ouly failed
of reelection to his third term from
an over production of Clevelandism.
He is not mugwump, nor PopuI
list, but Democrat who gets his
principles and his inspirations in a
party past, before the cancer of
Cleyelandism had poisoned Its
blood. No party need blush in
shame for Bryan. He is as good g
Democrat and as true an American
as any who aver bought bond Oh
owned bank.
There would be neither truth ol
justice in alarming Conservatism by
picturing Bryan as some Danton ol
some Robespierre, the apostle o.
disorder, bent to cast all into chaos
and then cement chaos with blood
Bryan is nothing of the sort. He is
wise, be is faithful to o trust, honest
with the probity of the sun; morally
! as we'll as physically brave, and
above all, as much the patriot as any
who at our country's beginning suf
fered thr ough Valley Forge t.
rejoice at Yorktown.
1t is excellently in Bryan's favor
that he is founded on himself, Nc
coterie controls him; no syndicat,
has paid his debts and holds in it.
strong box $118,000 of his uncar
!, celied notes of hand to be som
sword of Damocles suspended owe
him as man or President. All ther
is of Bryan is Bryan, unless one ex
cepts his wife, who with all that
good about him, is the best thin
about him still. She is a woman
tender and true, cultured and refined
aud has been a stimulus, as we'll q
star to guide in all of Bryan's lif,
o She will win well and wear lon
I' should fate some day, find her 9Th
i first lady of the land"
g 1t is not too much to say of Brya
'' that the arena of politics presents 4
one today, who, with fuller inform
ton, more pleasing address, moi
ready eloquence and quicker wi
3 can cope with and overcome bir
e and in any form OF politics Brya
g would out top and overpower sue
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