The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-04-27

Spanish swarthiness; his nose an en-
phatio curve, his mouth well widened
and firm, and the whole face founded
on jaw, the very seat of power, and as
square-hewn and indomitable as if cut
from the Devon rock.
Bryan's whole instinct is conserva-
tive. He goes net easily to the new.
Like all well-balanced, all well-built
men, Bryan is creature ofhis environ.
ment. He is for low tariff; yes. He
is for free silver dollar; yes. Why?
Because they are as naturally western
product of principle as corn is natu-
raj product of the soil.
There would be neither truth nor JUS
tice in alarming conservatism by pic
turing Bryan as some Danton or some
Robespierre, the apostol of disorder.
bent to cast all into chaos with blood.
Bryan is nothing of the sort. He is
wise, he is faithful to 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 suffered through
Valley Forge to rejoice at a Yorktown.
1t skills not, aids not, yields nothing
to the comfort or glory Of the gold or
any other cause to belle this man.
Give him his due and tell of him the
truth as one would have done had he
arrived from the east instead of the
west, or in his political up-come been
able to show a railroad or bank in his
pedigree. His honesty, his sincere pa,
triotism are not to be impugned. What
he asks for nationally may be proper
suject of debate, and perchance refusal
but the man himself is no more to be
corroded than gold; nom ore to be cor
rupted than diamond.
Personally, Bryan will win all who
approach him. AS a man, none. who
know him will refuse him respect.
Bryan is of the old party, and in him
the careful searcher will find only a
renaissance OF the ancient democracy.
1t is excellently in Bryan's favor that
he is founded OIL himself. No coterie
controls him, no syndicate has paid his
debts and holds in its strong box $11S,
900 of his uncancelled notes of hand to
be some sword of Damocles suspended
over him as man or president. All
there is Of Bryan is Bryan, unless one
excerpts his wife, who with all that's
good about him, is the best thing about
him still. She is woman, tender and
true, cultured and refined, and has
been stimulus, and as well star to
guide in all of Bryap's life. She will
win we'll and wear long, shonld fate,
some day, find her "the first lady of
the land
Bryan is what they call magnetic. "
Men like him. He Is pleasant to the
eye, to the ear, and sootbes by his
presence and never troubles. No man
ever saw him in passion. He is cool
and of fawless temper No flush of IL
ritation eyer reddens his cheek. He is
of good poise, and his emotions sit
steadily, as become the emotions of
one who, with care for himself, eats
thrice day, SCOTS at dyspepsia and
sleeps soundly at nights.
Bryan is well, even highly educated.
He has dug through books and tun-
nelled learning equal with any dusty,
musty professor of them all. More than
books, he has studied men, aud their
lives have been his lessons. He has a
memory like wax, and all he has heard
or read'or seen abides with him.
Bryan is not so profound as quick
and with an intellect rather military
than philosophical, he makes weapons
of all he knows, and every scrap of
learning belonging to him is at prompt
and ready hand to be either defensive
or offensive, as his swift genius for com
bat may decide.
1t is not too much to say of Bryan
that the arena of politics presents no
one today who, with fuller information,
more pleasing address, more ready elo-
quence and quicker wit, can cope with
and overcome him, and in any form of
politics Bryan would out-top and over
power such as Mckinley, as might a