Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-02
BRYAN KNOWS
HIS FAILURE
TT IS VERY EVIDENT THAT HE
HAS REALIZED THAT HE
HAS LOST.
Seeks Now to Array Class Against
Class. and Takes No Care to
Conceal His Disnppoint-
mcnt.

LII pei > Weekly, ocC. ~, lSUU.J
1t is quite evident that the Demo-
cratic candidate for the presidency re-
Allies The utility of his quest, and has
practically given up the fight. We can
not INA Ginc that any American citizen
having the dignity of the presidential
office in mind. and being himself an
aspirant for its honors, could descend
to the depths of ~dcma"ogy used by
Mr.. Bryan in his Wisconsin n Indi-
ana speech-maling tours during the
past fortnight. and still consider him
self q presidential possibility.
Mr.. Bryan knows as we'll AS any n
else that the American people wan IL
statesman to exercise the functions of
the executive Office, MOT an i~nccndiarN:
he knows quite as we'll rs he knows
his alphabet. that the kind of fire the
people wish to have clnanatc from the
White House is that which inspires
men to undertake and to perform
worthy deeds: not that which cadst to
pillagc, rapine and murder.
If lie has studied the temper of the
people. solicitude for whose welfare
has given him so man sleepless
nights. he must know that f%undament-
ally they are lovers of truth: hat they
will not tolerate reckless mis-state-
ment of conditions "r wilrul pcrcvr-
sion of facts or absolute and unmiti-
gated falsehood in the man who stands
before the world as the outward and
visible sign of thei, national being.
FALSEHOOD CANNOT REPRE-
SENT TIE TRUTH: INcENDIAR-
ISM CANNOT EVER BECOME THE
EMBODIMENT OF PATRIOTISM:
~ sr(.N <rI>N>Jp I,kCc
FOR CRAFTSMANSHIP: AND THE
POLITICAL AGITATOR WHO IN
CITES THE MASSES INTO \ RECK-
LESS DEF ANCE OF AUTHORITY
CAN NEVER BECOME THE
GUARDIAN OF LAW. ORDER AND
PUBLIC D.CHNCY.
IT is only proper. therefore, in view
of Mr.. Bryan's wild appeals to class
hatred ana to the evil passions Of the
discnntcntcd in view of the essential
ly ~incendiary character of the bulk OF
his recent uttcrances, in view of his
wicked miS-StatrmcntS of the acts and
purposes of his political opponents.
allied to Il certain maudlin note in his
Salem address. which would be anus.
ing if it We're not humiliating. to as
sumo that h. at last realizes how far
beyond his reach is the seat of WASH
1ngtOn. Jefferson and Lincoln. and to
attribute his rawlings to the despair
which naturally follows the %palpable
wrecking of his ambition. is only char-
ity.
1t takes Il stronger man thai Mr..
Bryan to accept so notwithstanding Il
disappointment as is his with Il digni~
fled and philosophical bearing. There
must be greater depths of character
than can eve be attributed to the
Populist candidate within which to
hide the bitterness and the gall Of
ovcrthroWn ambition from the eye OF
man.
TT WAS TOO MUCH FOR THE
GREAT SOUL OF GREELEY. AND
EVEN 50 STRENUOUS 4 FIBER
As THAT OF TTLDEN. WEAK
ENED PERCEPTIBLY IN THE
FACE OF TT. BUT NO MAN HAS
EVER GONE DOWN UNDER \ SIM.
liar DISAPPOINTMENT IN SUCH
UTTER DEMOHALTZATION AS
HAS THE UNHAPPY CANDIDATE
FROM NEBRASKA.
OF course. that he slould make so
obvious a confession of his failure to
commend himself to the electorate is
not without c~omnensating features %
those who have consistently and from
the first of his appearance as
a figure of national interest opposed
his pretersions; but there is none the
less a touch of rathos in the situation
which moves one rather to grief than
to unallOycd satisfaction. 1t is never
4 pleasing spectacle to see a human
being suffer. and the vast majority Of
men. even the most morbidly inclined,
shudder at the outward mnnifesta-
tons of the inward madness of an in
dividual whose hopes have been shat
tered and before whom lies nothing
but humiliation and disappointment.
There is also to be considered in the
case of Mr. Rryan's fall. the distress
of innulncrable good people. who. like
Mr.. SchurZ and MI. Olney. have be-
lieved that the discipline of defeat in
1896 and a growth of four years in in
tellectual viGOr had made the Bryan of
1900 Il very different person from the
! man they bad branded as an nnarch-
list and an advocate Of national lisbon
or in 1896. Those persons who had
hoped for Il development of strength
and real character in Mr.. Bryan. Of
which, indeed. in the earlier days Of
the campaign he showed some signs,
must now stand appalled, at the reck-
less dema"ogy of his recent utter
ances. with his wicked assertions Of
the real purpose of imperialism. which
they nave digniied with their support,
and saturated through and through
with passionate appeals to violence
II Indictment to rebellion against the
authorities. which in other days would
have brought about his seQucstration
as an enemy to the public welfare.
Saddest of all is the fact that this
man to-day stands before the world as
the flower of a once great party, it's
standard-bearer. its mouth-piece, the
idol Of its hopes, the material express
sion of it's principles:
Truly it will be a glad day for his
republic when the humiliating cam
paign of 1900 has become a thing Of
the past, and the disgraceful scenes
and utterances of it's closing days are
but memories.