The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1900-07-06

1'ht II, on tno Otncr hanu, BryAnS
prasidontial ambition should be graft
fled, tho country would have star,
Ting spectacle. 1t would DO like
that Of Southern gentleman in
swallow tail aud a choker, but ono
generation removed from his peri
wig, suddenly shunted half u
century head and jammod into tho
oak bottomed chair Of a railroad
president. Tho gentlemon of the
old school would try honestly to
do his duty.
But he wonld have such difficult
thing co learn and suce nn incapaci-
ty for learning them that ho would
cut many fantastic capor and in tho
end make q moss Of it rs had as Il
thorough going rascal would
The danger Of mon Of Bryan's
mold to tho country is not what
thoy hold true 80 much as it il how
they hold it; not SO mutch tho
limit Of thoir Intelligence as their
attitude toward truth; for Bryan's
mental endowment is that Of a
debater When ho faces alleged fact
his habit is not to search it for truth,
| but to answoro it, IEo is not seeking
| tho truth; ho has il nd is sock
| ing to make convert While his
marvellous nental acI!cness as n
| dobater j. Il S.,iAiu thnt will always
| ward cert,.in truths from his heart,
yet he has ono simple oratorical
trick, and only one; he bags the
question.
For instanep, a seJ ortsr recently
asked Bryan il the praetics Of elect
ing senators in Montana by the conr.
rupt uso Of money is not devlorablo.
His reply wan: "Don't yon think
the spectacle Of Senator Hanna
voting to unscat Clark for buying an
election is incongruous? Now, the
alleged iucongruity Of Senator Han
na's position in tho Clark investga-
ton has nothing to do with the case
against tho corrupt use Of money
ins ielectious. Int that answer
before crowd would turn the debate
into another channel. In his
Chicago speech Bryan said: eli
they tell us that the gold standard is
u good thing We shall point tc
their platform and tell them that
their platform pledges the party
to got rid Of the gold standard anc
substitute bimetalism. If tho golG
standard is good thing, why try te
get rid Of it? With the crowd that
passes for argument against the golc
standard, but tho fact is the merits
or dement's of the gold standard
are not touched upon at all. In nc
place IN that speech was there sin
gle logical argument offered against
the gold standard. Yet tho speech
was perfect piece Of rhetoric Of its
kind, and it convinced thousands O.
the iniquity Of tho gold standard.
And yet it is not tho kind of argu
ment Bryan uses which gives hin
strength, it is not tho principles he
advocates that draw men to him. A
the bottom of the magnetism which
pulls men towards Bryan is thu
growth i'll the popular mind Of 1
faith in socialism and hope to SCI
the State lay hold Of the industrial
system and untanglo its many snarls
Many people believe that society il
not properly adjusted, that the ma
chinery Of industry is not in gea
and too many people arc being
ground by it. There is widespread
belief that repairs arc needed, ant
because Bryan gets out with his ora
| torical hammer and knocks upon tn
industrial system and the existing
order unthinking people have haltet
him as the master mechanic. Blu
l Bryan is nuS q builder. Oratory
= rarely constructive. 1t is an illu
sion, a legesdssaain, and tho world i
t learning to dishociate oratsry fror
| craftsmanship. Thore is really n
7 more reason for electing an orato
to the Office than for electing fid
, dler. Both talents rouse the emo
l tions. Bryan is voice.
. When tho master mechanic sha
arrive and straighten out the kink