The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-11-17
A Worn FOR MIR. BRYAN

hose renegade Democrats who, desert
their party while Do the firing lice,
clamor for reorganization. and
W no. while sulking in their tents or
openly advocating the election OF Nc
Kipley. blame Bryan for ~Democracy's
defeat. Nearly sever million voters
cast their ballots for Bryan and these
seven millions will urn a deal TO
the imporlunings OF Cleveland. Morton,
Dickinson, Carlisle and Villas.
We believe that conditions were such
during the last campaign that no man,
on aay platform however conserv-
a~tively framed, could have beaten the
Republican party. Bryan made the
granoest, purest ard uoblest fight ever
made by man and he was defeated
solely by a force Of circumstances that
nothing could have changed. His de-
feat does not detract from his great
ness. The day after election he was as
dear to the American people as he was
the day before, when he was a possible
president OF the United States. Great
ness and nobleness of character are his
Inherent traits, and defeat cannot
diminish these or take lustre from his
fame. He may never be president, but
he is yet a young man, and somehow,
somewhere, he will rise again as the
true-hearted champion of u rights
and liberties.
In this connection we wish to d the
opinion OF the Baltimore Sun, a gold
Democrat paper which opposed Bryan
in 1896 but championed his cause 10
the campaign just closed. 1t is a
worthy tribute and n which those
who would reorganize the Democratic
party on Republican lines would do
well to ponder. The Sun says:
The Hon. William jennings Bryan
finished the ~campaign with nothing to
regret. In September Mr.. Bryan told
The Sun that he was ~couteuding FOR a
cause with as little regard as possible
for his own personal association with
it. II he won, it would be a remark
able victory. If he lost. he would be
sustained by the knowledge that he
had done his best. And in going his
best he has conducted the most remark
able campaign in the history OF the
country. At its close he has the conf
dence, the esteem and b Affection oil
as large a proportion OF his fellow
citizens as any American has ever
enjoyed since the days of Andrew jack
son. The contest against him was
waged with a certain degree of violence,
but through it all he preserved a calm
dignity, a serenity and courtesy OF
ann which should be an example 10
all candidates. Never once did he
yield to the temptation to make any
personal assault upon those who attacked
him. He was sheltered behind u
shield of faith, which protected him
from a host OF assailants. In every live
issue in the campaign he was on the
side of conservatism against radicalism
and revolution. He planted his feet
upon the Constitution and stood where
the fathers of the republic stood before
him. He advocated the great cause
which the Democratic, the conser-
| vative people OF the land had committed
to him, as their leader with an ability
and %eloquence which attracted more
men to see and TO hear him than ever
before gathered around a public
man In this country. His physical
endurance seemed scarcely less than
miraculous.
1t has been and still is the fashion OF
bitter partisans 10 denounce Mr.. Bryan
as a demagogue, as an extremist, a;
snowy. but without depth or breadth
OF intellect. In every position which
he assumed in this campaign and IL
every policy he advocated he a give
Jefferson, jackson and other great
Democrats as presidents. If in the
cause he maintained in this campaign
he was a demagogue, then Jefferson
was a demagogue. II In his opposition
to the money power he Is arrayins
class against class what shall be sale
OF jackson and fancy in their cam
paigns against the banks?
Those persons who deny the abilit,
OF Mr.. Bryan should consider hi
career He started life with no create
opportunities than come to the averag
American boy, and less. perhaps, tina
have been enjoyed by his critics. A
an early age he entered the House I
Representatives, the greatest arena
the world, and there attracted tn
attention OF the country. by a speec
on the tariff which ranked with tn
best ever delivered in that chambei
Z Although subjected to a crushin
, defeat in 1896, his denomination fro
2 the day after that election was nevt
In doubt. He commanded it by I'll
hold he had upon the confidence an
the place he had in the affections
the people. His has not been IL
career OF any ordinary man. A dem
n gogue could not have attained 10 Il
place he has reached. Nor cou
L mere eloquence have commanded
There must be more than this, al
u there is more.
g Mr.. Bryan Is beloved by the Amel
,c can people because he is a patriot al
a man Of blameless life, In the
respects he is a pattern Tor Americ
youth at a time when the love OF none
with many, takes the place of love
country. II, having failed to -ea
the Presidency, his State should So
Mr.. Bryan to serve his country in I
ed Senate, he would still be in a positi
IN avert from the republic some of {