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over, lent power to his moral at
tributes He was as young and aud
acious as Clay was in 1913 when
Clay, the leader OF the young Re.
publicans of the U, S. coerced the
peace loving President Madison and
the rest Of the conservative and ma
jority and OF the party which JEFF
ferson and Madison founded, into
resistance OF England's outrages on
American commerce and American
sailors, and into the adoption OF the
war policy of the West and South.
He was as handsome as Graham OF
Claverhouse, as eloquent as Fisher
Ames, as magnetic as Blaine
Fremont, the pathfinder OF the
Rockies and the Sierra Nevadas, the
man who, in the war of 1916 49
against Mexico, aided Stockton and
Kearney in adding the Golden State
to sisterhood OF American common
wealths and planted the stars aud
stripes on the verge of the Pacific,
and who was more concretely con-
nected in the popular mind than
either Kearney or Stockton with
that achievement, easily won the
nomination in the first convention
of the present Republican party.
His career was as romantic as an
Arabian tale.
He was daring, chivslrous, self
reliant, and resourceful, the embodi-
ment of qualities admirably calcula-
ted to captivate the fancy OF the
masses of Americans. Moreover, as
he had no partisan antecedents OF
any Importance, he was especially
to the Wings, ex-Free-
Sellers, ex-Aboiitionists, ex Demo
and other elements who we're then
fusing themselves into the organic
alton which had adopted the Re-
publican name of Jefferson's origi-
nal party of third of century
earlier.
Bryan's dramatic advent as a ma
tisnal leader, when he swept his first
like one of his locaity's
tornadoes, made him as picturesque
a personality in the new Democracy
OF 1896 as Fremont was in the new
Republicanism of-1856. More fort
innate, too, than his prototype, he
held this ascendency in the succeed
ing canvass
What are the causes OF MrBryan's
hold on the affections CT his party
in 1900, aside from those which gave
him the candidacy in 1896? His
robust sincerity, which even his par
tisan enemies have never question
ed; his strength as a campaigner, as
attested by the fact that, in the
most exciting canvass since 1860,
and with hundreds OF thousands OF
Democrats supporting Palmer or
Mckinley, he polled nearly million
more votes than Clevelend gained
in his tidal wave campaign 4 years
earlier; and the belief of his party,
rank and lille, that he is, on the
whole, s.the best exponent of his
party's position on the issues of the
finances, trusts, and antiimperia-
ism.
Upon what does Mr.Bryan's party
base its hope Of carrying the coun-
Try in 1902 Upon analogy, upon
and upon a belief that it's
cause is inherently strong with the
people.
In every election for President in
which the same candidates con-
each other twice in success
ZION the nominee who was beaten
n the first instance won in the
econd. Jefferson, was defeated by
John Adams in 1896, defeated
Adams in 1900 Jackson, who was
eft behind by John Quincy Adams
n the contest which went to the
House Of Representatives in 1924,
vas far ahead of Adams in the
Electoral college in 1928. William
Henry Harrison, who was easily