The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-11-08
BRYAN KNOWS
HIS failure
-"~-',,
TT IS VERY EVIDENT THAT HE
HAS REALIZED THAT He
HAS LOST.
seeks Now to Array Class Against
Glass, and Takes No Care to
Conceal His Disappoint-
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F'rom Harper's Weekly, Oct 20, 19O0J
1t is quite evident that the Demo-
cratic candidate for the presidency re-
allies the futility of his quest, and has
practically given up the fight. We can
not imagine that any American citizen
having the dignity of the presidential
office in mind, and being himself an
aspirant for it's honors, could descend
to the depths of demagogy used by
Mr.. Bryan in his Wisconsin and Indi-
ana speech-making tours during the
past fortnight, and still consider him
self presidential possibility.
Mr.. Bryan knows as we'll as any one
else that the American people want a
statesman to exercise the functions Of
the executive office, not an incendiary;
he knows quite as well as he, knows
his alphabet, that the kind of fire the
people wish to have emanate from the
White House is that which inspires
men to undertake and to perform
worthy deeds; not that which leads to
pillage, rapine and murder.
If he has studied the temper Of the
people, solicitude for whose welfare
has given him so many sleepless
nights, he must know that fundament-
ally they are lovers Of truth; that they
will not tolerate reckless mis- state
ment of conditions or wilful perevr-
sion of facts or absolute and unmiti-
gated falsehood in the man who stands
before the world as the outward and
visible sign of their national being.
FALSEHOOD CANNOT REPRE-
SENT THE TRUTH; INCENDIAR-
ISM CANNOT EVER BECOME THE
EMBODIMENT OF PATRIOTISM:
DEMAGOGY CAN NEVER PASS
FOR STATESMANSHIP: AND THE
POLITICAL AGITATOR WHO IN
CITES THE MASSES INTO A RECK-
LESS DEFIANCE OF AUTHORITY
CAN NEVER BECOME THE
GUARDIAN OF LAW, ORDER AND
PUBLIC DECENCY.
1t Is only proper, therefore, in view
Of Mr.. Bryan's wild appeals to class
hatred and to the evil passions Of tho
discontented, in view of the essential
ly incendiary character Of the bulk of
his recent utterances, in view of his
wicked mis-statements Of the acts and
purposes of his political opponents,
allied to a certain maudlin note in his
Salem address, which would be ANUS
il,g if it were not humiliating, to as
su me that he at last realizes how far
hey 'ond his reach is the seat of Wash
ingt on, jefferson and Lincoln, and to
attri butte his rawlings to the despair
which naturally follows the palpable
wrecki'ng of his ambition, is only char
ity.
It talk stronger man than Mr..
Bryan to accept so deeply-stirring a
disappoir ,tment as is his with a digni~
fed and philosophical bearing. There
must be greater depths Of character
than can ever be attributed to the
Populist andidate within which to
hide the b itterness and the gall of
overthrown ambition from the eye OF
man.
TT WAS TOO MUCH FOR THE
GREAT SOUL OF GREELEY, AND
EVEN so S TRENUOUS A FIBER
AS THAT OF TILDEN WEAK
ENED PERC C.EPTIBLY IN THE
FACE OF IT, BUT NO MAN HAS
EVER GONE D OWN UNDER A SIM.
liar DISAPPt OINTMENT IN SUCH
UTTER DEM ORALIZATION AS
HAS THE UNI IAPPY CANDIDATE
FROM NEBRAS KA.
OF course, that he should make so
obvious confess ion Of his failure to
commend himself to the electorate is
not without comp ensating features to
those who have &C 'nsistently and from
the first moment f his appearance as
a figure Of nation al interest opposed
his pretensions; b, 1t there is none the
less touch of pat. nos in the situation
which moves one r; lther to grief than
to unalloyed satisfa ,ction. 1t is never
a pleasing spectacle: to see human
being suffer, and tn 2 vast majority of
men, even the most morbidly inclined,
shuddcr at the ou tward manifesto
tions of the inward madness Of an in
dividual whose hopes! have been shat
tered and before w hom lies nothing
but humiliation and disappointment.
There is also to be considered In the
case of Mr.. Bryan's fall the distress
of innumcrable good people, who, like
Mr.. Schurz and Mr.. Olney, have be-
F.. lieved that the disci pline of defeat In
1896 and a growth Of four years in In
tellectual vigor had ,ade the Bryan OF
1900 very different person from the
man they had brand eel as an anarch-
ist and an advocate or national dishon-
or in 1896. Those persons who had
hoped for a develop ment of strength
o,d raoI character in Mr. BRYAN, OF