The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-08-14
B}R'YAN'S8 MAKE Ak ( U|.P u,
Former, College Mate Analyses His
Peculiar 1nwardness.
HIS REpULsIYEs PERSONALITY.
His Presence Arouses Ono to Keen,
Active Resistance - Lacks Equi-
polse and Balance-His Own Worst;
Enemy His Disposition Is to
ProphesyS Rather Than to Work.
Not Born to Rule. "a

ProphesyStRathersE nan 1 TO 8 VOTE.
Not Born to RUE.
H. Cleveland in the Chicago Times
Herald: Glencoe Hill, otherwise known
as 1.-THE. .corkscrew. or the toboggan
Slide" hassso many angles and curves,
terminating either in Lake Michigan or
deep bitches that the cycl!st Of julg-
ment descendsilt on foot and rests at
the bottom before facing the toilsoms
ascent Of the other side. Not having
extra good Judgment as to hills. I de-
scended on my wheel md landed in q
promiscuous HEAP in q ditch. Then 7
rested 1t was a | this time that a law
yer OF more than; local fame walked
down tho hill ard Joined me. For some:
time we sat Iii silence, looking out over
that beautiful body ofwater whose surf
song Is forever and ever {. comfort to
hungry souls AT last the lawyer spoke:
''- have often met in my life men Of
irreproachablc manners, of undoubted
personal purity. Of unNuestioned per-
sonal honor. OF great brain. power, yet
about whom there was IN indesGrib-i
able something that repealed me.
never have been able to say what 1t
was that held me aloof from them, that
aroused suspicion, and have often
been ashamed of the aversion, but I
never overcame the feeling Of repul-
sion and trusted such an individual that
T>did mot safterwnrd regret that / had.
Mr.. Bryan repels! me.
Knew Him in College.
~ knew him in college. have seen
much of him; since his public career
commenced. know Of his struggles
with poverty. OF, his great capacity for
labor when he chooses to exert himself.
of his command of what might be
termed western, English. l think I
know every good quality of his charac-
ter.S and he has many, but at the in
slant that my aura meets his the In
stinct Of my being Is to hold aloof from
him. If my. experience was solitary
one I would not comment upon it, but
chance to know that. innumerable
other. people who have met him feel
the same repulsion, while at the same
time enthusiastically supporting his
principles. or rather the basic princi-
pies of the Democratic party. Much
that Mr.. Bryan advocates Is not con-
sonant with the position OF the Democ-
racy, Of to-day. 1t may be fifty years
hence but 1t Is not in 1900. Now, l am
not saying this OF Mr.. Bryans person
ality because Mr.. Mckinley draws me
to him, He does not. The feeling that
q have In Mr.. McKinley's presence is
one of indifference; in Mr.. Bryan's
presence am aroused to keen, active
resistance. What causes this?"
- Subjected Him to Analysis.
ra.why2 should answer when he was
so anxious to reply to his own question?
I kept my eye on the wavering line of
whitecaps breaking on the shore line.
He continued:
..For ten years I have, as the subject
came to my mind. subjected the Bryan
atmosphere or aura to analysis, and I
have the key to Its. negative influence
upon thinking and discriminating men.
He lacks what we call equipoise or ball
sance. In. other words, his declared doc
trines are. not supported. Upheld by
evenness of thoughts and disposition,
by the poIse OF a judicial. mind, by the
force of a will which has determined,
long before the mouth speaks, what Is
right and what is wrong, and to what
point the narrow path of truth leads.
Mr.. B-yan'ss own worst enemy is him
self. He is :swayed within himself. Is
this not true. OF nearly all the prophets
and scccs of past history? Has notthIs
quality proved their undolng whenever
by chance. or. popular viii they have
thrown aside the robes of the prophet
TO take up the crown OF the king: In
the long roll OF the ages 1t has happen
ell that men have occasionally been
thrust before the public eyes who hap
ply combined the two. qualities OF seer
and ruler. Such were Washington,
Jefferson md Lincoln, but Tor the very
fact that the spirit Of prophecy was
stronger In Jefrerson's mcnta' compo-
sition than that OF the ruler, he was in
many respects an Inferior President to
either Washington or Lincoln. l can
say. this without, being charged with
petty craftsmanship, for all three rose to
greater heights than their respective
parties ever dared td-tfty were essen
Tally AmertcIns,
Lack Tipcturc of Iran.
But Mr. lr;aD'a p':$s.ca! nature
and his mental mai;r-np lack the tine
ture. or iron that goes TO slyo cquIpoisc
to mind selected ;ogovern. had OPP
portunIty while In college with him to
determine that he WIS physically lazy,
and that this muscle inertia was more
or less communicated to his mind. A
prodigious memory quickly gave him n
fairly extensive vocabulary. and he was
quick In response IN local oratorical
contests where naturally nine out OF ten
were slow. This alsrtncss In use or
words. OF projecting n single idea un-
austuined by exhaustive argument, was