The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-12

ing women = Mrs. CLARA GATES,
Johns p o., Miss. Oct. 6, 1899.
reasons given above, but that did not
prevent their admiration and esteem.
Indeed | think it gave room for it to
grow. Charles A. Towne is one of
the greatest of the young men of the
Republic type of the public man
who are going to be more potential.
He was brought up Republican and
was an honest and enthusiastic Re-
publican until that party, at the be-
hest of the money kings, in 1896 re-
pudiated its long time advocacy of
free coinage. That opened his eyes
to the unfitness of his party and he
had the manhood and the nerve to
walk out of the ST. Louis convention.
1t caused him a struggle. He was
the most popular Republican leader
West Of the Mississippi river, and had
before him a career that might have
included the Presidency. He closed
his public career. gave up u seat in
Congress, and joined hands with
BRYAN to be true to his convictions and
true to the interests of the common
people. He helped to organize the Sill
yer Republican party and is it's most
eloquent leader. In these four years he
has grown into the statue of a noble
statesman. He has abandoned the
Republican views of tariff for pro-
lection and is in accord with the
Democrats in their opposition to a
trust breeding tariff. He is perhaps
the most eloquent man in America in
his hostility to imperialism and mil
itarism. He feels that the policy OF
colonialism is destroying the very
foundation of the American Republic,
and he was among the first to warn
the people against the dangers. He
has come also to see the evils of cen
tralization and stands firmly for the
reserved rights of the States. He has
become a Democrat, | may say not by
choice so much as by necessity lie
believes in government for the pee pie
by the people of the people. He is a
born Democrat in the non-partizan
sense of that word, and as he has
sought to labor for the betterment Of
the masses. he has followed with an
eye single where he could best uplift
the masses. Intent upon that life-pol-
icy, it impelled him to walk out Of
the Republican convention and out of
the Republican party, and because it
is now more than ever in forty years
the true party of the people, Mr..
TONNES convictions of duty will i'm
pei him to walk right into the Dem
ocratic party and become one of its
ablest, honestest and best leaders.
There is no other permanent home
for him and such as he. And there is
room for them in the Democratic
party-and need for them; too-for
party that embraces such men as it's
leaders is sure to be the party that
will secure the suffrage of the men
who seek through parties to secure
laws that give equal rights to all
and special privilege to none"
'Lincoln is a beautiful city of So
600 people. Mr.. Bryan lives in a mod
est home, an ideal American home.
His wife is fitted by every quality of
head and heart to preside over such
a home or at the White House, and
she is a woman of such equipoise and
sense that she will be not whit
changed when she moves to Washing
ton next March to become what we
term, the first lady of the land
There is about her that indefinable
quality that makes the highest type of
the American woman. Surrounded by
her husband, to whom she is a helper
in the old fashioned meaning of wife.
and her three children. she has made
home that might well be the model
of all American homes. If her hus-
band We're poor and unknown she
would be as happy and as helpful as
now when he is the leader of seven
million people, and when he is inaug-
uI'ated President of the United States.
Mr.. Bryan is little changed. He is
robust, cheerful, genial and unaffect-
eel as when he was first elected to
Congress. Emerson said that no man
could be great who did not love humOr
and didn't love to tell jokes. By that
test Bryan measures up to greatness.
lie is full of humor and among his
friends throws off the great matters
which would make him an old man
without the quality of humor. He is
infeXible in his ideas about right
and wrong, and has an iron will when
convinced that his position is right.
When he is President he is GER
tainlv going to be elected-he Will be
called stubborn and obstinate" bv
those who will expect him to do
things which his convictions do not
approve. but all his ''obstinacy' will
be expended in standing up for the
rights of the people and against those