El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-10
AS TO BRYAN.
How One of the South's Leading News
papers Regards the Recent Mchfh-
ley Land Slide.

| ..That errors have been made IN
,ha Nos, tv-o campaigns is atteSted by
the result of the voting A party W
succeed must do as nearly as possipie
what a majority of the voters OF the
country want done This the demo-
-. h,,a NO, done. Gravest of all
mistakes was made in 1896 in yielding
tn the magnetic influence of that most
wonderful of men. William jennings
BRYAN Comparatively few knew him
or had ever heard of him. He was an
humble newspaperman working for ms
daily bread There was no demand
for him. He came to the convention
member of a boiling delegation ne
came from the west. n section Will
| which the south has nothing in COM
mon. He hailed from a section uncon-
Genial tn the SOUTH from the home OF
the woman suffragist. the popuilte
the prohibitionist and every thing I'M
usual and eccentric in political hte.
His coming was the signal Tor the
/ north 10 desert the south. The section
with which the south from of old mad
| maintained cordial relations. both
| commercial and political. turned from
| us when il saw the strange alliance
we had contracted: and the conserva-
tism that resides in the American con-
| science took fright at the new doc
trines that were preached. The south
had to submit. Melacled and gagged.
1 il stood motionless and dumb. "A rev
OF the leaders like Carlisle and Lind
saw refused to submit and they were
mathematical and hated
'Bryan's whirlwind campaign at
| tracted national attention. His tire
less energy, his enormous capacity for
work. the purity of his diction. the
holiness of his sentiments and his mas
terful eIocuence made of him a Peter
the Hermit He inspired the masses
with the burning zeal of the crusaders.
| In the west ne was looked upon as
Savior coming TO Judge the world and
| rebuls those past transSressions
through which inequalities in wealth
were brought about. The west enter
tanned only ethical and material views
and the touch of the bizarre which Mr..
Bryan gave to his campaign appealed
strongly TO the more breezy and emo
tional. In the south Mr.. Bryan was
| locked upon rs savior who had come
out of the west to take up the sword
OF defense that had been thrown aside
by many hitherto trusted leaders and
| to WELD IL valiantly. He was La
fayette. humanitarian. lover of free
dem. He came to fight for democracy.
for white supremacy. for the protec-
| ton of the home and family. for the
| integrity of the dominant race. He
came 70 take up the flag that had been
abandoned by execrated deserters and
he appealed more to the hearts than
the pockets of his hearers. His none
AIRY views were Endorsed but not by
all who Endorsed himself. He was
worshiped. He rose above the candi-
date and the platform. He rose above
his party. lie Had the masses with him
and the leaders dared not he against
him though many of them differed
from him secretly. OF the democracy
he became emperor. While only pri-
vate citizen he ruled both houses of
congress and democratic state conven-
tons one after another. He aroused
and educated the people as no other
man has done. but the democratic par
ty had To pay the tuition.
Referring to some of Bryan's follow
ers the same paper says: For pictur-
esoueness il would be difficult to-
match many of them. Comes James
Hamilton Lewis. gorgon-tamer of the
west who proudly wore the uniform
OF a colonel-before the lighting.
Comes Willis Abbot, whose eloquent
asininity when editor of the Chicago
Times destroyed the magnificent rem
nant Of the Storey property. to the
chair of editor-in-chief of the demo-
cratic party. Comes Coin Harvey
party at S2i apiece. selling his own
books. selling campaign cigars. Comes
Ben Tillman with his pitchforE and
his tempestuous rhetoric. Comes
Towne who belonged to every party
that would let him make speech. Comes
every freak, and fright, all that is
grotesque and rocco. trooping out
from some Cave of Adullam to occupy
positions that should have been filled
by the great men OF the democratic
party, Setting these up as the repre-
sentatives and the highest type of dem
ocracy was an act of political suicide
as sure and speedy as the Japanese
hari-EarI.
The United States must expand or
give up the race. The new oversee
| territory came to us as the legitimate
spoil of a war with Spain. The demo-
| Gratis precipitated this war. When the
Maine had been blown up. while the
| gallant Sigsbee was asking a suspen-
sion OF Judgment and while Mckinley
| was waiting. Bryan and others at a
democratic banquet spoke for war.
forced II OH the republicans and voted
| $40. 900. 900 to carry il on. One of the
| results of that war was the purchase
OF the Philippines for S20.0G0.0c0 by
treaty signed At Paris and this treaty
| could not have been ratified had il not
been for the personal appeal made by
| Bryan to democratic senator's to vote
! for il. How embarrassing II must have
been to him when called upon to de-
nounce the work of his own hands
| How horrifyinS to- him must have been
the first suggestion that Aguinaldo
who was shooting down American cit
liens. was an Oriental Washington"
ard that the brave fellows sent to de-
| fac in he