The news & observer., 1901-01-15

page five and possesses the power which
always characterize his utterances.
Mr.. B. G.. Btckw:th, elector from the
Fourth District. in seconding Mr..
Bryan's nomination, said:
I'm passing y book store, on Fayette-
Vile street few days ago, l saw there
exhibited al ID book, published more
than two centuries ago. These words.
as true now as when written by the
author of tnat old work, caught my eye:
ITO advise o.. reprcve is so ungrateful
an office that he that undertakes it had
need use all srts TO Vindicate the sin
cerity of MS Purpose and to convince
the persons admonished that tbs neith-
er spleen no. prejudice but most real
kindness Which prompts him to affiict
those woua6,; of friend; and that he
is never less an enemy than when he
speaks to hem the truth" 1 wondered
il that old took is in any library of
Princeton, New Jersey)
l assure you, Mr.. President, 1 come
not today to advise or reprove-al-
though that sound admonition, DON'T"
whispered gently into the ears of the
only all-rigl.teous, all-wise, the re-
organizers Of the great Democratic par
soundly administered to them would be
in order ever here and now, and one,
who has never faltered when the fight
was on, might very pertinently ask in
almost the V Nords of the Lord, spoken
to Job out jf the whirlwind, who are
these that darken counsel by words
without knoNledge?" and further, half
quoting another, he might with proprie-
fn tHn fIll 1-id
GRAFTON of the chief of the Holy Band
of reorganizers, Job XIV l and 2:
Should wise man utter wind (vain)
knowledge and fill his belly with the
East wind? Should he reason with un-
profitable talk, or with speeches where
with he can DO no good?'
But / am here not simply perform
ing perfunctorily a duty under penal
ty of the law for failure to discharge it,
but gladly, feeling that my merits are
not large enough to justify the honor
now have of seconding the nomination
of that great leader of six millions and
a half of tho true and tried men who
have not end will not fall down
and worship the golden image which the
Republican party has set up, nor bend the
knee to the New Jersey Baal. Men who
VIII not IOliOW the mulJ1JuQoS TO DO evil
for the sake of commercial gain, men
who knowing their rights under the great
charter of American liberty dare main
tain them even in the hour of defeat and
protest against injustice to others.
Know, therefore, Mr.. President, that
these are not careful to answer in this
matter; for if it be so our great leader.
whom we follow. be not now able to de-
liver us out of the hands of the TRUSTEES
and the Hannaites. be it known unto all
that we will not serve the gods of Marcus
Aurelius, nor worship the golden image
which the Republicans have set up, nor
follow the leadership of them that have
the smell Of fire on them.
But | arose to second the nomination
of the man upon whose brow nature stamp
ed the evidence of her power: the man
who stands in wisdom among the wisest
men of our day as Saul the King, stood
physically among the mighty men of all
Israel--head and shoulders above the tall
est: man whose private life is as pure
as a chaste woman's, whose political en-
tegrity is as sound and strong as his body
which bent not nor broke in the long hot
days and nights of the great struggle for