Evening star., 1902-08-04
STILL A CANDIDAT TE.
INFERENCE FROM MR. BRYAN'S
RECENT SPEECH.
What Politician Says is the Only
- Logical Outcome of the Ne
braskan's Utterances.

For subtlety of phrasng. for specious-
ness of reasoning for plausibility of argu-
ment and for apparent righteousness OF
purpose Mr.. Bryans speech at Mountain
Lake on Saturday last was one of that gen
tleman's masterpieces" said a prominent
Washington politician to Star reporter
this morning land in that speech Mr..
Bryan covertly yet broadly intimates that
he Is still candidate for denomination.
Mr. Bryan Is not only a passive candi-
date but an anxious one. and his denials to
this effect are all coupled. IL you make an
analysis Of his remarks, with skillful quail
fications which will make his escape easy
when nailed to the cross of a refusal IN ad-
vance Of the nominal ton. Just listen to
this the keynote Of two hours talk, and
note the delicacy Of the gentleman's mod.
esty. He says: =
am perfectly Indifferent as to candidates
beyond the suggestion have already mace,
namely, that no man should be considered
for the nomination whose loyalty TO the
platforms Of 1896 and 1900 was questioned
How Is this for unbridled license OF dc
tatorial assumption of authority! Can you
beat it? Not in days run. NO man, ne
says should even be CONSIDERED ior tne
United States Supreme Court-loW-taflH-
populistic chap who still thinks that Cupa'
Porto Rico and the Philippines are spanish
colonies, who Is unaware that TWO pltteI
presidential campaigns have been fougnt
and the United States divided into TWO po-
litical parts, the upper composed eptTely
of states that have given repunicah ma
jorities, and the lower of states Which nave
continued to return democratic maJoii.iee'
Mr. Bryan's Ultimate Object.
"And who thus presumes to dictate to
over six millions of democratic freemen?
Mr. Bryan. And whoO Mr.. Bryan? That s
what want to know, and so do LOT more
of u.s. By what vested or bestowed right
has this particular man to say TO great
party which he has twice led to defeat, ana
who tacitly hopes to again lead 1t over tne
be considered unless he believes IN the
tenets Of the speaker who makes such
revolutionary assertion!
Il think he intends to keep up this self
invited stump-speaking from now until the
meeting of the next national democratlc
convention. He will reiterate this sentiment
that none but an expounder OF MS own po-
litical principles shall become a candldate,
and faunt it In the faces of the eastern
and conservative democrats so steadily and
doggedly that he will make them give up
the contest from sheer exhaustion. You
can't tire out MIR. Bryan, either physically
or oratorically.
ssJn this respect he is one of the most re-
markable men of this or any other epoch.
He is simply marvel. Other .ieaders OF
men who had twice marshaled their forces
to decisive defeats, who were repudlated
by a large element of their following, would
have been more than content to retire in
favor of other generals. Not SO, Mr.. Bryan
Ever an actor of consummate art, an era
tor of magnetic power. a man OF strong and
peculiar personality, he says, No. in me
YOU have a leader; the leader whom none
can approach. Try me again.
Continuing in speech in which he
l.; o,@t hn
try that he is still in the ring, if invited, he
lifts the veil of disingenuousness in say
ing:
Retirement for "Private Citizens"
81 hope that you will give me credit with
possessing a higher ambition than to be sat
isfed with the office of the President of
the United States. I am too democratic to
coyet an ambition that only a few in one
generation can share. l prefer the honor
of being a private citfzen-an honor greater
than that of being a king
Hundreds of thousands of democrats all
over the United States will share Mr..
Bryans views, that two nominations, and
two defeats for the presidency in less than
a decade. to say nothing of generation.
ought to surfeit the ambition of any man,
and would surfeit the ambition of any man
but the speaker
'To retire into private life, and to enjoy
just what these same democrats earnestly.
deyoutly and intensely wish Mr.. Bryan to
do, and to do it quick, because he hasn't
seen fit to do it before That's the trouble:
he won't retire.
''Whatever Mr.. Bryan may have done or
not done. he will go down into history as
the one man who made a solid republican
north against a solid democratic south.
Before Mr.. Bryan's advent there was some
fun in the north in political contests. One
year the republicans would attend the wake
Of the democrats, and the next ensuing
election the democrats would ofaciate. 1t
kept us fellows up north from falling into
the stagnation Of the boys of the south.
But the bogie man appeared in 1895. and
his robust frame is still silhouetted against
the northern skies. In 1862. in the eighth
month, he is still speaking. His oratory
is as fluent, his words as smooth and his
magnetism almost as well charged as years
ago. He sees the rising sun of a third
nomination. If only man after his own
model can be Considered where Is he to
come from? Not from the north Not
from the south. though there are plenty
there. Not from the west, unless 1t be
from Nebraska.
/''Why not crafty the ambition Mr.. BRYAN
denies possessing7 He would be easy to
beat, at least