The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-12

heels of ballot. Mr.. Hatch withdrew
his name and went into the caucus to
vote for Mr.. Crisp. Mr.. Springer
withdrew his name and went into the
caucus to vote for Mr.. Crisp. Mr..
Crisp won in the finish by the merest
fragment of a majority-twU votes, L
think-so close and fierce was that fray
which would settle national destinies!
A Precedent ON Which TO FOund
Prophecy.
AS I've related MIR. Bryan voted IN
the beginning for Mr.. Springer. What
became of him when Mr.. Springer
withdrew? Mr.. Bryan still voted for
Mr.. Springer. That gentleman himself
was voting for Mr.. Crisp. He had
withdrawn his name; he was no longer
a candidate Yet to the last roll call
which gave victory by brace OF votes
TO Mr. Crisp, Mr.. Bryan sat shooting
his lonely arrow in the air for Mr..
Springers In brief. he threw away his
voice in contest where throne was
the prize. Why did Mr. Bryan thus
waste himself? Because. as he ex-
piained in a day when he was not so
old nor so cunning as he is now, Messrs.
Hatch and Mills and Crisp and Nc
MILAN were Confederate soldiers.
Mr. Springer had been a Union man
third of a century before. Mr.. Bryan
was too good a politician and too poor
n patriot to face an "old soldier" ele-
ment along the Platte with the record
of having voted for once Confederate
Mr.. Bryan will seek to evade the
above. He may say that he voted tor
Mr. Crisp in caucus. Should he do so
ne will mean that he voted for Mr.
crisp in that caucus held at the be-
ginning of the second Congress where
In Mr. Crisp was Speaker. Mr.. Crisp
ran alone on that caucus occasion:
there was no opposition. WHAT I say
Is that In the first caucus. where Mr.
Mills fought Mr.. Crisp for a House
chieftainship. Mr.. Bryan threw away
his vote. The caucus roifs will show.
If they be lost, then the files of that
DAYS newspapers will show. His ex-
cuse was the Confederate past of
Messrs. Mills and Crisp. If he has for
gotten. and forgetting. If he contra
dict what have said. let him give the
reason. Let him tell why he wasted
his vote in an hour pregnant of Presi-
denotes and party issues and many
giant public things besides.
MIR. Bryan Is in voice and atmos-
phere and gift Of phrase the orator.
He thinlg, quickly, not deeply. What
he knows he has had from book, and
he is never guilty of original knowl-
since politically to be original Is To be
in peril of ones self.
When Mr. Bryan went to the Chi
eago convention !n 1896 he went
pledged to the support of Mr.. Bland e.
still. he should not be blamed for that
the bolt struck him instead. 1t was
not Mr. Bryan who got the pomina-
ZION; the nomination got him. 1t was
one OF your popular explosions that
seldom work good. Mr.. Bryan made
speech of huency and spirit. 1t was
tnat which selected him; the conven-
tion was a magazine and that Grafton
| touched 1t or.
/ Have you ever read that lightning
daring speech of Mr.. Bryan? If you
have. you were amazed at It's fustian
commonplace. It should teach you
that eloquence is of the audience rath-
err than the orator Enter some black
smith shop. Seize a bar or cold iron
and lay IT across the anvil. Take a
hammer and smite il with what force
you will. Your yeturn is dangerous