The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-06-26
wArTgRsoN ON BRYAN.

VIII be remembered that Mr. Waiter
son tolerated Bryan for long time
in fact until. he made it very apparent
that he was doing the dog in the man
ger stunt and was placing himself on
record as the most miserable discord
ant in modern times.
Mr. Watterson pays his respects TO
Bryan as follows:
"Mr Bryan's latest performance Is
rather more curious and amusing than
significant. One would suppose that a
party leader with any sense Of dignity
having set his own house in order
would leave the houses Of his friends
10 take care Of themselys. But this
is not the way Of Mr. Bryan Not
content with the action Of Nebraska
he is no sooner through with the bus.
mess that detained him at Omaha
than he HES away to New York. hires
a hall. ASSEMBLIES a rabble and assai s
the organized democracy Of tho En-
pire state like any republican or poFu.
iHst or other enemy, though no one
has impeached the regularity Of the
orthodoxy OF the New York democ-
racy, while their preference for presi-
dent, Judge Alton Brooks Parker. is
an eminent and life long democrat who
supported Mr.. Bryan in 1896 and in
1900.
There can be no installing the
meaning Of such demonstrations. They
ought to make it plain to democrats
everywhere that Mr. Bryan means
mischief. and only mischief lie goes
TO ST. Louis to stir up strife. IN short
ana in fine. the sum and substance Of
it is this-that. seeing in Judge Parker
1.-THE strongest symbol Of a reunitec
democracy, seeing in him possible
nominee and the head Of a probable
lsucedssful democratic ticket. Mr. Bry
an makes him the object Of particular
ATTACKS, singles him out from among
Those he has biackllsted for an extra
coat of tar, and win appear AT ST. Iouh
expecting to get in the entering wedge
of his predetermined work OF dlscord
and ruin under the ribs Of The eminent
New Yorker, whose only encnse seems
to be that he voted for Mr. Bryan both
in 1896 and 1900, and that. being chief
Justice of the supreme court of the
Empire State, he .resolutely. cnastely
and wisely refuses to step down from
that lofty pedestal into the bmLring
Ioi SER seeking contention and become
party to a vulgar babble Of tongues
the loudest of which is that OF Mr.
Bryan himself
Nothing more disreputable hes even
come about in American politics. II
one coud credit Mr. Bryan with tie
least sincerity; If he had any tangible
objective joint or reasonable aHerna
tive, if he could even trump a decent
pretext Nothing of the kind shows
either above or below the surface o.
Mr. Bryan's SURPRISING folly maleee
Ilence and disloyalty
Happy. indeed, are those who ar.
out Of politics. yet manhood is sta
manhood honor is sim honor apt
truth is still truth How different al
this might have beenl MI Bryan
might have gone into the ST. Louis
convention a very angel Of light lie
might have appeared there amid its
sheerost applause lie had only TO be
just. to be true 10 the spirit ne has So
often invoked. 10 show himself a
large-hearted, magnanmous man. seek
ing the general good. Tie could have
made himself tower e .e.asth u
was not in him. one who could wron.
Gle with a widow over her husbands
estate. who could pay his way abroad
writing letters to the yellow journals
and at home make common cause
with the Hears, circus, ye' crate The
while about the ideal in public life
and morals, must carry to the end the
twin dlstaGs of phariseeism and malig
nifty, recalling the gmm figure Of the
dog in the Manager, who could neither
eat himself nor permit others 10 cat
but Mr. Bryan viii hnd before ne
end of the chapter that he has BOTH