The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-09-13
WILLIAM
JENNINGS
BRYAN.


yet he has returned to his country
amid the plaudits of his country
men and will he acclaimed tonight
by thousands Of admiring fellow
citizens.
He comes with no glamor of bat
tie slaughter or triumphs that
carry desolation and woe into
thousands of homes; he carries not
the ensanguined sword of victory,
but the laurels of peace.
Why all this admiration, this
acclamation, this ecstasy of dem
onstratiOn and these honors2
He has been abroad one year and
has been accorded the highest
courtesies and privileges and, by
his advice to the International
Peace Conference which it adopt
ed, proclaimed great statesman.
But should that account for the
fervor of his homecoming recep-
tion2
Has he not twice headed the
Democratic party and twice been
yanquishedP
The common people see in Will
lam j Bryan the exponent of those
principles which would inure to
their benefit The principles are
the same which he expounded in
1895 and 1900. He was then way
ahead of the times. The people
now realize that he was right and
they were wrong.
In the saturnalia of corporation
corruption, in the lawless exploit
tation of predatory wealth, In the
revelation of rottenness in public
and quasi public organizations, in
the revelations of the criminal
course of combinations of individ
uals getting special privileges from
the government and trespassing on
the rights of the people, the coun
try has seen the verifcation of the
prophecy of William j. Bryan
made in 1896 and 1900 and reiter-
ated by him since those times.
William j. Bryan is the recipi-
ent of most amazing demonstra-
tions of regard and admiration
and loyalty that is without paral-
lei in the history of this country.
His personal graces and amiabili-
ty, his strength of character and
other admirable personal qualities
alone do not account for it.
He is a man of ideas at time
when there is political sterility in
that direction; he is honest in q
time when once h0nored men are
relegated to the rear for contami-
nation with guile and corruption;
he is sincere and straightforward
when the forces of wealth antag-
onistic to democratic institutions
are degrading other men with
bribes and other forms of degrad-
ing allurements.
He was the original standard
bearer of the fight for the great
principle of "equal rights to all,
special privileges to none" He is
a great constructionist, formulat-
ing measures for the amelioration
of the masses.
And so cogent, so forceful, so
prominently practical were those
measures that President Roose-
welt, though Republican, adopt
ed them and attempted to force
them on congress. Whatever bene-
fetal Legislation WAS made by con-
gress at its last session William J.
Bryan was the cause and Theodore
Roosevelt the medium of it all.
1t was the first time in the his
tory of this country that the poll
cies of defeated party were
adopted by dominant one. These
policies were those of William j..
Bryan, and the people know all
these things.
William j. Bryan returns to his
native shores at time when the
radical wave urged by corporate
abuses is at its height. He comes
to his home at the time when com
bined wealth, fearing the action
of the people, 10 endeayoring to
confuse the public mind with tri-
vial aud collateral politics.
The people look upon William j
Bryan as their champion and