The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-23
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
- LILLIAN JENNINGS BRYAN is
WV good story-teller. Besides sides
" punctuating his speeches with
bomely anecdotes, he enlivens his con-
versation by recounting stories possessed
of the merit of having good point
Mr. Bryan's stories fall into two classes
those he has cleaned at home ana the
recent acquisitions from foreign sources
which he carefully selected and stored
away for future reference during his trip
around the globe The anecdotes that
suack of the red soil of Nebraska are the
best for political speeches. The tales that
came to him in Japan, India or Turkey ne
reserves for the private ears of his frlends
In his speech at New Haven and again
in Newark, Mr.. Bryan used an anecdote
+o illustrate what Mr.. Bryan says the
republican party has been doing to excuse
it's failure to curb the trusts. When he
launches this yarn he pulls down the
corners of his mouth in quizzical man
ner affects a drawl and slowly moves MS
head from side to side as if his was the
task to reclte the obituary over the body
of one lately departed.
'eThere was once man" goes on Mr.
Bryan's story, ''who was sued in court
for returning with a crack across the bot
tom Of it a kettle he had borrowed from
a neighbor. The neighbor was very an
cry.
.'The man who was sued put up three
defenses. First, he said that he hadn
borrowed the kettle. Then, when that
failed, he said that the kettle was cracked
when he borrowed it. And, finally, when
his second argument was disproved, he
said that he had mended the crack before
he returned the kettle.
land that" concludes Mr.. Bryan, lis
the way the republican party defends IT.
self against the charge of not keeping
its promises on the subject of trust regu-
laton."
The Nebraskan's argument that the re-
publicans draw campaign funds out OF
the rockets of the men who find the nlgh
tariff to their advantage he finds well IL
Illustrated by story which is not alto
gether new. Alter eApihiiiS
that no republican dare touch the present
tariff for fear of offending those whe' ne
alleges. contribute the money for the cam
naign work. Mr.. Bryan tells the follow
ing
There was once man who went unto
a clothing store He stole a coat and
started to run down the street. The cloth
,nr dealer hurried out into the street
and shouted stop thiefn' but the thief
would not stop.
Then the clothier appealed to a police
man and the policeman shouted Stop
THEIR but the thief would not stop. Then
the policeman drew his revolver and
shouted to the fleeing thief, stop, or I'll
fire!" Then the excited clothier cried to
the policeman:
shoot him in the Pants; the coat be-
longs to me-"
so, there you are concludes Mr..
Bryan after recting this anecdote. THE
republican party don't care to shoot the
thieving trusts in the coat, because the
coat belongs to them. They don't dare
to shoot the trusts in the pants, because
the pants belong to them They don't dare
shoot anywhere for fear of hitting some
thing that belongs to them
Mr.. Bryan sometimes makes jokes at
the expense of himself and of the issues
on which he has met defeat. While he
was being taken over to Newark. on the