The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-09-13
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER ID. 1906.
FOR CONGRESS:
George A. Pearre.
GREAT THE FALL THEREOF.

Something less than a fortnight since
William j. Bryan was given one of the
most remarkable ovations in New York
city ever accorded to mortal man. Not
only then was he the unanimous choice
Of the Democratic party, which hailed
him as the logical Presidential candi-
date, but here and there Republicans of
prominence were disposed to view his
candidacy with significant complacency.
But that is ancient history and subse-
quent events have effected a remarka-
BILE transformation. Commenting upon
the Orator of the Platte who won a
Presidential nomination with a speech
and probably lost another by the same
mode of procedure, the Pittsburg Ga
zette Times observes that if Mr.. Bryan
has not lost the nomination he certainly
has dissipated all hope of election that
either he or his friends may have cher
ished. His government ownership of
railroads has estranged the foremost
Democratic leaders of the south and has
dismayed his supporters in the north
and west. Not one Democratic news
paper of any importance in the country
has indorsed the speech or the policy,
and not a single Democrat holding a po-
sition of influence in party councils has
had the temerity to stultify himself by
championing Mr.. Bryan's new propa-
ganda. Indeed one might search politi-
cal history in vain to find parallel of
this incident Of the accepted leader Of
great party, who twice received over g.
$50, 000 votes for President of the Unit
I'd States, advocating a policy of the
broadcast public interest only to be ig-
nored or tiouted by his own partisans
and denounced by the opposition. Moth
ing Of the line that has ever happened
has fallen quite as fiat Small wonder
that word is telegraphed from Lincoln,
Neb., that Mr.. Bryan is tired out and
has changed some of his plans
As if to accentuate Mr.. Bryan's hui
initiation and emphasize his fall as a po-
litical idol comes now Roger C. Sulli-
van, member Of the Democratic nation
al committee for Illinois, who, in the
course Of a letter discussing the peer
less ones effort to drive him out of
place, says things more bitter than any
of the structures of the Republican
press. While Republican newspapers
naturally have been severe in their crit
icisms of Mr., Bryan they have re-
Trained from too close an analysis of the
man because Of his prominence in his
party, but Mr.. Sullivan talks as one of
the Democratic family and leaves Mr..
Bryan completely unmasked as 4 Dem
Ocrat for revenue only.
In Mr. Sullivan's statement Of Friday
he specifically charges Mr.. Bryan with
untruthfulness and declares he is at
tempting tozset up an autocracy with
himself on the dictator throne. He
says Bryan was failure both as a
lawyer and an editor and that he IS US
ing the Democratic party for money
making purposes only. Every dollar
Mr.. Bryan has he says, and 'as fortunes
go he is rich man." was made out Of
politics. Mr.. Bryan has discovered
that as long as ne is candidate for
President and possible nominee ''the
public will come to hear him at so much
per head. He is in politics because il
helps the gate receipts. Then Mr..
Sullivan, with relentless cruelty, goes
on to compare Mr.. Bryan with sac
tresses who have discarded the sSolen
diamond dodge for the greater publicity
of divorce suit" and says he will quit
politics just as soon as he dicovers that
some other form of advertising will
bring more dollars to the box office"
All Of which is bit harsher than any
thing that Republicans have printed
about Mr.. Bryan. Yet it is the painful
truth. Mr.. Bryan is probably the only
man in American history who has had
the etfrontery to convert honors paid
him by one of the two great parties into
a quick asset for the accumulation of
a fortlne-who has played two nomina-
tons for President and sought a third
in season and out that as result of the
incidental prominence thus acquired he
might also annex large and constant
ly growing share of the coin of the
realm,