Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-08-11
THE BRYAN BOOM.


to amusement, says the Literary Di-
gest, are now treating it with satire
and waiting to see if it will last. Some
declare that it has reached high-water
mark, and is even now receding. They |
have examined his utterances abroad,
found that the so-called "dead-issues"
are still alive to Mr.. Bryan, and regard
this discovery alone as sufficient to
burst the bubble of his popularity.
Even the New York Times (Dem.) |
which only a short while ago printed |
long and enthusiastic editorial about |
the conservative" candidate, can on
ly say in pathetic strain
The public began to hope that the |
old, empty formulas had been for |
gotten, the sterile doctrines aban- |
doned, and that the dead issues would
be permitted to lie undisturbed in the
becoming drapery of their cerements.
evidently some suspicion has entered
the mind of Mr.. Bryan that his later
manner may put too great strain
upon the loyalty of his early friends;
or, it may be that some trusted coun-
sellor had admonished him against
putting on conservative fashions at
time when radicalism is rampant and
the overthrow Of what has been is all
the rage"
To how much more advantage, re-
fleets The Times, Mr.. Bryan might
have taken some definite stand on the
tariff instead of Growing over dead
and forgotten things" The New York
Tribune is one of those Republican
papers that express amusement at the
cnange of heart in the Democratic
party since Mr.. Bryan began to say
things. Says The Tribune:
1T must be rather cold cheer to ex-
apostates of safety and sanity to
learn that he considers himself even
more radical today than he was in
1896. He is still unconvinced that he
was wrong in 1896 and 1900 in de-
handing the free and unlimited coin
age of silver and in seeking to force
the United States to maintain the
double standard in defiance of the
monetary usage and practice of the
rest of the commercial world. He
would meet the problem of 1896, If he
should arise again, by insisting on the
same remedy. Moreover, he would re-
affirm every other plank in the Chica-
go platform platform once vigorous
ly denounced by the conservatives
as the essence of folly and anarchy.
We shall await with interest the COM
ments of Democrats whose opinion OF
Mr.. Bryan has been so marvelously
changed during his absence abroad
on the Democratic leaders latest elu-
cidation of Democratic principles.
"They were beginning to think"
The Tribune further observes in high
good humor, that the Nebraska ex-
radical has become safely Parkerized
and that he would be willing to make
the next campaign on a platform of
truly Jeffersonian elasticity and va
gueness." But Mr.. Bryan didn't rel
ish sitting on a stool and training for
honors as an oracle. His radical blood
still runs hot and he does not want
to be supported on false pretenses.'
Thus the Tribune; and the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat (Rep.) has theory
that every new talk by William j.
Bryan furnishes a new and excellent
reason for his fellow-countrymen to
keep him in private life"
The Globe-Democrat refers to Mr..
Bryan's belief in silver and adds:
''He is apparently as incapable as
an Igorotte of distinguishing between
real and bogus money-between the
coin which the world recognizes as the
measures of exchange and that which
is used in the interior OF China, FOR