The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-19
Bryan Seen ough
English Specta cles
sydney Brooks Says He Has Broadened Gut Has Become
Conservative, and IL More Acceptable to tho Trusts
q Than Roosevelt Thinks RooSevelt the
s5ss Only Candidate Who Can 81 S
Beat Him, Though. s3 las

sydney Brooks, who Is recognized az
bte sofH ihe best informed Eng llsll writofs
when II comes 10 American affalrs c .oii 4
trlb,lted Sthe following article 81, X
liam y !. bryan 70 the Lon don Daily y nrohe
5icic OF July Sd /. ~, y HI ,3sS 4 e
Now that Mr. t3ryan ia againii III Eng.
land.-he8 ! strives to.da y---t 4 hope. he 4 VII
take the opportunity Of learning more rs
about u, 81 I also hope that We shali talse
ths opportunity Of learning son,etliIt1E
more about him. There e 9 certain lea-I
way 20 be made up on both slides EnGllsh
opinion Inns never quite done Justice g! e;
wordo rctl at Mr.. bryan, for one thing
has reveriu,iite done Justice to England \
For another. what one may call tho New
York, Or r. Tier the Wall Street point Of
view Ii ffar&too readily accepted IN this
country be y representative OF American
opinion n and Wall street Ion ago de- de-I
scided that Mr.. Bryan wi.s par tlysan An
$archist, partly cllarlat and party ai,l
aaSfnixturS OF both. I5 sJ III n "a
8Sg A gain, II has been Mr.. bryang faso s;to
appear asSt tie advocate Of measures and
policies that could not In tho m tufe OK
Z things d commend tlietnselvss 70 British
ssympa thies II, 1890 he rnt, full TIT agninst
the monometallism Of Lombard Street
and Ii, 1900 against the continent Of I'M
perialisin, which is ono OF the strongests
I political passions OF our times, He has
never. to my knowledge. cordially accept
ed the rev relations TINT obtain between
/ hts co untry and our own. Six years nEo
Y he was driving the Bocrs and the # r.
Epifos III harness, and he still suspec ts
us as tho aiders and nbet tors OF lner--is
lea B progress In %herei-t
Eical Ecrudeness Of his first campaign, the
thinness and unreality OF his second, ana
AL, - hct al fnnef her nlDnnt ted
! Englieh opinion. Moreover, Mr. Bryan
was twice mngnflccntly defente cd !; events
moved on beyond him and he seemed IN
English: eyes to have been reduced 70
the leadership Of cause al hopeless az
any IN this world. e u ~ s5s5 ,s5
Democrats and Mr.. Bryan.
And Il anything could confirm the con A ::
aviction that his bolt was shot ~ II was
the evidence OF the 1901 election B For
then we nav what seemed to- %, md
what Americana honestly believed TO be
4 revolt within his own party from Mr. y
Bryan and yBr,Vnsm: nlarshaling Of
& the force. 81 eastern ni,d Conservative
Democracy against the dominion OF SRadi-3
cal and Western ocracy: their'itri-s
Sumphf In the convention, the dethronenlents
5ot Mr.. Bryan. and the definite return OF
the Democratic party TO safety and SAN
3ity.'"ss 81 w haieyer else might happen. men
said, Mr.. Bryan at least was zone #1oF'
his old Il ascendency was a DESTROYED 81 his
policies wiped forever from the slate
In 1895 the ldol OF the Vest ana I. s the ai
terror not merely OF the East, but siot!
half the worid, and II 1900 still the s Y nl1.s
questioned leader OF his party, ne had
sunk, 80 Il seemed. In 1904 into 5impo'e sessi
and isoiation.i s i ii s y 3;5i
\ hut the Issue proved far otherwise. The
real Significance OF the presidential cleo
ton OF 1904 n ~ not In the magnitude * OF
Rooseyelt' " irtory, but in the magnitude
aof Judge Pafker's dete At :. q not IN the
triumph sof tRepub icanism, but in 8 the
utter rout sand aGnihilation .ot Conser.-#
tvattvep 4 Denso cracy.s ~ conservative De-
smocracy, III gns made very clea s5Hns
nothing iibuts lRep bllcanism 4 and .. water.
1T was made not less clear that the peo--$
pie would have none Sof It. 30 far from
winning states that Mr. VI Bryan had lost,
,i.8lost States that Mr.. Bryan had won
The unanswerable argument OF the votes
proved that Bryanlsmg at its worst was a
more appealing card to play than Con-
,servatism" at IL best. # IS 4.
His Presidential Prospects.
z From the moment that was made plain:
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