New-York tribune., 1906-08-28
IN THE PENUMBRA.

"The shadow of g great personality Is
stretching out nostalgically toward us. over
the eastern waters, In front Of the morning
sum- Mr. Bryan is hasting hither. and the orb
of day projects bis eclpsing bulk before him.
We are already entering into his penumbra.
Penumbrously he fills Democratic editorial
pages Thus 1.-The Asheville Citizen" halls him
as "a new world power" and 1.-The Raleigh
News and Observer bestowing on this scissored
tribute double leads and the proud position
regularly reserved to its own homemade elo-
duence confesses thus it's inability to express
more glOriOusly the thrilling emotions of the
penumbra. Since the emergence of Japan no
such phenomenon has been observed conti-
nent for elbow room for this "new world
power! Let the other world powers shift
about on their teeter-torter to make room for
this mighty newcomer and to readjust the pre-
cious and commOdious balance.
Mr. Bryan has been TO 'Yurrup." When an
ordinary man goes there he returns magnifed
In the eyes OF his untravelled neighbors. but
when a great man goes-i And Mr.. Bryan
has not been merely to Europe He has let his
observation with extensive view survey man
kind from China to Peru" He has proclaimed
ITO all mankind that humanity cannot be cru
"cifed upon q cross Of gold. Bearing
''this new torch of liberty, holding aloft sec
"Ond Magma Charta, sounding a trumpet call
"the echoes of which are being heard around
"the world, William Jennings Bryan stands
"alOne in q place where no man has stood be-
''fore, because the component parts which go to
make his greatness represent all sections OF
"the globe" His was no Cooks tour" all
hustle and Baedeker He went to see and to be
seen. When the Niagara has taken itself on
trip around the globe the nations Of the earth,
familiar with the two wonders of this continent,
will be content to stay at home and "see their
own countries first" Greatest Of all the glOr1es
of this tour the Commoner "has stood in the
courts of kings, preaching there before the
throne the imperishable doctrine of the equal
city of man" No wonder "The Asheville Cit
izen," Iauded by that Iauded man, Josephus
Daniels, the Pendragon of the Democratic
editors presses the resources OF language to
their uttermOst and says that Mr.. Bryan Stands
to-day in the eyes of the world as the greatest
Giving 'worldlian'" No mere cosmopolitan
from COsmopolis, but the worlds own, onliest
"worldlian"! Not worldly-nay, Heaven forbid
but a worldlianl There have been other
wOrldlians- jefferson, Gladstone. Bismarck
but Bryan is the greatest Of ALL" "Out Of the
clouds OF dersiOn and contumely there has
"been born a new world power. and Bryan to-
day stands resplendent the greatest of all liv-
sing menV
We commend to the Democratic editors OF the
land in these penumbrOus days the notable and
self-effacing example of their great Pendragon.
Why strain the dictionary any further? The
''facundious art" of rhetoric falters before the
impossible. Reprint the whole eloquent, Just
and indispensable tribute. Hail TO the greatest
living 'worldlian"I 1.-The Dragon of the great
PendragOnship" swishes his inky and symbolic
tail in ecstatlc approval