St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-05-08
Bryan's Vermont Tour.

it gave Bryan "the biggest audiences in
New England" But let not the Com
moner be misled. At the first op-
portunity this sanity town will turn
around and swat him. Barre Times.
We don't know the names of the
horses that ran away with Mr. Bryan at
st. Johnsbury, VT, on Thursday. They
might have been Initiative and Referen-
dunn Brooklyn Eagle.
William J. Bryan was thrown from
wagon in Vermont, but landed on his
feet, which the same" as the late Bret
Harte was wont to remark, he does not
always do in political throw North
Adams, Mass, Transcript.
That was a fine tribute which Mr..
Bryan paid to a Vermont industry IN
his address at Burlington last Thursday
when in comparing the steel trust with
the scale works at St. Johnsbury he said
that in the case of the former the divl-
dends were five times as great as the pay
roll, while in the latter the pay roll
amounted to more than the dividends
[Morrisville News and Citizen.
William J. BRYAN must have pleasant
recollections of rock-ribbed Republican
Vermont since his visit to the state last
week. Every he stopped he was
greeted with enthusiasm and royalty
entertained. He addressed large audi
ences and there was not only eloquence
and humor but sound common sense in
all his talks. He ate maple sugar and at
Wells River, where the party stopped
for supper, he Joined the fat mems club.
He had the glad hand for every class of
men and followed the Roosevelt style of
shaking hands with the engineer and
fireman of the train that landed him
safely at the end of his trip. Mr.. Bryan
has been in every state in the Union the
present year and everywhere he has been
honored as his abilities and position
deserved.-[Northfe News.
IT'S said that Bryan and Roosevelt are
very near together in the line of thought
on important questions of today. From
what occurred on Bryan's trip through
Vermont we should say he was in touch
with the strenuous life too. On en-
tering the state he joined the Fat Mems
club, figured in runaway at St. Johns
bury, rode over the Burlington and
Lamoille railroad, and followed in the
procession of minstrel parade, all in
days time Hardwick Gazette.
Those who had the pleasure of meet
ing Mr.. Bryan on his tour through Yer
mont last week found him very genial
and affable gentleman, as well as decid-
edly witty. AS an illustration of this we
give his interview with few republi-
cans and democrat when going to
Burlington on the B. & L. road last
Thursday. The democrat was Hon. W.
H. Griswold of Jacksonville, who ex-
pressed wish to meet Mr.. Bryan. Ac-
cordingly he was taken into Mr. Brvan's
car and introduced by republican who
said Mr. Bryan, you see we use demo-
Gratis we'll in Vermont; here is one who
Bryan smiled and with twinkle in his
eye said 81 suppose there isn't much
money in it, is there ?"-[ Morrisville
News and Citizen.
Bryan's overlooking audiences in Yer
mont do not necessarily prove that there
are any more democrats up that way
now than when the late George M.
Stearns said that if the democrats of YER
mont wanted him to address them it
would be preferable that they should
gather in his back yard at Chicopee.
Republicans are now large factor in
Bryan meetings.-[Springfeld Republi-
can.
Mr. Bryan went through runaway
accident up at St. Johnsbury, Vt,
Thursday. The breeching broke going
down hill, and Mr.. Bryan jumped from
the carriage; he was not harmed. This
is number three in Mr.. Bryans recent
accidents as we remember this minor
order ofevents, and, according to the
tradition, he is now immune for awhile.
Mr.. Bryan has run twice for the presi-
dency, and this leaves him open to
another chance in 1908. Ifhe takes it or
gets it, he will then be immune on this
score also, under the tradition OF threes.
Mr.. Bryan can well afford to be genial.
With horses and railways he has way
of coming through without harm to him
self, and with presidential nominations
has way of coming through without
harm to anybody else. The public is
well pleased with his good luck in both
cases.-[ Hartford Courant.
Vermonters gave William. Jennings
Bryan warm welcome last week-and
he deserved it. They will also do what
they can to make it warm for him if he
decides to run as presidential candidate
in 1908 Ludlow Tribune.
To the Journal, there is something
rather significant in the manner in which
conservative men are commenting on
Bryan's utterances in Vermont during
his recent tour. To those associated
with capital in any marked degree the
statement that Bryan is today more of a
conservative than Roosevelt seemed to
make certain appeal. Certain it is
that the Bryan of today, solid, easy and
judicial, is very far removed from the
somewhat tempestuous figure that
/ sounded the silver clarion in the days
| gone by. The fact, too, that some fairly
good republicans compare him favorably
with the president is a more or less
ominous indication of the way the tide
is setting. 1t would, indeed, be a strange
thing to see Bryan, democratic conserva-
tive, arrayed, for instance, against Taft,
avowed Roosevelt radical The scrap
would at least be worth observing
montpelier Journal.
If more of the great men of the coun-
try would take these little excursions
through the land and give the people a