The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-25

as bold. clear, fearless and far-reach'
ing. 1t is to be regretted that Mr.
Bryan did not remain in Congress.
That was the place for him. His cross
of gold" speech was the worst mistake
he ever made. 1t was the mi stake CT
his life. 1t led him from the thorny
path OF constructive craftsmanship TO
the fower-flled path of the popular
orator. The nation had no great need
Of Chautauquans: it had them in humid
reds. 1t did need great construct We
statesman 1t hasn't had but one or
two in twenty-five years, and not five
in fifty.
The first time met Bryan he re-
minded me Of Cicero, | said so must
the young Cicero appeared | did not
think of Caesar then; | never think OF
Caesar now. when see, hear of, or
read after, Mr.. Bryan. Even the ma
ture man is suggestive, bnt no longer
of Cicero.
Is BRYAN radical: II so, is he dan
rerous? The dangerous men in TINS
Republic are the men who think VII
liam Jennings Bryan is dangerous, or
that he would be dangerous president
Bryan believes in law, he believes IN
order. His whole life is full OF facts,
as we'll as words, TO prove it. He IS no
more a dreamer than am, than hun
dreds o. the countrymeu. | hope, Is
would to God that every man who ever
knelt at mothers knee in this road
and that he is an idealist, that he has
Ideals. God only knows what the ma
ton would be now had it not had Its
idealists. its Handcocks and Henrys,
IS Otises. and its Lincolns and Lees
But, say some, bryan is to bring in
government ownership OF railroads,
,ocialism, anarchy" Nobody is any
doubt about the dangerous men in this
Republic. Some are even 10 be found
ia railroad offices. They are the un-
scrupulous men who would run up the
reight rates orrun down the wage
scale to pay dividends for sublimely
watered stocas. Against these, Bryan
is not iron or brass. No. Mr.. Bryan
in not dangerous. That is the last
thing to think of in connection with his
candidacy for the presidency.
Is he fit: Bryan, bred in the bra WI
and brain breeding west, will bring to
Washington not only what he went
there with, in the early nineties, but
the ripened result of fifteen years of
careful blowing, hoeng, roaping and
harvesting OF the golden grain fields OF
the world. No man has mad such a
chance TO study, not even Taft. No
man ever made better use Of his time
On the basis of his college education.
Bryan has been able to build up sup
erstructure surprising anything OF
which We have knowledge. 10 day
that is dawnng, when We are 10 De one
of the worlds great powers, politically
as we'll as commercially, his knowledge
OF the worlds affairs, his splendid share
10 the worlds work. will tit him for
lust such work "a he will find on hi
desk at Washington. D. c every day,
If he is elected president. Our foreign
affairs, not only because of the Philip
pines, but because of our Pacific coast
and other Pacific possessions, will take
up much of his time. Our rapidly in
creasng foreign commerce will inter
Est him. In extending it, he may be
able to direct it into new channels, and
secure success for it 10 old ones.
When in London, on his way home
rom a trip around the world he at
tended the Worlds Peace Congress