West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-03-05
Remarkable MAN
What Philadelphia North American
Says Of Bryan.
BIGGER NAN THAN HE EYER WAS
Political Record without Parallel Sure
He Il Right. Thsn Goes Ahead
Knows No Defeat.
BIGGER NAN THAN HE EYER VA,

"iham jennings bryan:
William Jennings Bryan, of Lin.
coin. Neb.. may never be President
of the United States, and, again,
he may be. Time alone can tell,
and we can't make time give ad
vance information.
But whether or not he is ever
President. or fills Office Of any sort,
he is our most remarkable private
citizen, and his political record is
without parallel in the history of our
nation. Aside from its partisan feat
ures and its public significance, it
has a moral meaning which should
be deep.planted in the mind of his
fellow-count'ymeD, young and old,
so that the number OF his kind may
be increased.
William Jennings Bryan is a shin.
ing exemplar of the success that lies
in defeat.
From the time he used to debate
with the other students at Illinois
College to the present day he has
known every form of public defeat,
from the smallest to the greatest,
and as If to doubly test him, he was
twice subjected to the greatest.
When he went out to Lincoln as a
young lawyer, he didn't get much
practice IN his profession. So, when.
ever committees from county fairs
or "grand picnics" came to the city
for oratory and applied for the
same at some lawyers Office, they
were referred to Bryan.
And Bryan usually accepted and
Numbered at them just what he
thought, whether they thought that
way or not, and pretty soon he ran
for CONFESS in a Republican dis
trict-ran because no other Demo-
crat wanted to be jefeated!-and
was elected
And the busy lawyers who re-
ferred committees to him are still as
little known as busy lawyers in
thousands of little cities, while he is
known the world around as no other
lawyer, busy or otherwise, in any
city. big or little.
And not one Of them makes as
much money today as he does,
elther
His congressional successes were
just exceptions to prove his rule of
defeat.
But every time he went down he
came up fresher and stronger, until
now he has greater hold on the
masses than he ever had. And he's
a bigger man than he ever was, for
the simple reason that he has known
how TO use defea'.
In the first place, he was never
defeated because of any faults OF
character. So there was no reason
why he should despair, and he
didn't. In the second place, he
never went ahead until he felt sure
he was right, SO he accepted HE de
feats as mainly a difference of opin.
ion between himself and the ma.
jority of voters, and no man need
be discouraged because he honestly
dissgrees with the masses.
This usually means that he is
right, and in the case of Bryan il
has been so proven. For many OF
his Revolutionary radIcaIisms" oil
dozen years ago are now being
advocated by the very ones who
then stood aghast at their mere
meBtionl
Bat back Of all his defeats and
Bullets is a man who believes in
himself, which IS the first requisite
for any sort Of success. And back
Of this belief in self is a character
that will stand the most searching
rays OF calcium carbide. And when
you reinforce self confidence with
character you can defy defeat, for
there IS no defeating this combina
ton.
10 you, young man or old man,
| say lhis-studY William jennings
Bryan.
IL doesn't matter whether you are
a Democrat Or Republican, a Pro
hibitionist or a Socialist. There is
something far more important to
you than politics and parties. It is
manhood.
And Bryan is a MAN, of whom II
may be said he has never known de.
feat, although be has met il often,
for his sort of MANHOOD can,
be defeated.
And it's the sort we need right
nov.
The ARGUS regrets that Harry
woodward was not game enough
TO trot Bro. Presley Morris a con-