Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-07-23

m0cr0cy STAND To-Day. MT. Bryan be-
lieves in an income tax. He does not
believe in government by injunction.
The almighty majority of Americans
believe as he does on these doctrines.
Republicans. Democrats, Popu!lsts, ST.
cialists and simple Boreheads. Mr..
Bryan happened to be the first party
campaign leader to preach those doc
trines, and that fact accounts for very
much Of his popularity and political
force.
Mr.. Bryan believes also in read
1ustment Of the tariff, SO that the bur
dens will not fall upon the DateS OF
the poor and the guerdons drop into
the purses Of the rich. Nearly all or
binary, everyday, average, disinterest-
ed Americans Of all parties believe
Just that way too. So there Is another
why and wherefore Of the popularity
of William ]. Bryan.
Eloquent Orator.
For a dozen years he has been the
mouthpiece of these dOctrines-and
such a mouthpiece! Henry Clay had
wide and wonderful mouth and an
| eloquent tongue. There again comes
in the parallel, for Mr.. Bryan has one
of the biggest mouths and one OF the
| most eloquent tongues ON record.
| There are those who believe deyOutly
| that he is the most eloquent living
orator, and If the monographs OF the
ancients had preserved the eloquence
| of Cicero and Demosthenes no doubt
| the dead also would be eliminated
| from the race for oratorical premier
ship in the estimation of the devout.
/ All mankind loves a lover and an
| orator. Though we utter the language
| of~angels, If we have not the eloquent
| tongue we are become as sounding
brass and our audience as snoring
snoozers. Divine poetry delivered by
| a droning or cackling voice falls nat"
| ter than a cornmeal pancake. Half
the so called orators we have aro but
near orators, lacking the silver
tongue. But Mp. Bryan very early
| found his silver tongue. He applied
| 1t first to free silver and later to things
! ncnmetallic. but still the clarion rin:s
| is there He Is an orator, always has
been an orator, and that accounts FOR
an immensely big slice Of his popl-
larity and power.
| Given, then. an eloquent tongue WITH
something to say and innumerable In
vitations - say it. and that something
| which c..,eals to the mass Of the peo-
| ole, which the mass Of the people
themselves believe, and we have a
| force CT irresistible attraction, we
| have the secret OF a nation wide pop
| ularity
| Added to this, man VINO believes
| in himself as he believes in his beliefs,
| who is firm In the conviction that
| somehow he Is sent as Moses to
! lead the people of Israel out OF the
| wilderness into the promised land OF
| Canaan. and we have the secret Of the
political power that Is represented In
William J. Bryan.
First Class Writer.
It is remembered that Mr.. Bryan
| also Is an excellent writer. what may
be called first class writer. But what
of that? The late Charles a. Dana Of
the New York Sun once was visited by
friend who wanted Dana to find q
| uritf. q position for young man fresh
| from the country.
HE is first class writer, Mr..
DANA" said the frierd.
Mr.. Dana picked up brickbat which
; lay OF bis table as paperwei6ht.
Than ta t,,rc1 to thA window
Look down there on Park row." he
said. II could shy this brickbat down
there ut any time Of the day or night
and hit on the head first class writer
who is starving to death"
No amount of literary work. however
brilliant. could have gained William J.
Bryan his premier place In the Democ-
racy He might have written the OK
act words that he speaks until he had
writer's paralysis clean UP to his nrIn-
pits and down his backbone without
being able to capture single dele
gates vote in a convention to noml''rte
q candidate for constable of HoorI te
township. His or:tory has made hln
his oratory. backed, Of course. b. hiS
force Of character. his tranSDH rent Sin
certify. his courage Of conviction.
Right here VIC may point out anc her
item Of resemblance between Hc"ry
Clay and the Nebraskan. Clay al" ,:"'
took firm stand, right IN front OF t'l~
footlights, on any question viii tH,nc
I'D for discussion during hf1 fifty yrs
Of public life. Bryan always does The
same. There are political cats nj
which you are always looking ";
something Of anxious concern. MT
knowing just which way they are 70
ing to jump. Bryan usually re+s [ II"
spot where he stands on public prob
lens before the crowd looks that Wv.
and there he plants his feet with n ~