New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-23
BRYAN'S ENDURANCE,
How the Presidential Candidate
Stands Stress Of Campaigning.
LEADS THE SIMPLE LIFE.

Knows How to Take Care of Himself
and Can Sleep Soundly at Any Time.
Has Digestion of Youth and Muscles
of Iron.
Swinging through the country with
William Jennings Bryan, the Demo
cratic candidate for president of the
United States, one hears asked hun
dred and more times a day the ques-
ton, How does he stand it?'
What about four persons out of five
who hear Bryan speak and see him in
the midst Of the whirlwind Of the last
weeks Of a campaign are curious to
know Is what there Is about his phys
ical and mental makeup and manner
Of living that enables him to endure
the stress Of three presidential cam
paigns almost unscathed. He Is now
! past that age when most men are at
| the zenith Of their powers Of endur-
ance In this contest he has already
done weeks Of trying and vigorous
campaigning, yet he shows almost no
signs Of the strain and Is in excellent
Philadelphia correspondent Of the New
York Globe. Whereas the vocal Or
gans Of most men who have gone
through such a speaking ordeal as he
has lately would be badly shattered
and they would be vigorously fortify-
ing themselves with cough drops and
throat lOZenges, Mr.. Bryan seems never
| to give the preservation Of his voice
more than passing thought.
Leading the simple life has a great
deal to do with Bryan's capacity for
the sort Of campaigning he Is now
engaged In. He has, Of course, a pow
erful physique, and nature gave him a
voice in million, but he has preserved
| himself well and avoided excuses.
The men who are travelling with the
Democratic candidate, some Of whom
were with him In his former cam
pafgns, say he lives the most simply of
any member Of his party and that this
adds much to his marvellous capacity
for hard and sustained work.
For one thing, Mr.. Bryan can sleep.
He Is what Is called a good sleeper.
! He is so constituted that the troubles
Of the day do not follow him into the
night When he Is whirling through
one state after another, making one or
two long speeches a day, with prob
ably numerous short car end talks
and gees to bed thoroughly tired out
he drops off to sleep in five minutes
and sleeps eight hours without a
break, unless he Is called out to ad.
! dress an early morning crowd some.
where.
''Mlstah Bryan, he sleeps awful
sound" Is the way one Of the colored
functionaries on his car tells it. "Lots
Of times, when I want to wake him
have to take hold of him and shake
him."
To, a fine faculty for sleeping al
night Mr.. Bryan adds the ability Il
take short nap at almost any time
he wishes to and to wake with MIND
cleared and body refreshed. Thi.
serves him in good stead when tour
Ing the country, as he is at present
"a short nap is better than q drink
Of whisky" said one Of Bryan'sz ad
Miners the other day. Mr.. Bryan
seems to hold to this doctrine A
least he avoids liquor and catches ,
nap If he feels like it.
Tens Of thousands Of those that hav,
heard Bryan have marveled at hi
voice. and wondered at his power o
oratory, but probably have not givel
thought to his Digestion. Half Of tn
battle of life consists in having goot
stomach, and Mr.. Bryan is the fortu
nate pOsseSsOr of one. He eats any
thing that other men who work hare
eat and has an appetite like a black
smith or harvest hand. He enjoy
not only his dinner, but all his meals
and no small measure Of the cheer
fulness with which he goes through
the hardships Of a campaign is due t
this fact and the further fact that hi
digestive powers, never having bee
weakened by drinking or smoking Q
the use Of tobacco in any form, ar
unimpaired and as good as they wer
when he was twenty-one.
They tell a story on the Bryan pr
vate car that for breakfast in a 81
Paul cafe the other day the candidat
searched through the bill of fare an
finally gave an order for four por
chops and some fried onions. TO thes
} dainty products Of the cuisine Mr.. BrJ
an did the most ample justice.
Yet some people have said that
Bryan is beaten for president this tim
the blow will be too much and will Ii
him. Nothing but a green old az
would seem to await the man who a
forty-eight can wrestle successful
with four pork chops and fried onion
for breakfast. Nature did not inten
him to die Of politics.
/ While Mr.. Bryan is beginning to &c
: along In years and to take on flesh
| is far from fat He has muscles of iro1
! and big ones at that, He understand
:: how to take care of himself. After
hard, long speech, if he has the chance
; he takes a rub down and changes hi