The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-11-22
MR.. BRYAN ALL SMILES.
From Mr. Bryan's Indianapolis
Speech.

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But nobody is enjoying progressive
Republicanism more than I am. l
do not think even the progressive Re-
publican gets as much satisfaction
out Of the indorsement that some If
them are giving at a late day and with
some hesitation to the opinions that
we have been advocating all these
years. If you want to find the smile
that won't come off you need not go to
the advertisements Of breakfast foods;
come to Nebraska.
began to enjoy this some years
ago when Mr.. Roosevelt first COM
menced to make incursions into our
platform yard. 1 was in Washington
at a Gridiron club banquet; he was
the chief guest and sat on the right
of the POSTMASTER and I sat IN the
other side; and the boys of the club
were Joking him from the beginning
of the banquet to the end about what
he was taking from the Democratic
platform, and when it came my time
I joked him too. I mentioned some
Of the things, but I assured him that
I did not speak complainingly; that,
while some of the Democrats object
ed, did not; that I:believed our plat
form was made for use and that ii
We could not get a chance to use it
I was glad to have anybody use it.
I told those banqueters that I felt
so good to see the Republicans climb
ing up on our platform that I was
much in the attitude of the young fel-
low down in Alabama, a bashful
young man, who courted his girl for
a year before he had the courage to
propose to her. One evening he told
her that he loved her and asked her
to marry him. She was frank, out
spoken sort of a girl and she said:
%*Why, Jim, I have been loving you
these many months. have just been
waiting for you to tell me, so I could
tell you" jim was overcome. with
delight. He went out and looked up
at the stars and said: ~, Lord, I
hain't got nothin' agin' nobody"
That was the way I commenced to
feel years ago about this matter. I
have been feeling better and better
ever since, and I don't know what I
am going to do if I get to feeling much
better than I do now.
A little while after the banquet the
cartoonists began to take it up, and
the Golfers Weekly had a cartoon
that some of you may have seen. 1t
represented the president and myself
as birds, both of US birds, but he was
on the nest, and was on a limb, and
his nest was feathered with feathers
that l had formerly worn, and there
s sat on the limb, all bare, with just
zone feather left, tariff reform, and I
was wondering whether he was trying
Ito get that.
And, sure enough, two years ago
they tried to take that feather, bnt
they got to quarreling as to whether
the feather ought to turn up or turn
down, and it split the party. But
when | found my feathers were gone
! proceeded, like an bird ought to,
to raise new crop. I worked dill
gently, especially while he was in
South Africa, and when he came back
I had reached about that period OF
DEVELOPMENT you notice in a chicken
when it runs across the road in front
of the automobiles in the fall. II you
will notice, the chicken sometimes has
.cst its first feathers and its second
Feathers are not fully developed. l
was in about that position, so to speak,
when he came back, and when ne
went out to Osawatomie and tried to
get every pin feather that I had.
But, my friends, the cartoons are
doing him justice now. He is getting
what is coming to him. A friend OF
mine sent me a cartoon the other day.
want to keep it in my Office. 1t rep
resents Mr.. Roosevelt with a large
family of boys-no race suicide; it is
a family of good size, and each boy
represents a political issue. One OF
the oldest is Antitrust. He is about
II. and they run from that on down.
and every boy looks like me.
Now, my friend, if I left this matter