The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-06-23
William Jennings Bryan =
Charmed Newberry People
Prefaced His Superb Lecture, 7he Prince of Peace 10
Thirty Minutes Talk on National Political Issues.
Heard by a Big and Enthusiastic Audience

things and then told him that I was
not prepared to tell just what all he
had taken-that I was somewhat like
an old colored woman who was sick
and sent for colored physician, and
when she got worse she sent for
| white physician. And the white ply
sician examined her pulse, and then,
he said, did the other doctor take
your temperature?" And she said, Il
don't know; I amt missed nothing
but my watch yet" I told him ],
had not had time to take an inventory
to see what 1 had missed, but as
sured him I did not speak complain
ingly; that while some Democrats OBJ
jeeted to what he had been taking from
Our platform, did not; that our plat
form was made for use, and il We
could not get a chance to use it I was
glad to have anybody use it who
would, and that it really made me feel .
50 good to see Republicans climbing
up on that platform that was much J:
in the attitude Of a young fellow :
heard of over in Alabama. He. was
very bashful young man, and he court
ed his girl for a year before he had
the courage to propose to her.But one
evening he told her he loved her and
asked her to marry him. She was a
very frank sort Of a girl, and she
said, "Jfm I have been loving you these Z
many months, and I have just been
waiting for you to tell ME so could
tell you" And Jim was overcome i
with delight He went out and look
ed up at the stars and he said, "Oh,
Lord, amt got nothip' agin, nobody"
That is the way I began to feel, and
I have been feeling better ever since,
and if L get to feeling much better !:
than do now, don't know what !.
am going to do about it. @.@
"Not long after that the cartoons
got to be better-and I need not tell :.
you there was great room for inn
provement in the cartoons. They We're
awful early in my political career
so bad that I had to quit allowing
some of these picture papers to go In
to my house. They kept my family 80 :
irritated I just had to shut them out =;
But they are doing better now. And
one of the first OF these good cartoons
appeared in, Golfers Weekly. That
paper had not supported me, but this
cartoon was so good sent and got
the original and have it in my Office.
It represented Mr.. Roosevelt and my
self as birds-both of us as birds.
Don't laugh now. After one had been :
in the serpent class for several years
it is quite nice to get among the
birds. This represented us both as
birds, but he was On the nest, and
was on the limb, and his nest was
feathered by feathers had formerly
worn. And there I stood on the limb,
all bare, with only one feather left !,
tariff reform. And I was wondering
when he was going to try to get that.
And, sure enough, three years ago,
they tried to get that, but they got to
quarreling as to whether the feather
should turn up or down, and it near :
ly broke up the party. In fact, it was
the fight over this tariff question that
has made the division that is now so
apparent in the Republican party-a
division so great that we had about
half the Republicans voting with us a
year ago on reciprocity-nearly half.
We had twenty-four voting with us on
the farmers free list and I think this
mornings paper said that twenty-four
and that is more surprising still
voted with us on the wool bill. And
day before yesterday a senator from
Montana warned the Republicans OF
the east that if they favored recipro-
city the western Republicans would
join the Democrats and reduce the
tariff On other things, and yesterday
a New England Republican announced
that if the reciprocity bill was ratified
that he expected to see the western
Republicans then help to tear down
this temple of protection.
They fooled the people last election
with a little word 'revision.' People
of them-that that
meant reductio and when l pointed
out during the I. "aign that the word