The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1912-07-26
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.)

If any person pretending to the pos
session of knowledge gives it out ora
cularly that in the late fracas at Balti
more, Md, William Jennings Bryan wa
run over by steam roller, and his tai
feathers pulled out or lost his hold OIL
the party, bet him one million dollar
in pennies that he is full brother to th
monkey of the jungles. 1t is true, pos
sibly, that William lost the considera
ton and respect of certain politician.
whose little game he blocked most beau
tifully but it is not true that he lost
anything else. And do not let any one
however high his brow may be, get away
convention. That is one of Hon. Theo
dore Rooseveh's hallucinations.
The politicians We're like the cele
brnted pack of fox hounds that mis-
guided man imported into country in
tested with wolves. He took them out
for trial run and they disappeared in
the timber. Whipping up, he followed
the trail until he came to a cabin by the
roadside in front of which sat a man
with sandy whiskers, who was medita-
lively smoking concob pipe.
"Neighbor," said the foXhunter, did
you see anything of a pack of dogs
around here?'
The smoker nodded.
''How We're they doing?" asked the
owner, with pardonable pride.
"Wa-al, it appeared to me they were
lettle bit ahead of the WOLF" was the
answer. And that's the way the bosses
won at Baltimore. They nominated
Governor Woodrow Wilson-after Bryan
was through with the job. The houni
dawgs, the Tammany tiger and all the
other forelooping animals of politics
were the fox-hounds, and the Nebraskan
was the wolf of the story.
The gentleman from Lincoln outman-
euvered the whole crowd of them. Like
first-cl checker player, every time
he lost ''man" he jumped two of their
pieces and landed in the king row
When they finished he had everything
they began with except the money. So
deftly did he work his plays that all the
money outside the United States treas
ury couldn't have bought the nomination
for one of the twelve apostles. The con-
vention was clean in that respect, and
he made it so. The gathering may have
been noisy and rough at times, but it
was on the level. His opponents fought
hard, but he fought harder, and while
they may be sore over his triumph, they
! certainly Were impressed with his
prowess.
His winning was simple enough in its
methods. He appealed to the great mass
of the democratic voters outside the
convention, while the leaders of the OPP
position were operating upon the thou
sand delegates within the hall. Re
dueed to ordinary arithmetic, he offset
the thousand with the six million and a
half voters. His tactics We're bound to
win in the end if he could get sufficient
time Enmeshed in their own foolish
devices, they gave him more time than
he needed. They seemed to forget that
there was such thing as the magnetic
telegraph or the daily newspaper in ex
stence. The limit of their field of op
Grafton was the city of Baltimore. His
extended from ocean to ocean and from
party at Donybrook Fair, with the black
thorn shillalagh, his work was "beeyouti
full" 1t showed what one plucky mar
with sense could do with clutch of fat
headed politicians who We're playing the
game under the rules of 1860. 1t wasn't
until the avalanche of indignant tele
grams descended upon them, propelled
| by aroused sentiment at home, that they
began to discern how skillfully he hat
trapped them.
To begin with, he knew every care
they held in their hands when the gam'
began, and they weren't aware of wha
he was holding. They thought he was
candidate for president and he let then
think sol To smoke him out they pu
up Judge Alton B. Parker for chairman
and chuckled. The Nebraskan sough
out private room and did a Highland
fling in exceeding great joy. He ha'
them. Reappearing with face that re
sembled that of an undertaken at a $50'
funeral, he appeared to he very mucl
concerned for the safety of the republic
In the language of the sporting world
they fell for it, and fell hard
4 Here's where we hang the binger o
Bill they chortled as they proceeded t
push Parker over the line. Right the
and there he won the game.
Inside of an hour the country wa
ringing with his declaration that tn
predatory interests were endeavoring
! seize the high parliament of the d,
4. moeracy and sell ii into bondage to Wa
! street. Daringiy enough, he singled OF
those two shocked persons, Thomas Fo
! tune Ryan and August Belmont and use
them as Exhibits A and B, respectivel
to prove that the money devil and h
e inps were there in their proper person
They were merely modest delegates, b
b William had them ON exhibition in an e
tirely different guise. inside of IL hou