The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-08-08

William Jennings Bryan Of Nebraska
In fact, William Jennings Bryan, OF
Nebraska, has been the dominating
power In the Democratic party SO
ong that the memory Of first vo-
ter" runneth not to the contrary. For
16 long and weary years he has been
Democracy's Old Man OF the Sea,
gripping her with a strange hold and
choking her into abject submission to
his every within and caprice. In ut
ter defiance Of q precedent that has
been as binding as law in every Dem
ocratic national convention for 60
years, in utter disregard Of every con-
sideration Of elementary decency and
fair play, he succeeded in robbing the
distinguished Speaker Of this House
of the honor Of a nomination for the
high Office of President Of the United
States after the Speaker had secured
a majority of the votes on eight sue
cessive ballots, and he succeeded in
bestowing that honor upon man
who was not only not his friend but
his pronounced and active enemy.
II 1t be true that Opportunity
knocks but once at every mans door,
then Champ Clark may never again
have a chance to be President of the
United States, but Champ Clark will
live in the hearts and affections Of his
fellow men long after William Jen-
nings Bryan shall have been forgot
ten. He will live, and his name will
be honored because all the world
knows that Champ Clark has always
been true to hiS friends, true to his
ideals. true to his conception Of duty,
standing ''four-square to all the winds
that blow" in fair weather AMI in
foul. And when the impartial histor.
ian of the future shall come % write
OF his base betrayal at Baltimore he
will denounce the act Of Will.ain Jen
nings Bryan as marking the 'vry &C
me of perfidy, the elimination II 30
iitical treechery.
hove said that Prof w sol ives
not the friend Of william Jcnnir gs
BRYAN, and for vertical On Of that
sta .ement I refer TO page 27s, voiu'hc
5 Woodrow Wilson's Histocy Of the
American People, and this Ii
what he says about the man VINO
Il cd to be your peerless but whc
rs now your Cherries" leader
MIR. Bryan though he had been &
member of congress and has spoken
III Ia House upon the co.n+5a cues
ton, had made no place Of leadership
for himself hitherto. was unknown tC
the country at large and even to the
great mass OF his fellow partisans
and Lad come 10 the convent on will
the delegation rom Nebraska unter
lalded, unremarked. A single spe cl
made frc.l the platform Ct the C n
vention had won him the ncm.nat'oi
q speech wrought not of argumen
but of fire, and uttered IN the full
tones Of q voice which rang clear ant
passionate in the authentic key o
the assembly's own mood Of vehem
ence and revolt. II was a thing 70
thoughtful men to note how a mer
stroke OF telling defamation nigh
make an unknown, INFESTED man tn
nominee of a great party for the high
est Office in the land, popular as
sembly beng the instrument c
choice"
Mr.. Wilson was not the friend o
Mr.. Bryan in 1896 and he was no
his friend as late as April 30. 1907
when he wrote the following lette
from Princeton:
MY Dear Mr.. Joline: Thank 20
very much for sending me your ad
dress at Parsons, Kans., before tn
board of directors of the Missouri
Kansas & Texas Railway Co. hav
read II with relish and entire agree
ment. Would that we could do some
thing, at once dignified and effectiv,
to knock Mr.. Bryan once fer. all int
q cooked hat"
Il have read 1t with hellsh and Ell
tire agreement" And in the Pa
sons speech Mr.. Joline, the great trus
and corporation lawyer gives ute,
ance to this sentiment;
But ! venture to utter what is pc
haps feeble protest against tn
blind and foolish outcry against a
railways. You and | know who ar
responsible for this socialistic, popl
l'stic, antiproperty crusade. II is tn
cry of the envious against the We
to do-the old story. II is not ney
to this generation, only II is loude
/, and more bitter than ever hefore Z,