Little Falls herald., 1912-07-19
THE TALE OF THE BALTI-
MORE FIGHT
AS Told by James w. Faulkner in Cor
respondence to the Cincinnati
Enquirer.

AS Told by James w. Faulkner in Cor
respondence to the Cincinnati
Enquirer.
If any person pretending to the pos.
session Of knowledge gives it out
oracularly that in the late fracas at
Baltimore, Nd, William Jennings
Bryan was run over by steam roller,
had his tail feathers pulled out or lost
his hold on the party, bet him one mil
ion dollars in pennies that he is full
brother to the monkey of the jungles.
It is true, possibly, that William lost
the consideration and respect of certain
politicians whose little game he block
ed most beautifully, but it is not true
that he lost anything else. And do. not
let any one, however high his brow
may be, get away with the story that
the bosses ran the convention. That
is one of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt 8
ha1lucinations.
The politicians were like the cele.
brated 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
man with sandy chin-whiskers, who
was meditatively smoking corncob
pipe:
"Did you see anything Of pack of
dogs around hereY'
The smoker nodded.
elbow were they doing?' asked the
owner, with pardonable pride.
"Wa-al, it appeared to me they were
a leetle bit ahead of the wolf,'' was
the answer. And that the way the
bosses won at Baltimore. They nom-
mated Governor Wilson-after Bryan
was through with the job. The houn'
dawgs, the Tammany Tiger and all the
other foreloping animals Of politics
were the fox-hounds, and the Ne
braskan was the wolf Of the story.
The gentleman from Lincoln out
maneuvered the whole crowd Of them.
Like frst-class checker player, every
time he lost "man'' he jumped two
of their pieces and landed in the king
row. When they started they had
majority Of the convention, they had
the machinery, the money, the crowds
and the claque. When they finished he
had everything they began with ex-
cept the money. So deftly did he work
his plays that all the money outside
the United States Treasury couldn' It
have bought the nomination for one
of the Twelve Apostles. The conven-
tion 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
it's methods. He appealed to the great
mass of the democratic voters outside
the convention, while the leaders of
the opposition were operating upon
the thousand delegates within the hall.
Reduced to ordinary arithmetic, he off
set the thousand with the six million
and a half voters. His tactics were
bound to win in the end if he could get
sufficient time. Enmeshed in thtir
own foolish devices, they gave I'm
more time than he needed. They seem
ed to forget that there was such thing
as the magnetic telegraph or the daily
newspaper in existence. The limit of
their field of operation was the city of
Baltimore. His extended from ocean
to ocean and from Canada to Mexico.
Like the muscular party at Dom y
brook Fair, with the blackthorn shill- !
alagh, his work was beeyoutiful.' - It
showed what one plucky man with |
sense could do with clutch Of fat !
headed politicians who were playing !
MT until the avalanche of indig-
nant kilograms descended upon them,
propelled by aroused sentiment at :
home, that they began to discern how
skillfully he had trapped them.
To begin with, he knew every card !
they held in their hands when the
game began, and they weren't aware !
Of what he was holding. They thought |
he was a candidate for president-and !!
he let them think so! To smoke him |
out they put up Judge Alton B. Park |
er for chairman and chuckled. The
Nebraskan sought out private room !
and did Highland fling in exceeding
great joy. He had them. Reappearing
with face that resembled that of an 4.
Undertaken at a $500 funeral, he ap-,;
oeared to be very much concerned for
he safety of the Republic. In the
anguage Of the sporting world, they
ell for it, and fell hard. :,
"Here's where we hang the binger
IN Bill,' they chortled as they pro-
'eeded to push Parker over the line.
Right then and there he won the game.
Inside of an hour the country was
'inging with his declaration that the
interests were endeavoring]
% seize the high parliament Of the:
democracy and sell it into bondage to
Wall street. Daringly enough, he
ingled out those two shocked persons,
Thomas Fortune Ryan and Augusta
Belmont and used them as Exhibits A.
md B, respectively, to prove that the1
money devil and his imps were there|
n their proper persons. They were
merely delegates, but William hadI
hem on exhibition in an entirely dif-1
:erent guise. Inside Of IL hours the]
companies began to reap a
yolden harvest from tne friohtenedI