The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-06-03

4 new estimate Of the character Of |,
Mr.. william Jennings Bryan appears |
IN the article by William Bayard Hale |
IN the Worlds Work for June. The |
following stories illustrating Mr.. Bry-
ans habits of mind and heart are TAX
en- from that article:
Where. in the annals of hot partisan
strife will you find an orator, facing
,he enmity OF a frenzied national con-
yention, throwing away a point be-
cause he had caught sight of wife in
the throng of ten thousand?
The first draft of Mr.. Bryan's reso-
luton asking for the withdrawal of
Mr. Ryan and Mr.. Belmont from the
Baltimore convention contained pas
sage referring to the methods by
which Mr.. Taft had just obtained his
denomination at Chicago. 1t was the
climax of the resolution When Mr.
Bryan came down from the platform
after the dramatic speech Offering this
resolution, his friend and Old-tiEle sec
retary, Mr.. Robert +. Rose, pulled
him by the coat and said: What be-
came Of the passage about Taft?' Mr..
Bryan turned his head and asked in
reply: why. didn't you see that Mrs.
Taft was in the gallery
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furnished by the government and driv
Ell BY an Irishman who has conducted
the Secretaries Of State about Wash
ington for nearly quarter of CEN
tury. Mr.. Bryan Immediately became
interested in his coachman, as he does
in everybody associated with him in
any capacity. A day or two before the
delivery of the st. Patrick's Day
speech which, by it's comment on the
abolition of the House Of Lords,
caused some comment in England, the
Secretary asked his driver if he were
going to tho st. Patrick's Day dinner
which the Irish societies of Washing
going. well. 1 should like to have
you co. said Mr.. Bryan, "and I'll see
that you get an invitation" According
ly. on the night of March II, the ban
uuet at which the Secretary of State
spoke was graced by the presence OF
placed not only at the table, but or
the program; for, being guest OF
honor and bearing the name of Bar
r., which takes alphabetical prece-
dence over Bryan" and Belmont,
for instance. the coachman found that
10! his name led all the rest!
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Another days work of that cam
palgn G900), however, taxed Mr.. Bry
ans strength to the limit Of his endur
ancc. Starting from Rock Island, hav
iig had no sleep at all the night be
iore on account of continued confer
enccs, the candidate journeyed acrOs
IOWA travelling by trolley and steam
making twenty-five speeches befOr
ne reached the end of his program. III
saw to it that the correspondents ol
tne train were snugly provided for il
humans, and then disappeared. 4
Atue later his secretary found hin
Wretched car at the back of the train
We was utterly exhausted, but had no
ialicd to see everybody else comfort
AMY in bed before he fell down to hi
own comfortless rest
Mr.. Bryan has been addicted to Bib
neal quotations all his life. Mrs. Bry
IN tells of the manner in which II
asked for her hand. The time havin
como when it was appropriate that
pointed conversation should TAX
place with her father, the young ma
began thus:
Mr.. Baird. have been readin
nrpNerbs a good deal lately, and fin
mat Solomon says: Whose findeth
Wiz, hndeth a good thing and obtair
e'h favor of the Lord. -
-, es," Mary Baird's father replied
but RAUL suggests that while he ths
sharricth doeth we'll, he that marriet
no. docth better"
hi@inayed only for brief momen
inc aspiring youth rejoined:
iaul may have said that, but SURE
~ solomon would be the better al
.n"'1ty on this point, because Pa
never married"
~. Bryan has what he thinks is a
ri'''nal plan for the preservation
f'a'e. As far back as 1905 he PR
NoS'd 1t. at a dinner in Toxic. and ii
l"IoWlng June he laid it before a LOl
uoh conference at which twenty-S
"a1onS were represented.
ne plan proposes, not arbitratlo
pul Notwithstanding pulsory invest
s1uon with world publicity. The 81
vi The idea is that wars that can