White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-06-29
Stories of William j. Bryan.

liam Jennings Bryan by William
Bayard Hale, several stories are
told in the Worlds Work which do
not pretend to be new, but bear re-
peating as typical of the man.
Mr.. Bryan has been addicted to
Biblical references all his life, and
Mrs. Bryan tells how he made use of
quotations when he came to the point
of asking her father for her hand.
"Mr. Baird" said the young Mr..
Bryan, Il have been reading Pro-
verbs a good deal lately, and j
find that Solomon says. Whose
findeth a wife, findeth a good thing
and obtaineth favor of the Lord"
YES" Mary Baird's father replied,
but Paul suggests that while he
hat marrieth doeth well, he that
marrieth not doeth better"
Dismayed only a moment. the as
piring youth rejoined:
Paul may have said that, but
surely Solomon would be the better
authority on this point. because Paul
never married.
The secretary of state of the grape
juice dinners admits hat he once
proposed to drink wine-under a
certain condition. In Japan at a din
ner at which the health of Admiral
Togo was being drunk, Mr.. Bryan's
glass was observed to contain only
water. you must drink the health
in champagne" exclaimed one of the
benqueters across the table. No"
Mr.. Bryan quickly replied your
Japanese heroes won their victories
drinking water; | am drinking
their health in water. When
you win victories on champagne ]
will drink your health in cham
payne"
Few men could have gone through
Mr.. Bryan's experiences and come
out of them with the mellow sweet
ness of temper which he shows to-
fidAs MI Ildlt says htlt 10 ~
where about him a trace of jealousy
or disappointment. He seems to
love stories of which he is the victim.
Mr.. Bryan speaks without malice
even of such treatment as that one
night handed out to him by Governor
Thayer. OF Nebraska. Mr.. Thayer.
long his political enemy. was presid-
ing at a -non-partisan mass-meeting
at which Mr.. Bryan was to appear.
When Mr.. Bryan took his place on
the platform the governor pretended
not to recognize him and asked him
his name. The reply was William
Jennings Bryan. "Oh, Mr.. Bryan"
said the chairman, Il am glad to
met you. DO you speak or sing?"
On a much earlier occasion, when
Mr.. Bryan was just out of school and
was really unknown, he was pressed
into service at a Democratic meeting
in the public square at Jacksonville,
ILL.,, because the scheduled speakers
were slow in arriving and the crowd
was growing impatient. How shall
| introduce him. whispered the
chairman, after young Bryan had
consented to serve. 'Oh. just say
that We will now hear William j.
Bryan. a rising attorney of this
place" The chairman turned TO the
audience. obtained silence and an
nounced. "We will now have the
pleasure of listening to William Ris-
ing Bryan. a jay attorney OF this
city
To-day" writes Mr.. Hale. 1.-The
thrice-defeated candidate, who has
come TO Washington to sit at the
right hand of the new Democratic
president, is telling these stories and
a score like them with great glee.
His favorite hero, l think. is a farmer
whom he calls John. who had just
heard from the girl of his choice that
she returned his love. John went to
the front door, opened 1t, went out,
stood looking up at the stars, and
said, oh Lord, | hain't got nothing
against nobody no more"