Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-07-02


climax Of the resolution. When Mr..
Bryan came down from the platform
after lhs dramatic speech Offering
his c!d-time secretary, Robert F.
Rose, pulled him by the coat and
said What became. OF that passage
about Eaft?" Mr.. Bryan turned his
head aud asked in reply: "Why,
didn'i YOU see that Mrs. Taft was in
the gallery?"
Mr.. Rryan now rides in carriage
furnished by the government and
driven ny an Irishman who has con-
Quoted the Secretaries of State about
washington for nearly a quarter of
century Mr.. Bryan Immediately be-
came Interested in his coachman as
he docs in everybody associated with
him in any capacity. A day or two
before the delivery Of the st. Pat
rick's Day speech, which, by its COM
ment on the abolition of the House
Of l1ords caused some comment in
England, the Secretary asked his dri-
yer u lie were going to the st. Pat
Tick's Day dinner which the Irish So
oieties OF Washington were giving.
No, the driver wasn't going. "Well,
should like to have you co. said
Mr.. BRYAN, "and I'll see that you get
an invitation" Accordingly, on the
night of March II the banquet at
which the Secretary OF State spoke
was sraced by the presence of his
coachman, who was conspicuously
placed not only at the table, but on
the program; for, being a guest of
honor and bearing the name OF Bar
ry, which takes alphabetical prece-
Dol
for instance, the coachman found
thatlo! his name led all the rest!
Another days work of that cam
paign ll900), however, taxed Mr..
Bryan 5 strength to the limit of his
endurance. Starting from Rock Is
land, having had no sleep at all the
nighi before on account Of continued
conferences, the candidate journeyed
across Iowa, travelling by trolley and
steam, making twenty-five speeches
before he reached the end of his pro
gran9 lie saw TO it that the cores
pondents on the train were snugly
provided for in the Pullmans and
then disappeared. A little later his
secretary found him stretched out on
q h3Gys seat of a wretched car at the
bdff 'of the train. He was utterly
exhausted, but had not failed to see
that everybody else was comfortably
inbed before he fell. down to his own
comCnrtless rest.
Mr., Bryan has been addicted to
Biblical quotations all his life. Mrs.
Bryan tells of the manner in which
ne asked for her hand. The time hav-
ing come when it was appropriate
that pointed conversation should
take place with her father, the young
man began thus:
Mr. Baird, have been reading
proverbs a good deal lately, and |
iI.J ena, Solomon says: "Whoso find
eth q wife, findeth a good thing. and
obtaincth favor of the Lord"
Yes, Mary Baird's father re-
piled hut Paul suggests that while
he That marrieth doeth well, he that
mhrriSth not doeth better"
D!smayed only for brief moment,
the aspiring youth rejoined:
PAUL may have said that, but
surely solomon would be the better
authority on this point, because Paul
never married"
Mr. Bryan has what he thinks is an
original plan for the preservation of
peace AS far back as 1906 he pro-
posed it, at a dinner in Toxic, and
the following June he laid it before
a London conference at which twen-
ty-sjX nations were represented.
he plan proposes, not arbitration,
but inyestigation-com inves-
tigarion, with world publicity. The
gist of the idea is that wars that can
be delayed until passions cool are not
likely ever to be fought; and that
when impartial inquiry has informed
the world of the rights and wrongs of
an International dispute, the world
conscience, without any formal court,
will reach and make felt verdict
thal no nation would dare oppose.
Nit, Taft's peace program included
this idea (for which he gave the
Democrat credit, but left the inves-
t8ation to be invoked by either
party.
That's not sufficient" said Mr..
Bryan, 'inasmuch as when excited
neither party might ask for It, for
fear II might be regarded as an indi-
cation of weakness or of unwilling
ness to stand by what they believed
TO he their rights. 1t ought to be
nr"vidt.a Co.. es 20. oss course, 80
1T VIII not depend upon the request of
eith@raparty, and all nations should
be Dound by an agreement to sub
nit these questions before declaring
wSf or commencing hostilities.
Tho Investigation should be held
by n body which would make re-
fprl q reasonable time being given in
W 1!ch the report could be- made, and
IL would be proper to stipulate that
there would be no change by either
party during this time; that is, that
a party shall take no advantage of
the delay materially to alter its
strength.
Such mn agreement ought to be
mode with every other nation, put