Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-21
Stories of William J. BRYAN.

In the course of an article on VIII
liam J. Bryan by William Bayarf
Hale, several stories are told in The
Worlds Work which do not pretend to
be new, but bear repeating as typical
of the man.
Mr.. Bryan has been addicted to the
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.. Bry-
an, Il have been reading Proverbs L
good deal lately, and | find that Solo
mon says, Whose findeth wife find.
eth a good thing aud obtaineth favor
of the Lord
Yes Mary Baird's father replied
but Paul suggests that while he that
married doeth well, he that marrieth
not doeth better"
Dismayed only for moment the as
piring youth rejOined;
Solomon would be better authority on
this point, because Paul never mar
ried"
The Secretary of State of the grape
Juice dinners admits that he once pro-
posed to drink wine-under a certain
condition. In Japan, at a dinner at
which the health of Admiral Togo was
being drunk, Mr.. Bryan's glass was OBJ
Served to contain only water. "YoI
must drink the health in champagne"
exclaimed one of the banqueters
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 sweetness Of
temper which he shows today, Mr.
Hale says. There is nowhere about
him trace Of jealousy or disappoint-
ment. He seems to love stories OF
which he is the victim
Mr.. Bryan speaks without malice ev-
en- of such treatment as that one night
handed out to him by Governor Thayer.
of Nebraska. Mr. Thayer' long his po-
litical enemy was presiding at a no.
partisan mass-meeting at which Mr..
Bryan was to appear. When Mr. Bry-
an took his place on the platform the
Governor pretended not to recognize
him and asked him his name. The
reply was Williams Jennings Bryan.
l"Oh, Mr.. Bryan said the chairman.
81 am glad to meet 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
in the public square in Jacksonville,
| H., because the scheduled speakers
were slow in arriving and the crowd
was growing impatient How shall
introduce him said the chairman, af-
ter young Bryan had consented 10
serve. "Oh, just say that we will now
hear William Jennings Bryan, a rising
attorney of this place" The chairman
turned to the audience, obtained silence
and announced: I'VE shall now have
the pleasure of listening to William
Rising Bryan, jay attorney of this
place"
To-day" writes Mr.. Hale, the
thrice-defeated candidate, who has
come to Washington to sit at the right
hand of the new Democratic Presi-
dent is telling these stories and a score
like them with great glee His favo-
rite hero, | think is farmer whom he
alls John, who had just heard from the
girl of his choice that she returned his
love, John went to the front door,
'opened it, went out stood looking up
the stairs, and said, ooh, Lord, hain't
got nothin' against nobody no more"