Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-21
BRYAN AND HIS WORK

o. the cabinet. He can be found at hi:
office at all times OF the night and da}
working away for the interests OF thu
Ipeople and his party,
Mr.. Bryan is always on the job,
says Charles Ills Thompson, in the
! Philadelphia Ledger. THAT is literally
true. He often stays at the department
until midnight; he is almost always
there until 8 or 9 O'Clock; but even
when he goes home he is always in
contact with the department and with
the White House. He almost sleeps
like a fireman, in his trousers.
Secretary Tumulty, who, like most
of the members of this administration
works day and night, told me that II
the telephone bell in the White House
rang as late as II or II at night, il
was likely to be Bryan at the other end
of the wire. The newspaper men in
Washington tell me that they are in
the habit of finding Bryan at his office
almost any time of night they gothere.
Mr.. Thompson says further that Mr.
Bryan, after remaining at the state de-
partment all day, sometimes travels tc
a neighboring city to deliver an
evening lecture, returns to Washington
the same night and is found at his desk
once more at o'clock next morning.
Senator Lane of Oregon says that he
thinks 'the country will be millions OF
dollars ahead of the national govern
ment far better conserved by having a
man of Mr.. Bryan's proven character
at the head of the state department, in
stead OF having a close and intimate
friend of the large business interests
who ostensigly does nothing but wha'
is right and proper, but behind the
scenes is turning the country over
bound hand and foot, to those who
would and do loot it."
A writer in Life in writing about Mr.
Bryan brings out some interesting
points. He says
Mr.. Bryan should take the c,Tice Of
his host of republican friends and re-
linqush the post CT secretary of state
What We require in that portfolio
which is properly the fountain head Of
the diplomacy of the entire country, is
little more hypocrisy, a little more
lsophistry little more indirsctnesS
Mir. Bryan is much too direct in his
methods. He is too much given to TAX
ing the public into his confidence. He
doesn't know how to hold cards in his
sleeve. He is too ready to do what he
thinks is right, without regard to il:
effects on the sensibilities of repub-
licans editors who have been used tc
something else.
If his salary is not large, he should
not ask to exc it out by methods whics
are open, above board and above sus
picon. He should put up the conven
tional American bluff and say nothing
about it. Instead of talking to Chau
tauquas, he should use some advanc,
government information take f1yeI
or two in Wall Street or he SHOULD
help some of his relatives to grab val
liable bits of public property, or h
should establish an umbilical connec
ton with a railroad corporation or
group of financiers or a protected man
ufacturer. He should act as if he ha;
never done an honest days work in hi
life. He should learn and take advan
tage of the fact that the more deviou
the route an income takes the NOR
honored it's possessor is apt to be"
The criticism Of Mr. Bryan come
, from those who have never been frient
ly toward him or his policies. Presi
! dent Wilson and a majority of the PEG
pie of the country are satisfied wit
MIR. Bryan as secretary of state.
I Ever since the world began mel
have been trying to divine woman
Exchange. Some of us have come Il