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The Resignation Of Bryan


Bryan said: so long l am Secretary of
State, the United States will not be involved
in war We much fear that reading the
handwriting on the wall, Mr.. Bryan was
determined to make that promise good.
With Democrats everywhere. grieve
that he has found himself out of sympathy
with his chief and out of harmony with
American sentiment. He has made great
sacrifices and performed high services for the
Wilson administration. To Mr.. Bryan Wood
row Wilson owes his nomination at Balu-
more and large part o. the success that has
attended his labors for the public good. The
Secretary OF State has subordinated per-
sonality and his own enthusiastically
it is probable. his own views--to the welfare
of the administration the party and the
country. He has been the most loyal OF
loyal comrades, the most faithful of faithful
friends. Without him and the influence he
welded, much OF the legislation of the last
Congress. the benefcent results of which
are just now becoming apparent, could not
have been written, 1t is uncomfortable that
the President he has served is either unappre-
ciatve ungrateful. or that the American
people will forget the debt it owes to this
remarka BILE man.
The two leaders of the Democratic party,
the two opponents OF Democratic ideals in
this country, came in the last few days to the
parting OF the ways This was inevitable.
We have thought that perhaps President VIII
son had Mr.. Bryan in his mind when in his
speech at Philadelphia he spoke of "a man
ton Tpbt
is of the type OF the extreme pacifst In
his view, arbitration always and under all
circumstances, is better than war
to settle international differences.
a story is told of his conferences with the
japanese ambassador on the situation in
California. He had given to Viscount Chinda
statement OF the admnistra tons attitude
and OF the lengths TO which it was willing
TO go. AS the ambassador took his leave
deeply disa ppointed. apparently-he turned to
Mr., Bryan and said: This. then, is your last
word?" The Secretary of State replied at
once: Between friends, Your Excellency
there is never last word" The story may
be apocryphal. but it illustrates accurately
the Bryan habit OF thought. There is no
last word" with him. Apostle OF arbitration
convinced lover OF peace, profoundly moved
and stirred by the very prospect OF wars
horrors, he shrnks in such extremity from
any demand which must bring either acquies-
cence or the clash OF arms
The President reads differently the man
date of national duty and national honor.
He loves peace himself. but he is not willing
TO pay the price Mr.. Bryan thinks it is worth
He is not willing TO make further surrender
OF those rights the possession and defense Of
which mark uE as a nation Of freemen He
has seen our ships destroyed, our people
cruelty slain, our warnings UNDECIDED our
flag Haunted and defed; and, supported and
upheld by the overwhelming mass Of his
fellow countrymen, he has determined tina,
these hideous wrongs shall cease They must
cease
1t is Wilson, not Bryan, who strikes to-day
the note TO which the heart Of the American
people responds and with which It beats in
generous sympathy. The nation is with the
President. If here and there are dissenting
voices, they are drowned in the great surging
chorus of national approval. In the support
that has been rendered there is neither party
/
North and South, it is universal and all
embracing. Al this crisis OF our fortunes. in
the presence Of this menace to our happiness
our safety and honor. even Mr. BRYAN
must share national aspiration, oppose reso-
lutely every further invasion of our rights
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