The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-27
BRYAN
IN THE CITY
Is Seeing South Florida from
an Auto
EXTENDED THE GLAD HAND TO HIS OCALA FRIENDS AND
EXPRESSED HIMSELF ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Hon. Nathan P. Bryan, u. s. Sena-
tor from Florida, was in Ocala last
night, a guest of the Ocala House. He
Is travelling thru Florida in his auto,
acting as his own chauffeur, and mix
ing with the people he has well repre-
sented for the last five years.
Senator Bryan called on the Star
this morning, and after a little chat
with the general manager in the bus
mess Office, he came upstairs.
The last time we saw Nathan
Bryan was at New Smyrna, almost
thirty years ago, when with his father
and brother he came to that quiet
and pretty town to visit relatives. He
was a bare-legged, sun-tanned boy,
with little to say. He didn't look like
ly to become an United States sena-
ter, and if you think of senator ac-
cording to the popular impression of
a stately, well-groomed person, sit
ting in a curule chair with an ivory
staff i'm his hand, he doesn't look like
one today.
Senator Bryan is a born Florida
cracker, a man who has won at an
early age a high place in the great
est deliberative body of the world by
industry and intelligence is not
given to putting himself forward, and
looks like he would be more at home
on the back of cowboys pony than
at a senatorial desk under the cap
itol dome. In the five years he has
been in Washington, he has been
heard of less than almost any other
senator, but no senator has done any
more work He is not good at adver-
tising himself, but he stays on the
job. If popular measure comes up
that he does not approve of, he votes
against it, even if he knows that by
doing so he will lose votes. If his
constituents ask for an explanation,
he generally gives good reason, but
he never rushes into print. Little
splash as he makes in the popularity
pond, no man is better acquainted
with work or trusted more in impor-
tant measures.
ters of most interest, Senator Bryan
said, first and foremost, that he did
not anticipate any war with Ger
many He believes there is enough
good sense i'm both countries to pre-
vent such a misfortune. He says,
however, that the United States is in
far better shape for defense than the
average person thinks.
Mr.. Bryan is not very optimistic
about the outlook for shipping cotton
to Europe, but believes that on a
whole business will be in fair shape
this autumn and winter.
OF the appropriation for the i'm
provement of the Oklawaha, he said
he believed it would be taken up and
passed at the coming session of Con-
gress. On being asked about the
proposed canal from Silver Springs
to Ocala, he said that was a matter
for the engineers to pass on before it
came before Congress.
OF his own candidacy, he had little
&c say. He is not out canvassing but
Is going thru the country for the dou-
ole purpose of recuperating and dis
cussing with the people face TO face
OF public affairs. He will have TO
make his campaign next spring by
means of his friends and on his record,
for unless all signs fail he will be
kept in Washington while the sena-
torial argument is going on in Flor
/ ida.
Senator Bryan left this afternoon,
going on south. He will tour South
Florida in his car, which he drives
himself, and will probably be out for
several weeks. He has not visited
Ocala often, but promises to make
that omission good in future.