The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1915-06-17
WHY DID BRYAN RESIGN?

WHY DID BRYAN RESIGN?
From statesman to schoolboy;
from the Cham Der of State to the
humble hut, the question is ask
ed: Why did Bryan resign?
Ninety.nine per cent of the peO.
pie of the civilized world look up.
on his decision with disfavOr, and
they cannot believe Bryan was
sincere. The note of the presi.
dent to Germany, backed by the
unity of American citizenship
and respected by all peoples, GER
tainly did not offer sufficient JUS
titication. 1t seems to be the
concensus of opinion that Bryan
felt himself superior to the presi.
dent, who, being responsible to
the American people, could no
longer be swayed by Bryan, and
was compelled to reject Bryan's
policies and take a stand to pre-.
serve our national honor, and be.
ing no longer able to dictate to or
sway the president from what
seemed to him to be his plain
duty, Mr.. Bryan became piqued
and quit. AS evidence of this
and as characteristic of men pos
sessed of ego, Bryan's various
published statements bear evi-
dence. Simultaneous with the
presidents note Bryan publish.
ed statement in an endeavor to
attract public notice from the
president to himself. He has
since issued various other state.
ments, all of which carry strong
symptoms of ego and lead one to
believe that he is imbued with
the idea that the American con.
tinent must set him upas a su.
preme idol. He even went so far
as to issue statement to the
German. Americans, and like all
other good people, they very
properly resented his presump.
tion. Not only in the United
States, but in Germany, the
country with which the note had
to deal, Bryan has placed him.
self in bad light and is today the
smallest man in the world who
was ever once considered great.
Of course future events may re-
store Mr.. Bryan to public conf.
dence, but we doubt it. He has
been a man Of hobbies. He has
been three times defeated for the
presidency and the policies he
advocated have been discarded.
In his first race he caused split
in the party by advocating the
fallacious free coinage of silver Ii
to 1. Recently he has embarass-
ed the party by attempting to in
ject prohibition into national poll.
tics, which is a social question
and would destroy party lines.
At the present time he is devot,
ing his energies to impcrsonat-
ing Jesus Christ by posing us
the Prince of Peace" while his
one act in resigning at the critical
moment he did and in his at
tempts to embarrass the presi,
dent at the most trying time in
the history of our government in
half a century, did more than
anything else to cause Germany
to disregard the sincerity of the
American people and their presi.
dent and precipitate war. While
we may be wrong in our sur
mise, we believe it would be safe
to predict that in 1916 Bryan
will again split his party in ma
tional politics and cause it's de-
feat, having as his platform
grape juice" and peace at any
price," unless between now and
then he talks himself to death,
which he seems prone to do.
This is one time, at least, when
silence would have been golden,
and, however great Mr.. Bryan's
desire may be to shake the con-
tidence the people have in the re,
preventative American now oc,
cupying the presidential
chair with the view of occupying
it himself, we cannot believe the
people of the United States will
fail to see the duplicity sought to
no nArnatrata6 unnp tbam