Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-08-06

friends" and that there was abso
feeling between them.
Healthy and vigorous, with in
creased girth and diminished hair,
Mr.. Bryan looks as hearty as ever he
was during the days of his active po-
litical and oratorical career. He says
he's feeling fine, and he certainly
looks it. He put in two busy days in
Seattle and Tacoma Sunday and Mon
day and was kept moving so fast by
his friends that he had little time to
discuss even the things he was willing
to talk about.
Inc Commoner was readily recog-
nized by the crowds who greeted him.
The cartoonists and newspaper pho
tographers have done their work we'll,
and there wasn't one who didn't rec
ognize the Democratic leader before
getting more than half a look at him.
Clad in the customary suit of solemn
black, and with the black string neck
tie of the statesman, he looked as
Bryanesque as ever. With his hat on
he is the same as Of old; otherwise
the serried ranks of his once famous
locks have retreated from the crest of
his head and now cling bravely in
ring from a point just above his ears
to the nape of his neck.
Mr.. Bryan was smiling and cheer
full, and appeared to be enjoying his
trip immensely. Lines of care are
absent from his face.
Auditorium Is Packed.
Three thousand men heard Mr..
Brayan's lecture at the First Presby-
terrain church, Seattle, Sunday after
noon, the first of several addresses
which the Commoner delivered on his
two days visit to the Sound. The
Auditorium was packed long before
Mr.. Bryan arrived, and many stood.
The address was purely religious
lecture, the subject being False
Gods" and was given under the
auspices of the Y. M. c. A. In his
lecture Mr.. Bryan enumerated as
false gods an inordinate love of
wealth, fashion, fame, life of ease,
idle travel. intellectual pursuits for
personal pleasure only, strong drink
chance and passion.
Hustling over to Tacoma by auto
mobile Sunday evening, Mr.. Bryan
addressed a crowd of about 10000
persons in Stadium. when he dis
cussed 1.-The Causeless War" and pro-
mulgated his ideas on international
peace, decried the bloodshed of war,
denied that to avoid war a nation
must prepare for it and pleaded for a
worldwide spirit of brotherhood and
cooperation.
The man who only recently re-
signed from the Wilson cabinet was
given a resounding reception as he
arrived at 1880, an hour late from
Seattle. The audience cheered and
clapped and there was deafening
din of automobile horns. A similar
demonstration had been given earlier
when Mrs. Bryan and the Tacoma re-
ception committee arrived, the crowd
thinking the former secretary was
also in the machine. Immediately on
the Nebraskan's arrival, Rev. Muir
doch Mcleod of the First Presbyte-
rian church of Tacoma offered brief
prayer, asking that this nation be
/ protected against all causes and occa-
sions of war. Governor Ernest Lis
ter then introduced the distinguished
visitor as 1.-The nations greatest pri-
yate citizen" and in five minutes Mr..
Bryan was in the midst OF his speech.
Relations With President.
After analysing some results of the
war to date in lives lost and money
expended, and the disastrous effects
Of the strife upon neutral nations.
Mr.. Bryan expounded his peace theO-
! ries, during which he took what the
crowd construed as an allusion to
former President Roosevelt and made
one BRIEF reference TO the severance
of his connections with the present
administration. This reference came
when he spoke of the new peace and
arbitration treaties. signed by the
United States with 80 nations. and
/ was
! "If any Of you think that the presi
dent and are unfriendly, let me tell
you that we worked together getting
these treaties signed, and thousand
years from now our names will stand
together in the capitOls of the world
as co-workers toward peace. And
these 80 nations represent three