New Britain herald., 1916-06-03
"HOW DOSY WE ARE"
MT. Bryan's One Last Remaining
 Chance.
(New York Times)

(New York Times).
 Every humane bosom is stirred to sympathy by the report that MT. Bryan may receive the Prohibition nomination for president. The report does honor to the unfailing kindness of human nature, and only hopeless cynics will hold that it is too good to be true Even MT. Bryan himself, his old optimism all but lost in his suc- cession of calamities refuses at first to believe 1t. He had never heard of it. He never expected to hear of it, eX- cept through the newspapers" See how misfortune Cankers @ tempera- ment once bland as a June morning. He, whom the Cure of God could not blight, who survived 9 good flesh and hope the unparamounting of so many paramount issues, the loss of so many elections withers uncheered, uncheer- able, after less than a year of unin- terrupted disaster. "Too quick de- spairer wherefore thou wilt go?" Hope on, hope ever While there is life there is nomination.; and, in the great words of MT. Fox, the next greatest pleasure to winning is losing. Who has had more second class pleas ure than the infallible Hoodoo of Ne braska?
 In this merry month of May why must he be glum? Is it nothing to have wakened general pity by his genius for failure? The country is 1Oe longer angry with him. Reviewing his career, it sees in him the victim of an instinctive and passionate ire sistible craving for defeat From the silvern glories of 1896 to his and Brother Charles last stand and fall in the Nebraska primaries he has been the most obstinate, persistent loser in the world and ever the Comic Spirit accompanies and grins at his balked~ enterprises and designs. Secretary Of State, he made even himself uncom- forta ble; he couldn't shelter himself as often as he liked, often though he sheltered himself in the tents of Chau- tauqua. He displayed an incomparabe and invinCible ignorance of the busi- ness of the State Department. But he was a memorable absentee; and if he babbled dangerously to the Austrian Ambassador let one high service of his be remembered Who but MT. Bryan could have turned a Macedonian war eagle into Dove of Peace? Let us be just to a good man against whom Fortune, other than of the platform. shows her bile.
 It will soon be a year since MT. Bryan ran away from the departme where he had been so unhappy. What was in his mind? Surely that now he was to do an earth-shaking deed. The retirement of Diocletian or Charles V. was to be considered but a tri1e compared with the abdica- ton of w. J. B. He went. He waited He bulletined. He heard. He heard tempest of anger, followed shortly by a nationwide guffaw. Child of disaster, can nothing but the gate re- ceipts be prosperous for thee?
 The later chapters, too, in the his tory of the DiscOnsolate Knight with the Silver Shield are in every memory How he brought his mighty influence upon congress, and congress wouldn't be Influenced; how he gave orders to the lOng-suffering democrats of Ne 1 braska to swallow prohibition, elect | his candidates for senator and so on, | make Brother Charles their nominee l for governor; with what a resounding | effective celebration, as of a million | bay steers, the long sufferers kicked 1 at last, beat MT Bryan on everything, and wouldn't even send him as a dele gate-at-large to St. Louis, there to full fill his steady purpose of making trouble for the democratic rarty. It is a story for tears To think of MT. Bryan, all-baffled, all-buffeted, is to think of doleful figures. if any he so full of dole; of Leah the For saken," of "The Two Orphans" Nov, like unexpected mama, comes thIs tale, this truth of a Dry nomination for the great Dry, who has been a na- tional prohibitionist for some years, who sees the democratic party cold to the gospel of Neal Dow and whose health will suffer if he doesn't run for some office or other. The prOhi- bition party and he were made for one another. It is small, but he can make it smaller. Its vote is dwtndling, but he will mako it dWinGle fast ard furiously. It is ar older champion of the inpra cticable RnG the futilo than even he. They are made for one another. Save as a reporter with temporary employment at national conventions, N1r Bryan has TO part Or lot in politics He can do no moro harm in the democratic party. Tho prohibition party deserves him and he It. The heavens smile OH this fair conjunction.