The Washington times., 1916-06-14

ST. LOUIS. June IA brace OF
busted bosses:
Bill Barnes and
Eli Bryan.
II was pathetic enough to see at Chi.
cago the Albany boss. physically and
mentally Ill. rejected of all men: tn,
man who engineered the convention oil
four short years ego. whose word was
law. who dared face and defy the
American public. who courted and won
defeat rather than yield to the Roose.
welt he hated.
Yet more pitiful. because the fall has
been longer. is the spectacle Of Bryan
Bryan. the magnificent. who In 1--WE sue
cesSive national conventions has been
the dominating CRure: Bryan. who In
lA9C. brought his flre and eloduencc e
hypnotize a convention into nomina Ing
him for the Presidency: Bryan. who. IN
1901 won. the denomination at Kansas
city and dictated the platform I'm
which he would run: Bryan, who, IN
this same st. Louis of the French Mo-
peers peers In leoi. stilled the storm against
Parker. drovs a rehellious horde OF
tanner cows his cubs: Bryan. who. in
1907. was nominated once more to lead
his party to n defeat that II preferred
TO relinduishing It's loyalty to him and
1912. appeared. after three defeats,
greater. more commanding. moro tyr
annous than ever. scourging his ene-
mics and rousing his idolators to q
frenzy IN which. at Baltimore. they
cause he commanded 1t of them.
How the mighty have TALENT.
The Two Extremes.
Here are two men. each firmly be-
heving as he scrutiniycs his own Inner
most soul. that he is intellectually hon.
est. sane. right: yet whose convictions
are 2s antipodal as zenith and nadir.
The nation has known them both. and
botn have been rejected.
Each has been In his way great but
In what widely different ways. Each
has failed. and TO each the bitterness
or the dregs of defeat has been admin
istered as the hemlock cup. Neither
has been able to undo rstand.
saw Barnes several times at Chi
cago. He was a sick man. Much OF
rooms at the Congress Many callers
who came to pay their respects-tney
didn't come to get orders. as OF yvrc-
Wee sent away; Mr.. Barnes was not
We'll enough to see them. or was other
The last time saw him he was walk
Ing. slowly, rather painfully, along
Michigan avenue In front OF the Con-
kress totel. lie was looking neither to
the right nor to the left: straight ahead.
after the manner of q man broken and
weak. who preferred to keep his eve on
the path and his mind on his business
of getting along. lest his processes
might fail to coordinate, and he should
lose the way or stumble into an obsta Gle
In short. he looked precisely the part
he was playing. He had been defeated
for reelection as national committee.
man from the Empire State; he must
have been sure that our institutions, by
that sign, had gone irrevocably on the
rocks. Mr.. Barnes. let II be recalled ID
one OF our foremost keepers OF the Ark
of the Constitutional Covenant.
Bryan Always the Same.
How different was Bvyani Ago canro,
wlther nor custom stale the CHEEKY, con-
fident, optimistic mien OF the man who
80 1ng and confidently believed that
Destiny had marked him for her own;
that he was to be the Moses of this
Israel in the wilderness; who took de-
feat. only to rise and fight anew, ever
finding new conglomerate Of para
mounts with which to amaze and-lose.
He smiled the broad. bland, mirthless
smile that has been one OF his chief
stocks In trade for a quarter OF a CEN