The Detroit times., 1917-12-19
And William jennings
Bryan, "The Man of Hours,
Was First To Applaud
''T'he Man Of Hours.

De called bhat
Or should this country be called "a
COUNTRY OF HOURS" " with that great
son Of Nebraska; that great leader of
men and Of a country, there ahead of
time. waiting for the hour that he fore
sees, ALWAYS7
The Hour found him in the vanguard
when with his Gross Of gold and crown
Of thorns" he electrified a people
minority, so it proved but a great rep
resentation Of a people waiting for the
very solution of their predicament which
he urged as their delegate and spokes
man
Those great principles Of liberty and
freedom and democracy which he eX-
pounded. even as the advocate of a re-
form promulgated by him most unhap-
ply, from the standpoint Of good poh-
tics could he have sold the truth TO
serve the hour" are the very principles
for which the country today sotfers its
blood and its lives
A country always divided over Bryan,
stands united today for those things to
which he has consecrated his great tai
ents, his energy and his life.
It Is the Hour for which Bryan has
fought with all Of his God-given powers
to fight,-another Of the county's Hours
that makes it, once again, Bryan's Hour.
There was Baltimore, to which n party
battered and torn and hopelessly divided
between It's faction which would serve
God and that which would serve Mann
mon, dragged itself despairingly until it
heard the great champion who told the
party it could not serve both.
Our country was in one Of its Hours
when the Democratic party met IN Bal
ttrnore in national convention in 1912.
Its call was for a party to lead it out
of bondage, but the party had not heard
until William Jennings Bryans voice
was raised in that convention, in another
Of his Hours, and the party told that
it must become the country's leader that
In order to keep faith with the country
It must first keep faith with itself and
the principles of Jefferson upon which 1t
was founded.
The Bryan hand outstretched from the
speakers platform, and which hushed
the party's delegates at that Hour, that
his voice might carry far over the crowd
and outside and beyond the convention
hall into the four corners of the states,
was the hand Of Fate, and it gave to the
country Man of the Hour for this very
critical and very solemn time in the ma
tion's history.
We cannot thank God for Wilson with
out first thanking God for Bryan.
That is undeniably so because t is po- /
litical history.
And now comes still another Hour
still another Bryan Hour.
Authority has been voted for the ex-
preston Of the whole people in an Hour
that finds the countrys sentiment over I
whelmingly for a dry nation and consist .
ency with war, which embodies consist (
SiiNg Will 80 AlldilJ ObLltL lllHEos
II was voted in the lower house Of con 4
gress Monday in ratification of previous
action by the senate, and in the gallery
they heard the vigorous clapping of
mans hands.
The Hands were those of '9The Man Of
Hours"
He was there to see the completion Of
that for which he had battled again IN .
the forefront
He was there at another Hour which
he FORESAW.
Once again William JenninEs BRYAN
has done his part
Countrywide prohibition IS now the
fight Of the states and the people of the
states
Il is now the fight Of Michigan. "Oar
Michigan" and we MUST and ue WILL
do our part
IL is Michigan's Hour
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