The Detroit times., 1917-12-19
And William Jennings
Bryan, "The Man of Hours,
Was First To Applaud

Why shouldn't William Jennings bryan
be called that?
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, ALWAYS?
The Hour found him in the vanguard,
when with his Gross of gold and crown
Of thorns' he electrified people,
minority, so it proved--but 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 eN-
pounded, even as the advocate of re-
form PROMULGATED by him most unhap-
ply. from the standpoint of good poll
tics" could he have sold the truth 10
serve the hour" are the very principles
for which the country today offers IT'S
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 country's hours
that makes it, once again, Bryan's Hour.
There was Baltimore, to which party
battered and torn and hOpelessly divided
between its faction which would serve
God and that which would serve Nam
mon, dragged itself hopelessly until 1t
heard the great champion who told the
party il could not serve both.
Our country was in one of its Hours
when the Democratic party met IN Bal
timore in national convention in 1912.
It's call was for party to lead il out
of bondage, but the party had not heard
until William Jennings Bryan's 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 it
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 fer 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
tons history.
We cannot thank God for Wilson with
out first thanking God for Bryan.
That is undeniably so because It 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 country's sentiment over
whelmingy for dry nation and consist
ency with war, which embodies consist
ency with so many other things.
II was voted in the lower house of con-
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 "The Man on
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 Jennings Bryan
has done his part.
Countrywide prohibition is now the
fight of the states and the people of the
states.
1t is now the fight of Michigan. "Ow
Michigan" and we MUST and we WILL
do our part.
II is Michigan's Hour
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