The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-05-02
Sunday, May 2, 1920.
NOT A "COME BACK"

News items convey expressions of wonder,
Y coming from leaders of both the demo-
crat and the republican parties, that William
Jennings Bryan after all these years has
come back
William Jennings Bryan has not come
back. He has never been away From the
day upon which he carried the Chicago con-
vention off of its feet and stampeded the
democratic party with his famous "cross-of-
gold" speech, down to the present moment he
has been the leading figure the dominating
power in the democratic party.
Bryan while he has never been able to
carry the electoral vote, the vote required to
place him in the White House as the chief
executive of the United States, has ever re-
tained that great magnetism which has made
him the greatest political leader this country
has ever known.
Thrice nominated by his party for the
greatest office in the gift of the American
people; thrice defeated at the polls by the
opposition, Bryan's history shows that he
arried, upon at least one occasion, the heav-
EST popular vote, secured the largest pOpu-
IF majority ever given candidate for the
Xalted office to which he aspired
The interests ever managed to encompass
Bryans defeat, always manipulated the vote
so he failed to secure the needed number Of
electors, but with the people generally, with
the rank and file of the nations democracy,
with the powerful men of the party he has
remained the same dominating power for
over quarter of a century.
There has never been a man like Bryan,
there will never be another like him. A man
who, although well on the sunset side of the
half century, mark in life's journey, retains
the will-power, the force of character, the
powerfulness of purpose to sway the conven-
ton delegates, to stampede them from one
pole to the other, to name the man who shall
represent the cause of Thomas jefferson as
the next national leader of Jeffersonian DEM
ocracy.
Eight years ago, while victory trembled in
the balance and while the adherents of
Champ Clark felt his nomination was all but
won, while Wilson's henchmen were prac>
tically ready to concede Clark's success, Will
liam Jennings Bryan stepped in and 10, the
laurel wreath of fame was placed upon. the
brow of the man from New Jersey, as the
diadem of ambitions victory was snatched
from the temples Of the man from Missouri.
William Jennings Bryan will go to the
San Francisco convention. He will go there,
not to seek the nomination for himself, but
to see that man is nominated who sincerely
believes in the fundamentals of democracy,
who is an American above all else and who,
if elected, will do all that mortal man can
do to represent the American people, as their
executive head, in the councils of the nations
of the world
No, William Jennings Bryan has not come
back. A man, politician, preacher, what not,
who drifts into the has been" column, never
comes back in the same community. the same
state, the same nation. in which he was once
a power,
But the man who has remained a domi-
nant figure in the councils of his community
of his state of his nation. the man who has
remained a dominant figure in the face of all
opposition is the man who will control the
policies of the clan to which he belongs until
death shall close his eyelids in the final, the
dreamless sleep which knows no waking.
Such man is William Jennings Bryan, not
the man who has come back, but the nan
who has always been here; the man who 4.
complished the impossible and threw the en-
tire United States into the dry column, after
the cohorts of Liquor had heaped defeat upor
defeat on the armies of Prohibition; the mar
who accomplished the impossible, indirectly
by throwing his influence to the equal suf
frage amendment, and securing its passage
after congress on top of congress had rele
gated the matter to seeming oblivion.
And powerful, aggressive, energetic ant
determined, William Jennings Bryan will b'
found at San Francisco, dominating the dem
ocratic convention, working for the maj
whose chances of election are greatest th
man whose record and whose life are unim
peachable.
William Jennings Bryan will not be tn
democratic party at the national convention