The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-08-14

mat they had given to Bryan Il
This combat was the old mountebanks last, and sym
Dozed in more than way his passing Two women sat
through it the one old and crippled the other young and IN
the full flush of beauty The first Mrs Bryan the second
was Mrs Malone When Malone finished his speech the crowd
stormed his wife with feicitaOns and she gowed only
woman can who has her fight hard fight and WIN
ooriouslv But no congratulated Mrs Bryan. She sat
bunched in her chair the judge apparently uneasy
! hbt then that she was l-she has been making the
rounds of santaums for years. and lately the hands OF
faitheaer-but now think that appalling Presclence
upon her. and that she saw IN Bryan hint OF the
collapse that was SO near
He sank into his seat wreck and was presently forgot
ten in the blast of Malones titanic rhetoric His speech had
been Numbering feeble and often downright idotc Pre-
sumably he speaking point of law but was quickly
apparent that he knew law than the balf at the
door So he launched into violent garuty he dragged
snaches of ancient chauauqua addresses he wandered up
hill and down dale Finally Daow lured him into that abu
lous imbecity about mammal He sat down one OF
the most tragic asses in American history.
W.
1t is the national custom sentimentaize the dead as it
lis to senrnenaIze men about to be hanged Perhaps fall
into that weakness here The Bryan shall remember the
BRYAN of his last weeks this earhbroken furious and IN
hnitey pathetic 1t impossible to meet his hatred with
hatred to match it. He winning battle that would make
him forever Infamous wherever enlightened remembered
it and him. Even his old enemy Darrow gentle with him
the end That crossexamnaton might have been ten times
devastating plain that the old Berserker
Bryan gOnethat all that renamed OF HIM was par OF
. glaring and horrible eyes
But what of his life? Did he accomplish any useful thng9
Was he in his day. of any dignity and of value
to his feow-nen doubt it. Bryan at his best simply
a magnificent obeeker-a political charatan of the worst
type without principle and without honor The issues tha
he bawed about vocerous really meant nothing to him
He ready abandon them whenever he could make voe
by doing and to take ones at moment notice
For years he evaded Prohibition dangerous then he EN-
= baced it as profitable At the Democratic National Conven
ton last year he was both Sides and dsrusted by both
his last great battle there only balefu and rdculOu
nagnancy If he pathetic he also disgusting.
Bryan was a vulgar and common man, a cad undlutec
He was ignorant bigoted selfseekng blatant and dshones
His brought him into contact with the first OF n
time he preferred the company of rustic gnoramuses 1t we
hard to believe watching him Dayton that he had Travelled
that he had been received in civilized societies. that he ha
been high officer of He seemed only poor cod E
those around him. deuded by childish theology full of
n almost pathological hatred of all learning all human dignit
rs all beauty all fine and noble things He peasant con
~ home the dungpile. Imagine gentleman and you ha
=. imagined everything that he was not
m The job before democracy is get rid of such canai
ny If it fails they will devour it.