CH E N ABOUT IR DICK 11 X k aa ka ro M I 1 of L I 1 N U AN ho is dinv inv soon r i POP 0 0 OT HOW BRYAN STANDS STAM opinions ol of his colleagues in CoD congress dress compiled ty by an all opposition organ those like him most who know hint best and even his political opponents fay tribute to his genius genins ability integrity and ind independence in order to find out the esteem in WIT which ich bryan is held by his associates socia tes in congress the new york world a gold bug organ sent gent a number of them the following request As a recent recant associate of william J bryan ya n in congress please telegraph the to I 1 1 your you opinion what kind of a president be would matte alie world says that the consensus of opinion is that bryan would do his utmost ebertin exerting the whole power of the president igent to have every pled pledge of the chicago platform enacted into law following are the replies received by bv the world FRONT FROM THE SPEAKER FX EX mr bryan is honest able fearless and thoroughly v american he has youth outa zeal and ana fixed purposes purpose 3 7 ARLES F CRISP to do right in my opinion he would make a president of whom the country might be justly proud charles F crisp FROM SEW NEW YORK william J bryan jr is the th honest mans ideal he is bright P brainy patriotic and an american from crown to toe to though extras agent in speech by bi reason of rhetorical license he be is most moat conservative in his acts acs if elected the association with power will make him more conservative in its use and while I 1 fear the influence of the lawless elements that surround him I 1 believe he be will make a wise honest and patriotic president and will leave a name in history less legs illustrious than but few of his predecessors thomas F magner mom THE OBJECTOR william J bryan is a very able and accomplished gentleman and all zy y will make an admirable president ile he is of the true jeffersonian stamp W Y S holman I 1 served in congress with mr bryan and know him well ho he is thoroughly ili thu roughly patriotic his integrity is above temptation added to these his superb manhood aud colossal intellect class him as the highest type of mankind I 1 believe hs he will make the best president tor for all the people that the country has hall had bince the war between the states ile he will be president of the american people knowis knowing no sections T R stock dale FROM ARKANSAS I 1 re regard ard mr bryan as one of the most brilliant men in the country he is a great statesman as well as a great orator ile he will make it a broad and conservative president ile he is of an earnet and constien con cons makeup make up aud and thoroughly patriotic of course he is regarda dR as on tho the coinage coina 9 e question by the gold adherents the country will be perfectly safe in his hands P D mcculloch FROM TENNESSEE I 1 served in the fifty second and fifty third congress with mr dryan cryan I 1 know him birn well he will make a president the U united ni led states will be proud of and be his own successor if he be wilin arants ts it N N cox cos floi Arisso MISSOURI uRr mr bryan will make a wise j patriotic and conservative ive arid and give to the country the most brilliant and popular administration astr tion it has had in in many years 1 W H hatch brosl WEST VIRGINIA I 1 served four years in the house with william J bryan during the greater part of that time our seats were only about three yards apart his tariff speech which won for him such a wide reputation was spoken from my seat it occupied perhaps four hours it in its delivery and impelled the earnest attention lof the men members ibers of both p parties a reles from its beginning 0 until its conclusion from that time he be stood unrivalled as an orator and debater and no one could deny that his mental force reasoning reasoning power information and capacity for profound think thinking cing were fully equal to his abilities as an orator with the dading 0 eloquence of a prentice he unites the logic of a calhoun with much of the solid thought of a Webb ter he was always a close student and has gathered to together 0 ether a great variety of kearnin learning upon political social and literary subjects in habits always industrious and painstaking as to details he goes to the root ot of a question his character is unblemished upon his reputation there is no spot nor stain like bayard Ita yard he is without fear and without reproach and no 0 one e can be ion long with him with without out b being eing convinced that mr bryan is sincere is of unswerving integrity and seeks the right of every question there is nothing of the demagogue in his love tor for the people it is genuine and seems to be part and parcel of him I 1 think that he would take with him to the white house the seriousness of purpose the fearlessness the devotion to duty and the in of a cleveland the simplicity and democratic ways of a Jef jefferson faison and a jacksonian hostility to wrong and oppression ile he would make a good president ident john 0 pendleton I 1 ALABAMA during the fifty third congress I 1 found him in the congressional library preparing a a table of the income tax rate in other countries jn ila a few days before an opportunity was given t to debate the subject in the house he published in n the record for the information of members a complete history of the income tax of every nation that has buch a tax after reading this compilation and learning his mode of study ai and d thoroughness of investigation n I 1 have had confidence in the great deba debater teras as a wise and useful legislator his j lovo love of work givel it in flip highest proof of his baquial ability and scholarship find and those who have served with elih him know that ho he is devoted to the principles of democracy and to the interests of the onn common masses of the common people gaston A robbins robbing FROM mississippi bryan is a democrat pure and ai simple ale sound to the core on the only sound money known to the constitution gold and silver judge Culb culbertson eitson of texas said his speech on the tariff made in his first term was the best made in congress in fifteen years it moved the house of representatives as his speech in chicago moved the nation ile he will make an acceptable president to the great masses of the american people Cli charles arles E hooker massachusetts william J bryan would as president be guidal b by purity parity of I 1 purpose and by conscience the mckinley policy of class enrichment by oppressing the poor and defrauding the laborer of his bis wages would be i met with him the peoples will would be the peoples law being neither a I 1 nor a boodle bug the people might eventually get their own machael J mcettrick FROSI FROM OHIO I 1 am personals perso nall Dally and intimately acquainted with mr bryan I 1 he carries an old mans head on a young mans rhoul shoulders ders he pos besses great abilities is honest honest in his hia purposes sincere in his motives motive and pure in his life if elected of which I 1 have no doubt mr bryan will make an ideal president byron F ritchie FRO FROM na ILLINOIS As good as jefferson because he possesses jeffersons perfect principles 12 of government as good as jackson con because he has has all the courage of that grand old hero bryan has every quality of mind and heart to make a great executive of a free people he would impartially administer the laws and class legislation would find in him a deadly foe the achievements of bryan in the chicago convention has no not a parallel in the history of the corid world the people will elect him pre president si of the whole country in november edward lane A 1 I am a cleveland carlisle itelo democrat I 1 have not surrendered my opinion I 1 do not approve the financial and some other planks of the platform but mr bryan is the nominee of a democratic convention co n ven tion regularly called and held I 1 shall vote for him and believe that if elected he will make an able president of the republic he is a dean man of great ability asher G baruth OF THE SAME I 1 served with mr bryan in the fifty third congress ile he is a man of marked ability and will be conscientious ious in the discharge of his hia duties if chosen to the presidency A S derry MORE FROM frol MISSOURI mr dryan bryan would make an admirable president youn young patriotic and gifted with splendid ability his administration willbe creditable to hims himself elfand and party and satisfactory to the people A 11 dockery Do ekery FROM VIRGINIA I 1 served two terms in congress Con res with wil th mr dryan cryan we ve were desk se sk mates for two years and I 1 know him intimately I 1 believe him to be a man of loftiest loft iest patriotism and the highest ideals I 1 know him to be a nian man of superb intellect and of a personal character as pure as a woman oman I 1 doubt not that he be will make a great president il II st george tucker FROM connecticut bryan personally is IL a much better man every way than mckinley ile he has more firmness more honesty more ability his free silver notions are against him but he is frank and sincere in avowing them while mckinley who is at heart better on that subject has not the courage or honesty to express his convictions anil and is trying to play a double game if there bere is no doubt but that it will be secretly given out by me Kin Kinley levs 3 managers and with wilb his bis approval that the free silver republicans public ans of ohio and other states will iet get all they want from him more certainly than they would from ian dryan robert E deforest FROM pennsylvania rEW SYLVANIA sly judgment is that if elected mr bryan will il attempt the duties alone imposed by the constitution and will not seek to arrogate to himself the powers dowers of the legislature and judiciary ile he is better than the platform ile he possesses the ability the courage and the high morral character that guided by wise counsels will direct the ship of state in safe channels to a prosperous p rous harbor I 1 far no man as aa clief magistrate who at the tha close of each lays days labor on his bended knees invokes the guidance of almighty god and seeks in public and private action to conform to his revealed will J joseph s ph 0 sibley ANOTHER pennsylvanian mr bryan is an educated man an able lawyer a brilliant debater and a practical journalist and qualified to fill any public trust he wak born and reared out on oil the boundless prairie close to tb heart of the toiling people and is acquainted acquaint id with their cond condition condition itin and wants their hopes and aspirations the he was nominated by these pe people ale and will bs be the peoples president he is utterly fear less matchlessly lv eloquent and su sit honest in Tenny sons words he is A man with heart head hand band like a ome of the simple great ones gone for ever and ever by one still strong man in a blatant land I 1 whatever they call him what care I 1 aristocrat Ariato crat democrat autocrat one who can rule and dale daie not lie F E beltzhoover ANOTHER OHIO NIAN MAN I 1 have the honor of a a six years personal acquaintance with mr bryan I 1 watched him closely and with increasing interest and ad ach ild he was i in n congress ile he is a good trong strong man physically morally and mentally ile he is young able and broadminded broad minded and will make a good safe typical american president F C clayton A NEW YORK my impression is that mr bryan if president would endeavor to 0 o carry out in a radical manner the recommendations of the platform charles tracey RIGHT FROM OHIO asa As a neighbor and member of congress I 1 had abundant opportunity to know mr bryan as to his home life habits and as a public man to be young in years yet old in research and practical knowledge as he is is one of the grandest grande s achievements lie ile is a student of affairs possessed nf a quick pereen perception is a profound thinker and a clear reasoner lie ile reaches conclusions clu quickly but is not impulsive rt the expense of reason and only when conscious of being right bryan is one of the highest highest t types or of american manhood mau hood mentally and and physically lie ile is as fearless and fertile as 33 was toni tom corwin as patriotic as ag jackson and a president will be idolized by the maae masses for he be will make an ideal president the fictions and newspapers that have threatened revolt will soon comprehend all this and will then licten to senator hill and get nto into line a fait a as they realize the election of bryan does not mean repudiation anil add rint national ional di bgrace dg grace race hut but a strict compliance with the expressed terras terms of all contracts a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of th and the early dawn of an abiding prosper ity for all clashes and aad condit conditions ioria of our people new york and ohio are both likely to create surprises geo aeo P ikirt FROM froll MISSOURI bryan would make an ideal president he is young honest strong clean cap capable abie bravo brave and sincere champ clark FROM MARYLAND I 1 believe mr bryan would make a sound democratic democrat lc president to abo those xe who served with him as ag I 1 did in congress the charge that ile he is in sympathy with socialism or anarchy i ia absurd absei d he is a christian gentleman on the great questions of constitutional construction st which divide the two great parties he is a typical democrat barnes compton A NORTH carolinian bryan as president will be the equal of any since th the c da days vs of jel jei ferson raised among the people he has seen and felt their troubles and sufferings his heart ii full of sympathy for alj lie ile will as president know no section no class but be the president of the entire country being c to the trusts and other interests which oppress a great people he will be free to use every means at his command to place the entire country upon the ahe high road to prosperity to start evera wheel of every manufacturing industry from maine to texas from north carolina to california to adjust the qui rency of the country to a basis that will make panics unnecessary and the manufacture ot of them impossible to give those who desire to earn an honest living a chance and give the sons of toil whether in in the mines in the cities or in the midday sun bun of the open fields an opportunity once more to prosper and to live as tree ree men and americans his action immediate immediately lv after his nomination in declaring that under no circumstances if elected would he be 1 a I candidate for reelection marks him as honest sincere and trying to put himself beyond the power of doing things t to C secure his own ambitious ends IV A B branch A NEBRASKA POPIT LIbI bryan would make a president bf the people and for the people ile ho would give us an adain admin administration astr of more money more business more prosperity tv and more ha happiness for nine tenths of our citizens 0 M kern kem POM WEST VIRGINIA bryan will make the best beat president we have had since andrew jackson I 1 dont mean he be will be the best beat for those who milk cow but the best for those who feed her J capehart