Show I BIIYAVS POWERS 1 I The New York Journal pays the following fol-lowing tribute to Mr Bryans intellectual intellect-ual endowment and marvelous pow ers of endurance As the campaign advances toward its culmination Mr Bryan appears t gain in physical power and intellectual activity daily His oppOnents vainly strive to stem the rising tide of adm ration for his gigantic powers by employing em-ploying the shafts of ridicule which fall blunted from the impregnable armor of his argument Mr Bryan unaided un-aided by the corporate powers which seek to keep the volume of money narrowed and controlled by the few unsupported by the great mass of newspapers news-papers which count the favor of trusts and monopolies because of their wealtli goes about the country preaching tfyo jotpel of monetary salvation and maKing maK-ing myriads of converts who will lay the pledges bf their faith upon the altar of public prosperity lar pUblc prosperiy on Novem herO And it is Interesting to recall the fact that from the time of his Madison Square speech the opposition has insisted in-sisted that Mr Bryan had talked himself him-self to death Notwithstanding this the Republican managers are kept busy trying to undo the work done by the Democratic candidate They are sending send-ing out men to follow him closely and devote themselves to answering his arguments From sections visited by him come despairing Republican appeals ap-peals for help to beat back the Democratic Demo-cratic wave following his speeches In every locality where he has spoken the increase in Democratic sentiment has been so pronounced that Hanna and his lieutenants contemplate his tour with nervous dread So pronounced has become their ttate of panic that they are arranging to hold meetings in opposition to him when he appears in Chicago The actions of the Republicans show that they do not believe what they say about Mr Bryan having talked too much for his own good When he read that wonderful argument ir Madison Square Garden Instead of giving an exhibition ex-hibition of impassioned oratory there was some disappointment among those who had hoped to hear an effort like that which stirred the Chicago convention conven-tion The Republican press chose to Interpret that feeling of disappointment disappoint-ment as evidence of failure on the part of the candidate and It was fondly believed that he was going to pieces But instead of having broken down I or deteriorated Mr Bryan has grown j In power while undergoing the terrible strain to which he has been subjected I and today he stands forth before the world as one of the marvels of the age I Hard work does not seem to exhaust him physically while his brain brightens bright-ens under the exercise until it glows like a diamond He hay not been excelled ex-celled in this generation and it is doubtful if taken all In all the country has ever produced any one who was I fully his equal |