| Show AN unparalleled TRIUMPH yr mr dryan may tall fall of 0 action he me may V be elected and fall as pre president La ident true it Is that he bo does not do as aa well some day AS ho he does dews others but bul nothing can call ever evell tako jake front from him tile the ilono honor r ot of the tact fact that when he was not even thought ofas oj ds a candidate by 1113 il 3 mall masterful eloquence he so it a convention of nearly a thousand delegates mid and fifteen thou thousand that the rely intensity ot of ills his words I 1 carded cil led that convention olt off its act feet a and d gave to him the highest lionor honor that it Is possible for any american or any other man for I 1 that hat matter to rec in this world sometimes a 8 elvea sold soldier er on EL a battlefield can demonstrate hla his wot phiness to command inen sheridan at stone river reported to ills his general with a few men and a few suns guns and pointing to them lie he said general these are arc all that ate left led when sherman eherman was pounding his nay may up missionary ridge and hooker on the other flank was fighting above the c louds clouds to the aings of 0 the army the center was to I 1 to a certain point but there was no lie expectation that they would try to carry the crest ot of the enc roys position but once started they could not be restrained sheridan was waa there on the way up the height lie he essayed to take a drink of water As a lie he was lifting the cup to his hl lips it was vas shot out of 0 his hands and then he pointing up tho the height declared that that was most ungenerous grant arid and howard clonard followed the victorious troops arter after they had stormed braggs position anil and grant found sheridan sitting upon a cann cannon on riding it as he would mould a horse and shouting like a wild comanche grant treasured that picture and when called to the command of 0 all the life armies of ali the united states state arid and when nhen lie he took bs position with the army of meade he sent for sheridan to conic come to washington on oil the way sheridan was asked lied what lie WAS going tor for ills his answer was 1 I dont know whether it Is ig to be promoted or dismissed ito he was given command of 0 all the cavalry of 0 the army ot of the potomac ro tomac and before grant died lie gave it as his opinion that sheridan was able to command any number ot of men and arly any kind ot of a campaign and said enough to show that in grants granta judgment ire was the greatest creates soldier ot of the world it stalled from the riding ot of that cannon on the chesl of the ridge N hole bragg brag had made ills his center but never before to our knowledge knowl efte in this barnny or any other country did n speaker absolutely magnetize a cicat convention and compel it to do ills his will ill ula billal nomination was not the result ot of calm thought at all were older men and stronger men we believe there was sibley there was daniel there were men who tiled in many critical places have proved themselves great I 1 lut ut it was useless the convention seemed to look upon bryan as the old greek story says hercules was looked upon the critic said lie he would rike like to have seen been this one manage a charlot race or that one set a division lit in the field but when hercules came he was content no matter what he did Thet whether ber lie he walked or stood or sat icat he was everything in that way bryan magnetized that convention and whatever his triumphs or lila ills failures may bo be in tile future it 11 will go into history that lie he simply pimply by ills his eloquence carried a ana 9 cicat a I 1 at convention oft off their feet and 1 made them do what nhat he pleased |
