Show THE CANDIDATES Mr Bryan as has for months been expected has become the candidate of tho Democracy the Silver Republicans and one branch of tho Populists The country knows him well In many wa she s-he is 3 brilliant man In very many ways Jio is 0 winsomo man in his political po-litical makeup his mind is a queer mixture of the ancient warp of Democracy De-mocracy and the intaglblo woof of Populism Pop-ulism Four years ago hens sparring for a situation through which to earn n livelihood today we believe that he actually Imagines himself an evangel and that ns Jefferson was raised up lobe lo-be the 1 SL Peter of the Democracy he has been raised up to enlarge upon and improve the ancient creed We do not believe that another defeat in Novcm her will dispel his Illusion but that in I four years longer he will expand Into I n fullfledged Populist and be their candidate can-didate for President t The candidate which the convention nominated for Vicepresident Is socially so-cially a most pleasant gentleman He has a sunny face and we believe a generous gen-erous heart In mental makeup men as great can be found In every village in he United States He was four years VicePresldent and was one of the monetary commission sent by President McKInley to Europe but he has never yet said 1 word worth remembering or repeating He first came Into prominence promi-nence when ns First Assistant PostmasterGeneral he distinguished I I himself as the great Democratic headsman of Republican postmasters I postmas-ters He treated them officially as it is supposed Prince Tuan has treated the missionaries in China physically Although an exVicePresIdent he had not Influence enough to obtain an election elec-tion in Illinois as a delegate to the national na-tional Democratic convention He was nominated on the hope that his name I I I would carry Illinois That will prove a great mistake He did not carry that State when he was a candidate before it was carried through combinations altogether al-together independent of him and his nomination now Is a mistake for it will meet with no hearty response from any section not even his own State |