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Show ' BRYAN'S SILENCES. Atr. Bryan is such a pleasant speaker, so eager to please and so careful to choose the point of view and the phrase which will evoke applause, that his hearers, hear-ers, especially his fellow partisans, can i find few flaws ic his arguments. The trick of his oratory is to select only the subject-matter which lends itself readily to the persuasive argument and to avoid issues diincult of defense. Going on the rostrum for President Wilson, he would naturally be expected ; to make some apology for supporting a candidate for re-election. It was at Bryan's instigation that the plank, against a second term was inserted into the Baltimore platform. Moreover, the platform declared the Democratic pledges were made to be kept. That would appear to be fairly binding upon ti e candidate, bur it did not have lot- j tor? strong enough to hold Mr. Wilson. ; The pledges were broken and yet we i find Mr. Bryan campaigning for Mr. ! Wilson, and, it must be added, dis- i creetly silent about the second term plank. . ; Mr. Bryan boasted eloquently about : his '' cooling time'' treaties, declaring that his name would be remembered a thousand years hence in connection with these efforts to preserve the peace 1 of the world. All of us can recall what happened at the time of the Lusi-taoia Lusi-taoia affair. The German government govern-ment pointed -out that while it had' signed no "cooling time"' treaty with the United State?, it had accepted the principle and suggest ei investigation and arbitration. Then it was that our government discovered the fatal defect in the Bryan treaties. No provision pro-vision had been made against rout inn - j ing violations of our rights. If we were 1 to call upon England to settle the present pres-ent controversy concern in z our commerce com-merce on the high seas by means of the " cooling time ' ' treaty Kc eland : co.di continue to violate our rights for a year and yet claim to be entirely within the provisions of the tratv, for Mr. Bryan failed to provide a modus Vivendi during the year of " coo.icg time. ' ' In his Salt Lake speech Mr. Bryan made do reference to this def :t. He lonfiM himself as the aurhor of the t ra tie? and utterei not one word to fuz-st that any defect ha 1 been fon.n'i in them. The boasting habit is gifting some of the Democratic orator? into amusing plights. Senator Reed of M'.s-ouri i? Rioted in the St. Lou if Republic rr-having rr-having made the following sra t-mnnt : , ' Von reeall the da v two vrars a so v. hn v;ar was declared in Kuro;.e. 1 otto ot-to n that morning sold for 14 c a n t s a pound. That night it was 'juoted at -1 rents. If we did not have our present banking fy:-tent 4hr're on Id not have been a bank open in Lafayette enuntv ; fwr. days later. The froat tinam ia! in-' s'itutions of St. Loui? anl Kana? "iv j v.ould have elo-.ed shop. As a re.-ult i your local banks would have .mi!TtH."' The Democrats nf o ies-a, Mo., whrr the sieeh wan deli vf-re-l, mu -t ha vr cli'-cred that statement resound ingl v, Jnrg'dfing that th" f'-'ra( reserve a't di'l nor hieome '-ftVotivp until Nnvem-ber Nnvem-ber J, 10U. w.'-T'-a.- 'he Knropran war b-'.nn on August. I. !. The tru'h i- t;:;it th- A U ! no V pm-land pm-land ii:-'-n-nre, ei.;irfed j V j s ,y n I.'e-p'ibi''n I.'e-p'ibi''n I'ongrr--; in the f.vo ,,f a I'oin-i.'-iaM'' filibii-t'T. hHped to r-vent. a id'1. Wh'-n t'f.f Ku (. ' ini v:;i r ca rne the erton find Mo-d: -x ha n -doed irrirrf ri iat'dy. Son.-' n !;s i -,- vc: r-ii'g r-ii'g h ' u - c"rl t.ndfr Ihr j.ro- i-ion f'f tJir Aid: i'-ii .'. -land art. V. hetrit-r t'. '1 j -u- nf :,; -:-,l-,- imoii''v v. a ni'---ary or nrd af U,i' tti front a fi f -;i rj i !j J v i'".vpoi li t if ua-. nerrs-y:iv nerrs-y:iv from a p - vh o!-i 'i I r-w -oi:t. 'II,.- pnblir v.-., in a -t,.l(l. . '!t i j. g o:i pan i'- a 1 1 1 m -i u ; n rr- or f.llf.'U ! V. --'.: r-j -I.-., I. J ;, )(' that there had been no reason for alarm. Or.iois began to pour into the United States and it bot-amc apparent that the Democratic period of hard times was to be replaced by an era of ! pros)eritv due to the demand for our products created by the war. - - |