Show INGRATITUDE DE r. r f fIn In IJ his Cot r i Br Bryan says aJ's fl Unquestionably Mr Clark not mot with with a great I ut at Dalti Baltimore sa sa says s Mr Bryan rya n. n political disappointments ts are arc of often ofton ton very cry Keen They cut to tc th tho Very ri quick quck- the e candidate himeo and t they ey press pr s mot most h II hea those nearest and dearest to him lint such things arc to tc be classed amon among tho the fortune oc ot war atit mon men of experience o and may t v iv up tp them asido ildo as as' as n altogether t inconsequential ut I. I If l' l Br Bryan an h had d stopped stopped- to o th think that h such u h men a as Henry Cla Clay ali and James G G. Elaine Blaine had liati gone one to graves o cr overborne rne by bt the thought that the they had 1 I been b el ch cheated aled out of the thc presidency when hen thC n I W th that t majority of their cou countr coun- coun tr men wanted d them to 19 b be bo cl elected ct P he lie would not nt have writt written n i the thC last sentence it in the ab But that is nd not the real point in the matter The idea is not Y yet t- t eradicated from th the he pu public lic mind that Mr 11 Bryan Br u himself wanted the nomination it t Baltimore and and purpose was wafe Va tc to boat atthe the several sev sev- oral eral candi candidates la 5 iu in u detail and nd finally ll win But aut on its face fice Mr h Bryan Bryt n stands in In th the h light o of a man des des- of c common gratitude as one ready at an antime any anytime anytime time to forget on c all an the obligations o of friendship ns as one oue destitute l e o QC t all those thos finer attributes n which go goto to tv make up tip great souls in men I Mr Bryan did not nt think in Baltimore he does not think now that Wilson would make a better bettor president than thon Champ Clark to Mr rr Wilson Vilson he hc owed nothing noth noth- ing lug t. t to Champ Clark he hc owed sixteen years cors of devoted do- do voted and most influential friendship He lie did not think then he does not Dot think now that if Mr 11 Clark had been nominated and elected he would in III the high office be any more h handicapped than Avill ivill m Mr Wilson if elected Mr 11 Bryan Br an had haa been given the nomination for president nt three times am and each time timeS Mr Clark had to him the full ful I measure of his friendship and ability while hil Mr Ir Wilson belonged to the political sch school ol o of Grover Gro I Cl Cleveland Cleland eland and the interest st gatherers ath in the east Then came a convention which would hav have nominated min Mr 1 Clark ClorI on the second ballot had th the rule been the same as the Republican rule that tho the majority should nominate So o it ran through forty ballots Had Mr r. r Bl Bryan n be been been a generous and true man maD who not have sat nat through ih half those ballots but would hav lui v V S' S g got t th the floor in in a f few ri ringing ing words d b he would o bave have I pointed out the evident will of f a majority of the convention and made an impassioned appeal for his friend frend If he had done that he would have stood higher in iu the estimation of the people of the States than he ever will rill in future |