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Show THE STRIKE OF THE LODE. The Boston Transcript sarcastically says: "From present appearances the ' nomination of Bryan would appear to be, for the Democratic party, a petition in bankruptcy." That is not fair. Mr. Bryan just now is the biggest asset that the Democratic party has, and its willingness to offer him to the country in payment of its old debts shows at least a disposition to do the fair thing by its creditors. Mr. Bryan's career has been very much like the work of the Comstock lode. The croppings were very heavy in precious metals, at the time astonishing the world ; but after a while the mines went into borasca. Along about 1865-'66 the people were flocking, away from the great lode by thousands, but then came the Crown Point and Belcher bonanzas, and three years later the Con. Virginia-California m bonanza, which in the next five or six years gave up $119,000,000 in cash and paid $67,000,000 in dividends. Before anyone says that Mr. Bryan cannot be elected President, he had better study closely the strike of his lode ; because, while the surface deposits have been exhausted, he may have up his sleeve a bonanza in the lower levels. |