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Show B"- BRYAN OF 1896 Norman E. Mack has prepared tho fpl- AND BRYAN OF TODAY, lowing brief comparison of Mr. Bryan iu 1800 and Bryan of today. The article will bo read with interest. t- "T ot'ier lllUH 1" pi'hlio lifu has grown as William J. Ilryun has K. grown during the past twelve years. And I way this without dlsparag- Iing the high natalities of tho man iim they were revealed to his Intiniute I friends during his first campaign for the presidency. Mr. Bryan was 1 conscientious then as now; then, as now, he was eloquent iu public speech, resoiircoful in debito and faithful in the cliiinplmahip of measures, I which, in his view, were for tho general welfare. Hut since then Mr. I Bryan has grown itt such a way as to make the Bryan tf 1800 appear I as u stripling when compared to the Bryan of 1008. I "This growth is particularly noticeable among men who, through t intimate political association with the man, have had every opportunity I for gI'mo observation, and this growth is the natural order of n career T fraught as Mr. Bryan's has been, with the elements that make for the I? development und tho nnturity of a high class citizen. I" "Mr. Bryan rovealed to Nebraska Democrats his line charrcteristics I when ho won his spurs In a battle. for tariff reform; ami then during his I first term as a member of Congress ho captivated hit associates in the I House and won the respinttful attention of hi countrymen generally K through one of the greatest tariff reform spmhus over tlelivered in the R. American Congress. Then ho revealed himelf to tho members of the k Democratic convention of 1800, while in tho entitling campaign 11 ennsid- R erablo number of the American people camo to know him well during a m contest which, for Htiblimo courage on the part of u young man llghtiug m against-the greatest posslblu odila is withnut a parallel in the history of S )'pular government. l "But thobe who thought they knew him as a Congressman from J, Nebraska, and those who thought they know him during the presidential campaign of 180(5 luimed more of him lu the singlu glanco they obtained m when on the day following the 1800 election he stood erect among his eouutrymen and showed by tho manner in which ho met defeat that he had iu hlni.tletiiff out of which heroes are made. . "It goea without s tying that a nun having passed through Mr. j Bryan's experience iu 1800 and having four years later been again notn- nj-: iuated by Ilia party oidy to meet defeat must have had within him the elements for substantial progress. When we add to all this the experi- f-l en,,et! tl,ro,'i5 which Mr. Bryan Ins gone du'rjn the past eight yestrs If; a tl,c0 we oce1 n,,t (lml lt t Iwltave th it ttiere has been going in this country u procesi of character development In order that at a J I critical period iu the history of free government a great iKmon may be ' providetl with n maturwl man. "Hepublicans who havo t,tretully studied the danger signals jus. I' now vWb,e !n th1a 1WI ot ourri feel as Democrat do, that the occa- EK' ou la at hand; and thow who have tho privilege of preSet-day ae- v V" WlUl ?p r' B7a'1 f 1' tlt l hhn the American pL0 |
