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Show THE CITIZEN took the German side of the controversy, he kept meticulously silent means, and if that happens well, the mind is staggered by the sug. about those university days in the Fatherland. gestion. His father had been a United States senator, elected as a RepubIn England we are at work on plans to help. A committee is forming to aid Austria, a committee made up of the three leading lican. Back from Germany and from the University of Michigan, generals, headed by Haig; three leading statesmen, including Lord where he had taken his degree in law, Hitchcock, being liberally supRobert Cecil, and three leading financiers, with Lord Rothschild. That plied with money, established an evening newspaper The World. It p committee will unquestionably do splendid work, but England, Great was independent and, what was of happy import to the owner, sucBritain, cannot do it unaided. We need America, and we are confident cessful. Then he bought the moribund Herald and called the merger a name borne to this days. For various reasons it that in the hour not only of Austria's need but of the necessity of the World-Heral' did not pay. . . Europe America will respond. The Republican field was occupied by the morning and evening After all, a league of hearts is better than a league of guns. If Great Britain and her allies, recognizing this truth, will form a League Bee, which had been accustomed to'lambast Hitchcocks father. Unof Nations based upon the free consent of peoples rather than upon able to settle on a policy that appealed to either the Republicans or iron-cla- d guarantees by governments we shall have a league that will the Democrats, he tried to gain support from both factions, not by rule the world by friendship rather than by force. being independent, but by shifting, turning corners, advancing timidly on one route and then, suddenly facing about and running away like a BRYAN-HITCHCOCscared rabbit. Much of this weakess was due, no doubt, to his charENTENTE acter and training, to the fact that he was really out of touch with ) to an astonished United States the information what the common people were feeling and thinking in the Nebraska ' imparts RUMOR Jennings Bryan and Gilbert M. Hitchcock have of that day. shaken hands after years of hostility. Those who knew of the feud Moreover, the terrible panic came along soon afterward and made are astonished to hear that it has ended and the other 100,000,000 are him land poor. The hard times made his paper a losing venture and it never prospered until he took to Bryanism, swallowing free astonished to hear that it ever existed. The basis of agreement and harmony is not wholly disclosed, but silver and anything and everything that Bryan advocated. Bryan it is suggested that Mr. Bryan is willing to effect a compromise with may have been a demagogue, as his enemies said, but he undoubtedly the reservationists and has persuaded the Nebraska senator to join was a demigod in the eyes of Nebraskans. There are thousands of with him in an effort to save the Democratic party by abandoning the Republicans today who, if pushed into a corner and threatened with death, will admit that they used to throw up their hats and cheer for President, or, at any rate, the Presidents policy of no compromise. William Jennings Bryan. , One would be forced to make a diligent search of history to find two statesmen more unlike than Bryan and Hitchcock. Perhaps, if Bryan had now served two terms in Congress and had been we may compare small things with great, the characters and political baten by John M. Thurston in the race for senator. Being out of a tendencies of Jefferson and Hamilton would afford the closest parallel. job, he saw. with terror that he would have to go back to the dusty It is merely a superficial difference that Bryan and Hitchcock belong law office unless he could find work more suited to his temperament. to the same party whereas Jefferson and Hamilton were the leaders Then it was that the cold, aristocratic Hitchcock had another inspiraof opposing political organizations. Like Hamilton the Nebraska tion perhaps it was a second-han- d inspiration. At any rate Bryan was made editor of the World-Heralsenator is an aristocrat with a inability to sympathize except through the functioning of his reason with the ideals, Immediately hard times vanished. The paper began to flourish and to be a. power in a land overflowing with the milk and honey of hopes and struggles of the common people. To Bryan, son of a judge in Illinois, the tendency in Bryanism and Populism. Bryan and Populism were cronies in those be one of the people is a natural gift which he has improved with days. Bryan took all that Populism had to offer and, in return, practice. In Washington, Bryan, when a congressman, sometimes gave the Populists some offices through fusion agreements and wore a silk hat and presented a grand appearance, but in Nebraska he smiled amply on thousands of personal friends who were Populists. The Bryan smile was a sufficient compensation for almost anything affected the big, soft slouch headgear. In 1892 he was running against Judge Field, a dignified jurist who in that Alice in Wonderland period. The Bryan smile remains, but he was selected as the Republican candidate for Congress on the theory wears it under a bald pate that seems to dim its glory. Moreover, that his speechmaking talents would be able, at least, to hold a large he does not smile as often as was his wont when trying to smile his cathedral candle to the flaming torch of Bryan, the spellbinder. way to the presidency. There never was anything in common between Hitchcock and On one occasion the debate between the two candidates was held at a country picnic or fair. Judge Field, in Prince Albert and silk Bryan except the good they could do each other in a business or pohat, marched through the crowd, looking neither to the right nor the litical way. It was tactily agreed that Bryan would do all he could to left, and made his way superbly to the stage, where, in solitary promote the interests of the Herald and that Hitchcock would exert grandeur, he busied himself with the manuscript of his speech. A his best efforts to sate the Bryan ambition for political honors. became a newspaper of national note when The World-Heral- d minute later enter Mr. Bryan, clad, it is true, in sober, almost ministerial black, but with a very low collar a la common people. The silk Bryan, by delivering his carefully prepared Cross of Gold Speech at . hat which he had worn at Washington during his first term was ab- the Chicago convention in 1896, shoved Dick Bland into the discard sent. Crowning the glorious brown locks of the young orator he and obtained the Democratic nomination for the presidency. had locks in those days was a typical slouch hat of the campaigning Defeated, Bryan did not go back to the editorial chair. He became a lecturer able to command a fee of $1,000 a night. The Herald type, one such as Champ Clark might employ down Missouri way. Instead of betaking himself immediately to the speakers stand continued to prosper by keeping its cart hitched to the Bryan star. A few years passed. Governor Poynter was in office, elected on Bryan selected an admiring clump of yokels as a target for his magfor which Bryan netism, threw himself upon the grass beside them and entered into one of those fusion tickets Populist-Democratthe spirit of their conversation. Result votes for Bryan. stood sponsor. A Republican senator died and the governor had the In those days Gilbert M. Hitchcock could no more have duplicated appointment of a successor. that act than he could have donned- wooden shoes and done a Dutch Hitchcock thought that he should have the plum. Judge Allen, dance. Not that he was unfamiliar with Dutch dances. In point of who, as United States senator, had been a friend and sup- - - f Populist, fact, he was a traveled man, having been educated at Munich. They of Bryan, immediately asked for his old position. Bryan was used to say that the kaiser was his classmate, but it may have been porter under the hard necessity of choosing between the two, as Governor the He and it admitted never a romantic during amplification. only world war, when he was trying to pass through the Senate a bill to Poynter had frankly declared that he would name whomsoever Bryan prevent the export of munitions, and when, generally speaking, he should indorse. The accolade fell on Judge Allen, who went to the . . d, . K . bred-in-the-bo- ne d. ic - . |