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Show WAS BRYAN'S PRINTER WRONG? I. 19 Mr.-Bryan has not been very long in editorial m , J9 harness, but he has learned how impotent and mm in9 helpless a typographical error can make, for the filF 'ill time being at least, even a candidate for the Pros- WW lH idency of the United States. A circular was re- Blpj'llpl cently sent out from the office of the Commoner BUh9 which read as follows: ffl9 "It is my intention to discuss through the IMSI9 Commoner, from a Democratic standpoint, all 8HiH9 questions of publio importance, and to use the Bfi9 Democratic party for mercenary purposes." I9l It is said that when Mr. Bryan read the fore- B9 I going, he, being orthodox and in good standing, and not permitted to swear, looked anxiously V about him, eager to And some lay member who 1 might, approximately, do the subject justice. What he wrote, or what he thought he wrote, was the subjoined: "It Is my intention to discuss through the Com- & moner, from a Democratic standpoint, all ques- tions of importance, and to use the paper's in- f fluence to thwart the plans of those who would le use the Democratic party for mercenary purposes." f The trouble came from using the word use twice, the word being nearly in the same place In each line. Nine out of every ten compositors will, under such an arrangement, invariably drop a line. But really, considering Mr. Bryan's work for the past five years, was the first version so very bad? |