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Show BRYAN CRITICIZED BY LIBERAL ELTiMENT The Natiop.al Repuglic makes the following comment regarding the late Williavn J. Bryan in the August number; "The sudden death of William Jennings Jen-nings Tiryan, at Dayton, Tenn., fol-lowirg fol-lowirg the Scopes trial was an exit quite as dramatic as the entry of the distinguished Nebraskan into national nation-al leadership with the famous speech which swept the Chicago convention of 1896 like a western cyclone. At the moment of his passing he was the target of jeers and imprecations which came mostly from the mouths of "liberals" who were in the forefront fore-front of his support as a free trader, an anti-imperialist, an anti-preparedness : pacifist and internationalist and the crusader against wealth; his hundred per cent defenders were the Tennessee mountaineers who had fought him "tooth and toe-nail" in his political doctrines ana aspirations. aspira-tions. Colonel Bryan was the greatest great-est American emotionalist since Patrick Pat-rick Henry, and with all his remarkable remark-able ability to stir the crowd as much lacking as the great Virginian in constructive statesmanship. To have held such prominence as he enjoyed in American politics for more than thirty years in a distinction almost if not quite without p recedent in our history. Never to hav e had a charge worthy of credence m ado against his personal rectitude is another distinction distinc-tion greatly to his o -edit. The spirit of unrest and discon tent must have leadership and it ha.s perhaps been fortunate that durinj? f,o long a period per-iod the outstanding f igmre of radicalism radical-ism has been less revolutionary in his views." |