Show IS 15 MR BRYAN A FAKIR k Former Senator Stewart of Nea Nevada a abas has bas declared In a manner so BO nearly public that it can not be e passe passed over in silence that Mr Bryan is 18 a fakir Because ho believes that of or the Nebraskan Nebraskan Ne- Ne no ne has refused to shako o hands with hands with Br Bryan an And on the heels of his utterance Senator Daniel of I Virginia has declined to attend aUen a at t Dr Bryan an banquet alleging that the guest of honor at that function takes es his opinions from outsiders I I i Mr 1 Bryan is a public topic H He Ht can cau cannot I not be bo thus characterized without imposing imposing im im- im posing on the country the duty and duty and 1 r the tho pleasure pleasure pleasure-of of taking notice If to DIr Ir Bryan Dran be a fakir It is a grievous I thing an and grievously hath bath Bryan Bryant t answered for it IL If he lie be bo not then Former Senator Stewart has spoken k l o L rashly an and without proper warrant I if ho he have e taken his bis Mso opinions from others and has abandoned better bettor bet bet- tor ter opinions of home manufacture then again he lie Is to be bo reprobated But you must be fair with Mr Bryan Bran You shall not condemn him bim to the of the Stewart damnation nor norI I abandon him to tho the isolation which is expressed in eating without Senator t- t Daniel unless tho the facts sustain the charges Mark you A fakir is 18 an oriental religious r ascetic a begging ginS monk There Ther is color of title in the first adjective If Egypt Egypt- be bo within the limits of what may be called the orIon oriental tal then maybe maybo Former Senator Stewart ia Is right Bryan Dryan COLD comes US from fromI I I Jacksonville Ill Iii and It Jt Is known own that Jacksonville Jacksonville and and tho the whole of Mor Morgan gan gnu county may county may fairly and properly ho bo included In tho the purview of or Egypt I For southern Illinois Is now alwn always s 's was and ever will bo be Egypt Also Mr Dr Bryan un has laid laM himself open to the charge of or being religious He lie has bas appeared before So has Sam Jones an and the Nashville Nash Jubilee singers ers Fu Furthermore wo we have o the tho authority of tho the public press for tho the statement that at his recent visit to Lafayette lafaette In Tad Ind he lie collected in a n time one-time skating rink some three thousand people from all the churches of the to town n their pastors having weakly weak weak- eakly ly surrendered their pulpits tho the bottel hotter hotter hot hot- ter tel to enable tho the populace to hear him himon himon himon on on Sunday evening Sun Sunday ay evenIngs evenings even even- ings inS's In Indiana are given gi up to assembling assembling as as- of ot the religious Even in the towns must completely dominated by Governor Go Hanly's metropolitan police commission officials where tho the poker pla players ers most do congregate e every gambler cashes his chips chips if If ho he have any left when left when the llie sha shades es of Sunday Sundar evening fall and anti hies him to church There he ho mn may repent that he didn't bet the Ole limit when he only shied a I chip to the thc middle middle and and was called calle or ho lie may give thanks that he be didn't bet tho the limit when the other man had demonstrated a better hand on the showdown I In such a town on such a night Mr 11 Bryan spoke to the tho tho assembled Indiana multitude c. c And Antl ho he gave them thema a mighty goo good gospel too The Lafa Lafayette ette local papers print enough or of tho sermon sermon sermon-or or r address to address to sustain that part of the tho definition definition religious But we woe are not so sure suro of tho the third adjective adjective begging Mr Bryan Dryan didn't beg when he stood before the convention convention con con- in Ii tho the old oM Coliseum at Chicago In 1890 when ho he told them they should not crucify crucify- his people that they should not press down the crown II of thorns upon the the the- theNo No man on 1 earth ever er heard tho rest of the sent I ence Tho The explosion of the thousands s who heard heard the tho thousands t that at were carried off of their feet b by the heroism and tho the rhetoric of the utterance utterance- drowned the conclusion of that period fine fine as it must have havo been He didn't beg for himself at the national national na- na ional Democratic convention of 1900 He dictated dictate there An And if he begged lii III i tho the campaign of or 1 01 it was that his former s supporters give gie their Tot votes s sto to Parker which Parker which they ther didn't do very much But passing the question of begging begging beg beg- ging sing Is s ho he a monk If not then tho the characterization of Former Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor Stewart will not riot stand A monk by b t the tho Je dictionary is ia a oa man who retires retires re re- re tires from tho the ordinary temporal affairs af af- af airs fairs of the world a a. a blot or spot of ink on a printed page page especially especially a 3 blotted and indistinct impression from types that have ha received too much ink as distinguished from froni a friar friar Dr r white spot caused by bj a deficiency of Dr ink Have you ever eyer seen the Commoner Will you ou look at that paper and d de declare de- de clare dare that the page has not too much ink Will VIll you ou read it an and tell to an inquiring public that the page is not blotted b by the arguments there set forth If you ou concede that the tho of Mr Bryan in the Commoner are blots then his character character char char- acter as monk must be admitted It I certainly can not be ue said that he Is Isa Isa is' is isa a friar and that tho the page bas too little ink Then he must be bo a monk Therefore at least two thirds of Former Senator Stewarts Stewart's characterization character hold Tho The man is an oriental ho is religious and he is a monk Then ho he is a f fakir kir And there you ou are Even if ho he does oes not beg eg tho the preponderance pre pro pon erance ot of evidence is against bim him Stewart is right The Great Commoner Is a fakir After that what difference does it make whether Senator Daniel will cat eat with him or not The fakir is an ascetic Ho lie Is superior to considerations considerations considerations of company He Ho can call eat alone or with big men And he can abstain from eating He doesn't caro care Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor Daniel ma may be dismissed But Former Senator Stewart seems to have established his case ease And that being true It Is goo goodbye b e for Mr Bryan No r fakir can be President Prest- Prest dent of the tho United States |