Show BRYAN x AS S A Jn n. n San Francisco Chronicle let the people rule which Mr Bryan Bran l In his speech of or acceptance acceptance ac ac- ac- ac so frequently quotes from the tho Democratic platform where platform where ho he doubtless put it for Cor tho the purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose of quoting was quoting was evidently Intended b by him to be the Democratic campaign slogan for this year It Jt has been very generally discussed by tho Republican lican journals on the assumption that It fl was to be he the war 31 cry of the tle enemy cne but so 50 far Car as we have observed the expression has baa fallen absolutely flat amon among the hosts of oC tho the Democracy It has not riot caught on It Is not likely that an any phrase d deliberately forged to servo as a catch word ever caught with the lie people Somo Sorno 1 h of or Napoleon Bonaparte's work u UI InU nave nn It IL usually caught with the tho soldiers for whom his phrases were contrived and anti the people may have hav seized upon the catch words But Dut Napoleon was a genius Catch words which stick sUck are intellectual Hashes struck off In the heat of at composition or orator oratory Wo We 0 have o had man many such from notable Americans As S we wo write we recall General Grants Grant's expression I 1 propose c to move Immediately on your our works worl's Let Lot us have peace Let no guilty man mun escape which for tor years formed part of ot the common speech of ot tho people le Tho The Innocuous desuetude and We arc are confronting confronting- a condition and not a theory of ot President Cleveland aro arc still In common use President President dent Roosevelt has let Itt n fly some somo scintillations which are constantly repeated as witness Malefactors s of oC great wealth applied to those who buy votes voles and undesirable citizen applied to those who sell them There Is al also o of or course COUlse the tho speak softly an and l carr carry a big stick the the first part however er having fallen into Innocuous desuetude A phrase which catches on must perfectly describe in very ClOY few words a condition which nil alt recognize as existing and amid also alo be applicable to conditions con eon constantly arl arising with respect to other mat mat- All AU tJ tle phrases above quoted met both hoth these conditions Mr tr Bryans Bryan's first phrase You phrase You shall not crucify these people upon a cross of ot gold gold gold- stampeded a convention and got hot him his first nom nom- mutton for the Presidency be because It met tho the first t requirement It did vividly suS' suS suggest est rather than describe a condition which did then exist although It Eoon soon ceased to exist edet This lost coinage coInage Let tho tim people rule has has nothing in it to tire tro tho tIme imagination Tho To pe people plo do rule in this country and always have ruled rued Th Ih The governments go wo we have havo aro are not always what the tho people desire but ut they have havo not cared enough for an any change chanSe to c eit themselves And everybody understands that More than that our governments go In the main maui aro arc good governments go The people have ha prospered under them and are prospering All talk of or the tIme oppression of oC the people by tho the trusts or anybody elso is political rot roL The Tho phrase Lot Let the people rule Implying Implying- that th y do not rule rulo will not lot catch on ou because J Its Insincerity is Js 1 self Mr l Dr Bryan an will never nc be a successful ph e r. r |