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Show I BRYAN IS DEFEATED William .T. Bryan hai IobI bit hold 011 Democracy Ho no Longer is able to sway the great mass of the party to k's purpoae, and hii loss of prestige poos hnck to the rla when he left the cabinet as h protest against America goiug into the world war, Bryan carries bis conviotiohs to an extreme. He is not willing to allow the other fellows to bave notions of their own He seeks to dominate or destro On the Liquor question he will be supported by an overwhelming body of the people of this State but as a matter of party polities, to insist that, instead of a negative position, In- views must be made a part of the platform, would to invite an open rupture at a time when the liquor assue has been well disposed of by constitutional amendment. leffiKlat i ic rn;n tnient ami supreme urt decision. That was Bryan attitude in the war. Theoretically, wars are in defianee of the ten commandlnents ; theoretically a war should be a conscientious objector to organized murder, but, in praetiee, peaceful peace-ful men now and then are called upon to fight or be reduced to slavery and they unhesitatingly fichl to the death Bryan by this time should iriri to leam that modem society progresses most by evolution rather than resolution; that compromise compro-mise is the spirit of the day and essential to a government by the people Bryan, ever since his retirement from the cabinet, has shown pique. In his letter from tin convention on Thursday he sarcastie ally referred to the fad t hot he had DOt been recognized as he t houj: ht was due one of his importance in tht part and in bis message of yesterday he refers to the president being fortunate in finding a man like (iiass to run the convention. In other days, Bryan blames Wilson for the turning down of the tlnnps advocated by the Nebras-kan Nebras-kan and he resents the action. |