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Show I Democracy Under Latter Day Leaders Reviewed By Expert i By MARTIN H. GLYNN, r I HE third and last article of this series on "The Ups and Downs of Dcmoc-racy" Dcmoc-racy" taken us from Cleveland to Wil-L, Wil-L, sen such a sweep as would require the ataccato pen or Kipling to do It Justice within reasonable spare But Inasmuch as Cleve-land Cleve-land was the first-Democrat to occupy the White Hone since the civil war. Inasmuch as the incidents of latter day Democracy are better known to the readers of to-dny than In Cleveland's lime, we will give the most " space In this article to Cleveland though we H Shall nlso touch on Hill. Bryan and Wilson. I first met Grover Cleveland while I was a boy In college. Mv father wanted to be Postmaster of the little hamlet wherein we lived The "machine1 was ngr.lnst him He railed me home to help. The political bOM of the locali'i wa not an early rlaer. One morning while h" lolled In the land of nod 7 CUrrlefi around the village and secured the signatures - moat of the residents to i petition In behalf of mv father With that petition 1 interested Wlllard Peek or Hudson Feck was a personal frlen.l of Cleveland n gave me a letter to William ft Crace Mr Grace cavi me a letter to President Cleveland, and Cleveland cave the rest ofl'ice fl to my father. At t!'e ' mi lin Expostion T was with Mr Cleveland at the opening H of the Louisiana Purchase Fxposltlon in In that crest parade Senator l.indav of Kertu'-Uv and myself rode In the carriage wl'h Mr Cleveland. This carrlncc was kept H a eor,ideral l distance behind President H ft none veil's, so n not to Interfere with anv H of the President's pev lieges or prerogative H Jj or incidont.allv.hlsnprlau.se. This move hid H altotreiher the opposite of the result cx- MMm peeted The cap between the two rn rrlaeos pinned ( he cniioetty of the onlookers n to who was in that second carriage lacglng far H behind When the crowd saw It was Q rover H Cleveland ihey made the welkin ring B 'i That night at the banquet, tired nnd H wearied hv the parade of the morning and the speech of the afternoon he fell asircp H Those at the speaker's table lei him sleep Hl on until If came his turn to speak Then B J thev roused him. He rubbed his eves and H pulled himself on to hs fee' The banqueters H j chuckled h. laughed and Ihen proceeded ' H make one of the wittles speeches 1 have ever heard If was r new ro'e for Grover. ard 'he surprise .af It captive ted the rrowd He made the hit of the night The chagrin H J of that nap in puhlio drove hs prepared J speech completely ou rf hi head and It H ) was a rood thine it did, n that occasion like Rip Va - Winkle r.rover Cleveland was H a "a lucky mar" that he fell asieep. H ffc ihe wav back home from the exposl- H lion Mr. Cleveland became engrossed In a j came of rrihhace As the train was lnw- H , Iiir down to pull Into a station, without look- H Inr up. Without notlcinc where he was. he H ; asked: "What p'ace tnls?" "This. Mr. President." said one of his com-j com-j parrfons "Is a place called Washington " H j lust then lb dome of the Capita1, loomed Hj lew and Mr Cleveland cd .inon W C 1 it'- retrospective eve. "How would von j like to stop off hre 'or anoihr four veareT" H asked hl friends "Tou muld not drac me P haeV with a rope " he replied and calmly re- H aumed his came of crlhhace. I Honit and Fer'e. Samuel .) Tllden and Grover flevelano H j were the two most conspicuous captains of H j Iiemocracy 'or twenty-five voars after the ei1' war Tllden rut the Democratic party H j oh ,ta feet Cleveland put it In IIh Whlto H Houe Richard Wafor. Odder said "Cleve- H land was the honestest m;m T ever knew" J i at"? that describes the keynote of bis char- jeer He had a sturdlne nf e'earacter. H j n.i re often found In 'he military catnp than H It. (be field of politics He waa Tearless a h- H sx'utely fearless of man or devil. His In- k s' rctr were uncanny, his intuition almost feminine and upon these he relied as much r upon formal lopic The maze- of psycbol- H cizv. the niceties of philosophy. did not bother h:m much: the creat highway of common i aenac was the road whereon he travelled. sri-. no metaphysical balrspllttlna could draw ij hire off on a tancent. n- hypothetical suppo- I s'.tlons could hepnlle him Into the byways of 1 fruiiless speculation, i To a remarkable decree he poss-ssed the coins of leadership and the spirit ot richt-1 richt-1 sousnes. There were no fuss or frills about Hj Qipvvc Cleveland Success did not chare- H b'rr. society could not spoil him. He had no H I'luslons. he suffered no delusions, but he 1 1 possess an unconquerable passion for fai ls He kept his feet on the enrth nid thv H f ;tiRS of ImaRlnatlon never carried him t.a j 1 r,e realms of ridiculous fantasy H loved to fish and he loved to hunt 1 Daniel Webster comrvosej part of his H Bunker Hill oration while whlpplnc tb trout lr'im ot M .sarhuset!s. and Grover Cleveland wrote his first Presidential Inau-B Inau-B sural address while tlshinc In the lakes of H the Adirondacks. He was fond of cards and In vac.'-tion flayi would play "blh. low. jack nnd the im( from breakfast until bed-time bed-time Tn he carried a torch In a polltl- P ctl parade for Hancock: In 1884 be donne.1 t the mantle ot Washington In the White lj House. I A Keen Politician l People speak about Garfield llshtnlnfl H like ascendency h cannot be compared tc Cleveland's Ills bioprapners sny he was nc i politician They are mlst3ken. He was a I politician nnd o eood one too. He was th same kind of a politician that Abraham Lln coin was. He had an unerrlnp; faculty oi cettlnc In on the cround floor of public opinion r To his advisers, who used to tell him hi , knew nothing obout practical politics, hi I waa wont to reply that he knew more abou them than any thirteen of them, and he did As a boy he lived In a community In e? j York which was said to have more politic: and less religion than arvy other plnce li the country except Washlncton. He nb fXirbed el' (ho tiolltlcs there was In the clr cumamhlent atmosphere, and did not ml": much ot the rfllclon. He was always I tvmocrat and within a few month of j death he said "Whatever your party ma J do It Is always a mistake to vote for i I Republican " I He was a churchman, yet not an ostenta j tlou- ore: but he was fond of the Rlble, an J of It he said: "The Bible Is good enouc I for me Just the old book under which 1 wa I brought up. J do not want notes, or crltl clams, or explanations about Us authorshl er origin or even cross references; I do nc 1 understand them and 'hey confuse me.' When he was inaugurated President h j cast aside the state Bible for the occasloi I and took the oath of iffleo upon the lltt) Bibis which his mother had given him whei Martin H. Glynn Tells How Cleveland Put His. Party Into the White House for First Time After Civil War and Pictures His Personality From Intimate Association-Influence Association-Influence of Hill, Bryan and Wilson Detailed by Former Governor he left home to seek his fortune In the world Cleveland's Start in Life. He started his career on SCo which he borrowed from Hon Ingham Townsend Mr Tnwnsend iork a nole hut told young Cleveland Cleve-land he did not expect him to pay It. thouch he did lnist that In after life Cleveland should help seme .leservinc youtic man as he was then helng helped. Twelve years later Grover Cleveland paid this note. :ind In every year of his life he helped every young man he could. Mr. Townsend lived to see the boy to whom he loaned $J. lo start In life Inaugurated as Governor of the state of N'ey fork The first $C0 that Grover rieve. land ever earned he sent home to his wl 1-owed 1-owed mother to help clothe and feed his brother and sisters He worked as a clerk In n country store for two vears nnd received re-ceived the munificent snlnrv of $."0 .and "keep" for the rlr year. $100 and "keep" for the second venr "Hlr name should have heen Petros ' said .Tames G Rlnine. "for he stands upon his opinions with the firmness of a granite foundation." foun-dation." He was not- an orator. before h was nominated for Governor he bad never made a spe-cn at a puouc occasion outside of FIrle county He was not even a cood writer: for when he wrote, as he himself said "he plugged alone in his blundering way." He was n oimbersome writer too fend of eeSQUlpedallan terms, elephantine phrases and tortuous sentences. The trouble with Cleveland as n writer was that he always seemed to think b- vva-; on the stand and under oath, he never left anything to the reader's Imagination Him- hciscme though he was as a writer he .struck o'f some sentence that caught the public fancy and became part of the commn-i soi-of soi-of I he language He coined "Public ofTn-e Is a public trust:" he placed the hrnnd on "Pernicious activity": he limned "Offene-lvs partisans": he pictured "It Is a condition that confronts us. not a theory": he put "Innocuous desuetude" on evervhodv's lips, nni he made a slogan out af "Party honest" hon-est" is party expediency." I !f was a preacher always a prcarhi r lie couldn't help It. It was horn and brd In th hrne. He was a prencher's son of a preach-er's preach-er's son for four generations, lie worked iporrlniC. noon and nlsht. No one ever be Ifed more that genius consisted of hard work. No lawyer ever prepared his case mere thoroughly, said Roscoe Conkllng ant as i was with his law cases so was It with everything ''Ise to which he turned hi" band Why. he even worked at his desk In Wasti b clou on his areddtpR day he was the flrs President ever married In the White House. Hb companions -.av that hla wedding duv araK Ihe only time that he ever appeared anxious anx-ious to throw hW work aside He could no" be called a Chesterfield In manners .nt h kinder h. tried man never lived. He was iron nu the exterior, velvet on the Interior In public duty he wn Inflexible as steel: In per soral relations as tractable as duty will per mil and honor allow. nVnlamin HarrNon h:s paid hnnrtrnm" tribute m the srarioiisnevs of Grover Cleveland Cleve-land When Clevelnnd had hroucht Harrison back to ile White Hoii.se after Harrison's Inaucura'ion. Harrison sjiid to the assembled guests, -Well, whatever else mav happen I shall at least know bow to go out of Office when mv turn comes.-' A mere In lependent man never lived than Cleveland He stood on his own lees, thought with his own head and worked with his own bands Samuel j. Tllden said: "Cleveland Is the- kind of man who would rather do something some-thing badlv for himself than to have somebody some-body else do it well." That wa Cleveland His nhsolnte Independenee his absolute self-eliar.re. self-eliar.re. his absolute freedom from putalde Influence won him "public confidence" and "public confidence" won him place and power. Cleveland broke into politics by running for Alderman in the r-ltv of Buffalo He was beaten. Then ho ran for District Attorney. Attor-ney. He was beaten Then he ran for Sheriff and was elected. During his term as Sheriff 'wo murde-ers were hanged. Cleveland Cleve-land himself sprane the trr.p. It was thought this would kill him pollticallv It didn't IJ helped him It showed that Cleveland Cleve-land would shirk no duty howe-. er iir,nh-:is-ant. and It wa the knowledge of this trait rhac hlped Cleveland In tho oubllc mind mo"C than anv thing else. His record as Sheriff made him Mavor of Buffalo, and h'.s iecord as M.avos made him Governor or New rrk. He drove the monev chancers out of the temple of the Citv Hall He fou?ht the Common f'ou-aeii tr, a standstill stand-still The onlv (hlnc for which he nsked that :he common Council unanimously voted was I Is request for a warrant to pav the extraordinary expenses of his ierm os Mayor before ht left for Albany. The Aldermen would hav e voted for an thin to (jet rid of l-.lm. When Cleveland said lin he ertra- crdlnary expenses ot his term amounted tn small sum ot J'.T "4 some wae .ssked: Why didn't the Mavor tack on a cent and tounl out that last quarter'' The Split in Republican Ranks ( At that time the fight between the "Stalwarts" "Stal-warts" and the "Halfbroed " the "Jellyfish ' ( and tho " Featherhends" had split the Republican Re-publican party In New York State from stem f tc stern. This fight between Blaine and Conkllntr payed the way for a Democratic victory in ". York, and biter developments assured , It Guiteau shot Garfield and Arthur became J President Cnnkllng expected Arthur to kill Tir-lr.c-'s political friend0-. Blaine demanded t t'.v.-.l Arthur slaughter Conkllng's support-. support-. ore Arthur tried to play safe between them I both and fell to his own destruction. The bieech In the Republican pactv In New York dally grew larger and larger. To further his own nomination for the Presidency Aithur made Polger Secretary of Ihe Treas-, Treas-, nry Then he forced Folgers nomination y. fcr Governor. Polger was nominated on r :-jrReJ telcfrram and Democratic victory wax assured. If only the tight man could tit. romlnated. Who was he'' The Democratic leaders of the Slate were divided The dele-. dele-. f..iUi to the State convention were undecided unde-cided And while the fa lions see-awed. anc i the result hung In doubt, the friends oi Cleveland rushed him down to the Stale con-p con-p vention at Syracuse on a special train. A II sreat reception was tendered him: and wher "ihc- boys' had a cnance to look the re- fo-n tr" over, to shake his hig hand and tc B lool into his goodnatured face m see hi) 0 U'rdly eye and convince themselves he wa? 1 numan. intensely human, the hatilc was ovei iUlillllliUllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIlUQI fnj Grover Cleveland was the next Cover-ror Cover-ror of the State of New York, lie won by. : 02,00(1 nnd this unprecedented malorlty rr a lilm a logical candldn'e for President. Tbe Convention of 1884 He whs nominated for President In tKSt. Blaine was his opponent. Blaine did not want the nomination. He was afraid he could not carry New York. But he was determined that Atthur should not he named. Plalne tried to get Gen. Sherman (o run Sherman said he would not do if for a million dollars. This was Theodore Roosevelt's first national convention He was asalnst Plalne. he was for f-Mmunds. It Mas Mark Hanna's first national convention: and It was In this convention con-vention that Conkllng and Piatt broke, never apnip to be frl nds Cleveland'! nomination wa- assured, hut he did npt hav clear sailing The New York PtatC ooiivei-.tlop had ndopted a "unit rule" nit had failed to Instruct the delegates to vole for Cleveland. The "unit rule" was then a bone of contention con-tention among New Yorkers In that convention, con-vention, just as it win he in ihe Democratic Convention thai meets In BaP Prancisco tomorrow, to-morrow, but with this difference: Then T&mmany wanted the unit rule abrogated the convention Insisted tint It stand Now Tammnnv Insists that If the unit rule was pood enough tor the convent on of 1S4. if Is cood enough for ihe convention of 10a In 1 S I Tammany had about thlrtv votes for Bayard, tut under the unit rule these votes were all r:ist for C!ev-'and. Speaking for New York I' tirke Cockran said. "Relieving that Mr Cleveland cannot carry the State of New Yor I protest so'-emnly so'-emnly agalnsl his nomination.'' In the nurse of a rlnclnc speech Thomas F. Cr.adv declared: "I aay to ytiu the state of New-York New-York cannot be caiTled by Mr. Cleveland" And In reply in Cockran and C.rady fieri Bragg made bis famous answer that "the people loved Cleveland for The enemies he has made" Cleveland was nominated an-' Tammany came home threatening lo knife him. But It did not. Cooler heads prevailed In Its councils. Some of jis individual members mem-bers bolted, but as an organization Tammnnv Tam-mnnv supported Cleveland. In his :etty of r.ccrptnnce Cleveland urged an amendment to the Constitution disqualifying the President for reelection This Is the vv.av mot Presidents seem to feel When thejt write, their aecr-ntance. but thev naually change 'heir minds tWnre the next election rolls around Andrew lackson made the ame declaration and ,-e sough! reelection If 1 nm no' mistaken Woodrovv Wilson dl 1 the Palme So far as 1 cm learn Ruchangp waa the onlv President who said h- would not sck reelection and literally kept hi word But he knew It would do nr. good to trv. The Campaign degenerate I In'o pe-sop-ill- Uea Blaine was mta'-lccd on Ms public !if nod Cleveland on bis priyare i i r An'ievv Wl If sad '! WSJ1 the viet campaign e--v ar ed Cleveland's enemins might poll 'h"r. seve with mire, hut h would not. Affllavlts bismlrrlilrg Blnlne were tircught to him Cleveland bunted them up Then omc of his campaign managers p-opnsed to puo'ish Certain derogatory details 0f Blaine's 1f and Cleveland threatened to reslsn from the ti. l et If thev did. It was the fji s trle n our hlstorv thai certain phase of nrlv.a'- 1 1 hav- ubllclv b-en made an issue In a Presi-dentlal Presi-dentlal campaign If proved more of i boomerang than a bomb. How BU'ne Lott New vorlc New York State cost BTalrle the election Three things lost him New York. Burchard'-r soeih with "Rum. Romanism and Be bell. on:" the millionaires' dinner with Jav Cotdd and Russell ?.ae t)s its angels, and " relnatorm on ejection day. I should, proh . Rhjy, have said four things, for Roscoe "onk-llng "onk-llng helped tc lose New York for Blaine. Thousands of his followers either :nlfd Rlnine or voted the Prohibition tlckel or did no- vote at all. Plalne took the defeat wltb hla "usual gr.oj nature. He said the lxr4 "had sent him an ass in tho shape of . pn echer and a rainstorm on election dav lo lanaen the vote In New York." and he w.a. nut d Inputted to quarrel with the Lord. As New York went so went the nailonj In that election For two dava New York was in doubt Roth side claimed it. neither knew which had wo.t It. Then rumor and gossip rtegan fo work ind accused Jay Gould, head of the Western I'nlon Telegraph Com-panv. Com-panv. of holding Bp the returns so Cleveland could be counted out. as Tllden had been counted out in 1S7C. Fcelinir ran high and It reou'red only a spark to start confiair'atloa. ctj. the Thursday nfter election mobs paraded the streets of New York city all mrht slnglne "Well hang Jav Gould to the sour apple tree" Jav Gould heard the song Bright and arlv Friday mornlnr Could telegraphed tele-graphed Cleveland congratulation upon his election and he figh' was over. C'eveinnd Carried New York by 1.040: two years before be-fore he had carried It by 102 000. Cleveland did not read bis first Inaugural address. He delivered It like a speech I believe he was the first President to do this He brought the nation Its first complete party change since Ihe davs of Tsckson nnd Lincoln In Jackson s time office seekers packed the lower floor of the White House al. day In Lincoln's tune they camped In the Fast Room in battalions Thev put the first Harrison In his grave in four mouths and quickly exhausted Taylor's vitality. vi-tality. Rut civil service reform saved Cleveland Cleve-land from much of this. Tn Cleveland cent his message o Congress on finance and tariff. This became be-came the Issue of the next two Presidential campaigns It lost Cleveland the election of 18SS. It won him the election of 1S92. and I enabled him to do what no other man In . our hlstorv has done to come back after a , defeat ar.d again be elected President Tn LStfS Cleveland w-as nominated by ac-I ac-I ciamatlon Blaine was in Europe He was the first choice of the masses of the Republican Repub-lican party !T . would not run though, unless un-less lie too were nominated by nerlama- tlon Tills ho could not get John Sherman ' wanted tho nomination and could not get It McKlnley could have had It by being disloyal dis-loyal to Sherman, and this he refused to do. i Blaine was visiting Andrew Carnegie In Scotland. Cnrnesle cabled "'Take Harrl- son." and Harrison waa nominated i Harrison made himself mighty unpopular i with the Republican leaders and as ISP" np- proa'rhed Cleveland's friends thought he """'ran could win ag.uln Once more Rlalne was Loomed lie w is Secretary of State. A f"W davs before the convention ho quarrelled with Harrison nnd resigned from the Cabinet. Cabi-net. Blaine said he was not a candidate and Hnrriaon was named by an officeholders' convent con-vent inti In th" Democratic convention Cleveland had Mime powerful competitors. Roles of low.a Gr.iv of ludlana Stevenson of Illinois. Gorman of Maryland and Hill of Ne-v York were candidates Rut Cleveland's letter on Ihe silver question took these all out of 'he tunning but Hill, and Hill killed his chances by the 'Snap Convention 1 In New York New York Instructed lis delegates for Hill Cleveland thought he was out of the running run-ning His own Slate bad declared against him and no one had ever vl been nominated wi'hoot the siii perl of his own State. Cleveland's friends called the "Antl-Snnp-per's Convention" and named a delegation to Chi. ago It was a gesture of protest with no chnnce of success. Hill's Star Decline! For a while Hill's star was In the ascendency, ascen-dency, but It gradually went down a sentiment senti-ment against the "Snap Convent ion' swept around the country. William C. Whitney got busy, verv hitsy. and State afler State declared for Cleveland, until Cleveland was assured of a naajnrltv hut shv of a two-thirds two-thirds vote. This again gave Ihe 1111' men hope. At Washington a chamnlon of Clevelnnd rid to Col Morrison of Illinois; Morrl'ori vv.- .are going to nominate Cleveland or die." ' Maybe," returned Morrison, "but are you cert.-In von ar n t going to do both?' Wbep th" convention met the tide was runn'ng strong for Cleveland Whitney was Cleveland s floor manager "I r.an't keep Ihe vole? tack." he aid; "thev tumble rj a' th windows as -(U as at the doors." Hill's friends lost a chance, tlinush. when thev old no' nres dhate on p reporl of the com-mtt'ee com-mtt'ee on p'atfo'm Thfs was amended In open convention by the substitution of a new tariff plank Cleveland's friends did not want to vote on anything tut the Presidential nomination Had Hill's friends seized the opportunitv when thN substitute tariff olank and a silver sil-ver proitos't'on were presented to forre-a de-hate de-hate thrv nilrht hav held up the convention and have created animosities wh'ch would have prevented Cleveland's nomination. It was In thl" convention at " o'clock In the morning thl Bourk Co-krnn rose un and delivered 'be apeech that made him famous as an orator the rwwtrv onnd. It tumbled with Cieerwilan th""der: I flehd wltb Pmnetpenlr fire In this speei li Mr Cru-kran said: 'Mr Cleveland Is a po:tl'ar tra. a mnt pnnulnr man. Let me add that he Is a man of most extraordinary popularity on everv dav of the vear excerf eleetion dav'" Mr Cockran proved a false prophet and Mr. Cleveland prove, I himself popular enough to he elected It was ,1-irInr ;hls term 'bat Cleveland displayed dis-played the great nerve which alwavs char-acerl7ed char-acerl7ed him. He had determined to make his tight rt-ralnst free sliver It was then that a mallcns.nl growth waa dlacovered in president Clevo'nnd'a mouth The situation was rrln'ii affliction was menacing. An operation was dangerous. Stevenson, the Vlce-Pr nldent, was a silver man. Tt was do or dl with Cleveland, and he dirmlned to do lie called a special session of Congress, Con-gress, thn he Qtllwflv left Washington, went t - New York furtively boarde,) a v--ht and had the surgeons remove half of his npnr law Th's wn done so secretly lhat the countrv rever knew anything about It until som" months ago Bryan Comei to the Front. A few days after the operation Cleveland svis hack at his desk In Washington, prepared pre-pared to fight He sent to Congress hi famous message against silver 8nd William .tennings p. wan made his notable three hour sr;rh In reply Then h'-gnn the fierce flrh between Rryan and Cleveland, which nevr ended until Cleveland bad passed nwav This content lost Cleveland's friends the control of the Democratic party and led to Ervan's nomination in isss And before T ie;)Ve Cleveland, let me sav be was a good President William Howard TSfl laid so Theodore Roosevelt said so and ocrow Wilson said o and there can be no dispute over a political mailer on which these three men ngree. The Democratic Conientlon of 'Sfi seems like an adjourned meeting of the silver forces in Congress R'and. the father of Ihe famous silver bill seemed the nnturil candidate candi-date He was most talked of Rut Bryan told his friends he would be nominated, and nominated he was The Eastern men. led by David B. HITI, were determined to pre vent tr.'' adoption of a free sliver declaration and If thev could to nominate Gov. Russell ol Maasachuaetta fnr Prealdsnt. The national committee suggested Da-d B. Hill for temporary chairman. This selection selec-tion wer challenced ,'rom the floor. The silver sil-ver men named sienntor Diniels of Virginia Vir-ginia In opposition and Daniels was elected Thrtn it became certain that the forces that dom'nated the Democratic party under Cleveland had passed on and a new s.-t of men were in command. To make this assurance doubt v sure the forces that controlled the convention Increased In-creased the representation from the Territories Terri-tories from two to six the gold delegation from Nebraska was unse.at--d the silver delegation handed by Bryan sented and four gold delegates from Michigan were dropped in favor of the silver contestants The convention droned along until Bryan electrified it with his "Crown of Thorns and Crorr of Gold" speech and won the nomination nomina-tion This speech was the most Illustrious example of the power of eloquence that this country has seen In many a yenr 1 doubt if nny speech In our history ever had more Immediate telling effect, with the posslblo exception of Patrick Henry's speeclln favor of the Revolutionary Wat No man was ev er greeted with such crowds In any campaign as Bryan was greeted In this. But his Issues were ahead of ills time a.id the money was against him i he en-Ihuslaam en-Ihuslaam which Bryan created scared the Rrpabtlcwns Mark Hanna came to New York and as he walked down Wall street but dies 0f money were metaphorically thrown a' him to help elect McKlnley. In 1900 Bryan was again the unanimous nominee of hlr party. McKinley of the Republicans. Re-publicans. It waa a fame campaign com part d with '96 Roose velt made f7'J speeches iiiniiiiiiniiiioniniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin isiwiiwiiiii i in i a awaan aatggiMpHl f in twenty-four days, and lust how m.inv Erycn made only Bran knows McKlnley won. Tr. 1!0 Roosevelt was named bv the Re-puollcans. Re-puollcans. He was the first Vice-President who had succeeded to Ihe Presidency hy death of his chief tr be nominated for the first office In the land TvW Fillmore Johr.aon and Arthur had tried and failed, bill 'hen Roosevelt could succeed In many thligs where everybody else would fall. Bryan was not a candidate for the Demo eratlc nomination but he insisted upon a nominee who had supported him and who ronld stand upon a radical platform New York was needed to Insure Democratic victory, vic-tory, and the conservatives, headed by Hill put forth the name of Judge Alton H Parker. He had a fine reputation as a lawyer, law-yer, he had heen Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals In New York, and he had support.-,! Bryan in all hla cantpalsru Hi personal per-sonal record was good his professional record rec-ord excellent, and. though a conservative he had displayed strong llbcrnl tendencies In his decisions from Ihe bench But he was not satisfactory to Rrvan Rrvan attacked at-tacked Parker, slid he was colorless, nnd demanded de-manded o know where he stood on sliver, trusts and tnrlff Parker did not satisfy Brvnn's demands nnd the man Pom Ne hrnka determined to force through a platform plat-form noon which Parker could not tand To test hi- strength In the convention B-yan forced a vot on contes'ed seats and lost hv over a two-thirds vote. Then he realized real-ized he could not name the candidate, and he determined tn force a platform upon which Pa-ker could not stand Sixteen Hur 7! .ht For slxteeti continuous hours Rrvan fought like a lion In that committee on resotu'Ions Hill led the men against him It was a Mute of plants. Hill wanted a gold plank Bryan wanted a silver plank' Brv.an wanted an In-eome In-eome tax plank Hill would have none of It Thev exhausted the committee, thev exhausted ex-hausted f hemaelvee Then the committee in desperation determined to throw both '1m Income tax and the gold and silver question out of the platfarm and the convention sup ported them in th'li determination Parker was nominated and the convention adjourned ad-journed until morning. When the convention met next day the Prst order of business was the nomination of Vice-President Then Cullerson of Txas sta-fled the convention hv tho declaration: We ought not to nominate a candidate for Nice-Pre-Idepf at ths lime. Before a candl d.ale for Vice-President s named we war' o k"ow who wl'l tie the candidate for Preside"? Presi-de"? " rvervborlv wondered what w.e WO driving at Thev soon knew. During the night Parke- had srnt a tele Bram refusing to run on the platform Me was a gold man and resented th omission cf a plank for gold Cons : erna ' Inn ruled cb.aos threatened Some wan'ed to put Parker off the ticket, others wanted to give h!m a vote of oonfl'enee: som a'uised him as n trickster others praised him n a man of cournge and of honor Pehate n-,lt fierce nrri hitter, but the convent'on decided lo send Parker a Megram stating that Ihe fu.anclal question was not an issue In 'be campaign and Parker remained a candidate. candi-date. Conditions and clrcnmatsncea, how-tver. how-tver. were against him: Roosevelt's popularity popu-larity was Invincible and Parker went clown to defeat. In 108 Taft was named hv the Republican convention and Rrvan was named hy 'he Democrats He had no co-nnet-'tors Tie convention rariovved down 10 a fight over contested seats and a battle for Vice. President. Presi-dent. Twelve men wanted to be nominated for Vice-President : Kern go' It Montana. New York Illinois and Pennsvivnnla contributed con-tributed g.avetv to the convention hv rows ever contestel seats. When Gore Inadvertently Inadver-tently mentioned Rrvan's name the convention conven-tion cheered for eghtv-ven minutes snd when Dunn romlnated Brv.an the delegates elled fn- no hour I'p to this time thla i vts the reco-vl for convention rheerlnc. In ibis camplm Rrvan first decided to stay at home and make speeches from his porch So did Taft Neither did If Both went on the stump. Brynn talked Taft to a fr.arzle but Taft got the votea. Brynn From the Personal S de Anrl now let me sav a personal word about Bryan 1 don't believe o greater orator ever lived than Brvan In the days of '96. when T first met him In all the Intervener Interven-er vears differences of opln'on have never clouded our friendship His mental qualities -.re wonderful his nhvsical stamina marvellous mar-vellous He has been through enough to kilt ten men He may he a generalissimo abroad, ut at heme with Mr Brvan he is a private I've never known a more ideal couple, and I've never known a man to dfer to his wife's political judgment mor than Bryan 1 believe this has largely Influenced his stand on moral Iseues and put him in the .ii In the fight for woman's rights i inre Brvan has made up his mind no man In the world can change it but one woman mnv. and that woman Is Mrr. Brvan He says that when he first accumulated money enough to buy his farm out near Lincoln be wanted Jersev rows Mrs Brynn wanted Guernseys, and he compromised on. Cuernsevs She has heen the constant critic of his speeches and her criticisms have helped to mould him Into the wonderful orator that he Is Brvon knows the Bible better than anv other man T ever have been acquainted with in public life and applies It more effect i ely Some old rhetorician once said. 'Do you want to be an orator? If so. master the Bible" Bryan Is proof of the truth of this assertion He has a fine ser.se of humor A few vears ago he sold to a member of the New York legislature- "I see one of the members nf your legislature puts his occupation occu-pation down In your official Red Book as that of 'Gentleman. Why. yes." said the legislator, legis-lator, "and the funny part of It is that he is a Democrat." With a flash in his eye Mr Bryan replied, ",nd might not the terms be synonymous sir'" Bryan is a crusader, a pathfinder, a voice In the wilderness and he has suffered the usual fate of the political pioneer. He has cut. down the trees of the forest pulled up th stumps ploughed the soil, planted the c-ed nnd "some other fellow has reaped the harvest. But as the years have rolled away Eryan has seen the Issues for which he fought and for which he went down to de-fsat de-fsat adopted by the nation one after another an-other and written Into tho lawn of the land an m sfTr-aaiMisaiaaiaaiwiMiasisjiiLi-- BinfiiniiiiniinniifiiiniiiinoiiTiJTinnniirn ayaawaesaa wfiBiaiwiannummu W '. if they aro arc written in hlstorv. It would take too long to enumerate them all. ihe Income Tax, Popular Flection of United Sti tea Senators. Woman's Suffrage and H ',r Prohibition are a few of them Gen. Greene never won a Ictofy In the Revolutionary war yet every defeat turned cut to be a rlumph. and that Is the way with Bryan, ll" has lot for hlmreif; he has triumphed feir his cauae. '-i The campaign of 1112 is too recent to need elaboration. That convention In Baltimore w-.a a memorable one. It seemed It never would end and as the delegates fought nnd slrrled Mr Bryan played It as. a master pl.avs his pawns at chess. 1 can't rememher how many speeches he made In 'hat convention but thev were all good ones He was master jL of the occasion Whether or not It cventu- fBCii Sted luvt as he wished I have never been sfcl& rare, but intentionally or accidently Brynn Jt'I was responrihle for its ls?ue n . Ballot after ballot, with a majority of I : votes, but just a little shy of two-thirds for E Chator Clark, kept everv io,iv throbbing with l.-V'-' excitement anil panting with anticipation. H BUl II w.as no use Clark could not lump I I that two thirds harrier Finally nerves could stand it no longer patience was ex- V haunted, reason had Its swnv. nnd Wood row v Wilson became the nominee. He made one of the rnes' sehol.arh, most a rgaimen I a t Iva and most ger.rlem.anlv campaigns ever waged for the Presidency bv any man. I first heard Wood row Wilson pe.ak at 1 ; the famous Manhattan Club banquet In f - 1112. and a llltle later nt the noted banquet rS;,; of the Democratic Nation, il Committee nt j!1'-W j!1'-W i hlngton He swept all off their feet. i The connotating sentences, the picturesque u.r r hrnses. seemed to leap out of the pages of '':, the .inssjes There was Grecian simplicity and Rom-'O rotundity and French sprghtll- 1'f ' ness p those sentences delivered with the jlf; 1 personification of urbanity and a mastery of ar that concealed art. EmM I thought I could close mv eyes an I hear jj nn echo from the wonderful pages of TYalter JS Rageho: an echo of the literary art that wj '"? clothe dull economies with s living graco and Vivifies trite p Uitlcal themes with an -S alluring charm I never heard such a com- fr hinatlon of scholarship and oratory, and no fc " j one else has In our day. Those two speeches Jc, were the high water mark of their kind In en- lime In l?12 1 sonke with Wilson at jgfcf; Carnegie Hall, at the Brooklvn Academv of Sfj .' In -mi and at Madison Squa - Harden n- i the more I heard him the moe the marvel Caf i lous re nirci of the man Impressed mo. f, lmpresioni of Wilson. In 101i I was the temporary chairman rofrjfy 0- the National Convention al St. Louis an 1 n..ad 'he keynote "He Kept Us Out of Bp!r: War" - epfSi h which played such a coi- B'JjF;' spiouous part in the oamo'iign President Jlr' -' Wilson i thought to ,,'' cold and distant. r-hut r-hut this s not so when you get to know i him. and when he is In the mood he can his own a a storv feller with the hesf of tbepi 1 suppose a lot of people wll' not ngre with me hut I believe that 'Co Wood row vVllsoi is 'he greatest scholar, tho j rieatesi miser of books that has ever sat V ' 1 - i the Presidential chair Whether or not he has ruhhed lbowa et.oneh out in th" 2r!me and dust the strife K -fy nnd the strain of the workadav world to I1'- 7 know men as well a some of his predoces- lI; rs l a mooted poin hur in my opln- " lmi there ean hp no question but that ' ! Woodrow Wilson went Into the White i 21"; ITouo knowing more about the political ( I && ' i tor of the world more ahont Its trage- d;es and 'riumpbs: move ahout what ha I I 1 jgj'L hein tried In governmental experiments '' gtii'.': what had f.-'-led. what had succeeded and HfifiP where and how and whv thin anv other ' V' man who ever was President BaJ-.r In Fairne to Hill nd now. though this article has alreadv son" out too long let me for the sake of I Bjtfcs truth and lus-tnep mv a few words In be. I Wfflj' half o the rno-t abused nnd most maunder- I Wfi'- ooft Derrocraf of recent vears. 1 mean T Bff5';' Dav Id B Fill know It is fashionable to I KIIl ' damn him hut I oiso know that much of t h- J B;'v ! neurt Is un lust and unfair I first met Hill In the campaign of 1894 t , ' " hen a hov lust out of college and 1 knew K it film well until the d.av of his death He was R-.', , a eteal lawver even his enemies must admit B; ,j; ; this He was supposed to be n rcM man and he was' until vnij got to know him. One von were jn Hill's confidence though he f !v ta'ked eery freelv and was one of the most I't.chtfnl companions a man ever had. vf When among congenial people he was as t. entertaining man ns could be found In J manv a 1oi:rnev He was supposed to he a B V " rr, in hater hut he was not MM One dav enmini; up from New York with H j 1 I: in the tunrujaer time, when all the w-om- U e,i in the train were dressed In light clothes. D as we drew near Poughkeepcie Hill looked around and said "Don't the ladles look nice Kl In tl clr bright dresses and ribbons'' T sup- ' rose my mother would like to haae had IwL these things hut she never did and the r,.. gret of my life Is that she never bad the fl nice dreaaes and bright ribbons that women l'r'llt er.Ioy." laicaflp; The Labor Dav bef,,re he died Hill spent ', with me on mv farm In Albany county. Alt n'trrnoon long he sat on the porch over- V- j lr, king the Hudson River nnd among of he- . tblrgs he talked about his mother T think A (" rwper's po.m on 'Mv Mother's Picture " Is one of the finest things In the Fnsrllsh lan-F lan-F age and so I've always regretted that a sf.-nngr.apher was not present to t-ik-e down Rlll'a talk on his mother lhat afternoon, be- E: c.-n:se his tribute to her was a grander tribute to motherhood than even Cowper's , metrical masterpiece Hill was a brilliant Intellect, and he did if brlillont things Despite his nMIMes, Ms Br borest and ln manliness mannfac- H tu-ed" opinion of him s a chenp politician . m was a barrier In his career f Grover Cleveland however did not share this manufactured opinion of David B HIH In his aulnhloirrnphv Cleveland savs that h niw.avs admired Mr Hill HII! was accused p' being disloyal fo Cleveland in 1S8S Tn " ifw his autohiogr.a pi Grover Cleveland says h" never believed this, and Grover Cleveland Xb w.as right ll'll was accused of trying to thwart Cleveland's civil service reform pro gramme hut oi e of Cleveland s owr biographers biogra-phers hjs proved this to he untrue Twenfv-f! Twenfv-f! vears after Cleveland went out of offlce there were found among his papers letters from Hill whl.h showec. that he helped and backed up Grover Cleveland In 1 .s fight for chi' service reform '4 Hill was one of the master minds of American Amer-ican politics whose ambition sought and whose qualifications merited the highest office of-fice in the land, but whose careers were overshadowed hy some ov ertowvrlng contemporary, con-temporary, spoiled bv uncontrollable adversities adver-sities and marked by the hand of disappointment disap-pointment as a plaything of her own ffliiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiniM f f |