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Show I1 j CONVENTION CORRESPONDENTS. I Readers of The Standard-Examiner should not fail to read Ar thur Brisbane's or William J. Bryan's comments on convention activities. ac-tivities. The two men arc on the ground in Chicago, and they are f giving the sidelights without fear or favor. Brisbane predicts the nomination of Johnson. He should be in touch with convention sentiment, although no one is in position to forecast what a body of men will do who are so divided in preferences prefer-ences as the delegates meeting in the Coliseum, j Bryan says Senator Lodge fizzled as a keynote speaker, and he proceeds to point out some of the things the Massachusetts senator j tailed to say. ; Bryan speaks well of Chaunccy Depew 's talent for humor, but raps the old man over the knuckles for having gh en his life to the I false and discreditable. He tells of the bright outlook Dcpew had as ; a young man, and then declares his years were devoted to sustain ing big business in its illegal practices. ', Senator Depew, more than once in the past, has availed himself of the opportunity to discredit Bryan and now the Nebraskau comes , back at him with vigor. Depew is of the old school of politics. He believes in the dollar V as being above everything else in this world, and during all his ca-t ca-t ' rcer he excused and defended the avaricious. |