Show 02 SPEAKING OF the meeting of tim republican executive committee commil tee at cleveland last week wilhiam 1 curtis bays in the chicago record moat of the talk today was of a general it was clearly shown that the members of the committee do J bryan an easy man to beat even if be is only 39 years old they comprehend the extent of the silver movement and the difficulty of it mr hanna ia getting or every day and the most of them are from people who warn him of the extent to which the republican party Is inflated means and methods wera discussed and a campaign of education was decided upon this man bryan is notably an orator lie is eloquent and logical for his eloquence and oratory spring from a brain charged with gray matter and aromi a heart in full apathy with the people who are laboring under burdens which are crushing them to the earth it is this young brain this young heart fresh unstained and full of energy feat can clearly and plainly point out to the 1 the open straight path that will oad to victory over the corrupt or weak unpatriotic partisan politicians alio have so lone misguided public affair history ancient and modern us that the greatest achievements in arms in law in journalism and in religion were accomplished by men younger than mr bryan alexander the great and napoleon were both younger than be when each was the most famous man of hi time mr pitt was one of the leading un of europe when only about twentythree twenty three judge story one of our greatest jurists was younger than mr bryan when he took his seat on the bench of the supreme court of the united stampe your own mr II earet the foremost journalist in the world is younger than mr bryan the nominee of the chic igo convention stands on an american platform platform grounded on the constitution of the united states grounded on the teachings of jefferson of madison monroe and all of whom patriots devoted to the welfare ct the whole people L D in san francisco examiner mckinley is utterly devoid of executive ability he almost bankrupted ohio when lie was governor as the messages ot his another republican show lie had no idea of what was coins on in a single department of the detate and confessed it logan journal in his speech in faneuil hall last tuesday night gerge fred said that shortly after he bad delivered the address in which he declared liim seli for silver coinage ho received from mr ryan a telegram reading ae follows if the report io the papers of your attitude on the money question is true god bless you he then declared that that not only showed the spirit of mra bryan but also the elint which animates a large number of the men who have enlisted in ane war for silver coinage fie said that in hundreds of letters which lie bad received the expression god be with you was used den vor republican men accustomed to feeling the coun pulse at washington declare they are astonished at the strength bryan is developing it ie in the air that bryan is a winner alie free coinage men are sanguine and the gold men though detill professing confidence in election are correspondingly alarmed and depressed senator chandler of new hampshire is quoted as saying that no power on earth can elect mc cluley unless the bryan movement is headed off senator german has taken a manly stand for bryan ho is working hard for reo action himself maryland is undergoing a reaction from the republican tide of last year and it is altogether probable that she will pull true to the cb cago ticket senator harris 14 perfectly confident of the south abo talk about kentucky deserting the democratic standard le baye ia utterly ridiculous kentucky and tennessee lie says aro overwhelmingly for bryan and the democratic platform tufele will be no defection in the south the new york journals washington correspondent says that men from all sections of the country who visit washington have but one story to tell bryan and reform especially in the south whence the greater portion of washington visitor come at this season tilis sentiment elems to be rampant there is no question about the west say the men from this section thu west will take care of bryan without outside assistance in new york and new england the bryan movement has assumed aaton proportions old timers in washington recall the fact that maine once rave ita vote for the greenback ticket and they argue that led by such a man as sewall the pine tree state will declare for free coinage and they do hot believe there is anything sure in new hampshire either and eo it goes denver republican recently president perkins 0 the chicago burlington alquincy railroad company in a published interview pave expression to the opinion eliat would be a better monetary policy for the united state than the single gold standard and that eminent organ of public opinion the hartford times published in the great state ot rhode island comments as follows on the matter here we have the president of ono ot the greatest railroad of the country owned chiefly in new england and near york and himself a boston man decaria de that there ia danger in the country in adhering to the gold standard there ia a great deal more unsound neal on the money question than in populist and free conventions the truth ie that the minds of the people everywhere have been affected unfortunately by the economic falsehoods which have been dinned into them by tho office peeking politicians of various parties during the past quarter of a century |