Show Only a a. a Pretense C. C evidently assumes asI as I does does the country that the ostensible reconciliation tion between Speaker Speak r Clark and Secretary Bryan so widely heralded a few days ago was as a well-staged well but decidedly in insincere affair That view is without doubt the common one ono If the ert ad advertised renewal of friendship friendship friend friend- ship was genuine it would prove 1100 tho the speaker to be bo much more forgiving than his record would indicate much moro more indeed than Mr Bryan The fault in the disagreement was largely that of the thc latter and an the I results of the injustice were borno exclusively by Mr Mi I Clark If the burying o of hatchets is anything more than a counterfeit concession to the wishes of the tho President men who x thought they understood the characteristics of the speaker were ere very ery much mis mis- taken Tho The nerve nene of ambition is even en mord moro mor delicately sensitive than that Hint of tho the pocketbook although the he latter i is painfully acut acute Men fen rarely forgive those who stand between them and the dearest clearest wish of their hearts Speaker Clark would undoubtedly have e. e been c President of the United States had not Mr fr Bryan intervened his ambition was dealt a fatal blow at the moment when victory victory- as 1 was ws in its grasp Does it seem probable that the man who stood on tho the very threshold of the tho White louse House Ho se will forgive the hand that forced him violently back an and opened wide the door for his rival |