Bryan's Great Failure

T-.-i -r wk tlie democratie ciir.li late for pieidit, wiio. by a speetíb at Chicago, gained great repatation and the nomination, made hla reply to the fortnal motirication in New York il1!' Enste&d of being notlied ot his own lióme he wished sometliing mo'e spsctacular. Aecordinsly he ourneyed to Uw east for ttie purpose of makims tlie efiort of lii-j life. Hi- e.'foi-L liad 13,000 words in It, but 'uot ome serttence fhat win oe reïnenLbered. lts Btyle was to quite a coxtrat to tli:it O' opponent. For Instance. on t.liat same day Major McKinley in addreeeing the members of lila old resiment, ma.de this happy statement : "It is a good deal bette'.' "to opem up the milis o!' tlie ütalted States to the lalxvr of Americaos than to open up the miofts of the United States to the silver of the -world." It is such telling .truths told in.' terse ways that stick in the mernory, making the truth and the speaker reniembered. Harri.-om. Blaine and McKialey always lielped their followers by suc'i intellectual nvuggets o? gold. Bryan'i speed) u-as a great disappohUment to hi-s friends. Tlii-i is shown by what has happened since it wa.? made. Hls plans were o Soup to Maine to ,assist in the canipalgn. Bu't hi? managers conressed his weakness y persuading hlm he liad bette-r stay away, and 30 of to rest. Anotlier thing showing how he injured hini;-self in New York, was the decisión of the democratie committee to move the headquarters Jrom thore to Chicago, thereby confessing the:-i3 was 00 use íighting there after that epeecih. StUl anather Btraw ■wa-s that stocks rose next day. New York business mem hia-d been irightened over the apparent strength of1 the sllvoi' craz9, but when Bryaa sliowed its -neaknes in a twol hour speech, they eaid : "Oh weai, Jf that is all thei" argumenc amwnts to no body can be fooled by that. Iet's go aheiid and do business." So prices advar.ced. It has beeome evident that the "Boy f the Platte" is rightfully nanieil after a stream which has. the peculiar de-acriptio'n otf being a thousand miles long and six inches deep. He has beerfTíalkJaig ton much, so the committe-1 has decided to dam hlin up.