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"WHERE DID YOU GET THAT HAT"
The iBplrlng head and tho wavy locks of
William Jennings Bryan, tho Peerless, might
look as well when topped by any other lid
than tho well known black sombrero, but his
admirers will surely bless that presiding guar
dian of tho Peerless One who misinformed
Georgo W. Anthony, an estimable merchant of
Burlington, N. J., aa to tho exact size of Wil
liam's cranium.
Mr. Bryan spoke at a Jefferson banquet thero
a fortnight ago, and, to make the occasion
memorablo, Anthony planned to present him
with a new lid of tho latest fashion. Ho in
vested $50 hi an imported beaver of a light
fawn shade ttnd cast in a mould that 1b fashion
able on tho Paris boulevards. In Anthony's
judgment sjzo soven was about right, but, alas!
a No. 8 just about begins to cover the Nebraskan
poll. So the beaver lid was sold to Anthony's
favorite barber, Georgo Skinnor, as the town
knows him, who plans to parade it next Sunday.
Instead of whistling "See the Conquering
Hero Comes," as tho town had planned, every
body is brushing up on "Whero Did You Get
That Hat?"
ST. LOUIS TIMES REPUBLICAN
It now comes to light that a $50 imported
beaver hat which was William Jennings Bryan's,
to all Intents and purposes, is being worn by a
barber of Burlington, N. J.
The hat was not stolen from the peerless
one. It was ordered as a present for him; but
aB tho purchaser asked for a No. 7, and as even
a No. 8 is slightly too small for tho Nebraskan,
thero waB nothing to do but give the fine sky
pieco to tho village barber.
It appears to bo tho colonel's fate to have
others wear jauntily that which ho should have
retained as his own.
Will any one deny that the Roosevelt ideas
wero merely the Bryan Idea's, worked over by
one with a genius for approaching the lowbrow
form of expression without becoming really
coarse? Col. Roosevelt made himself a master
of platitudinous expression, to which he added
tho pictorial qualities of the rough rider habits
of thought. But when he wanted to create a
pretty flguro ho went to tho Bryan cloth and
took what he needed.
Have not the "insurgents," the "progressive
republicans," tho socialists and all the rest of
them trespassed boldly upon the Bryan pro
gram? Wo believe it is in "Richard III." that a
character declares that, though he may not be
a king himself, he shall make kings. Cannot
Col. Bryan take heart of grace from the reflec
tion that if he is a discredited prophet, his
prophecies have nevertheless gone ringing down
tho corridors of his own time?
Has not tho most suitable thing happened
to the Bryan beaver hat, now that it adds
cubits to the stature of a man in New Jersey
who could not otherwise have attracted attention?
OMAHA CHANCELLOR
The splendid testimonial birthday dinner
given to Mr. Bryan on the occasion of his flfty
first birthday is eloquent answer to the oft-repeated,
because so oft-desired, statement that
"Bryan is a dead one." When was there ever
before a man in this republic who, as a private
citizen, stil1 could command the loyal and de
voted following that this man does? And tho
question a: ses, why is it so? Is it so because
the American conscience that he has spent so
many years to arouse is at last aroused. It is
more than aroused it is threatening hoary
iniquities and warning tyrants to seek safety.
The hosts of privilogo and their miserable
cormorants in this vicinity who imagine they
could start a campaign at Grand Island, last
summer, with tho object of burying Bryan
how low have they sunk even now! They knew
that he was attempting to lead a losing fight
and they were short-sighted enough to imagine
that they, like hungry wolves that they were
might step in and wrest from him his true
leadership in this state. How contemptible they
have become in the eyes of tho honest citizenry
of this community! One of their spokesmen a
corporation cormorant, had the bare-faced
effrontery to stand upon the platform of that
convention and sneer at this gallant leader
begging forgiveness for having voted for him
The Commoner.
for president. That fellow is so politically dead
now that his carcass smells to heaven. And not
one of these wolves has ventured to assume
leadership of tho dauntless and unpurchasable
ranks of tho unprivileged in this state, and not
one of them will dare to do it.
Let theso fellows daro an attempt to prevent
Bryan's going to the next convention from this
state, and tho avalanche that will descend upon
them will overwhelm them for all time. Bryan
still is, and for many days yet to come will re
main the best loved leader among the host of
unpurchasablo men throughout tho land.
FROMANNISTON (ALABAMA) EVENING
STAR
Senator Joo Bailey, of Texas, the staunch
Lormerite, In tho United States senate, who is
constantly trying to lead the great democratic
hosts into the camp of Aldrich, Cannon et al, in
a recent interview condemned Bryan for his
efforts to keep the democratic party a true, pro
gressive party of the people.
Since Bailey has cast votes in tho past,
against his party, on certain tariff schedules,
and on other questions of importance, it is not
becoming in tho Texan to undertake to teach
the voters of his party what constitutes genuine
Jeffersonian democracy.
They want to follow the leadership of men
who are, at least, consistent in upholding and
defending the fundamental doctrines and prin
ciples of their party, but they never know when
Joe Bailey is going to 'jump the fence' and land
in the camp of Aldrich et al, herice their distrust
of him as a leader. Bailey evidently is mad
because the real democrats will not kowtow to
him and follow his leadership, as the following
extract from an Interview with him clearly in
dicates: "Yet I will say this that if tho extreme
policies advocated by the radicals are to domi
nate the democratic party and that it is to stand
for the substitution of direct democracy for the
representative provided in the constitution, if it
is to advocate the initiative and the referendum,
the right of recall and the other ideas favored
by fanaticism, then Mr. Bryan will be the logi
cal candidate of the party for president and
is bound to be nominated next year. These
policies are his, and it is only right to admit
he has for the fourth time taught them and
Impressed them on the people. If the actual
form of our government is to be changed and
direct democracy is to take the place of our
present system of representative government
Mr. Bryan is honestly entitled to the leader
ship." The democratic party, under Bryan's leader
ship, polled more votes than under the leader
ship of any other candidate for "the presidency,
and Bryan has done more to advance the cause
of real democracy than any other man in the
United States. He has ably, persistently and
eloquently advocated, at all times the principles
of democracy as enunciated by Thomas Jeffer
son, and it is a source of supreme gratification
to the great commoner to note the fact that his
ideas and principles, for which he fought so
valiantly and brilliantly, are gaining constantly
in public faith and favor.
PROM PENSACOLA (FLORIDA) JOURNAL
The Montgomery Advertiser is still snapping
and snarling at Mr. Bryan with the same
malignity it has exhibited for the past fifteen
years whenever his name appears in connection
ta p!itical D0licy or a democratic gatherng
The Advertiser's actions make one think of
J1 f BniKpln5 at the heels of a "ononly,
aside from the digust it engenders, the Adver
tiser accomplishes less even than the jackal
Mr. Bryan's friends are now in absolute
control of the lower house of congress and h
policies which he has so long advocated are the
dominant policies in both houses of confess
It was because of its insistence on the nrol
gressive policies of Bryan that the democ?a?s
were enabled to sweep the country St fall
H V hQ, because of adherence to those policies
that the democratic party will elect a president
next year if it does elect one. lament
Those who discount Mr. Bryan's influence
on the party or his influence on the progSve
policies of all parties fool no one but them
selves. He has been the leading spirit for the
past fifteen years in the progressive sentiment
of the entire country. He represents today the
dominating influence in the domestic party and
ho possesses a- larger strictly personal following
than any other American citizen louwing
If such vicious newspaper marplots as the
Montgomery Advertiser think they are ac-
VOLIJME 11, NUMBER 17,
complishing any good for the party by con
tinually hounding and misrepresenting Mr
Bryan they are more than likely to discover their
mistake just as they did in 1904.
. Mr. Bryan himself cares absolutely nothing
about it, but he has a million or so friends
who won't stand for it.
FROM RILEY COUNTY (KANSAS)
DEMOCRAT
Fourteen years ago Bryan advocated an In
come tax. When advised that such argument
would cost him the presidency,. hev replied: "I
would rather be right than president." At that
time Col. Theodore Roosevelt and other republi
can leaders charged that the democratic candi
date was advocating dangerous confiscatory
methods. But the seed soon fell upon good
ground and is bringing forth fruit an hundred
fold, although the early sowing was one of
the factors that defeated the brave sower. Now
since thirty states have adopted joint resolu
tions to ratify an income tax amendment
to the United States constituion and that an in
come tax law is inevitable, Col. Roosevelt and
others who denounced Bryan and the idea of
taxing incomes are prancing around the country
telling the people that an income tax will be a
boon and a joy forever.
FROM MEMPHIS NEWSPAPER
Two long banquet tables on the sixth floor
of the Business Men's Club were surrounded bv
disciples of William Jennings Bryan and dis
ciples of the movement launched by Duke C.
Bowers to see if Col. Bryan cannot be induced
to move to Memphis. The host of the dinner
party was George B. Bowling, a father of the
unique project, who issued invitations to 100
representative business men asking them to re
port at the Business Men's Club to eat and talk
it over.
The Bowling dinner party offered the first
real opportunity to feel the pulse of the busi
ness men of the city on the Bryan movement,
and it goes without saying that it was throbbing
more than satisfactorily." There was a sentiment
around the luncheon board that Memphis would
be a much more desirable place than Lincoln
for both the statesman and The Commoner.
At each plate Mr. Bowling had placed a
white carnation and a whfte badge on which
was printed, "Bring Bryan to Memphis."
An important step in the movement was
taken when a petition addressed to Col. Bryan
was circulated about the table. The petition
will be signed by many other prominent busi
ness men and when the list is long enough the
document will be forwarded to Lincoln. The
petition reads as follows:
"Hon. William Jennings Bryan, Lincoln, Neb.
Dear Sir: Down in Dixie, where old memories
are said to linger the longest, there are deep,
broad, democratic principles floating like a
night-light over the southland. 'Round these
principles flies the banner of the solid south,
waving peace, equality, fellow-feeling, and lovo
from man to man. As a center of all this
sympathy and good-will the south has always
regarded and still regards yourself. And while
realizing that you are held in the greatest
esteem in Nebraska, throughout the United States,
and in .every country of the world, we yet be
lieve that this one section of our land, and
particularly one city of this section, appreciates
you the most and that city is Memphis, the
metropolis of the southwest. For this reason,
as well as for mutual benefit, and tho general
good of the nation, we, as citizens of Memphis,
subscribe our names to a petition, asking you,
the upholder of our principles, to come and live
with us; to cast your lot in Memphis, and help
us enjoy the great prosperity of the new south,
while we work co-operatively for our mutual
aims and principles."
JUDGMENT SUSPENDED IN LOS ANGELES
CASE
The .country will suspend judgment while
J?wTr deal with the charees against the
Mn0,? eST-McNamapa, McNamara and Mc
Manigai. The crime committed was a' most
SS?w? on6r:t00 horrible to impute to any one
Ivnl f nositive proof. No punishment is too
?S 5iP m1X Wh0 resort to such crimes, but
2 ? wl? symPaize with the members
JnHifi? M in assuming the accused innocent
Sl6 Bhown t0 be guilty, and in con
cS gTf G reSrt t0 Mtaappjjig of the ac
wnfiv rm evidence Bhould Bllw the accused
5?m 8?llty the unlons wil1 he as quick to con
o?anJ,?m u ?G outsIde world will bet for
mS i5? r. has no Skater enemy than the
man who resorts to violence. John Mitchell ex-
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