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ehort. But when we think of orators,
of Burke, Pitt, Sheridan, of Webster,
Clav. Calhoun, we think naturally of.
parliamentary eloquence, of the great
debates of legislative assemblies.
From this company and this arena
we shall have to eliminate Mr. Bryan.
We cannot Anally say it is because
his eloquence was not adapted to that
forum, that parliamentary eloquence
must be addressed to the understand
ing and not to the heart. Probably
that is not wholly true. The specta
tors who fainted under the spell of
Sheridan's oratory in the Hastings
impeachment proceedings were not
moved by eloquence addressed to
their understanding. But in Amer
ica at least there is another form
of assemblage that we must take in
to consideration in estimating the ef
fectiveness of oratory. It. differs in
irake-up from almost every assem
blage which orators have wrought
upon in other countries in the great
peiiods of the past. Senates, courts,
the mob have been moved by varied
kinds of eloquence, from the stately
periods of a Chatham to the wild,
rude bursts of a Camile Desmoulins,
but probably there has been nothing
quite comparable to the form of elo
quence an orator must nave wno
hopes to sway an American political
convention.
It is that assemblage before which
we believe Mr. Bryan's eloquence is
most effective, 'but Ave do not believe
Mr. Bryan hiniselfi. would say that in
the moments when he has stirred
such assemblages his eloquence has
come from the heart or gone to the
heart. We mean in the sense of a
purely emotional appeal. The heart
must be engaged, of course, to the
extent that the speaker must have
sincerity and conviction, which Mr.
Bryan always has. But when he
mounted the platform at the Balti
more convention of 1912, no person
Who saw his face or heard the defi
ance he hurled would say he had
set himself to play upon the softer
sensibilities of his hearers. This was
not a winning out a conquering fig
ure, if the distinction conveys a right
meaning. He did not plead, he
struck. This was not a Clay seek
ing by gentle arts to win a compro
mise, but a roused Mirabeau, with
what Carlyle has called the brool of
a Mirabeau, charging angered and
impassioned into the skrinking front
of his adversaries. What was it Mira
beau said to the king's . trembling
messenger come to warn him of the
royal order closing the session?
"Yes, Monsieur, we have heard the
order, and it is not for you who have
no right or voice here to remind us
of it. Go. Monsieur, and-say to those
who sent you that we are here by the
cuff rage of the French people, whose
representatives we are, and that
nought but the force of arms shall
uend us hence!" That was the Bryan
who stood in that cave of the winds
at Baltimore and raised a voice that
compelled a silence in which his every
syllable fell like the clear stroke of
a vibrating bell over moonlit waters.
An angry sea surged beneath, but its
highest crest did not reach nor drown
that dominant note. The convention
seemed on the point of nominating
Champ Clark. The Nebraska delega
tion was instructed for Clark. Mr.
Bryan, after the Missourian had re
ceived more than a majority bf all
the votes cast on many successive bal
lots, rose to change his vote and
that of a number of his fellow dele
gates, to Woodrow Wilson. , What he
said to and of tho.Ryanst Bqlrnonts,
and Murphys who sat in . the-convention,
and whom he charged with be
ing in a deal to deliver the Demo
cratic party, with their chosen candi
date, to privileged interests, consti
tutes one of the great climaxes in
American political convention his
tory. Like that other figure in the
French states-general, here stood one
with pointing finger and in a voice
that rose like the swell of an organ
bade these conspirators go and re
port to their masters that a Demo
cratic convention never would nomi
nate a man who must' owe his elec
tion to their support.
We believe Mr. Bryan never has
revealed greater powers, either to
oratory or of personality though in
deed they are one than on that
day. He defeated for the nomination
for President the only man who ever
has been defeated in a Democratic
convention after receiving a majority
of the votes. But we must add, if
only to get back where we started,
that it was not a revelation of elo
quence coming from the heart and
going to the heart. It was the com
plusion of a tense passion re-enforced
by a powerful personality operating
on passions as tense and overpower
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