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The Commoner
On the Chautauqua Circuit
(Tho following, taken from the
July Lyceum Magazine, is an inter
esting dOBcrlption of Mr. Bryan's
work in tho Chautauqua circuits:)
Bryan is still tho great Chautau
qua attraction of America. Ho wont
from indoor audionccB to tho "can
vas colleges" at tho opening of tho
soason and spoko twice or thrice a
day until tho national conventions
oponcd, whon ho hurried from the
last steaming tout to becomo a re
porter. there aro tho same crowds and
onthusiasm of tho "palmy . days."
inuouu, u tne ciappmg 01 paimjs is
tho proof, these aro his palmiest
days. No matter where ho goes,
the towns ho visits aro gay with flags
and bunting. Spocial trains bring
crowds from adjoining towns to All
up tho streets. Thoro is a throng
at tho dopot as tho train pulls in.
Tho band Strikes up, tho necks
crane.
"Thoro ho is!" "There's Bryan!"
Tho familiar stout figure climbs
down, tho reception committee of
prominont citizens grabs him. "Glad
to see you!" says tho Commoner
with the big smile in place. Into
tho auto and up to the hotel or to
tho homo of tho citizen they go.
An hour later the speaking begins
in the tnt. Bryan has been busy
hand-slmking boforo till time to
speak, and afterwards till the train
pulls out ho keeps on grasping
hands and telling them how glad
he. is to seo them.
Ho means it, too. No matter
A what ho is doing or who is talking
to him, he has- time to stop and
shake tho hand of anybody who
pushes in. No matter if he is well
dressed or shabby. Tho lank man in
the shirt sleeves gets the same wel
come. "Those are the people who
bplieve In men and stick by mo," he
explains. Which explains why you
can't kill Bryan. You can't kill
anybody the shirtsleeve boys believe
in. You can only kill them In type.
There is nothing so harmless and
beneficial as typo-killing.
"I could make a million dollars
a year if I wanted to make money,"
ho said just before he wont on the
platform at Holena, Arkansas, June
4, while touring tho Alkahest, cir
cuit. "I could go down to New York
FMEJE TO
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This froe offer Is too important to
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Tt Today.
and practico law. I could go out
and speak for tho special interests.
I could make a million a year in
corporation oratory alone. But I
nrofor to take my two grips and go
out to the chautauquas. I prefer
the hardships of travel and speak
ing whero I can do good, upon
causes dear to my heart. I do not
get nearly so much money, but ev
ory penny Is clean."
That ought to hold tho folks a
while who proclaim that Mr. Bryan
is out for tho money, that he re
signed for chautauaua crate money.
And thoso who so enjoy holding
funeral services for Mr. Bryan might
weep a few real weeps if they would
go out to the chautauquas. The re
publicans have so often read the sad
ceremony. Now the democrats are
industriously heaping up the Bryan
mound. Como, brethren of the
doleful sound, como out to the chau
tauquas! Do you reallzo what Bryan does?
He spoko over at Bamberg this fore
noon. ' Ho handshook his way to and
from the train. Ho got to Man
chester at 3:45 that afternoon for
his next speech. Word had gotten
out that ho wasn't coming, but at
foUr he was on the Manchester plat
form before a sea of waving fans.
He speaks another two hours, then
slips from the crowd to steal an
hour's rest. He lies down and goes
to sleep that hour. He can sleep
whenever he tells himself to sleep.
At seven he jumps into an auto and
rides twenty-five miles to Thomas
ton, where a little after eight he is
on the platform for his third lecture
that day.
An ordinary man couldn't stand
the pace But Bryan would chafe
at the tedium of an ordinary man's
high speed. Many public men have
been -wrecked at trying to do the
half that Bryan thrives beatifically
under. "When I saw him at Helena,
ho had ridden all night, had beea
just an hour in bed. At th hotel
he got another hour, and declared
he never felt better in his life and
plunged into the handshakes.
This lecturing and whirlwind
touring is the daily incident. He is
thinking, planning, prophesying,
writing, editing, measuring, listen
ing all the time. He hears what is
going on around him, and he counts
the w.orld's pulsebeats day by day.
He isn't after his pound of flesh.
He draws bJs fee at the crate. Ynn
know he takes the first $250 and
then divides.
Get on the train and ride with
Bryan to his next date. He's shaken
tho last hand, greeted the last pol
itician, smiled at the last baby
named after him. About a dozen on
the train throng around him, and
somehow he manages to visit with
them all, but on his knee is a pad.
Ho is writing for the printers.
Click! We have hit a anrttni,
fha meana another town, and they
havejjearned that Bryan is going
through and there are nnnnia f i..
depot. He has juBt written, '-'Now
is tnw time xor
FRI2E ASTHMA COUFPft - '
froHtie Anthnm Co., Room 733A
Niagara & Hudson Sts., Buffalo KY.
Send'frqo trial of your method, to:
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He (Irons the imd. rrnoa , i.
Dlatform, shakes hands, perhaps
speaks. "I voted for vmii" "irni.
my baby named after you!'
-Au aboard!"
Click! The last switch is passed.
He goes back to his seat and, finishes
the sentence: . .
this nation, to -tender its
good., offices to the belligerents with
& view -to aiding, the restoration of
-)eace4" -
Great Moral tfdrce
He reads newspaper" praise and
smile He reads newspaper denun
ciation there's much? "more of that
just now, for he is being buried
again and smiles. He is imperson
al, not a man, but an institution. He
says it doesn't hurt him to read
about himself. Ho is Kipling's "If."
"I wouldn,'t'r go across the street
to hear him." '"He's a dead one."
You hear all sorts of comments. But
the big tent is packed, no matter,
'where' it is set up. There is no other
man living who can do it with a
gatd-fee.
Why? There .is- no other man .jod.
the platform with itho simplicity,
the sincerity; tlieyoice and the;
presence. Ther,e isVno other living
man who can present from the plat
form the old life fundamentals the
Bible, religion, mother, home and
heaven and impress them so simply
and strongly. It is the power of wl
great character behind the words,
that moral power that will continue
to keep him politically alive. Bryan
on the platform is the speaking
personification of the American
ideals, and eyery;. audience feels
that. He deals in what some call
platitudes. But God, good govern
ment, mother, home and heaven take
on a holier meaning after two hours
of Bryaa in a tent.
I think that is why he holds any
crowd anywhere, however hot the
tent. He is a child inhis fa'ith and
sincerity, and that is "why the child
ren who are wiggly and squirmy at
first, get quiet and listen to every
word. They understand him.
There, isn't much comment after
words. But the speech has sunk
deep. One time the Hearst papers
sent a staff muckraker to follow up
Bryan at the chaUtaUquas, and make
a joko of him. The Hearst man said
ne wished he could get his boy on
the job to get tlie good of the
speeches.
His Record and Prophecy
"I am fifty-six years old," said
Mr. Bryan as he got back on the.
train at Helena. "I am worth $200,-
000 land and my two homes. I
don't want a thing, I have every-
tmng and l am happy. All I ask is
that I can live at home more. I
am not a candidate for anything. I
do not say I shall, never be a candi-
aato again. I do not know what
conditions may arise.
"I often marvel how my causes
have survived. Isn't it wonderful. I
have had only the plain people to
back me, and the rich interests have
always been s against me. I never
have had money behind me."
Which explains why he is contin
ually ridiculed as a pacifist. There
are other pacifists, in plenty. Bryan
is flayed for his peace ideas, merely
because it is the chance for special
interests to get at their greatest foe.
"I do not believe any other man
has advocated so many causes as I
have, and has lived to see so many
of them prevail. Look back twenty
years. I was declared visionary in
urging thinga that now aro achieved.
Think of the tariff, the Income tax,
the money measures, the direct eleq
tlon of senators, the trust regular
tion and very many other things I
fathered. Add to that my work for
woman suffrage, prohibition, peace
and Christianity'
"All aboard! ,K ' : i
"And if I live another twenty
years, I'll see national: Prohibition,
woman suffrage .and "world tpeace.. ac
complished,'" hesaid from, the rear
platform, with :ih. same srlenm
his eye that years agone captured;
the Chicago convention. . "
He was ohh'isVway to another
-VOL. 16, NO. 11
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touches ol nature make u l ,the8
kind, it is the country nlndr0U8
Bringing together daily the & ?'
of the town's life, weaving them fna
something rich and stranfe ia l
ting the pattern -as it weaves LT?
ng the loom, and giving the liC,t
& "i-1 the flve'Vf
thft nannlo lTf. "V?8
country newspaper that reveals 7B
to ourselves, that keeps our SnmS
hearts quick and our country S
open and our country faith strong
When the girl at tho glove coun
ter marries the boy in the whofiSS
house the news, of their weddine
good for a 40-line redding notice
and the 40 lines in the country Z.
per give them self-respect. When in
due course we know that their baby
is a 12-pounder, named Grover or
Theodore or Woodrow, we have that
neighborly feeling that breeds the
real democracy. When wo read of
death In that home wo can mourn
with them that mourn. When we
see them moving upward in the
world, into a Arm and out toward the
country club neighborhood, we re
joice with them that rejoice. There
fore, men and brethren, when you
are riding through this vale of tears
upon the California Limited, and by
chance pick up a little country news
paper with its meagre telegraph ser
vice of 3,000 or 4,000 words or, at
least, 15,000 or 26,000; when you
see its array of countryside items;
its interminable local stories; its
tiresome editorials on the water
works, the schools, the street rail
road, the crops and the city printing,
don't throw dfrwn the contemptible
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Is nothing in. it. But know this, and
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