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SSjiyBiiyfy y vi The Commoner VOL. 16, NO. 12 10 Generous Expressions from Friends Below will bo found extracts from a few of tho many congratulatory letters sent to Mr. Bryan following tho November elections: November 17,; 191b. Tho White House, -' Washington. My dear Mr. Bryan: May I not say how much I have admired your part in tho campaign and -what a vast deal of effectlvo work you seem to me to have done in tho very part of the country which has now aligned itself with tho forces -of progress? I think all democrats aro grateful to you. Cer tainly I am. With warmest regard, Cordially and sincerely yours, WOODROW WILSON. Hon William J. Bryan, Lincoln, Nebraska. Hamilton, Mont., Nov. 9. I write to inform you that I am elected and I thank you most heartily and cordially for all that you did for mo so kindly and generously, and especially for tho very strong endorsement which you gave my candidacy all of the speeches which you made in Montana. It was very good of you and I as sure you of my very warm appreciation thereof. I also cordially thank you for all you did in Montana for President Wilson and the entire cause. President Wilson carried Montana and I know that much of tho result was due to your efforts. It was most kind of you to come to Montana, where you haVo iriapy warni friends and admirers and help us. H. L. Myers, TJ. S. Sonator. Washington, Nov. 16. I-have "delayed, until tho result was certain,, sending you my congrat ulations upon the important part, taken, by you In tho campaign an d. uponjthe .manifest result jot your activity. I have not failed to direct atten tion to the fact that it was "Bryan territory" which saved the day for the democracy". I had numbers of men ask me, Why you were not cam paigning for Wilson. They were astounded when I told them that you were maldng the most remarkablo campaign that you had ever made, oxcepting that of 1896. r It is worthy of note and remembrance that the portion of the country which is devoted tp peace and which did not become greatly excited by tho propa ganda of "preparedness," where woman suffrage prevails and where the liquor traffic is being outlawed, preserved tho democratic party. One can hardly realize that a democrat is elected President by the votes of Kansas, California, Utah and Now Hampshire. Cono Johnsbh. Washington, D. C. Just a lino to thank you most cordially for tho splendid arid effective ser-' vico you did for me and the whole democratic ticket in Tennessee in tho late campaign. Our majority was the largest that our party has re ceived in the state in matiy years, and you did much to bring about the happy result. The President's victory was truly wonderful. K,. D. McKellar, U. S. Senator-elect. Washington, D. C, Nov. 16. A word of con gratulation to you, without whose work in the west tho "invisible government" would again bo coming into power. Some time; ago, the Lon don Nation, in no unfriendly spirit styled you "Tho peasant statesman of the United States," moaning,'.as I read it, the statesman of the coun-try-sldo folk In contradistinction to city dwell ers. This election appears to have confirmed tho title, by shifting the balance of national power from the Tammanies to the men and wo men of the prairies and the mountains, and un der your influence as the apostle of righteous ness and peace. Louis F. Post. Springfiotd, 111., Nov. 10. I congratulate you upon the re-election of Wilson; your peace prop aganda and your thorough campaign in the west mado his election possible. D,uring tho cam paign tho republican papers and tho Hughes spell-binders ' in the east and throughout the middle -west took great pleasuro in publishing and iterating and reiterating that Mr. Bryan's prty had placed him in a state of "innocuous desuetude," had banished him to the barren mountains and alkali plainB tQ speak to tho coy otes and the cactus. Well, Myou brought homo the bacon." . It did the hearts of your old time friends good to hear the crowd shout "hurrah for Bryan," as tho returns from west of the Mis souri river wero announced. I especially con gratulate you on. Nebraska, no one could wish a greater victory than you have achieved there. James A. Creighton. Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 10. You seem to have done your full share in securing a second term for Mr. Wilson, and I trust that the country will not overlook the fact. The west did it, and you won the west, assisted, it is true, by Roosevelt. But you aro tho one entitled to the credit and tho congratulations. V. V. McNitt. Washington, D. C, Nor. 11. I can not resist tho impulse to write you just a word of congrat ulation on the splendid work you did in this campaign and the realization of your old dream of reuniting the west and the south for real democracy. In my mind, it Is the most signal and most significant triumph the democracy ever won. Now that Nebraska has adopted prohibi tion, one bone of contention will be removed in that state. After all that has happened, the splendid support you gave the President all over the west, and' In the very states that won him his re-election, has pleased your friends more than I can tell you. J. A. Edgerton. New York, Nov. 10. The papers announce this morning the final results of the election. Do you realize the republicans only carried four states west of the Mississippi, provided they re tain present results? Does it not mean the scepter has passed from Wall street, and is now where it belongs, with the producing masses of the nation? I especially wish to congratulate you on the result in Nebraska. The President carried the state by a splendid vote. You set the Issue peace, prosperity, and progressive policies. Your campaign was a remarkable one, I followed you everywhere. J. B. Sullivan. Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 26. Permit mo to thank you for all that you have done for me and for the party in Utah, and particularly for tho splendid services rendered us in the recent election. Your speeches at Ogden and Salt Lalce City were the features of the campaign and con tributed mightily to tho victory which we won. Be assured that the democracy of Utah appre ciates your great services to the party, and en tertains for you a deep and lasting regard. William H. King, U. S. Senator-elect. Cheyenne, Wyo., Nov. 15. Among the many messagesot congratulation received by me from all over the country, none has pleased me so much as the one that came from you, as no In dividual contributed more largely than yourself toward my success. This is clearly "proved by the vote, as out of tho twenty-one counties in "lOS MASTER'S VOICE"- the state I won sixteen, including the countv Uinta, the ,rst place within the borders nf state where you held a meeting; and folloUn your trail through the state I won pSSKffil every community in which you held a moetinL including the city of Cheyenne, which has herJl tofore been considered an impossible stronehni The influence of your meetings early in the cam' paign crystallized the opinion of the people ami once- they had made up their minds the onnosi tlon found it impossible to change their attitudT My appeal to you for help, at St. Louis, was ono of the wisest things I did throughout the cam paign, since tho assistance rendered by you was the most far reaching in its influence. As much as I was gratified, by my own election, I was of course, more Intensely interested in the re-election of President Wilson, and I am more gen uinely pleased by the large influence upon the same that was contributed by the west. John B Kendrick, U, S. Senator-elect. New York, Nov, 14. I feel that I just have to write to you and congratulate you on tho splendid" showing made by the west In tho re cent contest. You have more friends today, in my opinion, than you ever had before in your remarkable career. The papers here that were formerly cynical in their attitude toward you have taken a different tack and your magnificent aid to President Wilson has been commented on generously.1 Sloane Gordon. Mobile, Ala., Nov. 29. Among my greatest causes for thanksgiving is your dedication to the cause of nation wide prohibition. Heartiest con gratulations not only on your gloriously loyal part in the great victory for democracy, peace and prosperity, but even more on your announced purpose to help free the party we love from li quor domination. William D. Upshaw. Oakland, Cal., Nov. 14. To the thousands of letters that you will receive in appreciation of your services for Mr. Wilson in this campaign, I want" to add mine. You so generously disap pointed the hopes rather than the justifiable expectations of the old line republican politicians of this nation in your ardent support of Mr. Wil son, that you have endeared yourself more than ever to those who have always understood and appreciated your services for the citizenship and struggling masses of this nation, and the popu lar ddctrines of the progressives of the new democracy embrace in them in the main the matters which you began urging upon the peo ple of this country away bac1: in the early 'nineties. I want you to know that there are millions of your fellow citizens in this nation who have not despaired, but earnestly look for ward with hope to the day whe you may again be our standard bearer and receive that which more than any other democrat in the nation de serves, its popular acclaim as president; and he . lieve me that among them all none delights to more earnestly hope for that than he who loves to subscribe himself. Jesse J. Dunn. Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 26. -I just want to add my congratulations to the many you have re ceived upon the result of the election which without your efficient help would certainly have been different, and no telling what might nave happened eventually. The "regular organiza tions" of our party in New York, Indiana, Illi nois, New Jersey Massachusetts and elsewhere have shown themselves in their true colors. There must be a new alignment of the parties in future, a conservative and a progressive, ana if you can bring about this, you wUl surely w adding to the' grand and successful work you have been doing the past twenty years, my oniy regret being that you are not getting the bene-ii or the credit for it that you deserve. A. J. w,as Grand Porks, N. D., Nov. 14,-1 feel sure that you made thousands of votes for the President in the states of Nebraska, Colorado,, Utah, Cal ifornia, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota. And if It were not for those states the President would navt been defeated. I was particularly glad to see that your own state went- for prohibition, i think I also remember what you said when you were here about your proposed fight in the next campaign' for national prohibition, and in the speech I made a few days ago when we had a celebration of Mr. Wilson's election, I mentioneu that at the meeting and told them I was going to be with you in the fight, and I surely am. M. P. Murphy. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ! t J wm& V II iAWW, r. tu