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GIGANTIC TRUTHS. JJ8
William Vincent
Allen can unload an avalanche of truths
upon an audience with all the smooth
ness and force that the Alps let go a ,
glacier upon a Swiss village. Of course
the Alps are not as "rocky" nor as
"long" as a William V. Allen oration ,
though the Alps may equal the number
j | ; of William's facts with icebergs , not
colder than his gems of veracious
eulogy.
This last triumph of Allen was at
Sioux Falls and in this absolutely pro-
cine and exact statement of the sublime
and exalted gifts , powers , experiences ,
characteristics , accomplishments , virtues
and vast intellectual powers of the only
American who has over been able to coin
candidature into cash , William Vincent
is superbly strong.
From his great thought factory he
reels out this , while speaking of the
gentleman whom ho names to the
vagarists as their normal candidate for
the presidency :
"Ho embodies in his political convic
tions , in his life , all that is good in an
American citizen , all that is pure and
loyal , all that the most exacting could
desire ; a statesman of ripe experience ,
a philosopher , a patriot without a peer ,
either in this or any other continent.
Peerless , bold , determined , thoroughly
devoted to the interests of the great
mass of his countrymen , who would
make and will make au ideal candidate
for the exalted office of president of
these United States. Since the result of
the election in 1896 was known to the
American people , among the fusion
forces of theUnited ; States there . -has
been but one'fname connected with the
office and \with the nomination , at this
time. lie is the embodiment of all that
opposes plutocracy , that opposes greed ,
that opposes the exercise of criminal
power in public lifo. Ho is in my judg
ment the most American citizen of the
ago. I think ho is , as an orator , as a
statesman , the equal of Webster and
Olay , if not their superior. Ho was a
Nebraskan , but belongs now to the
world. Without further discussion ,
without further description of this man ,
I present to this convention this hero ,
statesman and orator , William Jennings
Bryan.
"Ripe experience" too has been quick
er in its maturity than an early Ohio
potato.
"A philosopher , a patriot without a
peer , either in this or any other contin
ent , planet , firmament or universe. "
"Peerless" he had no peer in the period
preceding ' 'bold , determinedthorough
ly devoted to the interests of the great
mass of his countrymen , who would
make and will make an ideal ( not a
real ) candidate for the exalted office of
president of the United States.
"Ho is the embodiment of all that
opposes plutocracy , that opposes greed ,
that opposes the exercise of criminal
power in public life. "
That is the reason he first sought
office. Ho wished to cet the money out
of it which he could not get out of his
profession , nor by any occupation of
which he had any knowledge. He op
poses greed. His appetite for oratory ia
indulged merely to prevent greed for
office. The exercise of duplicity and
misrepresentation "in public life" is the
utilization of "criminal power" and
that is why Allen and his eulogee never
make predictions which are untrue.
That is the reason why , in the un
erring - - - - judg
ment of Allen , Mr. Bryan "as orator , as
statesman is the equal of Webster or
Olay , if not their superior. "
Every man. who has road Webster
either as a lawyer or a statesman and
then listened to or read Bryan either as
a candidate for railway commissioner ;
for Congress ; for the committee of ways
and means ; for the sonatorship ; for the
colonelcy of a volunteer regiment or for
the presidency , must admit the relative
pigmyisin of Webster. Allen is a great
and good judge of statesmen. And
when he places Bryan alongside of Bis-
marok , Gladstone , Webster , St. Paul ,
Demosthenes , Solon , Moses , Salisbury ,
Washington , Jefferson , Lincoln , Riche
lieu , John Bright , and all the other
heroes , statesmen , orators and benefac
tors of mankind the contrast makes
them mere mice up against a mental
mammoth gnats exploring the blue
empyrean in the shadow of the gorgeous
and spreading tail of the American
engle.
IJUNCOMHE. 18 % .
Mr. Bryan made a
prophecy , the fulfillment of which ho
was so confident about that he put it
into cold type in that marvel of marital
biography called "The First Battle. "
Upon page 464 , one can read the cheer
ful prediction of that great calamity
forecaster , as embalmed by the Bryan
family canned , as it were , to be used at
luncheons in 1900 , when he and his
zealots must eat their own words every
day.
"If we win this fight now reform will
begin at once ; if we are defeated in this
campaign there is nothing before the
people but four years more of harder
times and greater agitation , and then
the victory will come. Our opponents
say that they want to restore confidence ,
but the republican party cannot restore
prosperity in this country so long as that
prosperity is doled out to us by foreign
ers who profit by our distress.
' 'Business men complain that business
conditions are bad ; I warn them that
business conditions cannot be improved
by following out the financial policy
which has brought business to its present
conditions. "
When one reads the foregoing from
Mr. Bryan , a man whose profound in
vestigations and experiences in finance
have astounded the world by their
depth , breadth and height ho can but
be amazed at the sago and sacred
character of that great and gifted
interpreter of future events.
Beside Bryan , the 7th daughter of the
7th son is , in the prophecy business , like
a tallow candle competing for the
illumination of the world with the sun
at its zenith.
The marvelous verifications of Bryan's '
readings of the financial conditions of
the years 1897 , 1898 , 1899 and 1900 ,
down to date of this issue of THE CON-
SBUVATivn , knock the ordinary clair
voyants , mind readers and palmists
clean out of the ring of pretenders and
quacks. They make Mr. Bryan the
royal seer , the king prophet of commer
cial and financial affairs , who alone
predicts , with unerring accuracy , the ab
solute truth and'stands as sixteen to one
amongst all other1 modern soothsayers ,
