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MR. BRYAN'S ELOQUENCE
Mr. Bryan's first campaign speech, de
livered from an improvised platform at
Champaign, III., Monday evening, wan
pretty poor stuff. At the beginning ho
apologizied for the quality of it by
saying: "I have just been talking some
in Chicago, and am sort of between
speeches." When the gentlemen is
"sort of between speeches," h'lB oratori
cal output is flat enough, because it is
not his custom to speak extemporane
ously. The few addresses which have
made his reputation were manufactur
ed with the greatest care, "polished and
repolished" during nights and days of
searching after effective phrases and
tones, and delivered under the guidance
of an assistant, whose duty it was to
control by signals the volume of his
voice and otherwise to promote by
warnings or encouragement the suc
cess of the carefully considered appeal
to the audience's emotions.
How the machinery creaks when go
behind the scenes! We take the follow
ing from a friendly description of the
Boy Orator's methods, as exemplified in
preparation for a speech in congress on
the tariff.
"For weeks the Bryans had been
preraring that speech. 'The Bryans,'
I say, because husband and wife
worked over that speech day and night
together. Every preparation for it
was made with detirmined coolness.
"Mrs. Bryan afterward told me how
they had worked over it, how sentence
after sentence had been polished and
repolished and cut until each was a
gem of itskind. They had already dis
covered Arlington, the f nmous cemetery
of the soldiers. There they went twice,
and among the graves of the great
wotked over paragraphs that proved
especially effective when delivered.
Mrs. Bryan knew almost every word by
heart."
"A week before the big speech was
made Bryan had delivered a eulogy on
a dead colleague. Mrs. Bryan then
unknown oven to her husband's asso
ciates, sat id the gallery, and carefully
noted the volume of tone required by
Mr. Bryan to fill the hall. Anything
more deliberate could hardly be con
ceived. By means of signals the hus
band on the floor and the wife in the
gallery communicated, and he lifted or
lowered his voice at her suggestion un
til she satisfied herself that he had
struck the most effective tone.
"When the critical moment arrived
(for the tariff speech) Mrs. Bryan was
in the gallery. At first Mr. Bryan held
a low voice. Mrs. Bryan nooded for
fuller tones. Her eyes never left his
face except to study the effect some
senteni e might have on the house.
It may be that Mr. Bryan was assist
ed by such guidance in the Chicago
convention, although he really did not
need it there, for he had experimented
with sulistantially the same speech
elsewhere during a joint debate which
took place in a Nebraska town about a
week before the convention assembled.
It is but natural that such an orator
should be fond of phrases "polished
and repolished" and tested in cemeter
ies and other lonely places as well as in
assemblages of sympathetic men. There
fore we are not surprised to find that
the closing sentences of his peroration
at Chicago had grown old in his ser
vice. As uttered at Chicago they
were:
"We shall answer their demands for a
gold standard by saying to them: You
shall not press down upon the brow of
labor this crown of thorns you shall
not crucify mankind upon a cross of
gold.
This appears to bs the form which
was used a week earlier in Nebraska,
but if we go back a year and a half
to Dec 22, 1894-we find that this
polished and somewhat blasphemous
gem of oratory was usod in a sp:ech de
livered by Mr. Bryan in the house on
that date:
"The money centres present this in
solent demand for further legiB'ation in
favor of an universal gold standard. I
fot one will not yield to the demand.
I will not help to crucify mankind upcn
a croes of gold. I will not aid them to
press down upon tba bleeding brow of
labor the crown of thorns."
We submit that these overworked
sentences are now entitled to a rest and
should be laid aside. And it seem& to
us that the authorities of the First
Presbyterian church in Lincoln. Neb.,
of which Mr Bryan is a prominent
member being also a Sunday school
teacher may reasonably express the
same opinion.
It is not difficult to understand why
Mr. Bryan uttered nothing but cheap
platitudes at Champaign. 111. Ab he
said, he was "sort of between speeches"
and had not been able to cut, polish and
repolish in cemeteries and elsewhere a
new set of remarks. And so we find
him saying: "This is an importont cam
paign. This is the greatest nation on
earth. Our form of government is the
best on earth. Our government is the
most perfect form of government," tc.
The oration factory has not been in
operation since the adjournment of the
convention. The machinery behind
the scenes had not been set in motion.
But there are cemeteries and groves
and pastures in the neighborhood of
Salem, III., and the work of polishing
and repolishing will now be resumed.
New York Times.
See the new Photochromes at Cran
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street, the newest thing In pictures.
Mrs. Sldell is the favorite modiste,
1232 O street.
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WHERE TO GO AND WHAT IT
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NOTICE.
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day, June 1. Saturday, May 30. Is a
legal holiday and the office will be
closed. Hence time to avoid the pen
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IZ J. BYER. Water Commissioner.
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