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OBSERVATIONS
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Lincoln continues to be advertised.
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan are becoming as
welf known as Carter's Little Liver
Pillp, and toe town that has emitted
two such conspicuous personages
must, of necessity, become celebrated.
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan have gone hand in
hand all the way from Lincoln to Chi
cago and New fork and up the Hudson,
and the devotion of this young couple
has occasioned wide comment. Mrs.
Bryan has been in training in her pres
ent experience for several years. Sorosis
has not 'exerted its intellectual and
reforming influence in vain. Woman's
clubs have not afforded a vision of
woman's sphere for nothing. Mrs.
Bryan is of an eminently practical turn
of mind. Ideas accumulated through
the years of pieparation, are not to be
thrown away the moment the oppor
tunity to test those ideas presents itself.
The nomination of Mr. Bryan made it
possible for Mrs. Bryan to emerge from
the chrysalis state of new womanhood
into the full blown, blooming brilliance
of twentieth century feminine develop
ment,andour townswoma .realizing that
there is a tide in the affairs of women
which, taken at its flood, leads on to
fame, did not let the chance escape her.
With enterprise that does credit to Lin
coln push, she rose to the occasion, and
we salute her.
We do not know whether Mrs. Bryan,
ever said as did Ruth. "Intreat me nut
to leave me, or to return from followiug
after thee; for whither thou goest I will
go; and where thou lodgest, 1 will
lodge; thy people shall be my
people, and thy God, my God."
But she has the real spirit of Ruth, and
wives who let their husbands go roam
ing around the country alone, receiving
nominations for the presidency, and
notifications and such things, have an
example in Mrs. Bryan that should in.
cite them to emulation. Mrs. Bryan, in
reducing her ideas to practice, has ex
hibited a bravery that compels admira
tion. It is a pleasure to testify to her
remarkable achievements. Having once
made up her mind sue has pressed
steadily forward, an I thV she ran up
against United States senators, a chair
man of the national popocratie c tmmit
tee, whole committees, established prec
edent and grim determination, she never
stopped. Obstructions were brushed
aside, and she blazed her way to tii-
umph, while the people of the country
looked on in amazement. Tho city of
Washington cocked its head at Mrs
Bryan, but it soon knocked under.
Gotham sought to awe her by its impe
rial arrogance, but she laughed a
short, sijvery laugh at the metropolis'
presumption. She put both cities under
her feet and placed the crown of her
royal favor on Chicago.
The Honorable Arthur Fue Gorman
no doubt thought he was something of
a factor in matters political until he met
Mrs. Bryan on the field of.battle. He
has comforted himself with the idea
that he defeated James G. Blaine for
president. He has exulted in his bom
bardment of the presidential duck
shootei . ' He has sung "Mary land, my
Maryland," happily and proudly these
many years, and this summer he started
out to warble "My country 'tis of Me."
when Mrs. Bryan loomed on the horizon.
She approached. The engagement was
short, sharp and decisive. The Honora
ble Arthur Pun Gorman took to the
wood?. Then Senator Arkansaw Jones
girded himself for combat and took his
position in front of the fair lady from
Lincoln. Senator Arkansaw Jones didn't
last as long as the Honorable Arthur Pue
Gorman. And this was not all. Many
battles were fought and won by our re
doubtable townswoman in tho space of
a fer days,and she has more long haired
scalps than she could hang on a dozen
belts. We say, hurrah for Mrs. Bryan!
Unquestionably Mr. Bryan's remark
able success as ringmaster of the Oma
ha society circus, December 11 and 12,
1896, had great weight in inducing him
to make the spectacular appearance in
Madison Square Garden, New York. As
we read tho newspaper account of the
society circus and Mr. Bryan's great
triumph we can understand the depth
and breadth or Mr. Bryan's disappoint
ment over the failure of the New York
show. It is interesting at this time to
note what Mr. Bryan's own paper, the
World-Herald, said of Mr. Bryan's show,
the society circus. That piper, in the
issue of December 12. '93. said:
"The honors that have long belonged
to the Barnum aggregation, the glitter
and glamour of Ringling Bros.' organi
zation, have been hiddon in gloom for
all time to come by the dazzling bright
ness and the stupendousness of the
society circus. There never was a time
since the one-ring show, with the trick
donkey accompaniment of Dan Rice,
when there haB been assembled together
under one ring or roof such a glittering.
world-bewildering entertainment as
that provided by the society p.'ople of
Omaha It was a few
minutes after 8 o'clock when the threo
ringmasters, W. J. Bryan, H. B. Irey
and W. B. Taylcr, each clad in a black
dress coat, white duck trousers and
white vest, with high top boots, walked
into the ring and took their respective
rings, Mr. Irey the third. Mr. Bryan the
second and Mr. Taylor the tirst. Their
entrance was the signal for a round of
applause that shook the big build
ing, and there was a waving of
handkerchiefs that created a
small cyclone through the edifice. Mr.
Bryan announced that if the actors
made fools of themselves it was not
from lack of sense, but dollars; it would
be the greatest show that anyone had
ever seen, and after the second perform
ance it would be the greatest show that
had ever been. Mr. Bryan spoke of how
they had traveled in their own trains
and remarked that they had never seen
such terminal facilities as was found in
Omaha, for the union depot was bo large
that the largest animals could be un
loaded without difficulty. Mr. Bryan
said there were Brownies from Brown
ville, and Judge Dundy's famous bear,
one that was caught by a western man
twenty years ago, and which the judge
took with him every season and tied to
a tree and shot at, and hence it was not
as ferocious as some beasts. In fact,
show time and feeding time had been
so guaged that none of the animals
were dangerous. At the conclusion of
the remarks by Mr. Bryan the grand
entry took place. The Second regiment
band headed the parade that swept in
from the westside in true circus fashion,
followed by cages containing brass
monkeys, brass leopards, hyenas, pigs,
sheep, and other wild animals."
The next day the World Herald con
tained an account of the second per
formance from which we quote the fol
lowing: "In opening the exercises of
the evening Ringmaster Bryan said that
when the society circus was proposed as
a means of raising funds for the associ
ated charities, some feared that the par
ticipant in the circus would suffer as
much in dignity as charity gained in
dollars. There is a dignity, a false dig
nity, which consists of outward show,
and that kind of dignity, like a fragile
vessel, can only bo preserved by the ex
ercise of constant care; but there is a
dignity, a real dignity which is mani
fested by the goodness of heart. This
kind of dignity is never endangered by
a noble heart or a generous deed. Where
could the young men of Omaha exhibit
more true manliness than they do in an
entertainment of this kind by donating
their time and means for the benefit of
those on whom the fickle goddess. For
tune, has for the moment turned a
frowning face? Where could the flower
of Omaha's fair, womanhood bloom in
greater beauty than in the garden of
sweet charity, warmed by the sunshine
of a generous sympathy and moistenod
by the gentle dews of mercy?"
Ringmaster Bryan read a number of
telegrams the second evening. One was
as follows: "United States Senate,
Washington, D. C, December 12.
P. T. Barnum Lee, Sole Owner Omaha
Society Circus: Altho absent in the
body we are with you in the spirit
There is no truth in the report that we
are jealous of your success. Your circus
does not interfere with ours in the least.
William V. Allen.
John M. Thurston.
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan, aq they wander
aimlessly about in New York state, pre
sent a spectacle that is unique in many
respects. In this country we have had
all kinds of presidential candidates, but
never before have we had a candidate
who detached himself from all commit
tees and control and turned himself
loose in the community, to be bobbed
up and jogged about by popular clamor.
Mr. Bryan has done many things that
are undignified, but his drifting from
pillar to post in the Empire state caps
the climax. Ihe presidential candidate
appeare to have become a mere schedule
of the arrival and departure of trains.
It was an evil day for our friends, Mr.
and Mrs. Bryan, when they decided to
go east to be notified of their nomina
tion. Mr. Bryan, in his public statement
denying that he has ever been in the
employ of ihe silver mine owners, said:
"The first platform upon which I ran
for congress, in 1890, when 1 was not
known politically outside of my own
state, contained a free coinage plank."
And Mr. Bryan said he ran on a free
coinage plank in 1892. This is a little
mixed.
In 1890 the financial plank which he
says he wrote himself reads as follows:
"We demand free coinage of silver on
equal terms with gold." Had the Chi
cago convention, which nominated Mr.
Bryan for president, adopted this plank
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