JAMES A EDGERTON.
THEy
do come backsome of
them You can knock them out,
3ump on their prostrate forms
and have them unanimously
elected members of the Down and Out
club, but they will be up and smiling
at the tap of the gong. They are like
the cat you put in a meal sack and
take seventeen miles away to lose it in
the wilderness, only to find on your re
turn that the cat beat you home. You
can't lose some men. Defeat only
makes their friends more loyal You
may think you have them "beaten to a
frazzle," but they are always ready
for the next round.
With these few brief remarks, ladies
and gentlemen, we will now introduce
the greatest comebacker of them all,
not that he needs introducing, but only
to show that we know him. Sure, you
guessed his identity the first time.
The peerless leader is his middle
nameand not only the peerless leader
and peerless loser, but the peerless
comebacker. You can't lose William
Jennings Bryan.
There are people who held fallacious
views to the contrary. They now
know better Any one who harbored
that delusion is like Coleridge's "An-
cient Mariner"
A sadder and a wiser man he woke the
morrow morn
The Republicans were sure he was
done for* in 1896. They again glee
fully announced his demise in 1900
After Parker's nomination in 1901
both the Republicans and a part of
the Democrats were essentially and
teetotally certain that this was the
end of Bryan They finished him once
more in 1908 When he broke with
Jim Dahlman and other leaders of his
party in Nebraska in 1910 everybody
agreed that at last he was out of it
that is, everybody but Bryan They
left the most important man out of the
equation It is hard to keep a man
licked if he won't admit he's licked
You all do know what happened at
the Baltimore convention and what the
peerless did to them there. And now
he is premier of the cabinet, thank
you, is only fifty-three, his health was
never better, and he still has the smile
that won't come off You can't keep
a good man downnot if his name is
Bryan
Looks Like a Victor.
Did you e\ er see anything like it
BOW. honest^, did jou? That man has
been whipped enough to put a whole
regiment of ordinary politicians per
manently out of commission But to
look at him now you would think he
had been a victor all his life The
same Brjan he was twenty years ago,
except that he is balder and bears
down a little move heavily on the
scales His smile is as ready, his wit
as quick and his cj as bright as of
yoie He -walks with the same ath
letic spting, and his voicethat won
deiful Toice that has been heard by
pel haps mou people than that of any
man now In ingis as resonant as ever.
The vvnter hab known Mr Bryan for
twenty-three yearsever since away
back 1890, when he was first elect
ed to congress During these years I
have at times been associated with
him intimatelypolitically, socially
and as i newspaper manand have
studied hnn from every angle As a
result of tin--, study 1 say deliberately
that many ways I regard him as
the most remarkable man now living.
That is the secret of his power to come
back He has the goods
Shortly after the inauguration 1 went
down to see him Several hundred
other Americans were on the same
missionthat is, all of them did not
go to see Bryan, but they were in
Washington Some of them were aft
er jobs Others went to enjoy the
show But from the numbers at his
hotel and in the secretary of state's
offices it was evident that most of
them did see him or tried to And
great swarms of them succeeded
From long experience the new secre
tary of state has acquired the knack
of getting a visitor's case in a word
or two and passing him on. That is
the secret of being a public man You
have to pass them on and make them
think at the same time that you are
their sworn fnend It is a great art
and perhaps one that cannot be ac
quired One has to be born to it, as
he does to being a king or a poet
Keeps the Line Moving.
In the art of passing them on Secre
tary Bryan is a past master. With
one or two dexterous questions he has
their story. With another word he
tells them what to do His wit is al
ways on tap, and his memory for faces
and names is remarkable His per
sonal magnetism is in good working
order, likewise his handshake and
friendliness. Bryan can make every
man feel that he is a friend because it
is- a fact. His good will for everybody
flows in a never ceasing stream. But
through it all he passes them along.
Never forget that one point, for it is
vital. If be did not he would have no
time left for being secretary of state
or anything else One of the New
York newspapers says that the new
premier can get rid of more callers in
a less time than any public official who
has recently appeared in Washington.
Those who have any real business
with him he singles out and waves
aside for a later conference. But these
are comparatively few. The others he
keeps moving in a constant stream. It
is the same at the hotel or at his of
fices. Only at the hotel there is the
added grace of Mrs. Bryan's presence.
Her tact and diplomacy with people
are on a par with her distinguished
husband's. By 9 o'clock or shortly aft
er the secretary is ready to go to his
office. For an hour earlier he has
Photos 1913 by American Press Associ
ation
DATE PHOTOGRAPH OF MB. BRYAN (AT TOP)
AND AT HIS DESK AS SECRETARY OB"
STATE.
been receiving callers at the New Wil
lard Any one who knows about the
usual Washington hours can realize
just what this means The average
high department official is seldom in
his office before 10 nor, as a general
thing, are his secretaries and those in
immediate touch vvith him. Some
times he is not there till after noon
But the new regime is not only Demo
cratic, but early rising Any way, you
kave to rise early if you get ahead of
Bryan
His Job Agrees With Him.
The secretary of state occupies the
presidential suit at the Willard Noth
ing significant about that! Even if
you get there shortly after 8 the re
ception room is well filled at least it
was so on the morning I went. Th
first to greet us was Mrs. Bryan, with
a charming smile, introducing every
body to everybody else. Here is a noted
lawyer from Brooklyn, there a business
man and his wife from New York.
You meet a Dr. Jennings, a cousin
from St. Louis, then a distinguished
diplomat, next an army colonel, follow
ed by the famous th'is or that, also sev
eral nobodies. In a moment Mr. Bry
an breaks away from an important
conference in an inner roomall con
ferences In inner rooms are supposed
to be importantand with a handshake
and a word for each greets all comers.
You observe that he is looking happier
than usual. His new job seems to
agree with him.
He Fits the Frame.
Did you ever put an old picture into
a new frame? Possibly the frame was
so new that it made the picture look
old and dingy or so good it made the
picture look cheap, or perhaps if you
had the artistic sense in choosing both
they seemed to tit exactly, making a
harmonious, and pleasing whole. Well,
seeing Bryan as, secretary of s,tate was
like that. He wtls. in a new frame.
Some had uiksgivuigs, about whether
the pamtiug and frame would harmo
nize. From mj brief observations I
should say that PresidMt Wilson ha3
the artistic heuse His new hecretary
of state fits the frame as though made
for it.
The state, war and navy building is
just across the way from the little low
white building in which the president
has his office. The secretary of state's
rooms are in the s,outh end, that to
ward the Potomac. Here the numbers
in waiting were larger than at the
hotel. There were senators, congress
men, candidates for diplomatic ap
pointments and plain folks. Word was
brought in that Secretary Bryan would
see us soon, but that he was then at
the White House. One wag remarked:
"That sounds good. We've been try
ing to get him there a long while."
This reminds me of what another man
said to the candidate in 1908: "I'm go
ing to vote for you, Mr. Bryan. It has
become a habit"
He is exactly the same old Bryan in
office that he was out o* office. In
fact he is never different any posi
tion in which he is placed. I recall
having been with him the next day
after his defeat for the presidency in
1900 was the most cheerful man
in the crowd. The rest of us had faces
long enough to eat oats out of an old
fashioned churn. Only the beaten can
didate was cheerful and philosophical.
Few Defeated Three Times.
This recalls another story that a gen
tleman told me while on the train
from Washington. had entertain
ed Mr. Bryan in his home and had in
vited a small company to meet him at
dinner, among them a New York con
gressman. It was in 1908, when Bryan
was for a third time the candidate for
president The congressman asked him
point blank if he expected to be elect
ed. Bryan replied by telling of a very
aged neighbor of his whom we will
call Uncle Jake and who was lying
at the point of death. Dropping in to
pay his respects, Mr Bryan expressed
the hope that the sufferer would pull
through, and Uncle Jake responded:
"Well, one thought comforts me Very
few men die when past eighty-seven
(his own age)." The candidate contin
ued that very few men had been de
feated for president of the United
States the third time.
There is only one change in the gen
ial secretary observed by his old
friends, and that is in his headgear.
Those who were with him in the great
fights of the past can think of him
only in connection with a soft hat.
The hat might be white or black, but
it would be soft and worn at the Bry
an angle. Now, however, they say
that on state occasions he wears a high
hat. This, of course, is only rumor
and may be a libelous one at that. At
the inauguration it was not so. as
multitudinous photographs show But
the whispers are so persistent that
they almost compel belief. At any
rate, a Washington paper remarked
that President Wilson once wanted to
knock Bryan into a cocked hat. but
had ended by knocking him into a high
hat
A Great Secretary of State.
One thing is observable in Washing
tonthat there is a change of feeling
toward Bryan Many who have been
most bitter against him before are
modifying their views. Not a few of
those who have been unfriendly to him
in the past are predicting that he will
make a great secretary of state My
own view is that he will make one of
the greatest in the history of the na
tion, but I would distrust my own
view since I may be personally biased
in his favor Certain it is that in his
first move after taking office he won a
diplomatic victory That was in con
nection with the indemnity bill in
Cuba. It was the vigorous protest of
Secretary Bryan that caused the Cu
ban president to veto the bill
He comes into the office with two
delicate situations confronting him.
that in Mexico and that with Great
Britain over the Panama canal tolls.
The recognition of the Chinese repub
lic is also pending, and the Balkan war
situation may develop a diplomatic cri
sis that will affect this country.
There have been great men in the
office of secretary of stateJefferson,
John Marshall, Madison. Monroe. J. Q.
Adams, Clay, Webster, Calhoun. Van
Bnren, Buchanan, Seward. Blaine and
Hay stand among the first rank of our
statesmen, and most of the others are
celebrated in history. Now is added
the name of William J. Bryan, thrice
candidate of his party for president
and knowp as an orator around the
world. Will his conduct of our foreign
relations add new luster to his name
and to the great office he fills? Predic
tions are idle, but all true Americans,
regardless of party, hope that he will,
and with some of us this feeling is
backed by the reminder of the trinity
of love and faith.
SUNKEN FOREST I S FOUND.
It Is Said to Be a Thousand Years Old
and Is Petrified.
A sunken forest, entirely petrified
and thirty feet below the surface, was
discovered recently near Bakersville.
N. J. According to an estimate made
by the state geologist, the forest is at
least a thousand years old.
Workmen excavating for a clay mine
kept striking hard substances after
they had got down about thirty feet
They reported to Warren Somers, who
owns the tract and he submitted some
of the substance to the state geologist
for analysis and received word that the
stuff was petrified wood.
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