AMERICAS FOREMOST POLITICIAN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 18 June 1913, Page 5

AMERICAS FOREMOST POLITICIAN.

In this part of the wdrld there' is a disposition to 100k on' lur wm'iaiu Jemiuigs iiryuii, curee times Cauuidate tor the American FieSiaenc\s, <us a failure, in spice-or The tact that he is now toecre.vary of State: un .-x)i\ Wilspn's Cabinet .,'■' iiut.an tlie. course of a'very 'interesting Ciiaracteiv.skeicn of Mr Jbryaiij tne. wcJU-iniorined Anieri.Gan corfespontlent pi... tue Post, sajiV.tuaV.Mi'/lii'yari,-,-.in _; spite, or liis defeats,.-is thei most dummant \ figure in the whpie. country.. • {sixteen years ago, a .•comparatively unknown man^ Mr Bryan tiiren: |tlie heinociutic iNa-■tio.nai-\UqnYe4ti6n.^'4JippV/a;/.w:eiizy\by'-a Savage Vle.hun.eiatidii' ot j&he .l)empci'atic President..,. \"?&$ ■" a- ..result-,.'lie* -secured. the. "nomination? ..for.' the „ .^residency. But his. '"platform too radical ? at^ ,• that time, and 'hs was defeated.. Yet, in a-way, this .defeat was more valuable than a mediopre victory could have been. For he had roused tlie popular imagination.' He had awakened the public conscience, and tired emotion as no American .befpie or since, with the sole exception of -'• iiine'oln, says Air Lo^y.. : "He i>vas a- Nineteenth iCentury; reincarnation of a cqmbined Saironarohi .and Knox—more fortunate than; the one and-kss-f-ortuna-te -tl»an the other —thundering » against,. abuses j ■ like' Savonarola, he would have burnt the 'vanities,' had he been- given an opportunity ;; he,,preached the '.new,1 free-' dom' I6ng ; before other men had even, a faint appreciation of what-it. m^ant..V A first failure ; did not daujit I^tr Bryan.. He put himself up, ; for;.election a second time- and was,bea^i} again. ,?Xet atiil/ says LoWj.he.^mained the.idol. ofhis people and was able' forOOflxe ttiiird time .to be rmade the . leades£i>i3£i >his partyj ■~-., Such a. .thing /had. ieveribeen: known before. In 1912-:heC'^ras: ;not a candidate,- but ohe dominalSStflt the' Convention. V , v.-He prevented,-itheinomi-nation -oi -Mr jClark,': who -would pro%bably;hayQ 4 been'elected hadiit nbt been for Mr Bryan's opposition, and made iMr "Wilson's nomihiiti<jri possible. It "is. to his' lea'dfiTsM^C hispower, to the 'obligation nther. paicty owes him, that jie jdwea his pireSßht. position: of SecretaWy off State. . fH^/i'sreputed'to have: a larger and more deyotei'd /following;, tiffin 'in the' !gtaitesiVj-- '■:•'-, 'He i's \ t.Ordaytv'the 'foremost maiii iri"ArtYe'fica.,''- sSys -M^-liOw.'; -''-He .div;des^th©-;p.'dblic iattentibri- with the ■ipfesideirt.^;- Wlae^lu&>6? ;the I j^fee^;hira^the r taor^^^^ popularity.; "iu,;.-stillv' 'Jt6 , be;-wpn'jj'';Mr:: Biry^s-popularity .ia secure.!'. - .'■