(Contributed)
.-Defeat came often and at i Hour seldom found occasion or opportunity to discuss with the men and women who lifted him to eminence.
The Cross of Gold decisively to Mr. Bryan but his When these intimate and reveal. faith in the American people washing parts of his memoirs are dis-never shaken. He died, not embit- posed of, the casual as well as confered and unchastened, but in the! seientiows reader is going to relish wake of every political and per-ithe first-hand story of the dramatic sonal disaster had come up smiling, Wilson-Clark impasse at Baltimo: e young corn after the rigorous which Mr. Bryan converted into discipline ofa. spike-tooth harrow. presidential nomination for Mr. He believed in the goodness of the, Wilson and thereby changed history. American public, its high ideals It is going to surprise and perhaps ind moral courage and he felt that chagrin some of the more astute he, better than any other man in pablic life, was in a position to record these virtues and under, deeper obligation to give the publi the credit it deserved.
With these facts in mind it is easy to believe that Mr, Bryan be-yan the writing of his menfoirs vith more than a desire to write' about himself. It was character-eric of him that he should have made some preparation, even before!
felt the impediment of age seriously upon him, to give to on-! coming generations the story of his vise to the commanding positis occupied both within and without his party at the time of his sudden death, If he had a secondary pur-pore it might well have been to satisfy that desire which all human beings have to seize the opportunity, however late it comes, to present his struggles and triumphs as he himself has seen them,
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