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MR. BRYAN'S ARRIVAL AT THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION AT BALTIMORE WHERE HE DOMINATED A GATHERING THAT WAS DIVIDED BY FACTIONAL BITTERNESS AND WELDED IT INTO A COHERENT ORGANIZATION PLEDGED TO A PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATE AND A PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM

this idea (for which he gave the Democrat credit) but left the investigation to be invoked by either party.

"That is not sufficient," said Mr. Bryan, "inasmuch as when excited neither party might ask for it, for fear it might be

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bound by an agreement to submit these questions before declaring war or commencing hostilities.

"The investigation should be held by a body which would make a report, a reasonable time being given in which the report could be made, and it would be proper to stipulate that there would be no change by either party during this time; that is, that a party shall take no advantage of the delay materially to alter its strength. "Such an agreement ought to be made with every other nation, putting us there

opportunity for the operations of all the peace forces of the world and time for public opinion to act. When a man is mad, he talks about what he can do; when he is calm, he talks about what he ought to do. This plan does not require that you surrender this right to decide for yourself what is a question of national honor; it provides for nothing but investigation and publicity and reserves the right to act independently afterward. That right will never be exercised unless the cause will stand investigation and publicity."

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THE CELEBRATION OF MR. BRYAN'S RETURN TO AMERICA IN 1908

FROM HIS TRIP AROUND THE WORLD, WHEN THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE FROM ALL PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES CAME TO NEW YORK TO JOIN IN AN ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION THAT FORECAST HIS THIRD NOMINATION FOR THE PRESIDENCY BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

fore in the attitude of extending the same offer to every nation, big or little, and my own conviction is that if this Nation entered into such an agreement with other nations, it would practically end war. I doubt if there would be another war.

"The sort of treaty I suggest would be an announcement that the time has come when civilized nations cannot be in shooting at each other until the shooting has been investi nounced to the world

Mr. Bryan reminded me that he had long been an advocate of reform in the diplomatic service. Nine years ago he began to advocate the building of embassies. He did this for two reasons:

"First, we ought to have no department of the Government which is not open to all its people who are qualified to fill the offices. Money should not be a necessary qualification. Second, and of equal imortance, in a way, we should be able to

trol the manner of living of those who

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FORMERLY THE HOME OF THE WIDOW OF GENERAL JOHN A. LOGAN, LEASED BY MR. BRYAN FOR USE DURING HIS TERM AS SECRETARY OF STATE

represent us in order that they may not misrepresent us before the world and in order that rich men may not embarrass us." "You would make it obligatory upon the ambassador to live in the house provided?" "Certainly. We should build and furnish the place, and the expenditures of our representative should be limited, if not expressly, by an understanding, in order that it may be clear that this country does not authorize or even permit its representatives to ape the extravagances of the old world."

I asked Mr. Bryan if his devotion to democracy as the ideal principle of governments inspired him with any definite aims that might properly be exercised in the field of our foreign relations. He replied, I thought with unusual warmth:

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"A government cannot, of course, interfere with the internal affairs of another. But it can set up an example. A man and a nation is responsible for his or its example, although under no obligation to try to make others conform to it. But the effect of example is often underestimated, and I shall be disappointed if the democratic example set by this Administration

does not have a larger influence toward the progress of democracy on other nations."

Few men could have gone through Mr. Bryan's experiences and come out of them with the mellow sweetness of temper which he shows to-day. His face is fuller than of old, so that it is unlikely that he can still whisper in his own ear, but his easily kindled smile is an engulfing performance and the warming kindliness of his glance is a lay benediction. There is nowhere about him a trace of jealousy or disappointment. He seems to love stories of which he is the victim. When last year his admirers were urging him to stand for the nomination again he used to take refuge in this narrative:

"A certain cowboy came into town one night, and having got pretty well exhilarated, made his way into the dance-hall. He made himself obnoxious, and was led to the door. But he returned, went in again, and repeated the performance; this time he was dragged to the door and pushed out into the street. He returned a third time, however, whereupon he was kicked across the hall, hit over the head with chairs, and flung headlong into the gutter. When

he came to himself and had got the sand out of his mouth and the blood out of his eyes, he was heard to say: 'They can't fool me. I know what's the matter. They don't want me in there.""

He is always finding occasion to joke about his unhappy experiences. Even when he was in Japan, in the course of a speech acknowledging the hospitalities. he had there received, he observed that he had been "tenderly drawn toward the Emperor of Japan because when his Majesty had established the chrysanthemum as the imperial emblem, he had drawn the flower with sixteen petals, thus giving the highest Oriental sanction to the doctrine of 'sixteen to one.""

He speaks without malice of such treatment even as that one night handed out to him by Governor Thayer, of Nebraska. Mr. Thayer, long his political enemy, was presiding at a non-partisan mass meeting at which Mr. Bryan was to appear. When Mr. Bryan took his place on the platform the Governor pretended not to recognize him and asked his name. The reply was "William Jennings Bryan." "Oh, Mr. Bryan," said the chairman, "I am glad to meet you. Do you speak or sing?"

On a much earlier occasion, when he was indeed unknown, Mr. Bryan was given

an amusing introduction to an audience. He was just out of school. A Democratic meeting was being held in the public. square at Jacksonville, Ill. The scheduled speakers were slow in arriving, and the crowd grew impatient. Someone on the platform suggested to the chairman, a venerable citizen of the town, that there was present a young man who was making a name as an orator, and that he be called on to fill up the time. The young man consented. "How shall I introduce him?" whispered the chairman. "Oh, just say that we will now hear William J. Bryan, a rising attorney of this place." The chairman turned to the audience, obtained silence, and announced: "We will now have the pleasure of listening to William Rising Bryan, a jay attorney of this city."

To-day the thrice-defeated candidate who has come to Washington to sit at the right hand of the new Democratic President is telling these stories, and a score like them, with great glee. His favorite hero, I think, is a farmer whom he calls John, who had just heard from the girl of his choice that she returned his love. John went to the front door, opened it, went out, stood looking up at the stars, and said, "Oh! Lord, I hain't got nothin' against nobody no more."

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AT PRESIDENT WILSON'S INAUGURATION GREETING AMBASSADOR JAMES BRYCE, OF GREAT BRITAIN, AND ESCORTING MRS. BRYAN THROUGH THE CROWD

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