Bryan is
highly respected in his state and his oratory is a charm wherever he
is heard.
The speaker not only exhibited poor taste, but his wit was pointless,
for when a man can go before a convention of fourteen hundred
delegates and by one burst of eloquence capture the convention, secure
the nomination for the presidency, and then with the press and the
leaders of his party against him go up and down the country, and from
the rear of a railroad train, almost capture the White House, the day
of oratory is not gone by.
Schriner, the great animal painter, painted the picture of a bony mule
eating a tuft of hay. That picture sold in Petersburg, Russia, for
fifteen thousand dollars, while the original mule sold for one dollar
and thirty cents. If the painting of Schriner made in the price of
that mule, a difference of fourteen thousand, nine hundred,
ninety-eight dollars and seventy cents why is not word painting worth
something?
Listen, while I give you a short extract from the address of James G.
Blaine at the memorial service of our martyr President Garfield. With
the audience wrought up to the greatest sympathy by his tribute he
said:
"Surely if happiness can come from robust health, ideal domestic life
and honors of the world James A. Garfield was a happy man that July
morning. One moment strong, erect with promise of peaceful, useful
years of life before him: The next moment wounded, bleeding, helpless.
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