The Cordele Dispatch And Daily Sentinel

WILLIAM J. BRYAN
They derided and jeered and hissed and booed while the grand old man worked for his party ideals in the New York convention; they still deride him, make fun of him and jeer, but William J. Bryan is the greatest democrat of them all. That man has a soul so large that it never quails at the emboldened corruption of political leaders who seek to down him. He never quits.
Recent portraits of him as a passing figure in the democracy of this nation but illustrates the eagerness with which eastern journals would pass him up as a relic. He was everything else but a fossil in the New York convention. He will be something besides that in the next and the next and when they take him to his grave, they will not have done with William J. Bryan.
He is a remarkably good man with his ideals transplanted into the political fields of America. There they have grown till no noisy eastern press that hates him because it wants liquor and he doesn't can down him. In many close calls he rose to great heights in Madison Square Garden. He is a fighter of great power and men listen when he talks. Well they may, for his seasoned wisdom falls like the tender, kindly hand of providence upon the storm and allays it. He is a wonderful man-the greatest democrat in America, and one whose life will have its weight in the party councils of this country long after they have taken him out and laid him in his house of clay.
We shall count it a privilege ever in the future to speak a kindly word about William J. Bryan. We shall think of him often in his wonderful display of christian courage and patience in the New York convention.