THE MEDFORD DAILY TRIBUNE, MEDPORT). OREOOX. TUESDAY. JFLY 21. 1908.
VISIT TO BRYAN
N HIS HOM
E
Editor Describes Falrview
and Distinguished Host
-Simplicity of Bryan
f.'harlcs K. MrClatehley, editor of
the Saerumento Bee, writes as follows
of his visit to William J. Bryan at the
Fairview farm:
Bryan has a charming home, a beau
tiful home. It stands on a knoll, and
is certainly well named ' Fairview."
Prom the lawn you enu sou the spires
and homes of Unoulu, the attractive
farms and country residences round
about, the mountains inMhe distance,
and all over that rich pervading green
from foliage and from grass a green
that preaches rest and content to the
eye and seems to promise them to the
heart.
Bryan has ItiO acres here, and he cer
tainly has made, of it a beauty spot
Ho man could grumble at farm life had
he a farm like Bryan's. It has every
eonvenience known to modern neces
sity, and even luxury. Practically every
thing the Bryan eat they grow or raise
on this fair farm. And everything about
it everywhere is as clean as a pin, as
swet as the oveuing air breathing tin
its own vast carpet of undulating green.
Bryan's Den Evokes Bapture.
And the house itself. Well, the house
is certainly ft home! Its broad ap
proaches, its sweeping entrances, its
spacions rooms, every one seemingly is
suiug a friendly invitation to its neigh
bor to get in and be sociable- every
thing about the house breathers an air
of open-handed ami open hearted hns
pitality.
And Bryan's private den! He insisted
upon us seeing that afterward, nnd sit
ting thereiu and chatting for a few
minutes.
Talk about all tho comforts of home!
Why, to a newspaper man who knows
how to appreciate such a haven of rest,
that den has nil tho comforts of hea
ven. And it was in delightful, delicious,
delirious disorder, too that disorder
which is daily torture to the soul of
the good housewiie, but to the worker
breathes forth nn almost living em
bodiment of heaven's first law.
Nobody but Bryan could tell where
anything on earth could be found in
that room and I venture that Bryan
never could find a single paper after
anyone started to clean it up and "ar
range things neatly. "
No Veneer About Bryan.
But to return to the story: When
Bryan and Mrs. Brynn were through
with the Virginia delegation, having
'had their pictures took," several of
the thirsty delegates found there was
no water left in tho crock by the front
porch. Hearing of it, Bryan escorted
the crowd to the side of the house by
the windmill. He personally turned on
the fauset from a deep driven well, ami
handed to each iu turn as splendid a
glaBS of "Adams' ale" as ever came
from the bosom of Mother Karth pure,
sweet, soft and cold.
Many another mail would have scut a
servant out to, wait upon the crowd.
Many another man would simply have
told the crowd where the water was and
Jet them help themselves. Not so with
America's great Commoner. He stood
there smiling and hatless, filling each
glass in turn to the accompaniment of
kindly, happy remarks.
Simple and Unaffected,
It was certainly very democratic on
bis part but it was not affected de
inoeracy. It was the simple, unaffected,
outward act uf his own simple, unaf
fected, inward nature. His every day
iife. is made up of just such little simple
uets as was shown all through that
pleasant nfternoon of Friday.
Whatever else some people may think
.Bryan is anil it will ever be impossible
for the world to agree with any man
no one who knows him will say that hi
is aught but a simple, honest, unaf
feeted, sterling American you could
scrape him nil day and you could not
find the faintest trace of veneer.
Von don't have to fathom the man.
What he is he is, hight out in the open
sunshine. He is as simple and unaf
fected as a child. There is ubsolutely
no "style" about him, no make-believe,
no veneer no sham. He is "straight
goods" from tho skin to the heart, and
from the heart out again.
All His Neighbors Love Him.
That is why all his neighbors love
him.
Thati s why, republican and demo
erat alike, they have been flocking to
his home to shake him by the hand.
That is why they speak to him and
of him as " William."
Thati s why, even in the presence
of the honor that has been showered
upon this man, they find time to ask
him homely questions about homely
neighborhood topics topics that
breathe of the life of the soil, of the
marvelous miracles of reproduction, of
the thousand nnd one liitle things that
neighbors, especially if farmers, think
to talk about.
And in the midst of it all, this siin
pie, great mnn nil the greater because
of his simplicity finds time to answer
their homely inquiries and to ask iu
return affectionate questions about
their intimate farm and home life.
The flimpls Man the Ore a test.
1 wish all young Americans could
know and become well acquainted with
William Jennings Bryan not as a
candidate for president, not as a pub
lie figure, particularly, but merely as s
man.
They would surely become better
Americans therefor, better men. They
would then learn that your true geu
tlemau is known by the cut of his heart
and the fit of his soul, aud not by the
cut of l.'s coat and the fit of his trous
ers. They would then become awure that
iu order to bo really great, it is not
uecesNiiry for a mau to embalm him
self in diguitv's cold storage plant, to
exile his heart in the ice house of snob
bish culture, and to array his soul in the
tuxedo of cxclusiveness.
They would then become eertuiu that
simplicity is really the truest budge of
greatness; and that . the man natural,
and uot the man veneered, is closer to
tho great heart of the All-Seeing.
LESLIE CARTER DECLARED
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CHICAGO, July 21. Leslie Carter,
former husband of tho famous actress,
was tuduy declared mentally incupable
of handling his own business affairs
by a judge of tho probate. A guardian
will be appointed to attend to Carter's
timiucial matters.
Judge Cutting's order was tho result
of a petition filed in the court by Helen
Leslie Carter, sister of the broken down
linaucier. The filing of this petition
disclosed that the Carter estate iu
t lit) past few years has dwindled from
more than ;!.noo,000 to $r.1,0tiil.
Carter was formerly president of the
South Side elevated railroad, and one of
the foremost tinauciers iu Chicago.
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