For 24 years Bryan has been a potent factor in democratic politics, but now his influence has gone and his hope is the Chautauqua or anti-saloon league lecture platform. Bryan is in a bad fix. He telegraphed to the paper which he reported, a few days ago that "President Wilson is in a Dickens of a fix." That describes Bryan's position. He has denounced and opposed Cox as he did every other prominent candidate for the democratic nomination for president. He can hardly support the republican nominee for that would surely be political suicide, if a man who is already dead politically can commit suicide. He can join with Senator Reed, of Missouri and the disgruntled bunch from the republican convention and start a little party of "has-beens" but there will be little satisfaction in that. Bryan has seen his day. His sun is set.

Unfortunately for prohibition orators of ordinary caliber, the prohibition law was not made an issue in the coming presidential campaign. Leaders of both political parties realized that slavery, woman suffrage, and prohibition have ceased to be an issue as they have all been settled by constitutional amendment. Some of these poor people who have lived off of the public by the "sweat of their jaws" for "to these many years" are now confronted with the dreadful alternative of going to work or of finding some other hobby by which money can be extracted from a gullible public. They cannot all do like "Pussey Foot" Johnson, go to England and try to put Europe dry. The Chautauqua platform is crowded with such as they and there seem to be few avenues escape work for these.  People. 