WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
Mr. W. J. Bryan, the new American Secretary of State, is the most indefatigable of public orators. Once, during one of his candidatures for the Presidency, he made no fewer, than 13 different speeches in 13 different towns in the course of a single day, his audiences being computed at about 100,000. He was to have made a fourteenth speech, but when the time came for delivering it he was fast asleep in the train in which he was touring. It seemed cruel to,wake him, so one of the newspaper’, correspondents accompanying him, who happened to bear a close facial resemblance to Mr. Bryan, borrowed Mr. Bryan’s slouch hat, personated him, and made the speech which he thought Mr. Bryan would have liked to make. The reporters took it down,, the newspapers printed it as Mr. Bryan’s, and it, was not until after the campaign was over that the secret of its authorship was revealed.
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New Zealand Tablet, 19 June 1913, Page 62
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