_From The New York World._
Unspeakable treachery, not only to the President, but to the nation.
_From The Buffalo Enquirer._
If Mr. Bryan goes on, he will share the detestation of the most
despised character in American history.
_From The Buffalo Courier._
The new note to Germany puts Emperor William and former Secretary
Bryan in the same hole.
_From The Utica Observer._
He turns tail in the face of a crisis and seeks refuge by counseling
dishonor.
_From The Louisville Courier-Journal, (Henry Watterson.)_
Treason to the country, treachery to his party and its official head.
_From The Portland (Me.) Eastern Argus._
Bryan's announced campaign has something of the character of submarine
warfare.
_From The Helena (Mon.) Independent._
As much mistaken in this instance as in years gone by.
_From The Lexington (Ky.) Herald._
His propaganda is designed and intended "to defeat the measures of the
Government of the United States" in violation of Section 5, [of the
law of treason.]
_From The Mobile Register._
If Germany is misled into actions still further violative of our
rights, the resultant hostility will be very largely attributable to
Mr. Bryan.
_From The Columbia (S.C.) State._
The President's clear head may now be trusted the more that his
methods of thinking are relieved of opposition in the Cabinet.
_From The Montgomery Advertiser._
He will go back to his first love, agitation.
_From The Richmond Times-Dispatch._
Wilson, not Bryan, strikes the note to which the hearts of the
American people respond.
_From The Savannah News._
The people are following the President and not Mr. Bryan.
_From The Austin (Texas) Statesman._
Mr. Bryan's diplomacy has not been of the type that has inspired the
confidence of the American people.
_From The Charleston News and Courier._
The bald and ugly fact will remain--he deserted his chief and his
Government in the midst of an international crisis.
_From The Memphis Commercial-Appeal._
Mr. Bryan's views, turned into a national policy, would mean national
suicide.
_From The Brooklyn Eagle._
An obstacle has seen fit to remove itself; it has substituted harmony
for discordance.
_From The Boston Post._
Mr. Bryan has shabbily infringed that good American doctrine that
politics should end at the water's edge.
_From The Baltimore Sun._
The Germans torpedo one "Nebraskan." Oh, for a "Busy Bertha" that
could effectually dispose of the other one!
_From The Charlotte Observer._
The country simply was afraid of him.
_From The Cleveland Plain Dealer._
He is a preacher of disloyalty.
_From The Chattanooga Times._
The reason given for his resignation ... approximates disloyalty, if
nothing else; a monstrous statement.
_From The New Orleans Times-Picayune._
His voluntary resignation will give satisfaction.