At a recent political convention two of the delegates were discussing the religious affiliations of prominent statesmen, when one of them, a Baptist, observed to the other, who was a Methodist:
I understand that William Jennings Bryan has turned Baptist.
What? exclaimed the Methodist. "Why, that can't be!"
Yes, it is, persisted the Baptist.
No, sir, continued the Methodist; "it can't be true. To become a
Baptist one must be entirely immersed."
Yes, that is very true; but what has that to do with it?
Simply this, returned the Methodist: "Mr. Bryan would never consent to disappear from public view as long as that."