The herald., 1896-08-14
As 70 Rryan's Name

Editor Herald The Los Angeles Times
of August eth. (to its credit. be it said)
does not print but treats jokingly the
! letter of the young man in Portland who
| sees such fine opportunity to display
himself and bore the public with more
' nonsense about the Hon. William j.
| Bryan's name. 1t says:
The Times is in receipt of letter from
! Mr.. J. Harvey OBryan, secretary of the
! board of fire underwriters of Portland,
, Or. in which that gentleman takes to
! task Miss Lizzie NJ. Donahey of Council
| Bluffs. an interview with whom was
published in The Herald of July %. Mr..
| O'Bryan directly accuses the lady in
| question of having uttered several no
! such thingS-that Is, if the interviewer
| Ga Mr.. Wolcott) has not reported her
Incorrectly. Mr.. O'Bryan says that he
got from w. j. O'Bryan's own father
the story of the sons dropping the 20"
from his name. n significant fact going
to prove their relationship is that Bry-
ans middle name is Jennings, that be-
ing tine name of the Portland O'Bryans
grandmother. The Portland O'Bryan
evidently has no desire to drop the 20"
out of his name. On the contre> he is
proud of it. and would wear one as big
as a cartwheel forninst his last name if
he only knew where to look for it,"
You will notice that this Portland
:
self in his first interview, which was
given such wide circulation. That when
! replied took the ground that it was no
matter how Irish Bryan's name nor how
he spelled it, it was the man and the
grand cause which he championed that
We're paramount, not his name nor the
incident of birth
Also please notice that the Portland
fellow calls particular attention to him
self as secretary of the board of fire un
derwriters of the city of Portland. Such
a long named position connected with
such an insignificant person as he has
certainly proven himself tobe, might de-
ceive many into thinking tha he and
the position amounted to something and
that his word really had weight
The above article says ne takes to task
Miss Lizzie NJ. Donahey (she is of Los
Angeles now) for (plainly speaking)
telling falsehoods in her interview with
me. 1t is plainly evident that he can
not be "the gentleman" which the Times
very courteously termed him.
/ will say this for Miss Donahey: She
is utterly incapable of telling a false
hood that the article was entirely cor
rect and further that | am the ONE to
hold for any shortcomings in the mat
ter if any there be.
Further, several correspondents have
taken pains to nail the idiotic campaign
lie early. Among them l wish to refer
to Miss Kate Mills letter in the San
Francisco Examiner of July 18th and
Mrs. a. A. Henry of Redlands, Cal. in
the Herald of August I'd. A noticeable
fact is that all these correspondents
are ladies' and the statements are all
equally srong and that there never was
an co. to Bryan's name is corroborated
by all and in consideration of this fact
! trust you will kindly give space to this
communication.
1t is Il we'll attested fact that Judge
Silas l.. Bryan wrote his name invaria-
bly, Bryan and that the distinguished
son of this eminent man has likewise
always written it Bryan" and that it
always has been Bryan
To complete the O'Bryan's fiction he
should Immediately drop his "O"; this
would strengthen his claim to relation
ship. The fact (assurned to be a fact)
that Mr. Portland O Bryan's grand
mother or great. great grandmother S
name happened to be Jenkins or even
Jennings is as immaterial in the one case
as the other.
Should O'Bryan prove his relationship
Gas he cannot do) it ought to be no argu-
ment against voting for w. j. Bryan
for there are black sheep in every flock
ana the O'Bryan would be no exception.
NELSON A WOLCOTT