The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-07-16
eRYAN,s CAREER.
A Short Sketch of tho Life of the DemO'
 cratic Nominee for President.

cratic Nominee for President CHICAGO. July 1l.--Mr. Bryan was born March 1g ISi %, in Salem. IL At the age of ls he went to the Whipple academy in Jackson. vile, H.. which is the preparatory department of the Illinois college located at the same place. He spent two years in the academy ana four years in the college, taking classical course. He then went to the Union College of Law in Chicago, and while in attendance thero he was in the office of Lyman Trumbull. He left the law school June lS 1S8s, ana went to Jacksonville to practice law, remain ing at Jacksonville till October, lss7, when he removed to Lincoln, Neb., going into partner ship with A. R. Talbott, classmate of the law school. He had taken part in political cam- paigns since 1880 and made number or speeches. He took part in the campaign of 1888 in Nebraska and was nominated to repre- sent the First district in congress in 1890 He was reelected in 1892, in spite of the fact that the legislature had redistricted the state, and his district in the previous elec- tion had given the republican ticket about 5000 majority, and was reelected by 1i0 votes. In the Fifty-Thrd congress he helped to frame the Wilson bill, being member of the ways and means committee, and took an especially active part in the income tax provisions. At the close of the debate on the income tax in congress. replying to Bourke Cock. ran, August 16, 1893, at the special session, he delivered three hours speech against the repeal of the Sherman law, this speech be- ing more largely circulated than the tariff speech had been. He also spoke fin favor of the bill to coin the seigniorage. and spoke against Carlisle's currency and also against Clevelands gold contract with the Roths- childs.
 In 1894 he became candidate for the United States senate and announced that he would not be candidate for the lower house of cons gress. He was nominated for United States senator in the democratic convention and the pOpulist candidate in his district was in- dorsed by the democrats for the house of representatives The ensu. ing state legislature being republican, John M Thurston was sent to the senate. and the republican candidate in his former dis- trict, J. B. Strode, was elected by 5000 major ity. After his retirement from congress ho but the silver campaign opening he found that the calls upon him for speeches were so fre- quent that he was forced to give up his law practice. In September, ls9i, he became the editor-in-chief of the Omaha World Herald and had control of its editorial policy on state and national questions.
 Mir. Bryan is a man of small means He was married October 1. 1884, to Mary Baird, of Perry, Ill who attended the female academy in Jacksonville when he was in the other school at the same place, and who graduated the same week that he did, and was also tho yaledictorian Of her class. She studied law and was admitted to the bar, without any idea of practicing, but simply to be more thorough ly companionable to him She is a year or two younger than he Three children have been born to them, Ruth. ten years old: William J.s Jr.. about g, and Grace, five years old