Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-13

In the SD congress he helped to fran,
the Wilson bill, being a member of the
ways and means committee, and took al
specially active part in the income ak
provisions. At the close Of the debate OF
the income tax in congress, replying te
Bourke Cochran, August 6, 1893, at thu
special session, he delivered a three
hours speech against the repeal of the
Sherman law, the speech being more
largely circulated than the tariff specla
had been. He also spoke in favor of the
bill to coin the seigniorage and spoke
against Carlisle's financial policy and also
against Cleveland's gold contract with the
Rothschilds. In 1894 be became candi.
date for the United States senate and an.
nounced that he would not be candidate
for the lower house of congress. He was
, nominated for United States senator in
the Democratic convention and the Popu
list candidate in his district was indorsed
by the Democrats for the house of rep
resentatives. The ensuing state legisla.
ture being Republican, John M. Thurston
was sent to the senate and the Republican
candidate in his former district, j. B
Strobe was elected by 5000 majority
During all three of the campaigns he chal
lenged the opposing candidates to de-
bate and several discussions were held.
Through his debates on finance with
Senator John M. Thurston he became
much better known as a champion of sill
YER. In 1890, when he ran against Thurs
ton, he challenged his adversary to a
se'sss of j'int debates and made so bril-
licpt showing that he carried the dis
trict by tremendous majority.
After his retirement from congress he
took up the practice of law in Lincoln
again, but the silver campaign opening
he found that the calls upon him for
speeches and campaign work were so fre-
quent that he was forced to give up his
law practice.
In September, 1894, he became the
editor of the Omaha World-Herald and
had control of its editorial policy on
state and national questions.
Mr.. Bryan is man of some means. He
was married in October l, 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 the valedlctorian of her
class.
She studied law and was admitted to
the bar, without any idea of practcing,
but simply to be more thoroughly COM
panionable to him.
She is year or two younger than he.
Three children have been born to them.
Ruth, 10 years old, William j. jr., about
7, and Grace, years old.
Mr.. Bryan is a Presbyterian, having
Joined the Cumberland Presbyterian
church at the age of IA. He is now a
member of the First Presbyterian church
at Lincoln. His father was Silas L. Bry-
an, who was circuit judge at the time of
his sons birth, and served in that capac-
ity to 1872 on the bench of Illinois.
Judge Bryan moved on a farm a
short distance from Salem, when
his son was years of age, and from
that time until he was 23 years of age,
Bryan spent his summers on the farm. In
1872 his father ran for congress on the
Greeley ticket and was defeated by 240
votes. His family comes from Virginia
His father was born in Culpeper Court
House in that state and died in Salem, ILL.,,
in 1880. His mother, whose name was
Maria Elizabeth Jennings, was born in
Marion county, ILL.,, and died in Salem a
week ago last Saturday, after protracted
illness.
Mr.. Bryan's friends figure that he should
be an influential factor with the Popullsts
since it was much through his efforts that
boN ahr Oh nar ruopfion kxpf
years ago Endorsed Silas A. Holcomb, the
Popnlist nominee for governor, and by
virtue of fusion defeated Thomas Majors
the candidate leading the Republican
forces.
TIE vIcE-PREsIDENTIAL NOMINEE.
Chicago.-Hon. Arthur Sewall, the vet
eran Democrat and free coinage man
from Maine, is nearly twice as old as the
head of the ticket. He is much older than
he looks. He is splendid example OF
physical manhood, carries himself with
soldierly bearing and is what might be
termed fine looking man. His hair and
mustache are slightly tinged with gray
but the wrinkles of age have scarcely
made their appearance on his face.
He was born in Bath, Me-, November
26, 1885. The estate on which he was
born and where he now resides has been
in possession of the Sewall family since
1850. His grandfather fought in the wal
of the revolution. By occupation Mr.
Sewall was originally ship-builder, and
is now largely interested in shipping
railways and banking. For nine years he
was president of the Maine Central rail
way from which position he retired two
years ago. He is now president of the
bank at Bath, is interested in the Batt
iron works and number of other com
mercial enterprises. Altogether he has
for years employed largs number O
men and he has never had any serious
labor troubles.
Mr.. Sewall was married in 1859 tt
Emma D. Crocker, of Bath. He has two
children living, both of them sons, Harold
M. and William D. Sewall by name.
Mr.. Sewall has not as yet determined
when he will return home. He expects tt
remain In Chicago several days.