The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-13
Ii / BRYAN. THE NOMINEE.
THE FREE COINAGE CHAM
nv HECAME PROMINENT.

.t.. hy ThurstOn.
~ ..f as a presidential candidate the
--.--sble thing about William /
-...--- Bryan in his youth by ''e -
...-..a a man may not be ffeslue.i'
lie is So years old Bryan Is ohly
H.. ssv1rite decade IN life from "nlcn
...-s- a President has been the SIKH
fr-n they were nominated or
-..r bv the popular voice before con-
..- 4,vs their ages ran IN this WISE
.-t-sr5n. IS; Jefferson, 81 AadlsOh'
Monroe. IS: John quincy Adams 81
t.-a7 q: Lincoln, 81; Hayes. 81, and
.--sun Harrison, 90
---. Presidents above sixty at the tlIle
.. .-.I- election were: John Adams o.
...- 81. William Henry Harrison. 81;
.- ~ and Buchanan. 6J. Those be-
e..v were. Polk, ~; pierce. IS;
. &. GARFIELD, 49. and Cleveland, AZ.
N cleveland was 50 at his second cleo
~ The Vice President VINO became
k-.s.Iants were at their elections Of the
1 r,..r- ages. Tyler. 50; Fillmore, IS;
---oa IS. and Arthur, 50.
Irrau is ten years gOull5NA tAAe-Aa
-- Grant when he was nominated, TWEEN
-.. wears younger than John ADAMS
d Jackson. and thirty-one years youh5eI
-~ Inc elder Harrison, who was the
s.st man ever yet nominated IOI fEeSi-
ind though he holds the age over James
-.tauar by two years only. Inc constl-
--.lr REQUIRES the President TO be So SO
fat Mr Bryan just skips over the Doun-
a.otbsr remarkable thing about the
IN, orator of the great waste IS the eN-
rr3e brevity of the political career thaL
n put him al the head and front OF
: marty. Ii is only eight years ago tnat
- 5-st went into politics, and II IS only
lr years since he attained nauohal
-9l-atiou by a sensational speech IN tar
r4form in the House of Representa-
r. was March 10, 1860, that Mr.. Bryan
~ horn. at Salem, in Marion county, Illl-
To- His father Silas l.. Bryan, was a
4aVyer of standing and integrity, WHO
kerved his district eight years IN the lll-
IL Senate and was afterward twelve
ears circuit court judge
The BrVans lived on q farm just out
tide the corporation limits, and II was
there that the boy now a national candi-
H. passed his early youth. From the
tublic schools he went 10 Whipple Acad-
tmv at Jacksonville, ILL.,, at the age OF
and two years later entered the fresh
han class Of Illinois College, in the same
Fortune smiled upon young Bryan even
those early days, for when he was grad
Mated. in June 1881, 1t was with the highest
Honors While at college he began to de-
telop hts oratorical ability, and in his
eni0r year represented his college in an
Intercollegiate Oratorical contest at Gales
furg In this he took second prize, but
effort there earned him the honor of
tsing chosen class orator on graduation
~
Leaving Jacksonville, Mr.. Bryan enter
u Union Law College, in Chicago, having
thosen 10 follow in his fathers profession.
the same time he became connected
18th the law office of Senator Lyman
ITumbull, so that when he was graduated
nom the law college he was experienced
Nj only In the theory but in the practical
Workings of the law. 1t was double work
~ him for two years, but he made little
% that as he did through his later life,
~ his acts being marked by ceaseless ac-
Nvity and indomitable energy.
Whatever Mr.. Bryan did he did with
n his might.
When it came time to hang out his
thingle he returned to Jacksonville,
4 here he had passed so many years in
liy, There was in Jacksonville a
Dung woman who had been a student
a seminary there while young Bryan
as at college, and no one doubted thai
was she who attracted him back to
miliar scenes, for year later they
Nere married.
Pm the fall of 1887 business called Mr..
kryan to Nebraska, and while there he
came Impressed with the greater op-
prtqnites which the newer and more
pdly developing west offered a young
4an He opened a law office in Lin
in the capital of the state, and in less
al nan a year he had made his first
lnge into politics.
IL is interesting to note the success
az attended his first political effort.
was delegate to the democratic
aye convention, which met in Omaha
Nay 1888 to choose delegates to the
tl1hal convention at st. Louis. Dur
an lnterlude in the proceedings some
Beech
y was not as favorable an occasion as
5ilV nave been wished, but young Bryan
ale me most of it. He soon had the
HoIe convention captive. Devoting him
exclusively to the tariff then an all
Sytpng issue with the Nebraska people
brought the vast audience to its feet
VI responsive cheer after cheer The
5Uslh OF his logic and arguments, COM
Ael with his brilliancy and eIoquenee
a irresistible, and he there and then laid
81 Ill foundation for state reputation
SCnnanding, indeed, were the tai.
". lhls remarkable young man thai
very next year he was offered the
-1-Idtlc nomination for lieutenant
aHor. This he declined, but he tool
aglve part in the campaign, making
Su more than fifty speeches
He.aalhume ]. Sterling Morton, at the
I'm OF 1888, had been defeated fol
sagss py his republican opponent w
CoNielI, by more than 5000 majority
lgugh the district two years before hac
6 M" ID democratic majority of nearl,
~ mere was need of a new Moses
6ci3d{5 younger democrats of the distric
L. su mat Bryan was the man to Leaf
%aen ne was offered the congressiona
Il 70 &c sal .ion IN 1890, Cornell being a candi
,6e ioI reelection, Bryan said:
Lse there is no show for an cleo
81 '' VIII make the race and do m,
ny NIX. y years old at the time, he put al
NngAt into the fight
WlH advocate the demoora+io v~;v,
"a l'st-;teatI III reform on every stump Il
II 49, ne said, and he carried GU
q 5,19' II was herculean labor 70
u's.tict was made up of nine co,,n+ie
G0 F9'-e1 total vote of more thaI
s,,s supposed that Bryan had anv nros
III vi success. Bryan was nor anon
rgaI.loer He had nothing to lose h
S, rnes. f ufe, and much to gain. He wa
+ var IN ms convictions, and he ha
81 5nor. ,,-e tariff question sound study
bsrr ne district from one end 70 ~
~ t6r ana wherever his silyer-tora,,1a
rts was heard there he made cor
Iis ne ne defeated Council by 6.713 vote,
Il gtr{o,' tpearance on the stump in tha
bn T. !du been something of a revel9
eaeL NE people. He made a tari
Il snas IN OF the picturesques in the a,