Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1896-07-17
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES,

William Jennings Bryan was born March
10, 1860, in Salem, Illinois He was taught
under his mothers care until he was ten
years old, when he went to the public school
at Salem, which he attended for five years.
At the age of fifteen he went to the Whipple
Academy, in Jacksonville, ILL.,, which is the
preparatory department of the Illinois Col
lege, located at the same place. He spent
two years in the academy and four years in
the college, taking classical course. He
represented his college in the interstate
oratorical contest in 1880 and was class ora
tor and valedictorian in 1881. He then went
to the Union College of Law, in Chicago,
and while in attendance there was in the
office of Lyman Trumbull. He left the law
school June IS, 1888, and went to Jackson
vile to practice law, remaining at Jackson
vile till October 1887, when he removed to
Lincoln, Nebraska, going into partnership
with A. r Talbot, classmate of the law
school.
He had taken part in political campaigns
since 1880 and made a number of speeches
He took part in the campaign o: 1888 in
Nebraska and was nominated to represent
the first district in Congress in 1890. He was
elected by the majority of 6,713, although
the district had gone Republican by 3,400
when Secretary Morton had been defeated
in 1888 and was thought to be certainly Re,
publican.
He supported William M. Springer tor
Speaker in the Fifty second Congress, from
whose district in Illinois he came originally.
This led to his being put on the Ways and
Means Committee in Congress, of which
Mr.. Springer was chairman, and March is,
1899, he made tariff speech that was the
sensation of the day and was literally dis
tributed as campaign literature. He was
re elected in 1892 by 140 majority, in spite
of the fact that the Legislature had redis.
trcted the State and his district in the pre-.
vious election had given the Republican
ticket about 5000 majority.
In the Fifty third Congress he helped to
frame the Wilson bill, being a 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
being more largely circulated than the tariff
speech had been. He also spoke in favor of
the bill to coin the seigniorage and spoke
against Carlisles currency policy, as also
against Clevelands gold contract with the
bankers.
In appearance Mr.. Bryan is impressive,
his face indicating intellectually and power
as well as good nature. There is notable
absence OF the boyish look seen in the pic
lures and Autographs of him which have
been circulated. He is affabe and kindly in
manner, easily approachable and does not
lack dignity. In appearance he is an illus
tration of the fact that some men are never
accorded justice by a picture, which, in his
case, does not prepare one for the expires,
sion of keenness shown in his face.
Arthur Sewall, candidate for Vice Presi-
dent, was born in Bath, Maine, November
25, 1895, of stock long prominent and hon
ored in his State and identified with the
Democratic party from its birth. He inner.
tied capacity for large business interests,
as did also his brother Edward, and while
yet very young man, with his brother he
assumed the management of the large ship
building plant which had been developed
by his father and his grandfather. Through
the combined energies and abilities of the
two brothers the business grew ind the
ships multiplied until, when American ship
ping had reached its heyday, there were few
ports in the world in which there could not
be seen at any time at the top Of a lofty
mainmast the navy blue square supporting
the white as
The Sewall family has always been Dem
ocratlc, although as family it has seldom
or never sought to control in any way party
action in either municipal or State affairs.
Twenty years ago this fall, when Indiana