The Butler weekly times., 1896-07-30
BRYAN NO PRODIGY.
DIipssd by Many Who Reached
Fame at Earlier Age.
,..eoeiiy Of Alexander Hamilton, .ef-
h,rson, Madison, Menroe, JAY,
Jackson and Webster.


Jackson and Webster.
NV York Herald
While the selection OF the 80 o
salesman from Nebraska is with out
sset parallel in the history Of presi-
Initial nominations, Mr.. Bryan is
~ no means extraordinarily young,
| = judged by the careers OF many OF
| lie men who have exercised the most
,otsnt influence in ths affairs of the
npublic.
We're Mr. Bryan to be elected
President he would become Chief
Magistrate at 81, ten years younger
han was Grant when chosen to the
anne Office. The latter was, as every
ono knows, the youngest OF Arnerl
an Presidents. But, Oh the other
hand, the Boy Orator OF the Platte
d late in achieving national renown
| y compared with many other of our
Ioremost men. It is, indeed, curl
QUO fact that tho republic, in its for
' native period, was practically domi-
atsd by young men. All the chief
igures Of the Revolutionary period,
With the exception of Washington,
John Adams and two or three others,
we're much younger than MIR. Bryan
Npow.
ALEXANDER HAMILToNs PRECOCITY.
As an example of youthful prsco,
city, the career of Alexander Hamil
ton was undoubtedly the most re.
uarkable among those of all the
Young men of eminence whom this
country has produced. Hamilton
vas practically a famous man-as
iamous as Mr.. Bryan the day after
bis great speech at Chicago-at 25
1t was in that year that he entered
Congress, and from that time on he
VAS one Of the most powerful figures
Of the time. At 30 he was a leading
member OF the Constitutional Con
vention of 1881. which drafted what
MrGlsistone calls''the most remark
able document ever struck Oft from
the brain of man 1t was Hamilton
Who, more than any other man, CAV.
bis impress upon that wonderful
document, and it was he who saved
this country from being given a gov
srnment of the loose and dscentral
ied character which the school 0
Jefferson desired
II was natural therefore. tha
Hamilton should be called by Wash
ngton as the first Secretary of tn
Treasury and given charge of tn
shaping Of the uations currency
dc was then 81, and at 33 he sen
70 Congress his first report on tn
public credit" which ranks as one c
The great State papers OF this uatio
and is part of the foundation of or
form OF government.
Alter Hamilton, jefferson prob,
e!y takes rank III the matter {
Youthful pre- emiuence. The latte
vas only 33 when his almostinspire
pen wrote the Declaration of Ind,
pendence. But jefferson was alread
nationally known some tine befol
tals, and next TO Washington, an
sespite his age, was the most prom
'aent citizen of Virginia. He W,
uovernor OF that State at the age
se.
Madison, fainiliarly known Ms Il
Father OF the Constitution, enters
congress when he was IS and il
nsdiately took u leading rank i'll Il
eouucils OF the young nation VII,
ae began the making of the nation
enarter he was only 36, and il WAS
t0ls age that he made his contrib
aons, along with Hamilton and OF
ers, to the celebrated "Federalist
Monroe, OF whose notable doctril
q regards foreign intervention {
nus continent we have heard We
much in the last year, was thr