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xR. BRYAN IN THE 1900 CAMPAIGN.

ct. A second time Bryanswent down
to defeat, but gracefully and with
good cheer.
He was at his home In Lincoln on
election day. ate an early dinner. went
upstairs at about o'clock and slept
soundly until IL. when he came down
and discovered that he was badly
beaten. He smiled to the assembled
reporters, returned 10 his bed and slept
soundly until morning. 1t was said
by those present that he evinced not
the slightest sign OF disappointment.
Mr.. Bryan did not seek the nomina-
ton in 1904. He was quite willing for
the disaffected wing of the Democracy
to name the ticket just to see IL that
element could do better than the other.
He attended the convention in st
Louis as a delegate. made an amazing
fight for a platform upon which he and
his supporters could stand and won the
fight by sheer force of brain and
Drawn. He arose from his bed on the
early morning of the last day of the
convention, though threatened with
pneumonia. and just as the dawn was
breaking over the city he delivered
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Bryan and the Presidency

long. were delivered by him on several
days, while 1t was an ordinary thing
for him to address twenty crowds at
twenty different towns in twenty
hours. The candidate showed phv-
sique and voice that stood the tre-
mendous strain with marvellous endur
ance. AS the campaign progressed and
the fame OF Bryan spread people got
to sitting up all night and travelling
many miles just to hear the phenome-
non speak.
Bryan's first appearance In the east
was on the 18th OF August, when he
delivered his speech of acceptance of
the nomination. Madison Square Gar
den was packed with a suffocating
mass OF men and women, though Ii
was one OF the hottest days ever known
In New York and dozen persons had
Bryan read that speech from manu-
script, disappointing thing. for 1t de-
tracted greatly from his eloquence.
But the candidate was well aware that
great issues hinged upon his utterances
on that important occasion. aud he did
not care TO trust himself to the I'M
curbed enthusiasm of the moment.
With Arthur Sewall Of Maine, the
vice presidential candidate, Bryan went
down to defeat at the November cleo
ton. though he had been nominated
also by the Populist party. with
Thomas f. Watson of Georgia as the
vice presidential candidate on that
ticket Mckinley and Hobart went
into office, and there were those who
predicted that Bryan was forever elm
mated from the Democracy.
Four years later at the Democratic
national convention In Kansas City
Mr.. Bryan was renominated by accla-
nation. There was absolutely no other
candidate suggested for the nomina-
ton. For vice president Adlai Il. Ste
venson of Bloomington. ILL.,. who had
been vice president during Cleveland's
second term. was named. The war
with Spain and our consequent acquisi-
ton OF the Philippine Islands had
brought new issues into politics. but
the silver plank was reinserted into
the Democratic platform. Mr.. Bryan
declining TO stand for the nomination
without II. Ii was expressly declared
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WILLIAM :. BRYAN IN 1895.

| you shall not press down upon the
| brow Of labor this crown OF thorns. You
shall not cruelty mankind upon cross
Of gold"
! ard. The mighty chasm widened at
the convention. Congressman Richard
p. Bland OF Missouri, silver Dick"
the old war horse of the free silver
coinage movement, was the logical and
| apparently the inevitable candidate for
| the presidency. His nomination seem
ed to be a certainty until thing hap
pened hitherto unprecedented In Amer
lean politics.
| Bryan of Nebraska, known as "the
silver tongued orator" and "the boy
orator OF the Platte" mounted the plat
| form and delivered brief but bold
and masterful speech. His vibrant
voice rang out over the heads of the
| 1900 persons in the vast hall. pene-
trsting with clarion intonation to the
farthest corners. The customary up
roar of great political convention,
which the strongest of oratorical lungs,
as rule. cannot quell entirely. was
hushed into Undertaking. awe. No such
eloquence ever before had been heard
In national convention. The man
and the occasion had met. and the man
had mastered the occasion. The ad-
dress was an impassioned appeal for
bimetallism and an exalted glorifica-
ton of the new Democratic financial
doctrine. When the orator closed with
his epoch making metaphor of 'the
cross of gold and crown Of thorns"
the enthusiastic appreciation Of his
sentiments and of the man himself
was indicated by whirlwind Of APP
plause beyond description.
And William Jennings Bryan was
nominated for the presidency of the
United States.
Flashed to the remotest reaches of
the nation, the news was the most SEN
sational political titbit that ever took
the wires. Bryan was but one year
above the minimum age required by
the constitution Of the United States
for n president. While some of his
speeches in congress few years be-
fore had given him momentary repu-
tation, he was practically unknown to
the nation at large, and particularly
so to the great eastern section of the
country Never before had great
party nominated for president man
living west of the Mississippi river.
Never before had so young a man
been nominated. Never before had an
orator won the great prize by single
speech. Democrats, Republicans. Pop
ulists, everybody wondered how the
newcomer would conduct himself In
the campaign.
Presently the wonder turned to
amazement. Young Mr.. Bryan was a
campaigner-there was no doubt as to
that. He injected into American poll
tics presidential campaign such as
the nation never knew before. Men
called 1t whirlwind campaign, and
such it was. The whirlwind road was
the railroad, and it carried the candi-
date up and down and across the land
upon an amazing schedule Of travelling
and talking. Mr.. Bryan Travelled in
that campaign more than $4,000 miles
and delivered considerably more than
1000 speeches. He made forty-nine
speeches In one day in New York
state. Thirty-tive addresses, short and
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In that convention to the vast throng
which had waited and sweated and
fretted all night long just to hear him
a speech which for pathos and power
and thrill no inveterate convention fol-
lower ever heard equaled. The Demo
cratic ticket. Judge Alton b. Parker
of New York and ex-senator Henry G..
Davis of West Virginia. was defeated
In November inexpressibly worse than
was Bryan in either of his campaigns.
The discovery of vast deposits of
gold in Alaska and elsewhere since the
free silver campaigns has eliminated
the money issue from politics. Mr..
Bryan has accepted this fact and now
stands upon other Democratic issues.
Despite all opposition. he has domi-
mated the national Democracy for
twelve years. For several years past
he has given expression to his views
in the weekly journal, the Commoner.
which he established at Lincoln. He
has removed to fine farm near Lin
coin. built commodious residence and
become known throughout the world
as the great American commoner,"
titular successor to Henry Clay. He
has travelled around the world and
written his impressions for a syndicate
Of American newspapers. He has been
for years the most popular and highest
paid lecturer on the American lyceuE
and Chautauqua circuits. 1t is said
that his income from lecturing alone
is as much as $4,000 a year, the presi.
dents SALARY.
Mr.. Bryan is total abstainer from
alcohol and tobacco. He is member
Of the Presbyterian church and never
works on Sunday. save to deliver re-
ligious address now and then. His
ideal is morality, personal, political
and civic. The Bryan of 1908 looks
older than the Bryan Of 1896. but he Is
no less vigorous and virile than he was
when his voice flashed across the con-
tinent from the Chicago convention hall.
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WILLIAM J. BRYAN, FROM HIS LATEST PHOTOGRAPH.

papers Of all political persuasions call.
the ways and means committee was
William Nj. Springer of Illinois. Spring
er was so delighted with Bryan's free
wool talk that he procured the appoint
ment of the young Nebraskan on his
committee. Old graybeards have sat in
the house for a generation without
achieving that coveted honor. Here
was youngster member so honored In
his first term. Aud when Bryan was
returned to congress for second term
he was continued on that most impor-
tant committee.
In the interim the Nebraska districts
had been reapportioned so that Omaha
was eliminated from the First district.
The district In its new shape was con-
coded to be Republican by about $500.
Judge Allen w. Field of Lincoln. one
of the ablest and most popular Repub-
licans In the state. was nominated to
run against Bryan. He resigned from
the bench. so sanguine of success was
he, but Bryan beat him by 40 votes
When President Cleveland called an
extra session Of congress In the sum
mer of 1893 to push through the repeal
OF the Sherman silver bullion purchas-
Ing act of 1890, the Democratic presi-
dent of the old school unwittingiy gave
to the man of destiny in the new school
of Democracy an altitudinous stepping
stone toward the presidency. Bryan OF
Nebraska. aged th:rty-three, delivered
in the house on the 10th of August a
speech against the repeal of the pur-
chasing clause of the Sherman act
The whole house and most OF the SEN
ate heard 1t. When Bryan ceased
speaking he was picked up by enemies
and friends alike and borne around the
hall on the shoulders Of enthusiasts
who liked ripping fine grafton when
they heard 1t regardless as to whether
Ii suited their politics. Nobody dis
puted that 1t was the greatest speech
Of the extra session.
Bryan declined denomination for
congress In 1894 and became editor of
the Omaha World-Herald. He wanted
to go to the United States senate. The
World-Herald business office made a
contract to run daily on the editorial
page two columns of stuff" paid for
by Republicans, which was inimical to
Bryans prospects. Bryan resigned the
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and was nurturel by wholesome ard
healthful environment in boyhood.
Bryan attended the public schools In
Salem until he was fifteen, when he
entered Whipple academy at Jackson
vile, Ill. Two years later he natricu-
lated In Illinois college, In the same
city, from which institution he was
graduated with honors at the age OF
twenty-one. During his college course
his oratOrical abilities made him prom
inent in middle western collegiate life.
He won the honor of representing his
school In the state contest Of college
orators. He won that contest and rep
resented Illinois In 1881 at the inter
state oratorical contest. held at Gales
burg. ILL.,, where he achieved second
honors. He was class orator at gradu-
alton.
Jacksonville has a female seminary.
In that school Miss Mary t. Baird was
a student while young Bryan was In
Illinois college. She was from Perry,
Ill, and was of excellent family and
an ambitious student. A bright young
man and a bright young woman at
tending college in the same town some
times emphasize the aphorism that like
attracts like. Perhaps that explains
why Bryan, after attending the Union
Law college in Chicago and reading
law at the same time In the office OF
Judge Lyman Trumbull. the celebrated
associate OF Abraham Lincoln, re-
turned to jacksonville to begin the
practice of his profession. Bryan and
Miss Baird were married shortly after
his return. Mrs. Bryan studied law in
order to assist her husband in his pro-
fessional work. After the Bryans re-
moved to Lincoln. Neb., In 1887 Mrs.
Bryan was admitted to the bar. Mr..
Bryan became junior partner in the
law firm of Talbot & Bryan. He be-
lieved there was more opportunity for
a rising young lawyer in new state
a belief assuredly well grounded In his
own case.
Bryan plunged into politics In the
spring Of 1888. and that became his life
vocation instead Of the law. He was
elected delegate to the Democratic
state convention at Omaha, where he
made speech strongly advocating
free trade: also he made reputation
as a speaker. He was only twenty
eight years old, yet the very next year
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the legislature. Mr.. Bryan remained a
William Mckinley also to 8 joint de-
bate on the tariff. but the Ohio tariff
builder declined. Mr.. Mckinley was
destined to meet the Nebraskan In a
broader contest little later.
| In the meantime MIR. Bryan was
happy at home with his little family,
the helpful wife and three children.
The children now are grown up. Ruth
is Mrs. William ii. Leavitt and has
made her father a grandfather. VIII
liam junior Is eighteen. and Miss Grace
is budding belle Of seventeen years.
Young Mrs. I.eavitt herself is some
| thing of a politician. She has been
elected delegate to the Democratic
state convention In Colorado. her home
being I'm Denver. Young William is q
student In the Nebraska State univer-
sity at Lincoln. Miss Grace. who IN
| the event of her fathers election tc
the presidency will become "the young
lady of the White House." is at home
with her estimable mother on the
Bryan farm near Lincoln, known as
"Fairview," where the head OF the
family some years ago built a hand
some residence. Prior to that the fam
lily had occupied modest cottage In
Lincoln, where Mr.. Bryan returned to
his law practice after his unsuccessful
campaign for the senatorship.
When in 1886 the Republican couven-
ton which nominated Mckinley for
president met In ST. Louis. William j.
Bryan held no Office whatever. He
still had q connection with the Omaha
paper. ard he went to ST. Louis as a
press correspondent. At the Planters
hotel the clerk looked over the plainly
CARRIED young man who signed wv. J.
Bryan" on the register and made him
pay IN advance. The clerk put Bryan
I'm n room with seven Republicans. Un-
der date of June 10 a correspondent Of
the New York Tribune sent to his pa
per from ST. Louis this highly inter
esting paragraph:
Ex-Congressman William J. Bryan, the
leader of the free silver wing OF the Ne
braska Democracy. was one of yester-
days arrivals. The appearance of Mr..
Bryan In a hotel corridor in consultation
with several Republicans from free silver
states of the far west excited much COM
ment. In response to a question concern
ing his mission Mr.. Bryan remarked 81
have nothing TO say now except that
these gentlemen and will be found next
November voting the same ticket"
Senator Henry NJ. Teller of ColoraG,
and others were the free silver Re-
publican leaders indicated by the Trib-
une correspondent. 1t was an accurate
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BY RoBERTUs LOVE.

Copyright. 1908, by Robertus Love-
UT Il has spoken face TO face be-
" yond all question to more
hearers than has any other
man in the worlds history,
says one who Travelled with William
Jennings Bryan during tho presiden-
tial campaigns of 1896 and 1900. and
there is no doubt as to the truth of the
statement
The purpose of this article Is briefly
TO sketch the life OF Mr., Bryan up TO
the age of thirty-six when he was
nominated by the Democratic party for
the presidency Of the United States. 1t
is a life possible only to American pol
tics, aud, whether or not Mr.. Bryan
shall reach the presidency, 1t is an in-
teresting chapter in United States po-
lltical history
The town OF Salem, Ill.,. is the birth
place Of Bryan. Judge Silas l.. Bryan.
a substantial. intellectual settler from
Virginia. was his father. Maria Eliza
beth Jennings was his mothers maiden
name. The child was born March 10.
1860. Judge Bryan lived on farm
near the edge of town. He had nine
children. Of whom William Jennings
Is the fourth. The boy grew up out
doors. drinking the daily medicine OF
sunshine and the open air. His phys
ical constitution, a marvel OF robust
ness and energy, came by inheritance
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WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN


edItorship after fierce legal fight
against the advertising contract. He
was nominated for the senate by the
unanimous vote of the state conven-
ton, despite the fact that many Of
them disagreed with him on the silver
coinage issue. With John M. Thurs
ton. the leading Republican candidate
for the senate, Bryan engaged In two
joint debates. having challenged Thurs
ton. The forensic duels took place in
Lincoln and Omaha. The tariff was
the sole topic of discussion. Bryan
defended the Wilson tariff. which as
member OF the ways and means COM
mittee he had helped to create. At
Lincoln the enthusiasm was such that
Bryan was carried from the platform
outside and down into the street. where
bowling mobs of overflow" admirers
awaited him. Thurston was elected by
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Again the great east dashed and
smashed the western candidate with
iemoniac denunciation, though that
time there was very large increase
N personal respect for Mr.. Bryan. He
had proved himself to be by no means
the wild visionary, the anarchistic rev.
,lutionist, the dangerous fanatic. which
the opposition in his own party had
pictured him as being In 1896. when
The Democracy split open and the less
sr section thereof nominated gold
Democratic" ticket, with General John
NJ. Palmer Of Illinois and General ST.
mon b. Buckner Of Kentucky as the
standard bearers. thus contributing to
Bryan's defeat In the first campaign.
In the campaign Of 1900 the Demo
cratic seceders simply voted the Nc
Kinley and Roosevelt Republican tick
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st. Paul's Methodist EpiscOpal c,,,.

{ The Church Around the Corne,l :
Sunday school at 9:45 a. M; pra,.
ing service at 1 a. m, text, Nos DON
Thou shalt not go with them; ~
shalt not curse the people for IN.
are blessed; North Globe Sund..
school at 2 p. M; preaching sery;es !.
s p. m, subject, 1.-TWO Men -: pr,r.'
meeting Wednesday at s p. m. In
Decker, pastor. 1S5 East Cedar st,...
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NEW PICTURE OF Mr.. AND MRS. BRYAN.

IN the platform. however. that imperial
ism was the paramount issue of the
campaign. The Democracy opposed the
forcible subjugation Of the fflipinos
and the control Of the archipelago in
the colonial style of the British empire.
Mr. Bryan made another whirlwind
campaign, even breaking his own rec
ord for travelling and speechmaking.
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Nomination :.
BY RoBERTUs LOVE.

kSopyiibhts 1.-Two, ny fNopcrtun lSONe.I
wv yHEN the Democratic notionai
XA/ convention met at Chicago In
w 1896 one Of the delegates
from Nebraska was william
Jennings Bryan. young man Of thir-
ty-six, a private citizen of the city Of
Lincoln. His prior political career
comprised two terms In congress. he
had been his party nominee for Unit
ed States senatorship in Republican
legislature.
The national Democracy had broken
away from Grover Cleveland, whom 1t
had elected president twice and who
was then In Office. The split was on
the money question. Cleveland had
called special session Of congress to
repeal the silver bullion purchasing
act. The mass Of the party stood for
the free coinage of silver. chiefly at
the ratio Of IL to l. The Cleveland
wing stood for the single gold stand
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st. Johns Church

Services in Ste john Epi,..
church as follows: Morning prave, y
sermon at IL o 'clock; evening ~.
and sermon at clock; Sunday set,
at 10 a. m. All are cordially M
Strangers heartily welcomed.
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At the Churche,
Baptist Church

Sunday school at 10 a. m. pra,..
service at III a. M; subject lug
Shepherd Psalm Young -
meeting at 7:l5 p. m. Preacbinar ~
vice at s p. m; subject, "The Ten :, ~
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prediction by Mr.. Bryan that they
would be voting the same ticket with
him in November, for they walked out
Of the Republican national convention
when the gold standard platform was
adopted and aligned themselves with
the free silver Democracy.
But neither the New York CORE
spondent nor the free silver seceders
nor the Nebraska correspondent and
free silver leader himself could fore
tell that the seceders would vote for
William Jennings Bryan as the presi-
Dental candidate on the ticket which
was to be nominated at Chicago few
weeks later.
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Christian Science services will be hal.
at the residence of Mrs. X. J. Finn 81,
South Third street, Sunday evening !,
1880. All interested are welcome.
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the Episcopal church.
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