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President in 1896 as a running mate
| of william Jennings Bryan, and in
| 1904 was Pcpulist candidate for Presi-
dent, venture in which he failed
signally
Linked with the destinieS of new
parties. as we'll as the old, was the
career of the Great Commoner." Mr..
Bryan had all the natural and ac-
quired graces Of DemostheneS. AS
a college student he had taken part in
many oratCrical contests When he
moved from Illinois to Lincoln, Nebr.,
in 1887 Mr. Bryan was much inter-
ested in Populism, then becoming a
Western political credo.
Mrs. Lease never forgave him for
not casting his lot entirely with the
Peoples party, and used to denounce
him for his treachery when no other
subject for phillipics was at hand.
AS an advocate of free silver, Mr..
Bryan was of the same school as the
followers Of Simpson and PETER.
To that whimsical wizard of finance,
William Hope Harvey, Mr. Bryan owed
many an economic doctrine, just as
he owned so much of his forensic force
to the geniuses of antiquity. Harvey
attributed his independence Of
thought to his ancestor, DR.. William
Harvey, who in the times Of the
Charleses Of England lost his fortune
and his large practice as physician
by asserting that the blood circulated
IN the human body.
United States Senate three terms.
Harvey, after many disappoint-
ments and the loss of his real estate
business in the panic of 1892. wrote
book. Coins Financial School,"
published in l894-two years in ad-
vance of the Bryan triumph.
Education" for the Masses.
In his little volume the millionaires
of the day-the Carnegies and the
resented as attending the school of
handsome young Chicago professor.
The instruction was in the form of
questions and answers. after the style
which Socrates adopted The book
sold by the hundreds of thousands.
In the corn and cotton belts were
hosts of readers who believed that the
conversations it reported actually had
taken place.
Prof. Coin" used such expressions
as "l6 to l." signifying the unlimited
or free coinage Of silver" The thunder
of Harvey reverberated from the
tongue of Bryan for the eventful
campaign, which resulted at last in
the conservative victory. However.
the economist is known to this day
as Coin" Harvey He is not without
honor, for in 1888 he received 800
popular votes for President as nomi-
nee of the very young Liberty party.
In his 84th year Harvey occupies
himself at his home in None Ne,
Ark, storing data in pyramid of
concrete for the benefit of archeolo-
giStS of 10000 years hence. The rec
which Coin" Harvey declares will
destroy this civilization.
Benjamin Ryan Tillman of South
Carolina was a warm supporter of
Bryan in the free-Silver campaigns of
1896 and 1900. His attacks on Presi-
dent Cleveland in 1895 were so violent
that he got the title of "Pitchfork
Ben" Tillman, although he kept his
regular standing as a Democrat, was
really of strong Populist sympathies
He had been active in the Farmers
Alliance and similar movements in his
State, which he represented in the
United States Senate three terms.
Among leaders in the radical realm
there probably has been no more re-
markable figure in this country than
the late Eugene V. Debs. Debs was
born in Terre Haute. Ind. a son of a
well-to-do grocer. His father gave
him a sound academic education and
expected him to enter one of the
learned professions. Debs instead be-
came interested in labor. For a year
or so he was a painter in the car shops
of railroad, and then became a loco
motive fireman, eventually reaching
an Office in the Brotherhood of Loco