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By ROBERTUS LOVECopyright 190S by Robertus Love

rj E has spoken face to face beyond all question to more

jj hearers than has any otherman in the worlds history

says one who traveled with WilliamJennings Bryan during the

campaigns of 1SOG and WOO andtboro is no doubt as to the truth of thestatementThe of this article is brieflyto sketch the life of Mr Bryan up tothe age of when he wasnominated by the Democratic party forthe presidency of the United States Itis n life possible only to American politic and whether or Mr Bryanshall reach the presidency it is an in

chapter in United Stateslitiial history

The town of Salem ill is the birthplace of Bryan Jude Silas L Bryana substantial intellectual settler fromVirginia was his father Maria

Jennings was his mothers maidenname Tbe child was born March 19ISiV Judge ijvyau lived on a farmnear the edge of town He had ninechildren of whom William Jenningsis the fourth The boy grew up

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and was nurtured by wholesome andhealthful environment in boyhoodBryan attended the public schools inSalem until he was fifteen when heentered Whipple academy at

Ill Two years later hein Illinois college in the same

city from which institution he wasgraduated with honors at the age oftwentyone During his college coursehis oratorical abilities made him prominent in middle western collegiate lifeHe won the honor of representing hisschool in the state contest of collegeorators He won that contest and represented Illinois in 1881 at the

oratorical contest held atIiI where he achieved second

honors He was class onitor at graduation

Jacksonville has a female seminaryIn that school Miss Mary E Baird wasa student while young Bryan was inIllinois college She was from Perry

and was of excellent family andan ambitious student A bright youngman and a bright young woman

college in the same townemphasize the aphorism that like

attracts like Perhaps that explainswhy Bryan after attending the UnionLaw college in Chicago readinglaw at the same time in the office ofJudge Lyman Trumbull the celebratedassociate of Abraham Lincoln returned to Jacksonville to begin thepractice of his profession Bryan andMiss Baird were married shortly afterMs return Mrs Bryan studied law inorder to assist her husband in his professional work After the Bryans removed to Lincoln Neb In 1887 MrsBryan was admitted to the bar MrBryan became junior partner in thelaw firm of Talbot Bryan He believed there was more opportunity fora rising young lawyer in a new

belief assuredly well grounded in hisown case

Bryan plunged into politics In thespring of 1888 and that became his lifevocation Instead of the law He waselected a delegate to the Democraticstate convention at Omaha where hemade a speech strongly advocatingfree trade also he made a reputationas a speaker He waseight years 6UV yet fha

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the party leaders offered him the nomination for the lieutenant governorshipof Nebraska He declined the offerbut made a stumping campaign for theticket throughout the state

i The next year 1890 the youngthrust upon the youug De

mosthenes from Illinois the nominationfor congressman from the First district J Sterling Morton who in histime was father of Arbor day a d amember of President Clevelands cabinet had been defeated in the race fqrcongress from that district in 1SSS bya Republican majority of more than3000 votes Scarcely anybody

young Bryan to win He was notso very sanguine himself but he madean oratorical campaign and defeatedCongressman Connell by nearly 7000votes In Omaha where Connell livedBryan was sneered at as that Lincolnboy It was the reaction against thenew McKinley tariff that elected Bry

and the silver tongue of theLincolnlan lad

So at thirty Bryan was chosen to thenational house of representatives Hedelivered his first speech in the housethe 12th of March 1892 on the subjectof free wool Senator Burrows ofMichigan temporary chairman of thisyears Republican national conventiondeclared that it was the best speech onthe tariff be had heard News

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papers of an political persuasions called it a masterpiece The chairman ol

the ways and means committee waWilliam M Springer of Illinois Springer was so delighted with Bryans freewool talk that he procured the appointment of the young Nebraskan on hiscommittee Old graybeards have sat in

the house for a generation withoutachieving that coveted honor Herrwas youngster member so honored inhis first term And when Bryan way

returned to congress for a second termhe was continued on that most Irnportant committee

In the interim the Nebraska districtshad been reapportioned so that Omahawas eliminated from the First districtThe district in its new shape was

to be Republican byJudge Allen W Field of Lincoln omof the ablest and most popular Republicans in the state was nominated torun against Bryan He resigned fromthe bench so sanguine of success washe but Bryan beat him by 140 votes

When President Cleveland called anextra session of congress in the summer of 1893 to push through the repealof the Sherman silver bullion purchasins act of 1890 the Democratic president of the old school unwittingly gaveo the man of destiny in the new school

of Democracy an altitudinous steppingstout toward the presidency Bryan ofNebraska aged thirtythree deliveredin the house on the 10th of August a

speech against the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman actThe whole house and most of the senate heard It When Bryan ceasedspeaking he was picked up by enemiesand friends alike and borne around thehall on the shoulders of enthusiastswho liked a ripping fine oration whenthey heard it regardless as to whetherit suited their politics Nobody

that it was the greatest speech

of the extra sessionBryan a renominatlon for

congress In 1894 and became editor of

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kitorship after a fierce legal fighttrinst the adVertisirig contract

nominated the senate by thelutajilmous vote oir the state conven

despite the fact that many ofthem disagreed with him on the silvercoinage issue With John M Thurs

j tun the leading Republican candidatefor the senate Bryan engaged in two

f joint debates having challenged Thurston The forensic duels took place inLincoln and Omaha The tariff wasthe sole topic of discussion Bryandefended the Wilson tariff which as amember of the ways and meansmittee he had helped to create AtLincoln the enthusiasm was such thatBryan was carried from the platformoutside and down the street whereHowling mobs of overflow admirersawaited him Thurston was elected by

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legislature Mr Bryan remained aprivate citizen He had challengedWilliam McKinley also to a joint denit on the tariff but the Ohio tariffbuilder declined Mr McKinley wasdestined to meet the Nebraskan In abroader contest a little later

In the meantime Mr Bryan washappy at home with his little familythe helpful wife and three childrenThe children now are grown up RuthIs Mrs William H Leavitt and hasmade her father a grandfather

junior is eighteen and Miss Graceis a budding belle of seventeen years

Young Mrs Leavitt herself is something of a politician She has beenelected a delegate to the Democraticstate convention in Colorado her homebeing in Denver Young William is astudent in the Nebraska State university at Lincoln Miss Grace who in

the event of her fathers election tothe presidency will become the younglady of the White House is at homewith her estimable mother on theBryan farm near Lincoln known asFairview where the head of thefamily some years ago built a handsome residence Prior to that the fameily had occupied a modest cottage in

where Mr Bryan returned tohis law practice after his unsuccessfulcampaign for the senatorship

When in 1896 the Republican convention which nominated McKinley forpresident met in St Louis William JBryan held no office whatever Hestill had a connection with the Omahapaper and he went to St Louis as apress correspondent At the Plantershotel the clerk looked over the plainlygarbed young man who signed W JBryan on the register and made himpay in advance The clerk put BryanIn a room with seven Republicans

June 16 a correspondent ofthe New York Tribune sent to his paper from St Louis this highly

paragraphExCongressman William J Bryan the

leader of the free sliver wing of theDemocracy was one of

arrivals The appearance of MrBryan In a hotel corridor in consultationwith several Republicans from free silverstates of the far west excited much comment In response to a question

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have nothing to say now except thatthese gentlemen and 1 will be found nextNovember voting the same ticket

Senator Henry M of Coloradoj and others were the free silver Ret publican lenders indicated by the Tribi une correspondent It was an accurate

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prediction by Mr Bryan that theywould be voting the same ticket withhim in November for they walked outof the Republican national conventionwhen the gold standard platform wasadopted and aligned themselves withthe free silver Democracy

But neither the New York correspondent nor the free silver secedersnor the Nebraska correspondent andfree silver leader himself couldtell that the seceders would vote forWIHIam Jennings Bryan as the presitprUa1 candidate on thevticket which

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