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NEWS PARIS r r Y lH 1t 0 r S- w J BOURBON JULY < tH 5 io The Early Life of WJ d 61 i L Bryan > <> < <> > AAA A A His Birth Boyhood b and First Years In Law and Politics oO i i By ROBERTUS LOVE Copyright 190S by Robertus Love rj E has spoken face to face be yond all question to more jj hearers than has any other man in the worlds history says one who traveled with William Jennings Bryan during the campaigns of 1SOG and WOO and tboro is no doubt as to the truth of the statementThe of this article is briefly to sketch the life of Mr Bryan up to the age of when he was nominated by the Democratic party for the presidency of the United States It is n life possible only to American pol itic and whether or Mr Bryan shall reach the presidency it is an in chapter in United States litiial history The town of Salem ill is the birth place of Bryan Jude Silas L Bryan a substantial intellectual settler from Virginia was his father Maria Jennings was his mothers maiden name Tbe child was born March 19 ISiV Judge ijvyau lived on a farm near the edge of town He had nine children of whom William Jennings is the fourth The boy grew up drinking the daily medicine of sm siiine and the open air His phys ical constitution a marvel of and enersrv came by inheritance U presIden- ti thirt six tpr sting po Eliza- beth I hot out- door robust- ness ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ WILLIAM J BRYAN FROM HIS LATEST PHOTOGRAPH and was nurtured by wholesome and healthful environment in boyhood Bryan attended the public schools in Salem until he was fifteen when he entered Whipple academy at Ill Two years later he in Illinois college in the same city from which institution he was graduated with honors at the age of twentyone 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 oratorical contest held at IiI where he achieved second honors He was class onitor at gradu ation Jacksonville has a female seminary In that school Miss Mary E Baird was a student while young Bryan was in Illinois college She was from Perry and was of excellent family and an ambitious student A bright young man and a bright young woman college in the same town emphasize the aphorism that like attracts like Perhaps that explains why Bryan after attending the Union Law college in Chicago 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 Ms 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 a new 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 a delegate to the Democratic state convention at Omaha where he made a speech strongly advocating free trade also he made a reputation as a speaker He was eight years 6UV yet fha Inter- state Gales- burg and state- n z Jackson- ville matricul- ated Ill att- ending some- times I J twenty very nest year v ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ His Credit able Career In Congress and His Work In Journalism fVYHHnV g Q Q 1 O GCOO the party leaders offered him the nom ination for the lieutenant governorship of Nebraska He declined the offer but made a stumping campaign for the ticket throughout the state i The next year 1890 the young thrust upon the youug De mosthenes from Illinois the nomination for congressman from the First dis trict J Sterling Morton who in his time was father of Arbor day a d a member of President Clevelands cab inet had been defeated in the race fqr congress from that district in 1SSS by a Republican majority of more than 3000 votes Scarcely anybody young Bryan to win He was not so very sanguine himself but he made an oratorical campaign and defeated Congressman Connell by nearly 7000 votes In Omaha where Connell lived Bryan was sneered at as that Lincoln boy It was the reaction against the new McKinley tariff that elected Bry and the silver tongue of the Lincolnlan lad So at thirty Bryan was chosen to the national house of representatives He delivered his first speech in the house the 12th of March 1892 on the subject of free wool Senator Burrows of Michigan temporary chairman of this years Republican national convention declared that it was the best speech on the tariff be had heard News 1 I expect- ed anthat ever De- mocracy ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ papers of an political persuasions call ed it a masterpiece The chairman ol the ways and means committee wa William M Springer of Illinois Spring er was so delighted with Bryans 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 Herr was youngster member so honored in his first term And when Bryan way returned to congress for a second term he was continued on that most Irnpor 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 to be Republican by Judge Allen W Field of Lincoln om 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 140 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 ins act of 1890 the Democratic presi dent of the old school unwittingly gave o the man of destiny in the new school of Democracy an altitudinous stepping stout toward the presidency Bryan of Nebraska aged thirtythree 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 It 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 a ripping fine oration when they heard it regardless as to whether it suited their politics Nobody that it was the greatest speech of the extra session Bryan a renominatlon for congress In 1894 and became editor of the Omaha WorldHerald He wanted to the United States senate The WorldHerald business office made a contract to run daily on the editorial two columns of paid for t i iZ con- ceded about 3500 dis- puted declined page bt t rn I Sblc Bt pl P oi 7 J stuff rl is B ygti resigned tbl a ¬ ¬ > ¬ ¬ < < kitorship after a fierce legal fight trinst the adVertisirig contract nominated the senate by the lutajilmous vote oir the state conven despite the fact that many of them disagreed with him on the silver coinage issue With John M Thurs j tun the leading Republican candidate for the senate Bryan engaged in two f 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 a member of the ways and means mittee he had helped to create At Lincoln the enthusiasm was such that Bryan was carried from the platform outside and down the street where Howling mobs of overflow admirers awaited him Thurston was elected by r l I I I t i He- w s for tat comp into MRS WILLIAM H nEAVTTlV legislature Mr Bryan remained a private citizen He had challenged William McKinley also to a joint de nit on the tariff but the Ohio tariff builder declined Mr McKinley was destined to meet the Nebraskan In a broader contest a little later In the meantime Mr 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 H Leavitt and has made her father a grandfather junior is eighteen and Miss Grace is a budding belle of seventeen years Young Mrs Leavitt herself is some thing of a politician She has been elected a delegate to the Democratic state convention in Colorado her home being in Denver Young William is a student in the Nebraska State univer sity at Lincoln Miss Grace who in the event of her fathers election to 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 fame ily had occupied a modest cottage in where Mr Bryan returned to his law practice after his unsuccessful campaign for the senatorship When in 1896 the Republican conven tion which nominated McKinley for president met in St Louis William J Bryan held no office whatever He still had a connection with the Omaha paper and he went to St Louis as a press correspondent At the Planters hotel the clerk looked over the plainly garbed young man who signed W J Bryan on the register and made him pay in advance The clerk put Bryan In a room with seven Republicans June 16 a correspondent of the New York Tribune sent to his pa per from St Louis this highly paragraph ExCongressman William J Bryan the leader of the free sliver wing of the Democracy was one of 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 his mission Mr Bryan remarked I have nothing to say now except that these gentlemen and 1 will be found next November voting the same ticket Senator Henry M of Colorado j and others were the free silver Re t publican lenders indicated by the Trib i une correspondent It was an accurate Un- der I I Teller the Wil- liam date 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