. Book of the Royal blue . ii;nmn(]s BRYAN, ..t Nc-hraska,was selected as the stand-ard bearer of the Demo-cratic National Party atDenver, Colo., in theearly mornino; of July lUthby a lariie majority on the first ballot andhis nomination wasmade unanimous. Mr. Brjan wasborn in Salem,Marion County,Illinois, on March19, 1860. He at-tended the publicschools of Salemuntil he was fifteenyears old and thenentered WhippleAcademy at Jack-sonville, 1877 he enteredIllinois Collejre atthe same place andgraduated valedic-torian in 1881. Forthe next two yearshe attended Inion]>aw Col
. Book of the Royal blue . ii;nmn(]s BRYAN, ..t Nc-hraska,was selected as the stand-ard bearer of the Demo-cratic National Party atDenver, Colo., in theearly mornino; of July lUthby a lariie majority on the first ballot andhis nomination wasmade unanimous. Mr. Brjan wasborn in Salem,Marion County,Illinois, on March19, 1860. He at-tended the publicschools of Salemuntil he was fifteenyears old and thenentered WhippleAcademy at Jack-sonville, 1877 he enteredIllinois Collejre atthe same place andgraduated valedic-torian in 1881. Forthe next two yearshe attended Inion]>aw College, Chi-cago, studyinu inthe office of LymanTrumbull. Aftergraduation he en-tered the practice of law at Jackson- j,,,., ,„.„,.f »,„. ville and in 1887 william .if. removed to Lin- t» Hiilliniorclnrii coin, Nebraska, be-coming a member of the law firm of Talbotand liryan. .Mr. Br>ans public career began when hewas nominated for Congress on July .<0,. 1890, and his reputation as an orator wasestablished at that time. He was re-electedin 1892, at which time he made a speechbefore the House of Representatives whichbrought him national attention. In 1894.\lr. Bryan declined a third nomination toCongress. On July 10, 1896, he was nominated forthe presidency bythe DemocraticNational Conven-tion in Bryan madea remarkable cam-paign in the sum-mer and autumn of1896, wherein hetraveled 18,831miles all over thecountry and deliv-ered 592 speechesin 447 towns andcities, covering 27states. At this elec-tion Mr. Brvan wasdefeated bv In 1900 he wasre-nominated forpresident, but wasagain defeated atthe polls bv In 1<I(5 Ik-madea tour arouiul (heworld and as aprominent citizenof the Inited Stateswas recei\ed withmuch honor in every country he visited. Theenthusiastic reception tendered him on hisreturn to New Sork in 1906 is of such recentoccurrence as to be distinctly recalled. Fnrlj The Humorist Side of a
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