Harry Frease, with several bands and drum corps, paraded up North Market Street to Governor McKinley's home on the hill. The identical click that notified Governor McKinley of his nomination set the fire-alarm gong going.

At length the formal exercises of the demonstration began. First Governor McKinley mounted a chair and bowed to the throng of cheering people. Then Chairman Case mounted another chair and spoke as follows:

"Major McKinley-Your neighbors and towns

men wish to be first to congratulate you upon your nomination to the highest office within the gift of the people. None know better than these neighbors here assembled how well this honor is merited. "They come to congratulate you as neighbors, without distinction of party, bearing in mind that, while you have acted in a broader field, you have not lost sight of the duties and obligations of the citizen, and that, amid your many cares and responsibilities, you have always found time and opportunity to lend your valued assistance to all that makes for good in your community. We all unite in extending to you our hearty congratulations and good wishes."

There was a sea of faces for blocks about, and after a whirlwind of applause had greeted exGovernor McKinley he responded as follows:

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My friends and fellow-citizens:-I am greatly honored by this demonstration. Its non-partisan character forbids political discussion, and I appear only to make grateful acknowledgment to your address and congratulations.

"I am not indifferent to the pleasure which you exhibit at the news just received from the Republican National Convention. For days your interest has been centred upon St. Louis, and your presence here in such vast numbers testifies to your personal good will as well as your gratification with the work there done. Your cordial assurances are all the more appreciated by me because they come from my fellow-citizens, men of all parties, my neighbors, my former constituents, and my old army comrades, with whom I have lived almost a

life-time, and who have honored me over and over again with important public trusts.

"Your warm words are reciprocated and will be long remembered. Many of these around me have not always agreed with me, nor I with them, touching political questions. But it is pleasant, as I look into your faces, to recall that in all the years of the past there has never been a moment of time when you have withheld from me your friendship, your encouragement and your confidence.

"You have always been most generously loyal, and my heart is full of gratitude to you all.

"There is nothing more gratifying or honorable to any man than to have the regard and esteem of his fellow-townsmen, and in this I have been peculiarly blessed. Never were neighbors more devoted or more unfaltering in their support than you have been to me. You have always made my cause your cause, and my home among you has been one of increasing pleasure.

"This county and city are very dear to me. Here I have spent all of my young manhood, and I have been identified with this magnificent county for nearly a third of a century. I have followed its growth with unconcealed pride, and have noted with satisfaction that it has kept pace with the most advanced and prosperous communities, and has fallen behind none.

"I am glad to greet you here. You have never failed to greet me with your best wishes and congratulations upon every occasion of my nomination to a public office, commencing twenty years ago, when I was first named by my party for Congress.

"I cannot undertake to estimate the value of these many friendly demonstrations, so helpful, so stimulating, more so than you could have anticipated or believed at the time. Your call to-day is warmly appreciated, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you have said, so expressive of the feelings of those for whom you speak. This latest evidence of your esteem makes me more than ever indebted to you, and the happy memory of your kindness and confidence will abide with me forever."

Mr. McKinley's speech was received with every demonstration of approval, and the crowd manifested its delight by uproarious applause.

HON. WILLIAM J. BRYAN:

Nominee of the Democratic Party for President.

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N Friday, July 10, 1896, the youngest man ever nominated for the Presidency by any influential party received a majority of the votes in the National Democratic Convention at Chicago. On the preceding day, Mr. Bryan made a captivating speech on the silver-coinage question and kindred topics, and his nomination was the result, as previously to that period in the Convention there was scarcely a mention of his name for first place on the ticket.

William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic nominee, has been considered the greatest orator in the history of Nebraska. He has long been the idol of the free-silver wing of the Nebraska Democracy.

Mr. Bryan was born in Salem, Marion County, Ill., on March 19, 1860. At the age of fifteen he entered Whipple Academy at Jacksonville; in 1877 he entered Illinois College, and graduated valedictorian in 1881. For the next two years he attended the Union Law College, Chicago,