Life and Patriotic Services of Hon. William J. Bryan: The Fearless and Brilliant Leader of the People and Candidate for President of the United States. A Sketch from the Beginning of His Career to the High Position He Holds in the Affection of His Countrymen--an Affection Won by His Devotion and Loyalty to the Welfare of the Toiling Masses of AmericaEdgewood Publishing Company, 1896 - 482 pages |
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... Sewall • · 358 CHAPTER XXII . Claude A. Swanson on the Free Coinage of Silver CHAPTER XXIII . John F. Shafroth on the Free Coinage of Silver CHAPTER XXIV . • 370 · 395 Hon . Jas . H. Platt on the Necessity for the Use of Silver as Money ...
... Sewall • · 358 CHAPTER XXII . Claude A. Swanson on the Free Coinage of Silver CHAPTER XXIII . John F. Shafroth on the Free Coinage of Silver CHAPTER XXIV . • 370 · 395 Hon . Jas . H. Platt on the Necessity for the Use of Silver as Money ...
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... HORACE BOIES HON . ADLAI STEVENSON • • MISS MINNA MURRAY ( The Girl in White ) ARTHUR J. SEWALL 200 · 209 . 210 · 235 . 236 245 246 355 . 356 · . 365 .366 LINCOIN MRS . W. J. BRYAN . CHAPTER I. BRYAN'S LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS .
... HORACE BOIES HON . ADLAI STEVENSON • • MISS MINNA MURRAY ( The Girl in White ) ARTHUR J. SEWALL 200 · 209 . 210 · 235 . 236 245 246 355 . 356 · . 365 .366 LINCOIN MRS . W. J. BRYAN . CHAPTER I. BRYAN'S LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS .
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... College and ob- tained for himself an excellent education . For thirty years Silas Lillard Bryan was an honored member of the Marion County bar . He served eight years in the Illinois State Senate , and for 20 BRYAN , SEWALL.
... College and ob- tained for himself an excellent education . For thirty years Silas Lillard Bryan was an honored member of the Marion County bar . He served eight years in the Illinois State Senate , and for 20 BRYAN , SEWALL.
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... him at home , hoping to mould his young mind to better advan- tage under such circumstances , in his more tender At the age of ten , young Bryan entered years . 25 the public school of Salem . There he attended 24 BRYAN , SEWALL.
... him at home , hoping to mould his young mind to better advan- tage under such circumstances , in his more tender At the age of ten , young Bryan entered years . 25 the public school of Salem . There he attended 24 BRYAN , SEWALL.
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... it had not won for him his cause , but it fell like a chilling blast upon his hearers at Athens , because he was the ' hire- ling of Philip . ' " Napoleon swept like a destroying angel over almost the 26 BRYAN , SEWALL.
... it had not won for him his cause , but it fell like a chilling blast upon his hearers at Athens , because he was the ' hire- ling of Philip . ' " Napoleon swept like a destroying angel over almost the 26 BRYAN , SEWALL.
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Page 176 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, $ Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And,...
Page 477 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Page 484 - These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through the age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages, and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust ; and should we wander from them in moments of error or alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone...
Page 480 - As avenues to foreign influence, in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils!
Page 484 - ... the diffusion of information, and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason : freedom of religion; freedom of the press; and freedom of person, under the protection of the habeas corpus : and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation, which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Page 483 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them...
Page 128 - We hold to the use of both gold and silver as 8 the standard money of the country, and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discrimination against either metal or charge for mintage, but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value...
Page 208 - American people for themselves, which shall restore and maintain a bimetallic price level, and as part of such system the immediate restoration of the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation.
Page 257 - Yea, though thou lie upon the dust, When they who helped thee flee in fear, Die full of hope and manly trust, Like those who fell in battle here. I "4] Another hand thy sword shall wield, Another hand the standard wave, Till from the trumpet's mouth is pealed The blast of triumph o'er thy grave.
Page 341 - We are opposed to the policy and practice of surrendering to the holders of the obligations of the United States the option reserved by law to the government of redeeming such obligations in either silver coin or gold coin.