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...would have believed that the Democratic Party, choosing a National candidate, would ever again have scooped up a Bryan from the fishy deep? "Another of the men before you has the misfortune to be my brother," said William Jennings of Charles Wayland. Probably the elder Bryan spoke the truth and yet the Democratic Party turned to the younger Bryan, gave him its Vice Presidential nomination...
...beginning, Charles Wayland followed his brother. He followed him from Illinois to Nebraska. There he set up a butcher shop in Lincoln. Later he turned to retailing cigars in Omaha. He was there when William Jennings launched out on the Spirit...
Again the younger man followed the elder man. He became his brother's private secretary, then his business manager. That William Jennings can now comfortably recline on a sunny peninsula is in no small degree due to Charles Wayland's good management...
...Partisan League, the New Progressive Party, the Committee of 48, as well as his Democratic following. That election was gobbled up by the Republicans. They swept out of office Senator Hitchcock and generally carried the State by about 30,000 votes. There was one exception-the Governorship. Charles Wayland Bryan received 82 per cent of the total vote, was elected with a majority...
...Wayland Wells Williams in "I, The King," (Stokes) gives us a new idea of life in the South Sea Islands, which several critics have hailed as the most truthful and satisfying we have yet had, though Mr. Williams frankly admits that he has never been there. The episode of his hero's experience as a hard-working king in the South Seas, sandwiched in between the incidents at Yale and New York, is one of the most entertaining bits in the season's fiction...