POLITICAL NOTES: Burial

Last week they buried William Jennings Bryan. They brought his body to the Capital, where it lay in state in the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church for 24 hours, guarded by Spanish War veterans, while crowds filed past it. At the same time his last speech, prepared for the evolution trial at Dayton, Tenn., but never delivered, was given to the public by his family (see EDUCATION) his last gift to the country.

The Reverend Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo spoke the Commoner's funeral oration before a crowded church: "There was a threefold splendor...

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