National Affairs: My Brother'

Who 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.

In the 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...

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