We have tried to describe elsewhere the effect of the
Chicago eruption, and will only give here an outline of Mr. Bryan's career as it is described in the New York Herald of Saturday last. Mr. Bryan, we are told, was born in Salem, Marion County, Illinois, March 19th, 1860. He attended public school until fifteen years of age, spending his vacations on the farm. In 1875 he entered Whipple Academy, at Jacksonville, Illinois, and Illinois College, Jacksonville, in 1877, and there completed a classical course and was graduated with the highest honours in 1881. He then attended Union College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, for two years. In 1889 he went to Nebraska and became a member of the firm of Talbot and Bryan. He never held any office till he was elected to Congress, where he sat during two Congresses. Mr. Bryan has announced his policy as being "in favour of electing Senators by a popular vote and for a tariff for revenue only; an Income-tax as a permanent part of the fiscal system ; the immediate restoration of the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the present ratio of 16 to 1; against a second Presidential term ; for a liberal pension policy ; the operation of the telegraph by the Govern- ment in connection with the postal system ; the strict control of the railroads and other public corporations ; and the appli- cation of the principle of arbitration."
