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William Jennings Bryan RECOGNITION PROJECT</font></strong></h2>
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<p align="center"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">"</font>The Great
Commoner"</b></p>
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normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">(1860-1925)<br>
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">�Statesman,
yet friend to truth, of soul sincere,<br>
in action faithful, and in honor clear�</span></i></b></p>
<h3 align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>Association Action to Memorialize <br>
Bryan's public service and contributions<br>
to international peacekeeping
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2">sponsored by<br>
<strong>The Agribusiness Council<br>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2">All Rights Reserved</font></p>
<p><em><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">Background<br>
</font></strong></em><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman">William
Jennings Bryan, three-time Democratic nominee for President (1896, 1900,
1908) and one of
America�s greatest leaders/orators as the nation came of age at the turn
of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, left an enormous legacy of achievement and
public service which has been largely unheralded or forgotten.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman">A
lawyer by training, Bryan hailed from rural Illinois and Nebraska where he
rose rapidly as a young legislator (U.S. House of Representatives,
1892-1896) and a populist leader championing the farmer and the worker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Bryan�s famous �Cross of Gold� speech at the Democratic
National Convention in Chicago in 1896 propelled him to the nomination as
one of the youngest presidential contenders in U.S. history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>�Boy Bryan� barely lost to William McKinley, a Republican, in
an election which historians have largely agreed was fraudulently
manipulated and coerced by monied legions of the robber barons and big
business (i.e., J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and others).</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman">Bryan
supporters responded by sharpening their attack on monopolies and
corruption through the press (Bryan was editor of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><u>Omaha
World-Herald</u></i>) and a series of specific issues/themes which became
the platform for the famous Election Campaign of 1900.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Among
these issues were women�s suffrage, direct election of U.S. senators,
monetary/trade (tariff) policy, America�s role in world peacekeeping,
direct income tax, civil and worker/s rights. Bryan�s
leadership proved a powerful stimulus as nearly all the key themes he
championed were adapted/advanced by victorious Republican administrations
(McKinley/Roosevelt/Taft) throughout the early 1900s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman">Bryan
played a decisive role in brokering the nomination of Woodrow Wilson at
the Democratic Convention of 1912 in Baltimore, when he helped swing the
choice from favorite Champ Clark of Missouri to underdog Wilson on the
fifty-sixth ballot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He then
served as Wilson�s first Secretary of State until a disagreement over
neutrality and the handling of the Lusitania sinking convinced Bryan that
Wilson would not adhere to his pledge to keep the Nation out of World War
I.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Bryan had advanced some
important international peacekeeping concepts and even had begun a
framework for dispute arbitration when he resigned in June 1915.</span></font></p>
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<td width="100%"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>DIPLOMATIC
HISTORY -- Bryan relatives listen as David Patterson (left), chief
historian at the State Department, describes Bryan's peace
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<p><b><i><font face="Arial" size="2">A Warrior for Peacekeeping</font></i><br>
</b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman">Throughout
his life, Bryan crusaded for world peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>By religious conviction, he was a pacifist, although he gained a
commission in the Spanish-American War.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>By 1905, Bryan helped advance a peaceful resolution to the
Russo-Japanese War by meeting with leaders and delivering a proposal for
arbitration in a speech before the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in
London, while on a world tour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Bryan�s
ideas were adopted by President Teddy Roosevelt who later won the Nobel
Peace Prize for his successful mediation of the Russo-Japanese War at the
Portsmouth Conference later that same year (1905). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Note:
Bryan�s daughter, Ruth Bryan Owen (1885-1954), who later became the
first woman from Florida to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives,
also spoke before</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman">
</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">the IPU and carried her
father�s legacy as a delegate to the San Francisco Conference</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman">
</i> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman">which
established the United Nations after World War II).<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span></span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman">Bryan�s
work as Secretary of State also helped form the conceptual pillars for
what later became President Wilson�s crusade
for America� participation in the League of Nations.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman">At
this juncture in America�s history, at the turn of the new millennium,
with many parallels in issues facing the country (particularly cartels,
monopolistic/political corruption, agricultural crisis, and concerns over
the character of U.S. engagement in world affairs), it may be fitting to
recognize the life and legacy of William Jennings Bryan.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><i>Swords to Plowshares:
Righteous Warrior for Peace<br>
</i></b>Bryan's tireless campaigning for peace was rewarded in 1912 when
president-elect Woodrow Wilson named "The Great Commoner" as
Secretary of State. Bryan immediately began implementing plans for an
international peacekeeping mechanism based upon arbitration. At
bilateral signing ceremonies with nations which agreed to arbitrate
conflicts, Bryan presented a small, metal-sculpted form depicting a melding
of sword and plowshare. The presentation reflected Bryan's
agrarian/populist sentiments that peoples of the world would choose
peacekeeping over conflict if governments could be restrained.</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">In Washington's<i> "real
politik" </i>circles, particularly among so-called "great power
nation" diplomats who were maneuvering for influence as Europe moved
closer to World War I, Bryan was regarded with humor. As the winds of
the terrible conflict blew stronger, Bryan labored frenetically to keep the
United States neutral and out of war. He also played an important role
in hemispheric relations, particularly with South America and Mexico.</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">When Wilson tilted against
Germany and its policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, Bryan became one
of the only secretaries of state in U.S. history to resign over
principle. But when Wilson took the country into World War I, Bryan
gave his unstinting political support and later campaigned for the League of
Nations. A careful review of Bryan's term at the Department of State
raises the question: What would the 20th century have looked like if
"The Great Commoner" had succeeded in keeping the United States
out of Europe's conflict?</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 10"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">THE GENUINE ARTICLE<i> </i>--
</font><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Bryan
re-enactor, Terry Gill, peruses WJBRP
descriptive material outside Rhea County Courthouse during the 75th
Annual Scopes Festival in Dayton, Tennessee (July 2000).</font></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman"><b><i>Recent
Developments<br>
</i></b>The
newly-launched WJBRP stepped out smartly at the 75th Anniversary Festival
of the Scopes Trial (July 14-15) in Dayton, Tennessee. ABC president
Nick Hollis spoke before an audience at Bryan College which included
direct descendents of "The Great Commoner," authors and other
experts from all over the country. Hollis later addressed a seminar
held in the Rhea County courtroom where the infamous "monkey
trial" was held. The event/s generated considerable media
coverage, including <i><u>WGN-Radio/Chicago </u></i>and the <i><u>Knoxville
News-Sentinel</u> </i>which quoted Hollis' remarks. Numerous WJBRP
enrollment forms and project descriptions were distributed. Several
Bryan relatives signed up on the spot, and a number of web-link agreements
were conducted. In his talk, Hollis emphasized Bryan's extraordinary
contributions to America's political, diplomatic, and social history as a champion of
many pivotal causes including women's suffrage, direct election of
senators, anti-trust/monopoly legislation, farmer/worker rights and
international peacekeeping.</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 10"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">EARLY
RADIO CONVERT � The
great commoner, William Jennings Bryan, as he appeared when his
sermon was broadcast by KDKA from Point Breeze Presbyterian Church in
Pittsburgh (March 12, 1922).<br>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><i>Bryan Link with
Jennings Randolph</i><br>
</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman">William Jennings
Bryan was an accomplished political leader in 1902, when he visited his
friend Ernest Randolph in Salem, West Virginia, and inquired whether
Randolph had named his newborn son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>As
the story goes, Bryan suggested that Randolph namesake the infant after
him. This is how �Jennings� Randolph, a famous political leader,
statesman, and humanitarian from West Virginia, got his name as well as
the roots of a great political legacy which he burnished brilliantly with
his life and achievements � many of which resonated on themes Bryan had
pioneered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>As �Father of
the 26<sup>th</sup> Amendment� giving 18-20 year-olds the vote, Randolph
linked much of his long legislative efforts toward peacekeeping and
creating the framework for enlightened citizenship and environmental
stewardship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>After retiring
from the United States Senate following his fourth term in 1985, Randolph
chaired The Agribusiness Council (ABC) and its international affiliate,
Agri-Energy Roundtable (AER).</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><i>Political Legacy<br>
</i></b>Bryan's contributions to American political and social history far
exceed most presidents. For example, Bryan is credited with early
championing of the following: (1) graduated income tax (16th Amendment),
(2) direct election of U.S. senators (17th Amendment), (3) women's
suffrage (19th Amendment), (4) workmen's compensation, (5) minimum wage,
(6) eight-hour workday, (7) Federal Trade Commission, (8) Federal Farm
Loan Act, (9) government regulation of telephone/telegraph and food
safety, (10) Department of Health, (11) Department of Labor, and
(12) Department of Education.</font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Many of Bryan's efforts
in 1900 focused on campaign finance reform and curbing abuses of business
trusts and monopolies. Many of these themes resonate today (see <i><u>The
New York Times,</u> </i>August 20, 2000 (Op-Ed) Week in Review, page 15,
article by John B. Judis, which describes comparisons to William Jennings
Bryan's <a href="election_of_1896.htm"> campaign of 1896</a>, but fails to note key similarities between 1900
and 2000 election issues). <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">In
1902, Bryan played a important role helping President Teddy Roosevelt rein
in business abuses and corruption.</span></font></p>
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BARONS: A TURNING POINT IN U.S. INDUSTRIAL HISTORY -- �The Great
Commoner� is flanked by steel magnate Andrew Carnegie (left) and
Railroad builder James J. Hill (right), with labor leader John
Mitchell (2<sup>nd</sup> from right) <span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>during the famous White House conference (October 2, 1902).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>President Roosevelt convened many leaders and others to
arbitrate a massive coal strike which threatened both the Nation�s
industrial engine and a citizenry dependent on coal for heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Bryan cooperated with Roosevelt to curb big business and
usher in a more progressive era for American farmers and workers.</font>
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<p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">ANOTHER
PEREGRINATING JENNINGS? <i>--
</i> Bryan rarely sat still for the cameras, traveling and
campaigning
for more than thirty years. This photo was taken in Dayton,
Tennessee where Bryan participated at the Scopes Trial (July
1925). Days later, he died in his sleep. (Bryan's mother
was <a href="Jennings%20Heritage/cornerstone_for_courage.htm"> Mariah Elizabeth
Jennings</a>, whose family migrated to Illinois from
Kentucky. His father, Silas, was a native of Point Pleasant,
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frame house in Salem, Illinois witnessed the birth of William
Jennings Bryan in 1860. His father, Silas Lillard Bryan, was a
native of Virginia, while Mariah Elizabeth Jennings' (1834-1896)
family traced from Kentucky,
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><i>Objectives/Aims</i><br>
</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman">The William
Jennings Bryan Recognition Project will provide a platform to chronicle
and memorialize Bryan�s contributions to history, American politics and
international peacekeeping.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Programs will be </span></font>
<font lang="0" face="Arial" size="2" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">
blending with ongoing efforts of the Jennings Randolph Recognition Project
(JRRP) and the <a href="Jennings%20Heritage/jennings_heritage_project.htm">
Jennings Heritage Project (JHP)</a>, and focused on generating interest in
history and civics, particularly among young people. </font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman">The program/lecture
series will be nonpartisan in nature.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">E</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman">x</b></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">pectations<br>
</i></b></span>The Bryan Project will generate positive insights for
scholars and individuals interested in elevating the legacy and
<a href="Chautauqua.htm">ideals</a> of William Jennings Bryan between the
centennial anniversaries of the elections of 1900 and 1908. Coupled with
this approach will be a review of key issues which comprise Bryan�s legacy
and which shadow our history across the 20th century reaching into our
present-day current events. The Bryan Project will provide a history
�window� on what the world was like a century ago with analysis of a
complex weave of issues which dominated Bryan�s era (see <i>
<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Jul/21/william_jennings_bryan_and_the_campaign_of_1908__a_portent_o.html">America's Long
Walk Home: Revisiting Bryan's Campaign of 1908</a>).</i></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><i>Method of Operation</i></b><br>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman">The William Jennings
Bryan Recognition Project (WJBRP) is achieving its objectives through a
lecture series, research and memoranda/report circulation focused on the
issues, life and time of Bryan with links to the present.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Research will be coordinated with leading Bryan scholars,
universities, and institutions where Bryan�s life is still remembered
� and supervised by a trained historian with advanced degree education
and public policy experience (see <a href="publications.htm">Publications</a>,
"Bryan and Randolph: Politics, Honor, and Election 2000,"
September 18, 2000, Salem, West Virginia and </span></font>
<font lang="0" face="Arial" size="2" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">a
second publication "Swords to Plowshares: Rural Origins of William
Jennings Bryan - An Unheralded Secretary of State, 1913-15, April 9,
2002, Department of State Historians' Roundtable, Washington, D.C</font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman">).</span></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">In July 2008, William Jennings
Bryan Project authored an article, "America's Long Walk Home: Revisiting
the Campaign of 1908," which was published with photographs in The
Fredericksburg Freelance Star and picked up by a major news syndicate,
then reprinted in dozens of newspapers around the country. The piece
featured Bryan, noting parallels with the Presidential Campaign of 2008.
Online links to the article were carried worldwide -- especially in
Philippines, India, and Great Britain -- countries Bryan visited in his
international tour in 1905-06.</font></p>
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Nick Hollis visits with farm leaders across rural America; pictured
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><i>Supporters</i><br>
</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman">The WJBRP is
enlisting financial support from individuals and foundations known to be
interested in William Jennings Bryan and his legacy on a range of key
issues over the years. Among the early supporters are Larry Gray (great
grandson), Helen Hicks (great grand-daughter), Joyce Bryan Strout (great
cousin), B. & N. Heuermann Foundation, Robert Coleman, Rosey Dow,
Fred Whitehouse, David V. Lightfoot MD, Jeff Jennings, and others.</span></font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2">Contributions to the William
Jennings Bryan Recognition Project
(WJBRP)<br>
are tax-deductible under IRS Code 501(c)(3) with checks payable
to:</font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>The Agribusiness Council -
WJBRP</b><br>
P.O. Box 5565<br>
Washington DC 20016</font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2">Questions may be directed to the project
secretariat at:</font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2">Tel: (202) 296-4563<br>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></font></p>
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<p align="center"> <p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>"Statesman,
yet friend to truth, of soul sincere,<br>
in action faithful, and in honor clear"</b></font></center><p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>"Burn
down your cities and leave our farms and your cities will spring up again </b>as
if by magic. But destroy our farms and grass will grow in the streets of
every city in this country... Having behind us the producing masses of
this country and of the world supported by the commercial interest and the
other toilers everywhere...we will answer their demand for a gold standard
by saying to them 'you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this
crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.'"</font><p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1">(Cross
of Gold Speech, William Jennings Bryan, July 9, 1896, Democratic National
Convention, Chicago, Illinois)</font></td>
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