In 1900 it was doomed to defeat before the campaign opened.
Yes; the reform “movement” was in full swing in 1890, and one of the good things it did was to float into Congress a promising young lawyer named Bryan.
To the Populist movement W. J. B. owes his rise, for there were then no Democrats to speak of in Nebraska.
Populist votes carried his home State for him in 1896, when he ran for President against McKinley.
In 1900 Nebraska went Republican, although the same Bryan was running against the same McKinley.
They are hunting, in Paris, for the bones of John Paul Jones, the first and greatest sea captain who ever flew the Stars and Stripes from the masthead of a battleship, and “held the ocean lists against the world in mail.”
Congress gives $35,000 to find the bones, and of course they will be found—not those of the original Jones, perhaps, but a good enough lot of bones for that amount of money.