mckinley's campaign has six to seven times as much money to spend as william jennings bryan. bryan with his youth -- 36 years old. he has incredible energy. he is the most remarkable speaker on the american scene at the time. he decides to do something that has not been done before, a whistle stop campaign train across america, stopping everywhere, visiting every state that he can. standing bear, giving speeches. hanna tells mckinley you've got to do the same thing. mckinley says, i can't do that. i would just as well set up a trapeze on my front lawn and compete with a professional athlete as go on a speaking tour against william jennings bryan. i have to think when i speak. so, instead of going among the people, mckinley comes up with a different idea. let the people here him. his brilliant strategy as he is not going to leave canton, ohio at all. he sets up the french port campaign -- the front porch campaign. anyone want to hear me, they can come to my house. six days a week, mckinley will give a speech on his front lawn. hanna arranges with the railroad obviously big busi

william jennings bryan, a nebraska politician, public speaker and writer moved to lincoln in 1887. he served in the u.s. house of representatives, edited the "omaha world herald" and ran for president in 1890, 1896 and 1908. hosted by our time warner cable partners c-span's tour staff visited many sites showcasing the show -- showcasing the city's history. >> before lincoln became the capital of the state of nebraska in 1867, it was a village, if you could even call it a village, of lancaster probably probably about the time of statehood, the population would have been somewhere between 13 and 30. it was very, very small. there were no businesses here to speak of, the houses were very crude. when it was built, there is nothing here to attract the capital. the reason the capital came here was for entirely different reasons. it was no navigable water here, there were no trees, there were no minerals, with the exception of salt. they thought the salt flats to the west of lincoln would make a good industry that would support the capital, but the primary interest was not moving to lanca

this one is republican empire written by william jennings bryan. very delicate. illiam jennings bryan and his signature and this is part of his personal library published in 1899. in this book is one of our more valuable books because of its provenance. this one is called nebraskans about nebraska life and these are nebraskans. part of the territory of nebraskans. this was owned by j sterling norton. and he gave it to the father belonged to him in 1872 and it was donated to our collection. this is from his library in nebraska. so this is one of our more valuable pieces and one of our earlier pieces. this book is a little book early poetry. some of the details that make this book valuable the gold on the outside and it has a lot of pictures and things. and also it is representative of the early works of 1st nebraska settlers. and so this is really valuable in understanding the heritage and the settlement and the trials and tribulations. in nebraska authors with the finest someone who is either born here educated here. the university and someone who has lived here f

hester: william jennings bryan is probably most famous for the fact that he was nominated by a major party three times, the democratic party, but he lost the election all three times. he moved to lincoln in 1880 7. he was a lawyer in central illinois. he had a law practice in central and illinois and he went into kansas to collect some debts. he stopped in lincoln to visit an old friend from a law school in chicago. and he saw where lincoln and the state of nebraska, which was just booming, he saw a weak democratic party, so he sought some opportunities there. there started construction of this house in 1901 and he and mary would drive out into the country in a buggy and they fell in love with the hill that the house was built on. construction was started in 1901. it took two years to build it they moved in in 1902, and construction was finished in 1903. 11,000 square feet. mrs. bryant's budget was $10,000. she may have spent as much as $17,000. it's a beautiful house. the main area was used for political events, receptions etc. they would host a number of even world leaders would co

this one is the public or empire by william jennings bryan. it's very delicate. that's when jennings bryan and his signature and this is part of his personal library. published in 1899 command this book is one of our -- not our earliest books but one of our more valuable because of its provenance. so the other early books; brascan. it's about nebraska life and these are nebraskans. part of the territory of nebraska before it became a state. this was owned by j sterling morton and he gave it to the fellow belong to him in 1872, and it was donated our collection. this is from his library in nebraska city. so this so this is one of our more valuable pieces and one of our earlier pieces. this book is a little book of early poetry by nebraska settlers, and some of the detail makes this book valuable. the goals on the outside and it has a lot of pasted in pictures and things. and also is representative of the early works of 1st nebraska settlers. and so this is really valuable just an understanding the heritage and the settlement trials and tribulations of the early se

william jennings bryan was initially for ban on both sides, which he argued with some justification was true neutrality. if you're going to be neutral you should not lend to either side. there was pressure from business, from banks which did want to lend, and the people they probably were going to lend to were the allies. the state department was also in favor of making loans to the allies. by the late fall of 1914, wilson had ordered the state department and brian to make it possible to make it possible for the allies to borrow in the u.s. this was tilting towards the allies. the loans to the allies were going to increase steadily to the point that by 1917, united states mostly private interests had lent $7 billion to the allies. wilson facilitated it. the war had a favorable impact on the united states because the allies were in a great position to order a great amount of war material from the united states. the war also gave the opportunity for american business to begin to move in on markets that had been the preserve of the british or the french. in many ways, the war was an econom

all weekend, american history tv is featuring lincoln nebraska, william jennings bryan, i nebraska politician, public speaker, and writer, moved to lincoln in 1887, he served in the u.s. house of representatives, edited the omaha world herald and ran for president in 1890, 1896, and 1908. posted by time warner cable partners, the city's tour staff visited many sites showcasing the city's history, learn more about lincoln all weekend here on american history tv. >> before lincoln became the capital of nebraska in 1867, it was the village of lancaster throughout the time of statehood in 1867, the population would have been between 13 and 30. there were no businesses to speak of, the houses were crude so when it was built nothing to attract the capital. the capital came here was for an entirely different reasons there was no water -- navigable water, no trees, no minerals, with the exception of salt. they thought the salt flats, which were to the north west of lincoln, would make a good industry, to support the capital. the primary interest was not moving it to lancaster, it was to move it out o