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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIX, Issue 21, 23 November 1907, Page 43

Tn the days when William Jennings Bryan was not so well known, a widely admired campaign speaker in Nebraska, who had been billed to make the principal address at a political gathering at Lincoln, was obliged, at the last moment, on account of illness, to semi word that he could not keep the appointment. It chanced that Mr. Bryan was selected to fill his place. Naturally, Mr. Bryan felt some nervousness, knowing that ho was to act as substitute for an older and much better known speaker, ami his apprehension was not lessened when he hoard himself thus announced by the chairman: “Feller citizens. this here's the substitute for our gallant an' admired leader, unfortunately sick. I don't know what this gent can do: but time was short an' we had to take what we could get,”