Bryan was gracious, even self-mocking, after his third failed run for the White House. He said he identified with the legendary Texan drunk who tried to get into a bar, and was escorted out. Trying again, he was hustled out; trying yet again, he was thrown out. "I guess," said the drunk, brushing dust from his clothes, "they don't want me in there."
-Edmund Morris,
Theodore Rex
Interestingly,
William Jennings Bryan ran unsuccessfully against William McKinley in 1896 and 1900. He then ran against Roosevelt's hand-picked successor, William Howard Taft in 1908.
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