Happy Birthday William Jennings Bryan

I've tried to warm up to Bryan in recent years, but it is just impossible. Did you know there is an organization called the William Jennings Bryan Recognition Project? He backed, according to their site:

(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.

Despite opposing well over half these initiatives (I'll stay vague for safety's sake), Bryan deserves our remembrance -- Yes sir -- give lavishly.