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Bryan Bryan Bryan Bryan is a 1919 poem by American poet Vachel Lindsay. It chronicles William Jennings Bryan’s 1896 presidential campaign as seen through the eyes of an idealistic sixteen-year-old who strongly supported the Democratic Party candidate and was crushed by Bryan’s defeat at the hands of the Republican Party. The narrator depicts the election outcome as a victory of the East Coast and large financial institutions such as J.P.