Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-10-27
BRYAN at ZONE.

Especial Dispatch to CommerciaI-Tribune.1
Columbus, o., Oct. I7.-Mr. l.. III.
ii. Austin, editor of the Evening
! Call, published at Lincoln, Neb., in
an interview in the Ohio State Jour-
nal, says among other things:
William J. Bryan is my neighbOr.
We are intimate friends. know his
wife and children. BY the way, Mrs.
Bryan is the politician of the family,
and it is no secret i'm Lincoln that
just previous to the campaign for the
Presidency in 1896 it was the daily
task of the Bryan family to unfold
| the map Of the United States on the
Ncenter table in the parlor, when Mrs.
Bryan mapped out the plan by which
I her husband was to secure the NOM
ination by the Chicago convention.
The choice of that convention was
discounted by myself three months
before its meeting. / knew just what
Mr.. Bryan and his friends were do
ing. Why, it is one of the untold Sc
crets of the contest for the nomina-
tiOn that day or two before the
gathering met two members of the
Bland delegation in Missouri called
upon Mr.. Bryan at his Lincoln home
and arranged to deliver the solid
delegation to the Nebraska man at
the proper time. | knew all about
the secret call, but at the personal
request of Mr.. Bryan suppressed the
fact in my paper"
"What is your personal estimate of
Mr.. Bryan?"
"Mr. Bryan is a man who makes
many friends, but he is demagogue
i'm politics. But for his Democratic
antecedents Mr.. Bryan would have
been Republican, for he has told
me that he admired the course of the
Republican party in fighting SO val
iantly in every campaign for prOtec-
tion, the gold standard and beneficent
pension laws"
"Will he be a candidate for the
Presidency in 1902"
undoubtedly"
"What is the condition of affairs in
Lincoln? Is the place growing?"
"When l went to Lincoln in 1890
the place had a population of $4,000,
in round numbers. do not believe
we have more than 10000 today"
"What, in your opinion, is the cause
of this slump of population?"
Hard times for one thing; the fact
that William J. Bryan is a resident
of Lincoln for another. The first prop
osition is not new, and it's existence
is due to variety of causes, among
which the poor crops Of the State are
partially to blame. OF course, this
was charged up to the Republican
party. The whitening effect of the
presence of William j. Bryan upon
the prospects and growth of Lincoln
is not, perhaps, so well understood.
When Bryan was nominated for
President in 1896 the eyes of the
country were upon Lincoln, and the
people who had furnished money to
conduct many of the enterprises in
that city began TO seek to withdraw
their capital. Mr.. Bryan was COM
mitted to the theory of the'fif:y-cent
dollar; the courts of the State were
mad on the subject of debt and the
foreclosure of mortgages; man who
had dollar on piece of property in
Lincoln was harassed in its cOllec-
tion; the officials, surcharged with
the spirit Of Populism and Henry
Georgeism, stood in the way Of the
collection of debt, and the conse-
quence was that hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars were taken out
of the business of Lincoln Just as
soon as the owners of the money could
collect it. They did not care to have
their funds tied up in community
where the people had but little regard
for the sacredness of contract and
where the>yery courts were in the
hands of this class of socialists. The
effect of this was to paralyze bus
mess; hundreds of families left Lin
coin for other places, and there has
been blight upon the town ever
since. We are gradually recovering,
but just so long as Populism and it's
kindred crank ideas hold sway at
Lincoln, or i'm any other community
for that matter, just so long will the
prosperity of that community be re-
tarded. The people i'm my section
have for years done business largely
on credit. There are millions of
money scattered all over Nebraska,
and when William J. Bryan stood
upon a platform advocating the pay
ment of debts in any old kind of
money there was an immediate move
ment to collect money due on mort
cages, and thousands of forced sales
were made that would not have hap
pened but for the fear that the value
of the mortgages was likely to be re-
duced. Like any man, the owner of
these membranes wanted to realize
the same kind of money that they
had invested"
The royal Hawaiian flag from
ex-Queen Liliuokalani's palace was
presented to Congressman Albert
5. Berry's daughter Miss Annie, Of
Newport, by ex-President Dole, of
Hawaii, when that young lady Wis.,
tied Honolulu with her father. Ex-
Queen Lii wants the flag back, but
Miss Rarru daclinas To 1iva Ii nm