The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-07
READY FOR BRYAN
Indianapolis Makes Preparations
for Big Crowd
On the Occasion of w. j. Bryan's
Notification.
CANDIDATE STARTS.
Left Lincoln For the Indiana
Capital Last Night.
Crowds Greet Him at Every
Station on the Way.

Indianapolis, Ind, Aug 7.-Arrange-
ments have been completed for the
meeting to notify William Jennings
Bryan and Adlai E. Stevenson of their
nomination for president aRd vice presi-
dent by the Democratic party.
Military park where the notification
will take place. has been elaborately
decorated. The speakers stand will ac-
commodate all the distinguished visitors,
including members of the committees
and in front arrangements have been
made for sixty press tables.
The exercises at the park will begin
at 2:3O. and will last two hours. Mr..
Richardson of Tennessee and Governor
Thomas of Colorado will make the ad-
dress of notification and replies will be
made by Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Stevenson.
An informal reception will follow, but
this will be brief.
committee representing the business
interests and Democratic organizations
of the state will leave here at 4:45 o'clock
for Lafayette, where it will meet the
Bryan train.
AT the union station, the reception
formation will include upward of 100
Democratic clubs from all parts of the
state and from Cincinnati, Chicag go,
Louisville, St. Louis and other cities
The line of march will be nearly two
miles in length, through the principal
business streets, and will end at the
park.
AT the night meeting in Tomlinson
hall Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago
will preside. Mayor Harrison will speak
at length, after which he will introduce
w J. bryan. Following Mr.. Bryan,
Webster Davis will address the audience.
Provisions have been made for an over
flow meeting to be held at the monu-
ment.
The railroads have arranged for spe-
cial trains from various parts of the
state and from present indications the
crowd will be very large.
STEVENSON'S PLANS.
Chicago, Aug. 7.-Adlai E. Stevenson,
Democratic nominee for the vice presi-
dency, arrived here last night from his
home in Bloomington. Ill, en- route to
Indianapoli He said:
After the indianapolis meeting I will
make my first address in Chicago, Aug.
15, the occasion being the meeting of
United Irish Societies. On Aug. 81, I
go to Sedalia, Mo, where I will speak
at the opening of the Missouri cam
paign. 1 will also speak in Indian
apolis September Is, when the Demo-
cratic national clubs meet there. This
is all the speechmaking 1 viii do until
the latter part of September when the
campaign will open in earnest"
THE START FROM LINCOLN.
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. Tn accordance
with Mr.. Bryans expressed wishes,
there was an entire absence of demon
stration on the part of the Lincoln peo-
pie when he started on the trip to In
dianapolis last night; the party occupied
a sleeper on the ChCaSO- denver Bur
lington limited which left here a few
moments after six o'clock. 1t was COM
posed of Mr. and Mrs. Bryan and their
son; Governor Thomas of Colorado and
Mrs. Thomas; John I. Martin, sergeant
alarms of the national committee; Mr..
Bryan's stenographer and Governor
Thomas secretary.
A number of Mr.. Bryan's friends were
at the station but there was no crush
and no demands for a speech. The cur
ious ones were limited to passengers on
incoming trains from the east, who,
when they were told the Democratic
presidential candidate was on the plat
form, soon crowded around him. Gen
eral O. o. Howard, who arrived from
Chicago to speak before the Epworth
league assembly, got off the train just
in time to shake hands with Mr.. Bryan
before he left.
THE RUN TO OMAHA.
Pacific Junction, Ia, Aug 7.-Mr.
Bryan's brief run from Lincoln to
Omaha was devoid of special incident,
except at the little town of Gretna- AS
the train approached this point, Mr..
Bryan explained that it was there ten
years ago, when beginning his first cam
paign for congress that he made his