Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-05
HOW BRYAN SPENT THE FOURTH.
Received and Sent Bulletins ana I ell
egrAms Regarding Convention.

heCe1ye0 and Sent Bulletins and Tel.
e.rans Regarding Convention.
Lincoln. Neb.. July 5.--W. j. Bryan
spent the Fourth of July in sending tel.
e2rams to personal friends and IN re-
ceiNiny bulletins from the national con-
Nention at Kansas City which is to
Bryan heme Was prettily tho not elab-
orately decorated With the national col-s
.ors. In the early hours of the morning,
before the convention met, he held oc-.
'casional consultations With friends at
tance telephone
q Mir. Bryan. apparently, was the least
concerned man in Lincoln as to what
Brsan was in the hes, OF humor and.
who called during the day with stories
and incidents. He spent the morning
hours conNarsing With number of men.
on his front porch, the subject of poll
tics or convention never once being
preached.
Ii was 1850 before the first message
of such nature that he could make ii
puhiic5 arrived Over one of the TIVE pri-s
waite wires Mr.. Bryan has arranged in
his house. Ti,is message simply an-
nounced that convention hall WAS rap
idly filing and that the Lincoln aud
Omaha Bryan clubs had been accord
ed the best seats in the house, and that
..e acoustics of the building We're per-
feet.
Al 12so'clock another message was re-
.ceiyed stating that the Nebraska dele
gates had filed into their seats and that
they We're theScenter of attraction. AIR.
Bryan MaS called into the roam where
the iittle instruments We're ticking away
telling the evsnts at the national con-
Nentian. The TWO messages referred to
We're brought to he porch and read by
AIR. Bryan himself. Occasionally he
would interpolats something of his own.
composition having reference to Well
known. new spaper men with an air half
serious and halfcom!cal.
During the morning he read from a
copy of Dickens '.Old Curiosity Shop
the tale of a convention, relnarking that
III Vas fair example Of how reports
Should not be written by newspaper
men.
j, was suggested that while the dec
laration of Independence was being read
in Kansas City AIR. Bryan read the
document TO hisNisitors here. He COM
pied with the request and was applaud-
ed at the conclusion Of the reading.
Benton Maret, formerly Of Lincoln,
compiled the bulletins at the Kansas
81! emu ana rss .,;ai- 70 furnish Mr..
Bryan inside light on the proceedings.
a report received by MIR. Bryan said
/ that insthe midst of the Hill delnonstra-
r che h
bad. remarked Air. Bryan, dryly. II
suppose he had a fly on his nose and
was too busy with his hands to drive ii
off with thenl.''
State Senator Talbot. AIR. Bryan's
ed during the afternoon, reading the
| Mr. Bryan. Rev. Mr.. Hlndman, OF the
also called and manifested great inter-
tsest in the events as they licked off in
the room UP stairs, ars Bryan enter
i5tained the callers while her husband
/ was consulting with the opera tors.
!! Following the first adjournment, Mr.
Bryan stood for a group photograph
/ Ting artist Mas anxious that Mir. Bryan
! iiottl q SaPys VI lile uEEldIdilDIl 0I lNQe-
bpendence while the picture was taken,
but he ohjsGted saying he did not care
l.to pose aud he would simply hold one
ios the bulletins.
| Mr. Bryan was asked If he thought
The early adjournment indicated an in
htention on the part of the convention
when II reconvened to rush the work
thru and nominate him last night. He
e. II br tt..tJ. 4,
as much in the dark as any one else.