Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-31
Will Speak at the First M. E.
Church in Lecture Course
This Evening.
THEN HE GOES TO PUEBLO,
Expects to Return for Big Reception
BY Democrats on Saturday Next
~ Alta Club.

William Jennings Bryan. prospective
Democratic presidential candidate, is
due TO arrive in Salt Lake on the Los
Angeles limited this afternoon
When Mr.. Bryan first came TO Salt
LAX in 1891 he was just beginning a
career as n Nebraska congressman
When next he came IN 1895, IL WAS to
receive the most tremendous popular
outpouring of support. for that was in
the heart Of the silver controversy,
when all party lines We're broken asun-
der to cast white metal vote, and
Mr.. Bryan was riding into national
prominence on the issue.
On this trip Mr.. Bryan learned much
OF Utah. He spoke in Park City after
his speech IN the Salt Lake theater,
and then was driven down through
the Wasatch mountains, by his friend
Frank p. Stephens over the old pio-
neer trail. Mr. Stephens even following
II over Little Mountain. and out
through Emigration canyon.
| Since then he has dropped in occa-
sioually at times when he was almost
counted out" for period in the chang
ing national issues, and at times when
again he was a national character A
little over year ago he passed through
Ogden on his way vast, much more OF
a private individual than a great
national figure.
AROUND THE WORLD.
This was on mis- way TO Japan 10 COM
mence his now famous tour of the
world from tr,,at hot "a
returned to receive the great New York
| demonstration which again put him
! among the great men OF the hour, and
made him a Democratic possibility.
| Some said he had changed. Others said
the country had changed until his So
! called radical policies of 10 years ago,
| now seemed conservative. He put his
| own Interpretation OH II by his Witty
| London remark that Roosevelt had
stolen some OF his clothes. Since then
such essayists AZ Henry Watterson
| have pointed to future struggle be-
| tween Roosevelt and Bryan at the next
| election. each of whom has been de-
| scribed as the Inevitable candidates OF
their parties.
WILL LECTURE TONIGHT.
Mr.. Bryan will lecture tonight ia the
| First Methodist church. At O'Clock
| tomorrow morning he Will leave for
Futbio, WnHe Mrs. bryan VIII remain
here with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank b. Steph-
| ems, who have always pre- empted nv
| Bryan on his INSISTS to this city. Sat-
| urday afternoon the noted Nebraskan
| will return from Colorado. and will be
| guest of the local Democrats at an
| Alta club luncheon, to be rendered him
| at p. m. Saturday evening he lee
lures In Ogden. and will leave directly
| for the east, Mrs. Bryan leaving Salt
| Lake with him.
TIME OF ARRIVAL.
| When seen this morning, Frank B.
| stephens said that he could not say in
what manner Mr.. Bryan would be en-
| tertained tonight. as 1t depended on
| whether or not his train came In on
| time. "If it gets in on time" he said,
Mr.. Bryan win take dinner at my
home. Otherwise 1t may be necessary
| to go directly to the lecture hail.
This is the seventh visit of Mr.. Bryan
| to Utah. ON the longest one, which
was made in 1897, he brought his three
| children with him and remained for 10
| days, as guest of Mr.. and Mrs Steph-
ems. This was at the time of the Pio-
neer jubilee.