The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-10
BRYAN HEARS
 THE OVATION In Close Touch With
 Convention. HE USES A GRAPHoPHoNE Nebraskan Enjoys Rest buring
 Greater Part of Day. Lie. on Grass and Dictates Messages to His Lieufenants at Denver
 Inspects His Fairview

Lincoln. Neb., July o.--Today. which probably will see William Jennings Bryan for the third time the nominee of the Democratic party as It's presi- dential standard bearer, was quiet one at Fairview and the candidate nao his first siesta in weeks
 The day was hot. A sultry southern breeze swept over the rolling prairie, gathering oppressive qualities as II traveled and depositing them in the nei Rhborhood of the Bryan home. MT. Bryan and his Secretary, Robert IT. Rose, presently found reasons Tor leav- ing the telegraph operator alone and adjourned to the shaded portion or the lawn near the kennel back of the house.
 Before the peace and quiet of the hour were broken by visitors, the teleRrapher, l.. Nj. Semper, read the private messages through an open win dow and Mir. Bryan without. lying on the grass, dictated the answers
 MT. Bryan did not sleep. but he talk cd but little to his companions If inc greatness of the impending moment when delegates in convention assem- bled shall name q leader affected him, he did not show it. Such moments, however are not unfamiliar to Mfr. Bry- an. Ills nerves are steady. 1t Is re- lated of him that after the adverse re- turns were in in 1896 and weeping and unstrung friends. racked with disap- nointment. surrounded him, the de- feated candidate alone was calm and when McKinley's election at about 10 o'clock in the evening was absolutely confirmed. he retired and slept the sleep of a child the night through. It was long after that his friends who had hoped with him and battied with him had calmed down sufficiently even t.l~ a4 a1n
 It was the afternoon adjournment of the convention till 2 o'clock in the eve- ming which gave MT. Bryan today's opportunity for repose. When matters pertaining to contesting delegations rules, organization and platform were being considered at Denver, MT. Bryan was kept close to his confidential wire and has been working twenty hours a day. but today with satisfactory platform about to be adopted and noth- ing but his own nomination in prospect, the responsibilities of his position dropped from him and he lay with partly closed eyes, gazing steadfastly at the green alfalfa fields and the red and white farm houses in the distance
 It was a half dozen farmers from other sections who in passing through, called to pay their respects and dis turbed his reverie. But they did not lure him from his couch on the grass All sat down in a row, and MT. Bryans leaning on his elbow talked with thcm on many things beside politics.
 'Tt's the first rest have had in a long time," he said as he regretfully arose and entered the house.
 After dinner and before the tele- Rrapher had again taken up the burden of the convention report the candidate walked about his farm with Mrs. Bryan. their daughter, Grace and Mir. Rose, VT AAnA AnT RF fa hax crop had been safely slowed away that the summers brood of Plymouth Rocks were approaching edible proportions; that the two calves were doing well and that few years more would bring his apple trees to maturity. He pick ed few cherries and ate them and to all appearances forgot that there was such a thing as a convention or a White House. Of any of those who visited Fairview he was the least coTfcerned.
 He works hard, those who know him intimately say, but once with his fam' fly stroIling about, he throws off abso- Iutely his burden of political respon- sibility.
 Eight o'clock, however, brought an end to the rustic scenes. The swift clicking of the telegraph instrument told of the beginning of the night session of the convention. The session which, it was believed, would again see him given the highest honor his party could bestow.
 The belief that the hour of the nom nation would be late. caused the post ponement of the local celebration which had been planned by Lincoln citizens, Including those at the capital to visit Fairview upon receipt of news of the nomination. The visit was post poned until tomorrow.
 Probably a hundred people. nearly all women, who had not heard of the delay. called early in the evening. A few automobiles, laden with Mir. -Bryan's fellow townsmen, also swept up the driveway at frequent intervals, but their visits were brief All were greeted cordially and bidden to the | formal reception tomorrow. A quar- | tette of Mrs. Bryan's women friends,