Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-04
BIC NOISE IN LINCOLN
Delegates and Visitors Are Ar
irving in Throngs.
BRYAN AND JOHNSON TALK
tom" Wants Government Owner
ship Plank Inserted.
BUT THE "PEERLESS" SHES
Fairview Front Porch Now Crowded
All the Time-Pilgrimases
to the Shrine.

LINCOLN. Neb., July 4.-Echoes Of
bursting firecrackers, music of brass
bands and the shrieks of numerous loco
motives arriving or passing through with
special trains for Denver rolled family
out to w. ]. Bryans home, four miles
away, today. anu indicated that this city.
with a presidential candidate to lend in
terest to the day. had no idea of cele-
bratng sane Fourth of July.
With delegations from Alabama, North
Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi. Oklahoma,
Massachusetts and Chicago and Omaha
expected during the day. reception COM
mittee. headed by Mayor Brown and
greatly augmented for the occasion, was
early astir. It's members, wearing I'M
mense badges. topped with rosettes bear
ing Bryan's picture. distributed them
selves among the hotels and railroad sta
tions. Scarcely window in the business
district. whether owned by democrat or
republican, but displayed Autograph OF
the Nebraskan and the words welcome
to Bryan's town."
The Idol at Home.
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guards the portals at Fairview. was kept
very busy admitting delegates and other
visitors to the commodiouS porch, where
the master of the house receives the ma
jority of his callers. Taking advantage Of
the holiday. people from the rural dis
tricts and neighboring towns flocked to
Lincoln. and many of them took the troll
ley ride to Bryan Station" as the con-
ductors invariably announce the spot
where passengers alight near the Bryan
home. Some were content with view OF
the premises. but many embraced the OPP
portunity to shake hands with the man
whom they believe will be the democratic
nominee for President.
Tom johnson on Deck.
Tom L. Johnson. mayor of Cleveland.
Ohio. who arrived at Las this morning,
anticipated the arrival of delegations in
order to have quiet half hour with the
candidate. Mr.. Johnson. who is credited
with being more radical than Mr.. Bryan,
discussed with the latter certain proposed
planks of the platform. and gave Mr..
Bryan firSt-hand information of the fac
tional fight in Ohio. 1t is this fight which
makes it apparently certain that NJ. E.
ingalls,. recently mentioned as vice
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divided support of his own state. Mr.
Johnson is opposed to him a member
of the opposition wing of the party in
Ohio. This faction. numbering thirty-one
admissions by Johnson's friends. wants
to transfer Johnson's position as Ohio
member Of the national committee to
Harvey CARRIER. Mr.. Bryan would. be
greatly pleased If the strife in this state
could be brought to a close. and will
Influence effect a
Radical as Of Old.
Mr.. Johnson's so-called radical ten
denotes evidenced themselves when, in
conversation with Mr.. Bryan. he resur-
rected the government ownership ques-
ton by suggesting that such a plank
ought to go in on moral grounds. He con-
sidered it a moral duty for the govern
ment to take over railroads, street car
lines. and public utilities generally
against corporate greed and dishon-
esty." Mr.. Bryan. however. considers the
government ownership plank as not be-
ing an issue in this campaign, even on
Mr.. Johnson's moral grounds. Mr..
Johnson does not want the Craftsmanship
of the national committee. He told Mr..
Bryan he was too busy, for one thing,
and he knew of no corporations from
which he might raise campaign contribu-
tionS without their requiring legislation
or immunity of some sort in return. Mr..
Johnson also froWnS on any mention of
himself for second place on the ticket.
New York Knows Too Much.
The surprise of Alton B. Parker that
Mr.. Bryan favors a national anti-in-
junction plank similar to the Nebraska
plank. occasioned greater surprise here
After reading the Parker interview from
Colorado yesterday local democrats who
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astonishment that the New York dele
gate had information of the Nebraskan's
present views that they themselves had
been unable to gain from him. 1t is by
no means certain that Mr.. Bryan's ideas
on the matter of an anti-injunction plank
have not undergone change since the
state plank was adopted. He has inter-
viewed many leaders of the party on the
point since then. but has confided In
scarcely any one. Mayor Brown of this
city and possibly Mayor Dahlman of
Omaha are among the very few who
know exactly what Mr. Bryan wants. OF
all the delegates who have stopped over
here on the way to Denver and talked
with the candidate none has admitted that
Mr.. Bryan went into details as to this
moOted plank, and most of them have
come away saying he merely demanded a
vigorous and honest expression by the
delegation on the subject.
Keystoners on the Job.
The first section of the Pennsylvania
delegation. fifty-one strong. was among
the first to make the pilgrimage to Fair
view. 1t was an enthusiastic lot and
boosted two candidates for Vice Pres-
dent-John Murphy of Sheridan and for
mer State Treasurer William II. Berry
both of whom were members of the dele
CATION Many of the delegates were ac-
companied by members of their families.
and all boarded special cars soon after
their arrival for Fairview.
Mr. Murphy says that fifty-one of the
sixty-eight Pennsylvania delegates are
for Bryan
Competition is admittedly keen between
the Murphy and Guffey sections of the
delegation. and members of the Murphy
section, which formed the nucleus of this
mornings Pennsylvania arrivals. are MAX
ing the best of their early visit to the
democratic leader. with a view to secur-
ing control of their delegation. Contest
ing delegates representing seven Philadel-
phia districts were members of the Muir
| ply party which went to Farview and
hope to interest Mr.. Bryan in their case.