The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-17
POETS BES|EGE
 BRYAN AT HOME Campaign Music Makes Up
 Most et Letters NEBRASKA IS FOR BRYAN News Is Received at Fairview That Negro Clubs Are Organizing in Kansas To Throw Taft Vote
 Over to Bryan.
NEBRASKA IS FOR BRYAN

Lincoln, Neb., August 16.-(Speciai)
 The poets have broken loose With William J. Bryan as tn cir victim. AL most every mail received at Fairview for the past 10 days has brought one or more rhythmic compositions in eu1ogy of Bryan and the democratic party. Some of these are set to music and are sent to the presidential can didate for approval of both words and melody.
 MT. Bryan has not yet decided to gs~ss mits that he has found time to read them and with a great deal of inter est.
 The candidate was in good humor today He had been advised of the pre- dictions of Boss Murphy of Tammany and Chairman Corners that the dem ocrats would carry New York. The announcement that the New York state convention had been advanced several weeks, the original programme having provided for a convention late in Sep- tember, also was satisfactory to MT. Bryan.
 The candidate wanted to spend sew era1 days on a speech making tour Of New York state the latter part of Sep tember, this being on the suggestion of National Chairman Mack, but MT. Bryan deemed it inadvisable to visit , the state until after the convention. Chairman Mack Is now arranging for Bryan's New York dates.
 Other encouraging information reach ed MT. Bryan today. It came from Kansas and was to the effect that prominent negroes are organizing to throw the colored vote of the middle { west against Taft. The Kansas Ranch i man, a paper taking the lead in the movement strongly advocates the de- feat of Taft. Special stress is laid upon
 the Brownsville incident and the de- barring of negro delegates from the Chicago convention. The information which came to MT. Bryan today was to the effect that the work of organ izing negro clubs is being prosecuted vigorously and that one anti-Taft club had been formed of 800 Pullman car porters. A colored club of SO members
 in Lincoln already has indorsed Bryan.
 When asked if he had any expression to make concerning the Springfield race riot, MT. Bryan said he had not fully
 read the accounts of the disturbance
 and that any long distance opinions from Fairview or Hot Springs scarcely
 would aid the authorities or the peo- pie of Illinois to handle the situation in the latter state. 2
 F. P. Morys of Illinois, an old friend of MT. Bryan, and a prominent lawyer, called at Fairview yesterday and told the candidate that there was much in the situation In that state to cheer the democracy. He expressed the belief that both Bryan and Stevenson stood n splendid chance to carry the state. MT. Bryan will depart on Thursday for Des Moines and from that place will go to Chicago for another confer ence with Chairman Mack and members of the various committees in charge of the campaign. Vice Chairman P. L. Hall of the national committee, and R. L. Metcalf of the textbook committee will probably make the trip with him. A conference will be held by MT. Bry- an with Iowa democratic leaders at Des Moines.
 A travelling man from Red Oak, who was in Lincoln yesterday, declared that he travelled through 40 counties in that state and from conversation with busi- ness men and hotel guests he things it can be carried for Bryan despite the big republican majority in former cam paigns.
 The threshing of the wheat and oat crops havested from the Bryan fields
 was finished yesterday. The Bryan acres have yielded abundantly this sea- son, but the crop of votes in November is his chief concern.