The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-07-03
BRYAN'S NEBRASKA SUPPORTERS.
To Extend Wiae-Open. Hospitality to
Delegates and Friends.

Omaha. June 2S.-Whatever may be
said of w. J. Bryan's Nebraska sup
porters before and after the Denver
convention. whatever CRITICISMS OF
plaudits may be melted out to tnelf
leader and his policies, none Will DC
able to say after the national gamer
ing that Nebraska Democrats did moi
do themselves proud in making their
presence known by the wfde-open hos
pitality extended to delegates and
their friends while in the convention
city.
1t will be the third time Nebraska
has been called upon to show the STUN
it is made of, and without minclne
words, National Committeeman Dahl
man-"Our Jim''-declares that the
thousand delegates and similar num-
Der of alternates who go to Denver
will be shown how the Democracy OF
Bryan's home State appreciates the
support they have given the man VINO
began his political career as the Sill
ver-tongued Orator of the Platte.
The sixteen Nebraska delegates Will
form but a small part of the immense
crowd of Bryan enthusiasts who, Will
go to Denver, and Dahlman admits
that not less than $4,000 will be
spent to show the people OF the coun-
try that the Democrats OF Bryan
State do not do things by halves. -four
special trains have been chartered to
carry organized sections of Democracy
to Denver, and hundreds Will go as
individuals. Not less than 1000 Ne
braskans propose to be in the conVen-
ton city to join in the entertainment
of visiting delegates and the demon
stration for their favorite son.
Nebraskans will have headquarters
in the Brown Palace Hotel, where i've
large rooms, en- suite have been en-
gagged for five days at a cost of $1,000,
and these will be deliberately decorat-
ed. Festoons of bunting will surround
large picture of Bryan in each room,
and the walls be hung with pictures OF
every Democrat of importance-Grov-
er Cleveland not omitted-from Jeffer-
son down to Bryan A score of porters
will look after every wish OF visitors
and delegates, and a committee OF Is
will meet and greet every person VINO
calls.
The trains which will carry the Ne
braskans to Denver will be made up
entirely of Pullmans, with an observa-
ton car attached. Each train will
carry $50 persons. and many of the
visitors will take their wives. Every
man from Bryan's State will wear a
badge which will indicate he is from
Nebraska, and some of these badges,
those especially of the delegates, will
be elaborate in the extreme. The
delegation proper will have a band of
40 pieces, which will be stationed at
Nebraska headquarters when it is not
engaged on the streets or at the con-
vention hall. This band will lead a
parade of 1000 Nebraskans the day
the convention opens.
The city itself is making every pos
sible preparation to entertain its Wis
itors in the most hospitable manner.
The great majority of the business
houses and many of the residences
will be decorated, and, under the di-
re ction and active management of a
number of patriotic organizations, the
display of bunting promises to surpass
anything of the kind seen in the West
in many years. The great mass of
decorations is to be IN place by July 4
nd will be allowed to remain until
cfter the convention has adjourned.
Even in it's normal condition Den
yer is a city of lavish electric display,
End when plans under way have been
completed the sight by night will be
one that would do credit even to an
electrical exposition. The great Cap
itol building, with it's vantage point on
the summit of commanding emin-
cnce, will be, when lighted up, spec
tacle of really great beauty. At the
cnay of tho p01den c01ored dome is
placed an enormous light which can
be seen at distance of 40 miles, and
Gown the sloping sides of the dome
itself and along the edges of manifold
cornices and projections and at the
top of the massive granite columns
which stand at the four sides of the
great structure have been placed thou
sands of smaller lights.