The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-12
Linco n Begins the Celebration
of Notification Day
With a Salute of 46 Guns Fired
at Daybreak.
is FULL OF VISITORS
Thousands Pour in From Ne
braska and Adjoining States.
Road to Fairview Was Kept Hot
All Morning.

Lincoln, Neb.. Aug. 12.-With salute
of 46 guns, one for each state, given
at daybreak Lincoln began the cele-
bration of its first notification DAY
The city was astir early and there
were still number of decorations De-
ing put in place while the visitors were
arriving. The trolley cars to falrVle"
were crowded all the morning ana the
automobile people were doing an ac-
tive business, but the larger NUMBER
of the visitors remained in the city
looking at the various points OF inter
est and especially at the state capitol
grounds where the notification cere-
mony was to be held at O'Clock.
The morning was spent IN 1oihncd-
tion Thousands of people arrived
early today by regular and speclal
trains to participate in the ceremonies.
All the five railways have been running
special trains throughout the night anu
morning and all the regular trains nave
been run in sections. One special tram
from Manhattan, Kan, brought an un-
usually large delegation and Omaha
Fremont. Beatrice. Ord. Geneva Ne
braska City and other towns in this
state as well as Iowa. are heavily rep
resented. Lincoln is entertaining today
the largest number of visitors in It's
history.
Band concerts in the public square
and at the state capitol grounds en-
tertained the gathering crowds. 1he
official programme was opened az noon
with luncheon at the Hotel Llncoun
given by the committee on arrange
ments at which the guests were Mr..
Bryan Mr.. Kern. Governor Sheldon
and other state officials and the mem
bers of the state committee. together
with the members of the national con-
vention who are here. Mayor Browns
attempt to make a nonpartisan affair
of the ceremony has been entirely sue
cessful The governor and all the other
state officials are Republicans. but
they We're at the luncheon and cover
nor Sheldon rode in the first carriage
with Mayor Brown, the Democratic ex-
ecutive of the city. The nonpartisan,
character part of the ceremony ends at
the platform where the speeches are
delivered.
Kern Is Bryan's Guest.
Mr.. Kern was a house guest of Mr..
Bryans and the two candidates rode
in from Farview in an automobile,
which arrived at the hotel some time
before luncheon was served. At 1880
o'clock the party left the Hotel Lincoln
and proceeded to the capitol grounds
led by a platoon of police.
Marching clubs were conspicuously
absent. A number of them offered
their services, but Mayor Brown pre-
ferred the simplest kind of a parade.
This accorded with Mr.. Bryan's own
wishes The parade moved down o
street eastward to Sixteenth. which
took it directly under the much talked
of banner erected by the Republican
state central committee, afterward
torn down and subsequently replaced
L., ton
a. Hayward, the new secretary of the
Republican national committee, and
who then was state chairman. Nov
ing southwark on Fifteenth and Six
teenth streets, the procession entered
the capitol grounds from the east
Following the platoon of police came
the Nebraska state band and the es-
cort of horsemen. headed by E. NJ
Westerflet. marshal OF the day. The
remainder of the procession consisted
of fifteen carriages bearing the candi-
dates. the local committee and the no
tification committee. In the first car
riage was Mayor Brown, Governor
George l.. Sheldon. ]. Z. Miller and
: Vice Chairman P. L. Hall of the ma
tional committee. The second carriage
contained the chairmen of the state,
congressional county and CITY Demo-
cratic committees. In the third were
Messrs. Bryan, Kern, Mack and Clay
ton. The notification committee fol-
lowed in the other carriages. the states
being arranged in their alphabetical
order.
For an hour preceding the arrival OF
Mr.. Bryan at the capitol building. the
Mckinley memorial chimes in the bel
fry of st. PauPs NJ. f. church, located
near the state house. pealed forth
America" Dixie" and Marching
Through Georgia"
First Speaking Tour.
Mr.. Bryan will leave August 20 for
Des Moines. where he will speak on the
tariff. He VIII attend conferences in
Chicago August %, % and "a August
% he will go to Indianapolis to attend
the notification of Mr.. Kern and there
will make speech on trusts From
there he will go to Topeka August 27 to
speak on guarantee of bank deposits.
Other dates are: August %, Mitchell.
s. D.; Sioux Falls. August 80. and st.
Paul, August 81 Lincoln fair, Septem-
Der 2.