Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-07
MRS. DAHLMAN GETS IN PRINT
Wife Of Mayor Boosts for Bryan and
Jim at Denver.
SAYS ALL STATE IS FOR ". ].
AT Least, that IL what Mr.. Dahl
man SRys, and I Guess He Ought
TO Know Asserts the
Omaha Woman.

Ever friendly newspaper writer's in Den
yer are making an effort to assist Mrs.
James c. Dahlman to keep up with Mayor
Jim in the world Of democratic politics at
Denver. But from all indications Mrs.
Dahlman, while a good booster will not be
able to get within Tagging distance Of her
cowboy husband when It comes to making
the Tiger scratch or the democratic donkey
kick by giving out newspaper interviews.
interviewed by the Chicago Tribune and
her carefully weighed words wired over
1000 miles they they might appear in the
news sections OF the Sunday morning paper,
Mrs. Dahlman is quoted as saying:
Everybody in Nebraska Is for Bryan
and l can tell you there is nothing small
about him.
Mr.. Dahlman says he is a big man with
a big B, and 1 guess he ought to know, as
he has been in politics with Mr.. Bryan for
eighteen years.
Anyone who knows Mr.. Bryan couldn't
help but like him-not evenhis enemies
and no one can resist his sweet, gentle
nature and his kindly, but broad. manly
ways"
thinks Jim IL n success.
Up to this time Mrs. Dahlman had not
read the unkind and even bitter remarks
which the "sweet-dispositioned' Bryan had
said about Guffey Of Pennsylvania, but
Mrs. Dahlman went on to say, as quoted
by the Chicago Tribune:
II don't pay much attention to politics
1 leave all that to Mr.. Dahlman, and
think he has had success enough for the
whole family.
when 1 talk on subjects l am familial
with 1 am positive enough. but 1 hesitate
- - - - -IH,A - -.
of my line.
Mr.. Dahlman has been to four conven,
tions with Mr.. Bryan, and 1 think h,
should know his characteristics pretty
well.
But 1 have frequently seen and met Mrs
Bryan. and 1 think she is a lovely char
acter. She is an excellent housewife and
fine companion for her husband in ever!
way. Aside from being a good wife, Mrs
Bryan was a devoted daughter. For year
her father lived with her until his death
few years ago.
Mrs. Bryan is dinified in a manner whicI
makes her handsome, and to my mind tina
is better than being merely pretty.
Bryan Girls "CIever.,
"She is fond Of her children. and he
daughter Ruth (now Mrs. Leavitt) is
brigth girl and most interesting. She ha
a lot Of ability for whatever line she ma
choose to follow. She writes some, but 1
still too young to nave won her way t
fame.
II am a lover Of young people mlseli
and we are much In touch with them-ou
home has always been open to young pee
pie. One Of my daughters went to schoC
with Ruth Bryan at Monticello. Grac
Bryan is still young, being only 10 year
old. and she is In school In Virginia.
-Four or five years ago Mr.. Bryan but
} a large and beautiful home in the suburb
of Lincoln, and 1t Is handsomely furnished
During their recent travels abroad tn
family secured and brought home man
treasures. including some particularly In
teresting ware from, Japan They ais
brought hune many costly and beautif'
gifts from prominent people in the land
they viited
$50 fans as womaEis suffrage in M
braska IS concerned, l do not pose as a
authority. but | know this: The women {
the state through their clubs, have dor
much to bring about civic beauty. an
, every successful reform movement had Il
beginning in the enthusiastic energy Of tn
women"