Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-12
MAKING 'EM TAKE NOTICE
Doesn't Mind Being Called "Roose-
velt" a Bit.
CUMBERLAND IS ALL AGOG
Populace Is Rolling in on Every
Train-That Wheeling Affair
Was Fine.
Special From a Staff Correspondent.

| CUMBERLAND. Md. September 70
Mr.. Bryan made the first of the two
| speeches he is scheduled to deliver here
| at Cumberland today at 9 o'clock this
afternoon in the plaza of the city hall.
All morning regular and special trains
| puffed in. loaded to the baggage racks
| with enthusiastic democrats, and hun
dreds of others from nearby and round
about drove in or walked. So when the
p. L., which is the affectionate and time
| saving contraction of peerless leader"
used by Mr. Bryan's travelling compan-
ions on the private car Olivette, stood up
and made his best bow all the acres of
standing room within hearing distance,
and then some, were covered with people.
In spite of his strenuous labors of yes
terday, when the 2. l.. stirred up slathers
of enthusiasm at half dozen Ohio
towns in the very heart of the Taft belt
and wound up with speech of an hour
and half to a crowd of more than 10000
at Wheeling, he was in fine shape this
| afternoon. and after the preliminary husk
in his overworked voice machinery had
been smoothed away by dozen or so of
| well oiled political phrases he got down
| to business and proceeded to stir up the
natives.
He didn't say anything particularly new
but he dressed lots of old thoughts in
spick and span verbal clothing, and got
away with 1T in great shape. OF course
| the crowd was with him. too. When he
| had been speaking for half an hour or so
all the democrats within hearing of his
sonorous voice were paving the earth
and bowling.
Faithful Are on Hand.
The Olivette rolled into Cumberland be-
fore this morning, but the early hour
| y t,a iaJ ffoa
and about thousand of the faithful, who
lined the state platform and spread over
on the neighboring scenery. Gen. Joseph
| H. Spriggs, city attorney, who presided
over this afternoons speech-fest, and De
| Warren II. Reynolds, who will introduce
Mr.. Bryan-just as if it We're necessary
| to the crowd In the Academy Of Music
tonight, with Col. John Keating, NJ. l..
Fesenfeir, P. L. Seavor, John w. Averett
and David ]. Lewis, the democratic can
didate for Congress- who is trying to lift
Col. Pearre out of his House seat, were
aboard before the wheels had stopped
| turning. But they all had to pile out
again, for Mr.. Bryan was sleeping the
| sleep of the weary, with his muchly-
shaken right hand carefully draped over
| the berth hammock
When the P. L. did emerge, about half
an hour later, he had to fight his way,
clutching many good right hands, from
the Olivette to the porch of the Queen City
Hotel and stand there, holding an infor-
NAL reception, while his breakfast chilled
! in the dining room and his sunken waist
coat tapped distressingly.
| After breakfast there was more hand
shaking and cheering and all such, and
then an auto ride for ten miles or SO out
on the National pike. While the P. l..
was standing on the hotel porch, with
the arm-pumping crowd filing by him.
a dear old lady, with a much wrinkled
1 Sa1 ,tf Irt~ y1. tInya tl,r
was there just because she was interested
| in everything and not at all because she
knew politician from a windmill, step
ped up to him. shook his hand smiled,
and said something.
"Good Morning, Mr.. Roosevelt"
Il beg your pardon said Mr.. Bryan
II didn't catch that
Good morning, Mr.. Roosevelt, I am
glad to see you," she piped in repeti-
| ton.
The P L. grinned until his ears re-
ceded.
| you've made a slight mistake" he
said. Il am Mr.. Bryan, and not Mr..
| Roosevelt"
We'll" replied the dear old lady, not
whit abashed, I'm just glad to see
you if you were Roosevelt. You favor
him great DEAL and, anyhow, hear you
are both reformers."
| neTeupOn eNeTyDOOy lduSHSC.
| / might say, in passing, that this Dave
! Lewis person, who has aspirations to sit
| in Col Pearres seat in the House. is GER
| tainly the most optimistic soul in eleven
| states. He was telling little group in
front of the Queen City this morning that
| he had the contest all sewed up and that
/ the colonel had no more show than a flap
| jack at famine party. And it was very
evident he was sincere in his belief.
Lewis Is Hopeful Cuss."
After Mr.. Lewis had temporarily left
the vicinity I snuggled up to a democrat
who knows the situation up here back
wards. forwards and sideways and asked
him to tell me all about it.
There amt much to tell" he said,
mournfully. land I'd be awfully glad to
| tell it if there was. But Dave Lewis al
ways was hopeful cuss."
So l gather that Col. Pearre isn't SO
scared that he perspires profusely every
| time he thinks of Mr.. Lewis and the fight
that genial citizen is making on him.
l Joined the Bryan party at Wellsburg,
a little town seventeen miles outside of
| Wheeling. yesterday afternoon. and nat
! urally was whole lot interested in the
| tales the various members of the party
| had to tell about the surprising ovations
| the Z. l.. received in Ohio.
! OF course, one would naturally expect
the three or four loyal democrats who are
making this swing with Mr.. Bryan to talk
big and kick up lot of dust. But when
| an old WarhorSe of a newspaper man
| who has travelled around the country with
! fifty-seven varieties of candidates and
| who hasn't any more personal politics
than sandwich spoke of the manner in
| which Bryan had been received in the
middle west and of the sentiment which
this reception would seem to indicate as
astonishing l began to sit up and take
notice. And last nights gathering in
| Wheeling really was noteworthy.
Wheeling Ovation Was Great.
| The =. l.. isn't any stranger in that
West Virginia city, as he has spoken
there several times and always to good
| crowds, But the turnout of last night
made everything else tame by compari-
son. Acres of people were banked on the
sloping sides of the natural half ampi-
theater that stretched from the rivers
| edge up to Water street and the acoustic
| properties of the place We're so wonder
fully good that Mr.. Bryan's voice could
plainly be heard two blocks from the
grandstand. l know, for snooped around
| the edges of the crowd just out of curl
| osity and heard the Z. L. throw the hooks