Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-12
LINCOLN ABLAZE
Bone of William J. Bryan Crowded With Visitors on
 Notification Day.
GRAND CEREMONIES

| Lincoln, Neb, Aug 12.-With a sa- lute of forty-six guns, one for each state, given at daybreak, Lincoln be- gan the celebration of its first notifi- cation day. The trolley cars to Fairview were crowded all the morn ing, but the larger number of the visitors remained in the city looking at the various points of interest and especially at the state capitol grounds, where the notification cere- mony was held. It was 2 o'clock when Chairman Mack of the national committee in- troduced Representative Henry D. Clayton of Alabama, chairman of the notification committee, following prayer by Rev Father John F. Nu- gent of Des Moines, Ia. MT Clayton notified MT Bryan of his nomination in seven minute speech, at the con- clusion of which he handed to the democratic nominee the formal let ter of notification signed by all the
 
 Bryan replied and the ceremony was closed by short speech by John W. Kern, the vice-presidential nominee.
 The morning had been spent in jollification. Thousands of people arrived early to-day by regular and special trains to participate in the ceremonies.
 All the five railroads rar special trains throughout the night and all the regular trains were run in sections.
 Lincoln is entertaining to-day the largest number of visitors in its his- tory.
 Band concerts in the public square and at the state capitol grounds en- tertained the gathering crowds. The official programme was opened at noon at luncheon at the Hotel Lin coin given by the committee on ar engagements at which the guests were Mir Bryan, Mir Kern, Governor Sheldon and other state officials, the members of the notification commit tee and the members of the national committee who are here. Mayor Browns attempt to make non- partisan affair of the ceremony has been successful. The governor anc all the other state officials are re- prblicans, but they all were al the luncheon and Governor Sheldon rode in the first carriage with Mayor Drown. the femoeratic executive of the city. The non-partisan char ac.er of the ceremony ended at the platform, where the speeches were delivered.
 Mir Kern was house guest of MT Bryan's and the two candidates rode in from Fairview in an automobile which arrived at the Hotel Some before luncheon was served.
 At 1880 the party left the Hotel Lincoln and proceeded to ;he cap- ltol grounds, led by a platoon of police.
 Marching clubs were conspicu- ously absent. A number of them of- fered their services but the mayor preferred the simplest kind of pa- rade.
 This was in accordance with Mir Bryan's own wishes. The parade moved down o street eastward to Sixteenth which took it di- rectly under the much talked of Taft banner erected by the republi> can state central committee. after wards torn down and subsequently replaced fin tattered condition by or der of William X. Hayward, the new secretary of the republican national committee and who was then state chairman. Moving southward on Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets the procession entered the capitol grounds from he east. Following the platoon of police came the Me- braska state band and an escort Of horsemen headed by E. M. Wester- felt, marshal of the day. The re- mainder of the procession consisted of Is carriages bearing the candi- dates. the local committees and the no ification committee. In the frs, carriage was Mayor F. W. Brown. Governor sheldon. J. E. Miller and Vice Chairman P. L. Hall of the na- tional committee. The second car riage contained the chairmen of the state congressional county and city democratic committees. In the third will be Messrs Bryan. Kern, Mack and Clayton. The notification committee will follow in the other the states being arranged in their alphabetical order.
 The following was the speech of l ratification hV Henry ID (-1avf0ns