The Paducah evening sun., 1909-06-14
prince Of Peace" Attracts
Nearly 5000 People to
League Park.
Vespers and Fine Concert
Given Last Night.
THE PROGRAM FOR THE WEEK

The fourth annual session of Chau-
tauqua opened yesterday with an
Ideal June day.
When the King OF Day peeped
over the horizon he looked into a
cloudless sky which darkened a few
hours later and shaded the eyes of
Bryan's auditors from the glare OF the
summer sun.
Late risers found people from the
country and neighboring towns al
ready on the streets and later trains
and boats brought more, and as early
as $3.50 a. m. efforts were made 10
get seats at the ball park to hear
that distinguished American citizen,
Hon. William Jennings Bryan Ear
ly in the afternoon the street cars
began to go out crowded and at 3:45
O'Clock when the band struck up
my Old Kentucky Home" an inter-
esting audience of nearly 5000 faces
filled the grand stand of the ball
park as well as the additional seats
provided and many were standing.
The crowd was Interesting because
made up of men, women and chill
dren and side by side sat the profes-
sional man, the business man and
their farmer friends. II was crafty
ing to note that not few boys and
girls both from the city and country
were present and like everybody else.
they came to listen and they listened
Promptly at o'clock, accompanied
by a party Of friends. Mr.. Bryan ar
rived In an automobile and amid a
burst OF applause took his seat and
the platform on which were seated
Mayor and Mrs. ]. P. Smith. Or. and
Mrs. Frank Boyd, ex-Mayor d. A.
Yeiser. Hon. chas. X. Wheeler. Hon.
Polk Miller, Hon. Tom Booker.
Messrs Max B. Nahm, of Bowling
Green; Geo. G. Wallace. H. c.
Rhoades, JOS L. Friedman, s. A.
Fowler. W. F. Paxton. J. C. Utter
back, G. @. Grassham. Harry Meyers
and others. aal
In most happy manner and with
a few remarks, which harmonized
with the splendid address which fol-
lowed. Mr.. c. C. Grassham intro
duced the speaker, who having al
ready acknowledged the salute given
him by taking of his hat and putting
on a gracious smile, expressed his
qualification at beginning his Chau-
tauqua season among friends. Then
followed an address which might be
better called sermon, full OF food
for thought and replete with gems
of English. He began by saying
that he regarded the Chautauqua
platform the best place to present
things worth presenting. He had no
apology for speaking on religious
subject for while In political speech
a majority must be convinced to
count for anything. in a religious ad-
dress some good was done If only one
soul was stirred to a better life.
There was enough humor to pro-
woke both smiles and applause but
the general trend OF the speakers
remarks was that OF such intense
earnestness as to rivet the attention
of even those who had to stand.
The concluding idea was that the
supreme duty of the good citizen is
to take up and do each day the du-
ties that devolve upon him.
Mr.. Bryan's Speech.
"But what came ye out for to
see?" might have been asked by Mr..
Bryan. There were few, who de-
spise the simplicity OF religion and
Bryan's speech was too plain for
them. There were others. who went
out to listen to orstorical pyrotecl-
mics, and they heard sermon Out
of Difference to the day and the sub
ject Mr.. Bryan never violated the
proprieties by directing attention
from his subject to his own powers.
and aside from one or two quotations
from Tostoy, his quotations aud IL
lustrations were all from the Bible
and from nature. Yet he held the
audience for two hours.
He referred in beginning 70 his
own period Of skepticism In bis
youth. when he "thought he knew
more than he ever will know" But
he found safe anchorage on the bed
rock of the first verse Of Genesis: "In
the beginning God made the heaven
and the EARTH
Science stops just short OF the be-
ginning. he argued. He spoke OF the
theory OF evolution, which with many
gaps aud breaks, goes back to the
germ of l.se: but must presume the
existence of that germ Whence
came that GERM" insists Mr.. Bryan.