Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-12
LINCOLNITES SEE MYSTERIES
Take Long Journey Through King
Ak-Sar- Ben's Retreat.
GOVERNOR WITH THE VISITORS
Artisan ut Den ArranEes special
Torture for Those Called Upon
20 Talk and the Bte Crowd
Enjoys the Outcome.


The Lincoln special train brought so Of
the best boosters OF Lincoln to King Ak
Sar-Ben's Den Monday night They took
their medicine like men. They were
rocked on the rocky road to Dublin; they
were tossed by the waves Of laughter;
they were scorched by the flames OF
Mephisto; but they came up smiling.
Governor Morehead was among those i'm
itiated Politicians and office seekers
were present in the crowd without num-
Der, The king knew they would be well
represented. so he labeled his favorite
boats accordingly. The boats that con-
Veyed them down the rushing falls of Nj
agara were labelled with such astonish-
ing cards as "Metcalfe Calves" "Kemps
JnSempts." Hammond Howlcrs, etc,
etc.
Flyers Goes the Pace.
Gus Hyers. sheriff OF Lancaster county,
was in the crowd. Although he confessed
that his wife had cautioned him not to
love the ladies'" in the multiplicity Of
chances IL fell to his lot to dance the
tango with the Mephisto queen. 1t was
good to see the sheriff lifted clear off
the floor in this wild maze of dip, glide
and Texas Tommy. For in the midst Of
the wild whirl the sheriff of Lancaster
county was powerless to check, his golden
star was ever present pinned to his belt
A. w. Jefferis presided over the speak
ing. Governor Morehead was the first
speaker. lie boosted for Ak-Sar-Ben,
for Omaha and for Nebraska like good
governor. and in spite of the fact that
Ringing Brothers circus was Few
blocks away from the Den, he admitted
that King Ak-Sar- Ben had the best show
in the country
Maupin and Judge Hunt
WIN Maupin, being something Of
poet whose poetry has even been quoted
in THE Public magazine of Chicago,
read an original poem in which he had
embodied the sentiment of boost and get
together SO we'll that he did not know
whether the great city of the future
would be called, "Lincol-O, or oma-
Link" Then he read a speech purport-
ing to be that written by Sheriff Gus
Hyers. but Hyers refused to stand Tor
II, and delivered one of his own. Flyers
told some good stories, as Maupin had
predicted he would, and then ran off the
platform.
J. G. Hunt Of Bridgeport was one OF
the candidates for office permitted to
speak. Ak-sar-Ben always has hard
time to know whether TO let candidates
talk or not. but they have decided that
letting them talk when they are in the
audience does in no way constitute an
Endorsement. SO they let Hunt tell about
the buffalo grass and the wheat and the
sheep they can raise in the western part
of the state, and he told It we'll
Alas, Poor TObtn.
l.. B. Tobin was reserved for the last
speaker. Last, but not least. rose Tobin.
Tobin takes himself seriously. That s
proper. But the artisan of the Den has
no sense of what is due TO dignity. so
dlgnified as was the Tobin speech, Tobin
found himself-well. where, in a place he
could not exactly locate, so what does a
learned-by-heart speech amount TO in
such a case? ,as-
The Lincoln bunch was met at the
train by the members of the Board OF
Governors of Ak-Sar-Ben. President
Everett Buckingham of Ak-Sar-Ben, to-
gether with a small party took Governor
| Morehead to the Den in an automobile
The rest of the 500 were escorted to g
| string of chartered street cars and hurled
| to the Den.
The Lincoln fellows went back on &
special, leaving shortly after II o'clock