T THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 16. 1903. ; u Scenes and Incidents Attending: the Third Formal Notification of Bryan 4 I r . r ..-V' ' t !li H IS If X.. t . , . , ' ... -tr- flir I 7 ..... L I Hi ) i r V I J htm hi ; 4 W f 4 . .'v !, ': '- ' i ft ' 1 ' ' X f " : V-W v-' M x Wv t-nsasssjsawaa.ssi . ' ' .. ... nn 1laiMgjMMWULilXlliaMJUWlJJJJIlMK.-all 1-1 REV. FATHER NUGENT INVOKINO ONPART1BAN notification mt- I lloni In a tte hou Itwn, but I they have even more depress ing effect on nthuelasm. Con vinctn proof of tbU ww luf mined mi Lincoln on WedneUiy, AUfcuai U, when loma half-doien member! of a committee of fifty. appolnUd for that pur- . poae by the Denver convention, met to In form Mr. William Jennlng-t Dryan that ha had been entered for the third tlma In tha pr'.atdentlal weepUke, In aplte of hi poor abowlnf In the book of paat per formance!. The good people of Lincoln had built high hopea around tha program for tha day. It waa the I Irat tlma that any city west of tha Mliilkiippl had ever had the demo tion of entertaining tha repreeentatlvea of a great national political party, charged with the duty of Informing a, ajtleen of It that he had been made tna receplent of tha greateat honor In tha gift kf a political party. In tha aplrlt of nelghborlineas and civic prlda tha Llncolnltea antered Into tha work of making tha oceaston a memorable one for their city. Partlaanahlp waa laid atlda with the work-a-day clothea and man and women of all parties and all walk of Ufa joined In making notification, day a gala day. Out of renpect for tha Nvlahea of tha partlaana directly In charge of tha affair that tha notification ahould bo marked by simplicity, the Lincoln folks restrained their enthusiasm in tha matter of decorations and gaudy display. Jeffer aonlan simplicity does not harmonise very wall with banners of rustling silk and bunting of sheeny satin, so tha decorations ware confined very largely to plain cotton of patriotic' colors and crayon portraits of the kind that used to be in vogua whan tha philanthropte artist enlarged one for you free If you would only buy a $12 frama for Itand some unnumbered thousand pic tures 'of tha peerless leader dona in tha best style of the job printer's art. In tha matter of decorations tha simplicity ob served by the LlnoolDltes waa very much in evidence. " In the preparation of the program, tha committee In charge evidently overlooked an essential feature. No provision waa made for tha enthusiasm, the citlsena of tha city evidently expecting tha visitors to bring that with them, while the result showod that most of tha folks who at tended the ceremonies were traveling with out any baggage. Mr. Bryan's fellow townsmen, most of whom ara loyal re publicans exoapt on notification days, could not have reasonably been expected to fur nish tha cheering for tha man they intend to vote against in November, and somehow the rest of tha visitors appeared to have a desire to respect tha faollngs of tha re publicans who bad been drafted for tha day's duties. Be that as it may, the un disputed fact remains that there waa leas cheering and ether evidences of enthuat aam that would be found at an ordinary political rally In tha closing days of tha campajgn. Practically the only real excitement of tha day's doings waa occasioned by tha arrival In Lincoln and tthe march through tha streets of tha Dahlman Democracy, soma From the Story Teller's Pack Vi for All. FTCK a certain jury had been A I out an inordinately long tlma I on a very aimple case, they I 1 1 m 111 t 111. tWlM, 1 1 A tha foreman told the Judge tbey were unable to agree upon a verdict. The latter rebuked them, aaylng the case waa a very clear one, and re manded them back to the jury room for a second attempt, adding, "If you are there too long. I will have to aend you In twelve suppers." The foreman, in a rather Irritated tone, spoke up snd said: "May It please your honor, you might aend in eleven suppers snd one bundle of bay." Everybody's Msgailne. Car for a (.hares. Cong. The brilliant and learned Henry Vai Dyka of Princeton was discussing the church cough. "In my boyhood there came to Oerman. town." he aald, "a gentle minister who, stopped effectually hla coughing congre gation. "It was a congregation, too, singularly addicted to coughing. Rattling volleye ef coughs ran over It every few minutes. The minister. Indeed, that first Sunday, couid hardly make himself beard. Ha had rather a weak voice. "Well, aftea hla sermon had proceeded for tea or twelve minutes, now audible enough, now drowned under great waves of coughs, bs took a resolution, and when the next outbreak waa at ita height he ceassd preaching. "At once the coughing ceased. There was a profound silence, Tha minister amlled. " My friends." said be. It seems that when I stop you stop' Trom that day in that church they soughed no more-Boston Herald. i- Tanpinca Baea Ball. Hal Chase, the famous first baseman. THE BLE8SINQ Or OOD 1 ::'-r;;-, strong, ytrom Omaha. These men wera cheered liberally as they marched from tha depot to the Lin dell hptel and received something of an ovation at different points along the route, but tha cheers were for Dahlman and not for Mr. Bryan. Mayor "Jim" waa alive to tha advantages offer by the peculiar situation and he overlooked no chance to make tha Dahlman guberna torial boom the top-heavy feature of tha notification ra41y. Mr. Bryan made Ms first appearance at tha Lincoln bote) about 1 o'clock, after he had entertained tha notification commit tee at Falrvlew and had welcomed various groups of pilgrims who had journeyed out to the leader's hnme. When Mr. Bryan waa driven up in a carriage to tha Lincoln hotel the several hundred persons who were gathered in front of the place took his coming as a matter of course. There was no cheering, no spontaneous outburst of enthusiasm and the crowds inside tha hotel did not know of his arrival until a man rushed in and announced that "Bryan is here." As tha nominee entered tha hotel, there waa a faint burst fcf ap plause and ha waa surrounded by a press lng throng of about twenty persons who shook hands with him while ha waited for the elevator to take him to tha rooms being occupied by tha notification committee. One minute later tha excitement in tha lobby had subsided and no indication was given of tha presence In the hotel of a candidate for tha presidency. The parade to tha state house grounds waa slow In starting, but when the line of march was finally taken up, about t o'clock, tha people who thronged tha side- wss advocating teetotaUsm among ball players. He argued well, snd In ths midst of his argument he told a story. "Leroy Vigors, a friend of rnlna," he said, "turned up to play in an amateur game with a skate on. "When Vigors stepped to ths bat ha amlled a silly smile snd said to the um pire: " 'I see three bats an' three balls here. What am I to hlc do?" " -Hit the middle ball.' aald the umpire. "But Vigors struck out. " 'Durn ye. Vigors,' said a eoaeh, why didn't you bit tha middle ball. Ilka the um pire to you? " I did,' says Vigors, with an injured air. only I hit It with the hie outside bat.' Washington Star. A riToDoncer. Carol's grandfather had served in ths civil war and Carol liked to hear of the many battlea in which he had fought. One day. after listening to the vivid recital of many berolo deeds, Carol aaid: "Grandfather, you went through all those battlea?" Yes." "And ths shot and shell fell all around you?" "Yes." "And soldiers were falling and dying eerywhre?" "Yea" "Well, grandfather,' what a fine dodger you must have been!" Tha Delineator. Hemor K very vrhero. "Oh, yea" Senator La Follette reluctantly admitted of a corrupt politician. "I suppose ths man haa aoms sense of honor. Where won't you find some sense of honor, though? You know tha story of Judaon of Madlaon. "Judaon of Madison was showing hla country cousin ths sights of tha city. "But there ara erooka and blacklegs nerv. Jos,' he said 'You mui; look out for them.' "And half by way of a joke, half by w.iy iff XJ. I A , 1 - " ilV-! O. HUMPH RET O'BULLIVAN READINQ THE LETTER TO Ma BRYAN. I ' Mb e r 'La IN FRONT OF THE STATE CAPITOI f WTO IF ) i pi. GOVERNOR SHELDON ON THE walks allowed the procession to pass by without demonstration. At several points along tha line some enthusiasts both in and out of the procession made an effort to start a demonstration, but It fell prac tically flat. When- Mr. Bryan and tha members of the notification committee of Impressing the city's perils snd pitfalls on Joe, Judson slyly nipped his cousin's handkerchief from hla pocket "A moment later a well dressed stranger took him by the arm and led him aside. " 'Excuse me, pard," the stranger whis pered, 'I didn't know you was In the pro fesh.' "And he handed Judson back hla own watch." Mlnneapolia Journal. He Waa Not Surprised. Associate Justice D. R. Brewer, the wit and story teller of the United States su preme court, la credited with the fallowing: A millwright was converted to the way of thinking of a sect which periodic ally was Inspired with a foreknowledge of the Immi nence of the day of doom and set the date, preparing for Gabriel's greeting. The dste was set snd the day csme. Ths millwright donned his whits robe and went out into the fields ta await tha coming meeting wlfh the celestial throng. The day passed until It waa late In tha afternoon, and the millwright, having risen at the stroke of midnight on the morn of the eventf.il day, grew drowsy, and, throwing himself down upon a pile of hay, fell aileep at bis watch'. Boys discovered him snd. with ths natural mischlevousness of boys, they set flrv to the hay. The smoks and the heat soon woke the slumbering millwright, and, sit ting up with a start, he cried with the an guish of the lost: "Just aa I expected! In hell, after all!" Milwaukee Sentinel. GoalaVe Black System Story. Oris ef Georgs J. Gould's stories is sbout western man traveling on a branch rail road in the north. After a series of sudden bumps and unexpected atopa ha became uneasy. "Look hora." ha aald to the porter, "U this train safe?" "It sura sin." said ths porter. "Well, have they a Nock system on this rwdr Block lyittm, sab? Ws hab da greatest block system in da world. Ten miles back ws wars blocked by a load of hay, six miles sack ws were blocked by a mule, just now ws were blocked by a cow, snd I reeokn when we get further souf we'll be blocked f1 CHAIRMAN END - X - MAYOR DUNNE OF CHICAGO reached the platform in front of the state house there was a little burst of welcom ing chiers. Perhaps ltOOO to 15,000 persons were massed In front of the speaker's plat form, but they failed to evince any special delight at the appearance of the candidate. The lack of enthusiasm was so plainly fell by an alligator. BlJck system, boss? Well, I should smile." Rochesier Hersld. It Wasn't rire Xor Water. A. M. Downus, late secretary of New York's fire department, related at a din tier a fire story. "At tha end of'the rirst act of a drams," he bald, "a man leaped hurriedly to his feet. '1 heard an alarm of fire,' lie said. '1 must go and see where It is.' Ilia wife, whose hearing was levs scute, marie way for him in silence, anj he disappeared. 'It wasn't fire,' he pa d, on his return. 'Nur water, either, said his wife, coldly." Everybody's Magazine. Took All His Attention. "I mat Alfred Vanderbllt," said a tourist at a Plaza luncheon, "at the Lonl'n horse show. He talked about the riding. "Mr. Vandcrbtlt praised the riding, es pecially the riding of the Italians, with their close knee grip. He ridiculed the German. "He said the German reminded him of an old general who used to rld he had been an Infantryman In Central park in hla old age. "A friend, spying the general on hl horse one morning, trotted up to discuss some mooted change In the peni-lon law. " "General ." he began, but gjt no answer. " 'General .' "Still no answer. " 'General. General, I say.' he shouted. "The old general, bouncing fc'gh In the sir, turned a purple and frowning foe on his Interrogator. " 'Great heavens, man.' he cried 'can't you see I'm riding?' "New York Times. . Woman's Wit I acertaia. "Don't always rely upon the reedy wit of s woman," said the man who is some times pleased to consider himself an oracle. "That ready wit h isiness is sometimes prons to get 'way off. ""For example, my wife and children had been staying in tha country for several weeks and I was regular with my letters, as every loving husband should be. Finally en tha day before my wife wss to start for home 1 concluded my letter to her with these words: " 'This will bn the last letter I wlU write 1 ! - " CLAYTON DELIVERING HIS ADDRES NEARER VIEW OF THE CROWD ON ik IN CENTER WITH HAT IN HAND. by the democrats directly In charge of the meeting that, when Mr. Bryan arose to respond to the speech of notification by Congressman Clayton, the leaders In the platform resorted to convention tactics to work up the enthusiasm of the crowd. Candidate Kern, Mr. Clayton, Mr. O'Sul- to you for a long time, long time.' "When I got down to my office the next morning I found a telegram from my wife waiting for me. 'What on earth do you mean?' read the dispatch. "Later a registered letter came from her. She had blotted almost every line with tears. What It waa all about I could not Imagine. "Then my telnprne bell rang, and when I answered I heard my wife's voice speak ing over the long-distance 'phone. " 'O, John," said she. 'Is that really you? I thought you had committed suicide!" " New York Bun. Burdens Borne by Turks (Cont'nued from Fa$re One.) fore he would proceed and refused to have It again overhead. I believe that ti e tele graph man bnught up eime official and hsd It buried at the crossing. "Another grievtnee that appealed espe cially to the fd'jcated Turk was the grant ing by the palace clique of cun.-etslons to foreigners. Owing to the corrupt way In which the concessions for railroads were granted the cost has been out of all pro portion to the usefulness of the lines. The prices was usually In the shape of a guar antee by the terms of which the less work thbt a railway did the greater were its profits. "The railroads were net built to tnaUe the rat.t.r.t tj get his rrouuee to the mar kets, and no Turkish subject Is al'owed to travel about the country without special permission of the authorities. Aa a result the Armenians, who are the keenest traders of the empire, snd the Turks can rarely move about to look up business. "The result Is, of course, partly to pre vent trade of all kinds and to thrjw what there is into the hands of foreigners. The situation was thus expressed to me by one of these foreign concession hunters: 'I bribe the Turks to buy my warcs-snythlng from thread to (team engines and ih-a they bribe nit to put down in tha bill which the Ottoman emiie pays a mu:h larger turn than I have actually recrlved.' "Who gets the benefit? The French, Germans, English, Jews, Armenians, any other persons ui fact than tha Moslem. lta n.a Toiros Turk in Turkey for ths i. limn iihhii ii ii i n jh m. mill iiiiiim in i ii mi in in i i nn, mini wm, '."1 ... - . - . : v.- -': ... --v -. -iyf' ' t.. -t -V '"N "TO 'V -' -wrfi CHAIHMAN MACK HOLDINO LATTER SrAK8. THE LAWN. llvan, Judge Dunne and other members of the notification committee waived flage and tried over and over again to start the popular outburst, but It failed to start, and Mr. Bryan was allowed to repond to the notification without any Interruption from his hearers. Before he had proceeded far with his address, at least one-half of the crowd, being unable to get close enough to hear, had dispersed, and when Mr. Bryan concluded his sudlence was only large enough to comportably cover the stone flsgment in front of the stats houss steps. Only twice In the course of his address did Mr. Bryan arouse any cheers or marked applause, and that was when he declared he would, If elected, call s special session ef congress to pass a law calling for tha election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people, and again when he oritlclsed the management of the house by the existing system of rules a system, by tho way, which was in force when Mr. Bryan was In congress. The habitat of a crowd can be very ac curately determined by the manner of lis dispersing. Had the 60.TO0 visitors so con fidently expected by the Bryan enthusiasts been in Lincoln the streets would have been thronged for hours after the conclu sion of the ceremonies et the state house. As a matter of fact, within thirty min utes after Mr. Bryan had concluded his address the streets of Lincoln had assumed their normal appesranc-e. The women, who formed a very good proportion of the crowd in front of the state house, had re turned to their homes to prepare the din ners snd the men had returned to their business which had been temporarily laid Turks, and no mors foreign concessions corruptly bought and no more foreign troops pjliclng Moslem soil. "Perhaps this matter of bribes Is art Orlontal question. It was not just ths same as if an American should lake a bribo. According to the Oriental Idea all the parties to a transactions must make aomethlng out of It. Otherwise how could the official live? Not on a salary, for In the first prace it was Inadequate and Ir. the next place It was seldom paid. "If you were to work for a Turk and tell him you wanted your money every Satur day night he would look upon you with sus picion. He would kcr you. give you a share of the profit when lie himself made a stake and lot you have all the opportuni ties possible for making money off petltior. ers or shopkeepeis, but a fixed salary, never. "If a msr. in this country gets away with a big steal he is pretty likely to make a considerably display of It. Not In Constan tinor.le. In the first p:ac if he should get away with a JlOO.oco dear he would have to distribute t.0to at least to keep other peraons In good humor.. Ar-d If you did keep the money you couldn't make any dis. play with It in Constantinople. You can't keep race horses or yschta or glvs balls. Spies are always on your track. "If the sultan had any desire to know of the corruption throughout the empire he could not find it out from the spies snd sycophants with whom he hss surrounded himself at the Ylldls Kiosk. Tha prlnolpls of espionage that prevails in all depart ments of the government Is of his own making, and the erjtnuragement given to Informers produced a clds of blackmailers that threatened to make trouble at the palace fir any one who refused to pay them. Many young men found that ths way to favor lay through such channels and they succumbed to the temptation to bs 1 re formers. "The evil reached such dimensions thst the Turk ran the risk of exl'.s for any act or word that irfht be twisted Into a sign of disaffection. I remember an Instance of a schoolboy friend of mine who gsvs a light from bis cigarette to a servant of tha heir of the throne, with whom It was treason to have any Intercourse. Tba boy r -.'.V'.',. V UMBRELLA OVER MR, BRTAN AS THS aside to make a nonpartisan holiday. Tha limited number of visitors from Omaha en other towns and cJUee of tha stats bad no difficulty in finding room in the hotel lob biea, whara thsy talked atata politics and personal affairs until time to catch their trains from home. Tha attendance must have been a dlstlnot disappointment not only to tha democrats In charge of tha af fair, but to tha citlsena of Lincoln who, re gardless ef polities, had dons thslr best to make tha svent a memorable one. Tha significance of tha slim attendanoa and the lack of enthusiasm wore the sjo Jects of much comment and speculation by politicians In Lincoln. Demoorsts naturally argue that there waa iio particular reason for enthusiasm, as tha notification was a purely formal affair and was not calcu lated to arouse any hurrahs. They argued, too. that tha nonpartisan character of tha notification ceremonies naturally worked to the suppression of partisan demonstra tions, but they have little to offer in ex planation of the promptness with which the democratic masses acquiesced In tha polloy of allenoe. Tha developments ef tha day failed very signally to harmonise with the reports that ara being persistently circu lated that tha town of Lincoln and tha ststs of Nebraska ara on fire with enthusi asm for Bryan and that neighborly love and ststs prldo are being relied upon ta take Nebraska out of the republican col umn this year. Tha ovations that were started at different times during the day for Governor Sheldon, and which' were sup pressed largely through tha efforts of tha governor himself and his republican friends, were significant indications of the fallacy of the claims of the Bryanltes. Another explanation of the lack of at tendance is that the farmers and business men of the state have their hands full right now. With the best crop prospects tha state has hsd for yeara, tha farmers are taking every precaution to cars for their 95-cent wheat, their 7S-cant Born, their SO-cent oats, their 7-cent cattle and their H-oent hogs, and tha merchants are engaged In getting new goods In stock to provide for the record-bresklng trad that must come between this and election dsy. These folks are not deeply concerned about Mr. Bryan and his policies. The reoord shows that the farmer's Interest In Bryan decreases ss ths price of farm products advance. The lack of attendance of enthuslastlo democrats from other parts of tha oountry must have been more disappointing to ths Bryan managers than the failure of Na braskans to be present at tha ceremonies. Less than a score of members of the noti fication committee were present and there was absolutely no democrats of prominence there from any part of tha country. Ths visitors from Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Wy oming, Colorado, Montana and Idaho, ths atatea which the Bryanltes sra claiming, could have all eoma In a special car, while Norman E, Mack, tha chairman of tha democralio national committee, and Humphrey O'Sulllvan, secretary of the ns tlficatlon committee, were ths only visitors from ths east. No democrat who baa sven stale prominence in New Tork or New England came of his own acoount and ns greeting came from ths absent leaders. was sitting beside tbs man In a trarncaj and didn't svsn know of his position. "It would bs Imposstbls to estlrnata tha number of men who have been exiled on mere spies' tales. In some districts prao tlcally ths whols of ths effendi, or official and legal olsss, is composed of sxUes for their opinions. "It was from all these different classes of ths Moslem population of European Turkey that the Young Turk parly draw recruits. It wss svery on with a griev. ance, and Allah knows that svsry Tarklsh subject has one, from ths humblest pusut and most obscure soldier to ths wealthieet merchant of Bescstln and ths most worthy official. . "Our cauas flourished without a recag nlied leader, for under ths Turkish spy system a leader would aeon have been put out of tbe way. Ahmed Riaa, who U at the head of the Young Turk party in Paris, stands In a mora or less representative capacity in Europe. "Our field of activity has been th dig, affected parts of Macedonia and Albania. The whole of European Turkey is to b fought for. those two provinces being merely selected for the Initial struggle. "Every Turk or Moslem is eligible fog membership in ths organisation and ths oath of fc-alty Is taken by placing tha head upon the Koran, on which reet a revolver and a knife. Every village haa a commit tee with por to act. A tax is levied upon members and penalties are Imposed for desertions and failure to perform duties. The families of those killed before or dur ing tne revolution are to bo provided for by the organisation. "Everything at present In ths Una el power is drifting Into ths hands of tha young Turk. I have a letter from Ahmed Riaa In which he says that although ths eultan has given in our party alii pot dis band. 'Ws ask,' hs says, nothing better than to aes the sultsn hold to his premiss. As long as he does so his throns and Ms per son will be sacred in our syes, and If hs Introduces truly liberal constitutional gov eminent he will find no mors faithful sub ject that tha young Turkish party. Oarry tog out his promise) he will bring s new era of pa ic and prtrl'j tg tV TsrlCsk stnplra.' ' A