Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1896 — LINCOLN'S OVATION TO BRYAN. [ARTICLE]

LINCOLN'S OVATION TO BRYAN.

Bia Demonstration in Hi* Home Town —Reception nt the State House. Amidst nn upronr ot booming cannon, pealing church bells, sereamhig steam

whistles nnd the shouts of 20,000 people, Wm. J. Bryan, the Democratic iioniinee for President, entered Lincoln, the capital city of .Nebraska, his home. It was an ovation the like of which the people of that part of the country never before witnosed. Half the people of the city, men, women and children, were nt the depot to welcome him home. It was n nonpartisan reception, for both Democrats nnd Republicans participated In it. The Mayor ot the city, the City Council and distinguished citizens of every political belief were at the train. As fur as the eye could reach were thronged streets, crowded windows nnd enthusiastie shooters on the roofs of the houses. There were'bands of music, men carrying banners with mottoes complimentary Io the Democratic leader ami flags and bunting bung from the fronts of the biisliiess houses nnd dwellings. Even the newsboys crying the evening papers wore Brynn caps nnd tliousands of js-ople blew tin horns or rang cow bells. When the reception was over Mr. Bryan went to n platform erected at the north end of ‘.he State House, where he addressed what is said to have been the largest congregation of people ever assembled in Lincoln.