Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — LINCOLN’S OVATION TO BRYAN. [ARTICLE]

LINCOLN’S OVATION TO BRYAN.

Big Demonstration in His Home Town —Reception at the State House. Amidst an uproar of booming cannon, pealing church bells; screaming steam

whistles and the shouts of 20,(XX) people, Wm. J. Bryan, the Democratic nominee for President, entered Lincoln, the capital city of Nebraska, his home. It was an ovation the like of which the people ot that part of the country never before witnessed. Half the people of the city, men, women ami children, were at the depot to welcome him home. It was a nonpartisan reception, for both Democrats and Republicans participated in it. The Mayor of the city, the City Council and distinguished citizens of every political belief were at the train. As far as the eye could roach were thronged streets, crowded windows and enthusiastic shouters on the roofs of the houses. There were bands of music, men carrying banners with mottoes complimentary to the Democratic leader and flags and bunting hung from the fronts of the business houses and dwellings. Even the newsboys .-crying tile evening papers wore Bryan caps and thousands of people blew tin horns or rang cow bells. When the reception was over Mr. Bryan went tp a platform erected at the north end of the State House, where he addressed what is said to have been the largest congregation of people ever assembled in Lincoln.