Show BRYAN HOPED TILL LAST surrounded by friends and ne gabora he L to returns fairview lincoln neb william J bryan on tuesday night received at his home fairview the returns which early told him that for the third time he had been defeated in the greatest ambition ot of his life confident of vie tory to the very last I 1 e was not pre pared to believe that his cause waa was lost until the pluralities of his re dubli an opponent piled up in such proportions as to leave no room lor for doubt when the early returns came in he made particular inquiries re garding the state of new york and found much encouragement in the gains he was nas making upstate over the democratic vote of 1904 but as the figure continued to be received he relied on greater new ork to offset the beavy heavy tatt taft vote abono the hailem river even in that he was bitterly disappointed and he soon realized that the state was hopelessly gone and with it his prospects of being elected during the evening the friends ot of the bryan family from the surround ing country and from lincoln dropped in and after being received by mrs bryan showed their inderst in the election el by remaining to hear the ie is turns |