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Show TALK WITH THURSTON Senator and Wife Are Returning Re-turning From Honolulu. VISIT THIS CITY AND OGDEN He Points Out the Wobbly Nature of the Democratic Cimpilgns The Tarty Seizes en Any Temporary 1'nA nnd Goes Its Whole Strength on It How Thurston Rest Bryan for the U, S. Senate In Nebraska In 1804, Rcfotc Biyau Had Heard ot the Silver Issue. Og.len, Oct. 12 F.x Senator John M 1 htirston of Nebraska spent n few hours In Halt Iike and Ogden tod ly en route home ftoni Honolulu nnd the Fn-elllc Fn-elllc coast. The r-enutor was accompanied accom-panied b bis wife und Mr Carroll J Piirmnn, his secretur The party nil but escaped the local roimrters, but n Tribune representative found them at Ogden ns theli private car, ' Mund.v-1 Mund.v-1 1 wan being hooked ou to the Overland Over-land Limited The CougrcsslonJI lllue Hook gives his age nn being somewhere In the 0s, but If Hcnator 'lhuiston Is n day over 13 he did not look It nn ho welcomed the icimrter and Introduced his beautiful beauti-ful oung wife about whom so much has been written. He Is about ." feet 10 In height, but with such broad shoulders shoul-ders und long iitms that he set ma mill h taller He his the build of un athlete. In fict, nt one time the rxmntoi then plain John 'lhuipton, was Capt iln of the famous 1'nlon Pacini tiisebull nine it Omaha und It Is nevei In be forgotten forgot-ten Hint he brut Iluffalo I Ills hltnelf In n rllle-shootlng tontrst In the eartj .lain. Hut It la the hind on those shoulders shoul-ders that made htm famous. Th it classical clas-sical foieheid covers the n lnd of n scholar, writer, lawver and statesman, those KoM.rlmin.il glasses arc used by ees that uro us qulik as lightning nt seeing and understanding, while that thin brown mustaihc adorns lips that can speak with surpassing eloquence nnd logic before the bench and bar, from the stump nnd on tho forum. hnviadm: caihif.u. John M, Thurston was born on a Vcimont firm. After passing thinugh a locnl college he moved to Omaha and began the practice of liw In nn otltco but poorly provided with furniture and where he slept on the lloor He became be-came Justice of the Peace, then City Attorney nnd eventually was recognized recog-nized ns the leading lncr of bis Htato. He defended In many famous criminal cases and. It Is sild, never failed to clear his client, and for johis hardly nn Impoitant civil inse was conducted In Nelnaskn, but that he appeared ap-peared for one side or tho other. Fl-nnlly Fl-nnlly he became the Attorncy-Ocneral ot Ihe I'ulun Pacific load at nn enormous enor-mous salary, and served In that capacity capa-city until elected tn the Fnlled Htates Senate In ISOt the samo jour Ilryan wnntcd to go. Thurston beat Ilryan In n square, open light fot the Senate, nnd ' tnrirt" was tho Issue. 'Silver"? No: Hrjan hadn't dreamed of espuiiKtng the cause of silver In 1S94, two ears before- the Democrats und Populists weie forced tn find something new for nn Issue. Is-sue. Yea, slr,hut In lull the eloquent oung Mr. Ilryan put up such n delusive delu-sive talk on the tnrirt that the Republicans Repub-licans wore forced to have iscouiso to their best material with which to meet him, and they nppenled to Thurston, who had never sought n public ofllce In his lire, and Thurston sailed In nnd Just walloped the life out of fast-growing-famous Hilly Urjan, Oh, my! Oh, Inyl but that was n camp-ilgn for youl Talk about excitement! The State nt Ne braska was one blaring mnss of patriotism pat-riotism and partisanship Uijan had won his eleitlon to Congreps In 1612 by means of n Joint debito with Council, tho then serving member. Conntll wus n smart mun Hie Is still piomlnent In the State), but he was no imilih for llrjnn, even If he did have nily to tnlk of the McKlnley tariff us opposed to the Mills bill, "hml Ilrjnn easily beat, both In debate and nt the polls And so Hrjnn thallengtd Thurston for n seiles se-iles of tlueo debates, and the challenge was readily ucrepled. The Issue wns "tariff" and Hrjan or Thurston for the henute. Well, theie was a debate na was n debate! Oh, my lountrjmen, ou should havobcen there' Aro there two more eloquent or mnsteifu! speakers speak-ers In the hind? Verily not. At eaih of tho three meetings over lft 000 people civet flowed the largest auditoriums obtainable, ob-tainable, and the feeling or exilleiiieut between the adherents of one or the other of the two champions ran so high that rneu und women stood on chairs nnd tnbles nnd screumeel their delight or their anger ns the clicumstanees ie-quired. ie-quired. Looking luck at It nil now with less feeling, there was In It all something to maki: oni; riioiJi) of being u Nobtasknn, hecuuse, even If Hrjnu was outclassed for once, nn one questioned his ability. What arguments argu-ments he used and what tilcl.s ho played, and how completely weie the nigimients met and Ills tilcks txposcd! And John M Thurston won the griat-csl griat-csl appiovnl of the thrnngM nnd the election to the Senato. Following his election to the Senate Thurston becume tho trusted friend and lieutenant of William Mi Klnley. He hid been temporal y chairman of the National Republican convention of 1803, nnd McKlnlej s 1 1 lends made him permanent per-manent chairman of the famous gathering gath-ering In ISM Ills Inllmncy with Mc Klnlej after tho lattei became President Presi-dent In well known The reporter who called on Senator 'I htirston today hud tho privilege on several occasions dining din-ing the first term cf tho great McKlnley of calling on hltn In compan of the Senator Two Instances an especially lemembered Ihe first well Illustrates the ihsracler of Hcnator Thurston, while the othei will be reconUcd as showing the most gentln and lovable disposition of iho President Upon on" 0'cntlon Senator Thurston entered the President's private olllce, followed ilnel by the reporter, who was not a reporter then, bj the wn Mr McKlnley greeleil them lordlally and tlnn drawing the Senator a little apart, Inquired rathci anxloul what ollko the voung limn vviinwd MVhs, Mi. President.' answered tho Senator, "there Isn t n ofllce within our gift that this joiing mun would nicept, lie culls lo pa) his respects" and whatever what-ever other kind remembrances that young rnun may have of tho Henitn,, ho will never forgive him for lhat lost opportunity, 'llien the President In-qulicd In-qulicd of the Spnator why he asked foi so few appointments, unci said he always stood ready to grant him any leasonublc icquest At this Mr, Thurston Thurs-ton replied with dignity that he had alwajs asked for such isilronago only ns hi felt his rttnte entitled In It, fur-ther fur-ther th in that he imild not go Ihe othir occnHon was during the hot summer followlnrf the Spanish war, After ttuimuitlng some business with the President the t-enatm amso tu go, and ho bid hltn good-bye, saying say-ing he was leaving tho Capital for his vacation And than Ihe great tenderheartedness tender-heartedness and Christian thaiuuer of tho President showed forth In a way that was pcifculy natural with him, und In the Uatu of which b endear d himself t th. Nation 1 la Ing on. band fui.ll ou the shvull i ot Mr Thurton he repeated one verse of that favoilte hvmn "l.en.1 Kln.ll Light U Is small wonder that thoe who knew him and who hesrd that hsmti a Utile over a enr ago nt the funeral of William M. Klnlej were so dccplv touched JtNT C.OINO HOMi: Hut about meeting Senator Thurston In Ogden v e nre Just returning from a trip lo Honolulu nnd the 1'aclfU const snld the Senator, In nnswer to lnqulr and are speeding east from San Frinilsuv where we landed list Suuiduj The Islands were n revelation revela-tion to us In matters beautiful though as I bad some business tu look after, we were tnuble to visit all the points of interest " the newspapers sa tint von went to Hawaii In the luliet of the sugar trust and air englnretlng a deal for a merger with the Hawaiian sugar Interests In-terests ' v emitted the leporter 'The uewspupers suv a gieat limn) things hi lepllel but I haven't seen an annum of n,v going to Hawaii In Ihe Interests ,.t the St Louis expos! Hon of which I am a llnv eminent ill-lei ill-lei tor and that Is a matter to whl.h t gave most of mv attention" 'Ihe Senator further stated tint while he retained his Interest In poll tl.s his law practice requited most ot his time He his nn mine In Omaha In Washington and New York, and his lime Is divided between those plaies He Inqulied about the political situation situa-tion In I'tnh. und expiessod the hope that the State would send a mm to the Somite who would help his friend Tom Kearns nnompllsh the great work he his set nut tn accomplish for Ftoh and the West "What hnve ou to su on the national na-tional situation Senator" "I have bcpn out of the couiitr) and awn fiom the nivvs centeis so long tlrit t hive not caught up with the details of the eainpilgu, but I see nothing new In the general situation The people are going to 'Keep on let ting well enough alone' The Democratic Demo-cratic cr Is 'Kill Ihe tiusts' List eai It was Imperialism,' before lint It was 'Silver.' bifoie that 'Free trade and so on down through a long list of things the people have steadfastly re-pudl re-pudl iti-d Denim racy Is like the calf ownid b n farmer In m State That calf was nlwu)s running afler n big black bull One morning the rail fence was down and the farmer noticed that the bull was making for freedom as fast as possible Following closelv behind be-hind was the spotted i alf. straining evers ev-ers muscle to keen up with the bull The farmer Joined In the pursuit, hoping hop-ing to overtake the mlf The ran up hill nnd down dale, until tlnall) the farmer sank exhausted ou tho ground In utter exasperation ho shied a rock ut the culf and a parting salutation " 'On It, ou fool' On It, bluine ou! You II know the difference when dinner-time mines ' " W. II AI.I.HN, |