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Show HOI FOLKS MEETBRYAN Citizens Line Streets to Welcome the Colonel Home. Lincoln, Neb,, July 5. The "home folks" were all at the station this morning when William J. Bryan's train pulled In. Local and Btato officials, of-ficials, headed hy Governor Aldrich, were on tho reception committee, and most of tho citizens were in tho throng that lined the streets through which Bryan passed. Mr. Bryan was secoried to a local hotel whore he mouuted the seat of his car and delivered a short address. ad-dress. Mrs. Bryan was with him, having joined him at the station and cheers for her were freoly interspersed interspers-ed with those for the "peerless one." "Never in my experience," said Mr. Bryan this morning, in referring to his fight at Baltimore, "had victory hung by such a slender thread and never had It been dependont upon so many persons about whose position I know nothing, "Never for a moment did I delude myself into believing that I could so-cure so-cure the nomination at Baltimore. I told the Republicans that I could come nearer to being nominated at , Chicago than at Baltimore. That was raj belief before I went to Chicago, and aflor the Republicans had nominated nomi-nated Mr. Taft by means that I would not now describe, and after Mr. Roosevelt had announced his willingness willing-ness to run as a third candidate, with a now party. I felt that the only thing to do at Baltimore was to write a. platform so progressive and nominate nomi-nate a candldto so progressive that Roosevelt would find no excuse for running. "If Clark had come out as Wilson did," said Mr. Bryan, referring to the temporary chairmanship fight, "if he had refused to allow his leaders lead-ers to place him In the condition ho occupied, the result of the convention might have been very different'" |