The age-herald., 1900-01-24
BRYAN RECEIVED
 CORDIAL GREETING Democratic Club Rooms Were
 Packed With Members NO SPEECHES WERE MADE Many Members Declared the Reception Showed the Protest by Doyle and
 Others Did Not Represent Sentiment of the Club
NO SPEECHES WERE MADE

New York, January 2S.-William J. Bry- an took breakfast at the Hoffman house this morning with number of free silver and single tax leaders. Subsequently he received the newspaper reporters. When asked if he made a harmony speech at the Belmont dinner last night, MT. Bryan an- swered:
 T don't know If I used the word har- mony or not, but I always speak in such harmonious strain that no one can ob- ject unless he is determined. As a matter of fact I talked very little on politics"
 Colonel Bryan declined to discuss the letter of Robert B. Roosevelt and others, protesting against his entertainment as the guest of the Democratic club
 About noon Dr. Leveson, of Brooklyn, an anti-imperialist, called with two Filipinos, but Mir. Bryan refused to see them. MT. Bryan's callers today were nearly all si- verites. The gold democrats held aloof.
 Tonight MT. Bryan dined at the Demo- cratic club as the guest of President John w Keller. with twelve others. The club house was crowded from 5 o'clock.
 The fact that Colonel Bryan was to be the guest of the club caused the seats In the general dining room, on the third floor, to be at premium. Most of the tables in the general dining room were taken posses sion of as early as o'clock.
 Some of the club members ate two din- ners and drank twice much wine as they wanted waiting for the distinguished Nebraskan to arrive. The rooms and the corridors of the club were thronged long before MT. Bryan arrived. The crowd pushed and jostled and smoked and dis cussed everything while waiting for the guest of the evening.
 At exactly 7:30 o'clock a carriage drove up to the club. The first person to alight from this carriage was James s. Oliver, ser- geant- of the national democratic committee. He helped out William J. Bryan and ex-Governor Hogg,. of Texas. Some one called for three cheers for Bryan, and they were given. The crowd in the corridor was so great that the door man had some difficulty in making a way for MT. Bryan and the others. President John w. Keller, of the club, pushed his way for ward and grasped MT. Bryan by the hand
 There was crush in the dining room. and many persons were standing. The table at which the four were to sit were near the Fifth avenue front. There were other tables all about it, all thronged with prom inent members of the club.
 s=s There Was Mlch Apollus,
 When MT. Bryan entered the brilliantly lighted room there was much applause. There were no decorations.
 Those at the table of honor were:
 John w. Keller, w. J. Bryan, Maurice F. Holaland. ex-Governor Hogg, Judge Cor IO~l,, NfaYT1 1nlB1 M John Whalen John F. Carroll, Thomas F. Grady, Bernard J. York, Andrew Freedman, Dr. J. B. Crosby and W. l.. Brown.
 There was a running fire of conversation on all sides of the table. For a little over an hour Colonel Bryan and his fellow diners at the little table ate and drank Just as the Last course had been finished Mayor Van Wyck entered the room. He iostied his way over to the table and sat down at one corner between Commissioner Keller and MT Bryan. There was some conversation and then the diners arose.
 MT. Bryan then proceeded to the large re ception room A line was formed and President Keller introduced those present . who shook hands with the guest. Nearly all the heads of the departments or the city were represented.
 After all had shaken hands, MT. Bryan stood talking with Mayor VanWyck. Ine crowd gathered in the parlor hoplng uiat a speech was to be made.
 At a few minutes past 10 o'clock MT. Bryan complained of a headache and ac- companied Ioy Commissioner Keller anu Senator Grady he entered carnage ana was driven to his hotel. Before leaving the hotel Mir Bryan was asked how he viewed his reception
 1T am very much pleased with the cor diality of my reception he said Tt does not seem possible that there could be many more persons gotten in the place"
 After MT Bryan had left Ex-Governor Hogg said;
 "Tdis shows that there is no dissension. The club has given Mir Bryan royal re- ception. Of course, he is here not as guest of the club, but you can see that he is welcomed by all the members
 Many of the members declared that the reception gave a decided emphasis to the fact that the protest of Doyle, Fox and Roosevelt did not represent the sentiment of the members of the club a whole.
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