Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-27
BRYAN HONOR GUESS
American Society In LondoI
Celebrates Thanksgiving.
MARLBOROUGH PRAISED ROOSEVELT
Speech Of Ambassador Cboate Was
Followed by an ovation to bryan,
Who Spoke OF Idenis Of Lib
erty and

A ~ an ON-4thOh 10
Who spoke OF Ideals of Lib
erty and Progress.
LONDON. Nov. p. p Thanksgiving
day was celebrated by the American
society in London at a banquet giveT
at rhe Hotel Cecil. There were Over
400 guests present, / William Jennings
Bryan was the gkest OF honor.
The speeches, whiieS favored by the
usual s~eascnable ehdar and references
10 Anglo-American fEieHdliness, devel
opel particularly into a duel of repair
tee, good natured. but almost subaeid.
between Mr.. Bryan -and Ambassador
Choate. -
There were a nluhher Of notable
guests ut the banquet including the
Duke Of Marlborough. who wore the
ribbon Of the Ordeisbf the Garter; Earl
Denbigll of thel4n4tarable Artillery
Company, Lord Davey, General Ian
Hamilton. Gilbert Parker, Major Ar.
thur Lee, formerly military attache at
Washington. now civil lord of the ad-
miralty; Sir Montagu L. Ommanney.
all the ambassadors in London, Miss
Evans, Mrs. Ronalds, Countess Den
bigh, Major Budworth of the Honora-
be Artillery Company and several
members of the house of commons.
Tie Duke of Marlborough proposed
a toast TO President Roosevelt and, adj
dressing himself TO the interests which
England and the United States have
in common, referred in terms of the
highest praise TO President Roosevelt
and spoke feelingly of the late Sir
Michael Herbert.
Ambassador Choate. responding to
the toast to his health, which was pro-
posed in complimentary terms by Lord
Davey, took up the Duke of Marlbor-
ough's reference TO the mutual sympa-
thies of the American and British peo-
pies and said that there had been rea-
son heretofore TO suspect some such
sentiment on the part of the duke,
since he had set an example in one
form of the Anglo-American alliance
on which the people of both countries
We're able TO look with entire approval.
Turning to Mr.. Bryan Mr.. Choate
said it was the custom of Americans,
torn from their native shores, to gather
annually and return thanks. The Amer
lean society in London had now among
them another of these exiies for whom
personally he as ambassador had been
doing the best he could. He had taken
Mr.. Bryan to visit the Bank of Eng
land, where he was able to study the
fiscal question in its native lair. The
company would be edited, said Mr..
(Nhp,to Ia1 4hor 1.n0-17 Mr. Dpx,n
cross eXpnlining the gozErnor of the
'13ans OF fhTfstse. lie ani1assad5r.
said he had aided AR. Bryan to hear
Mr.. Asquith. Mr.. Chamberlain, Lord
GoSchen and Lord Rosebery. all within
forty-eight hours, so If his views on the
fiscal question were not utterly mixed
they would appreciate at least the quad
ity of the man they had before them.
The speech of the. Ambassador was
followed by an ovation TO Mr.. Bryan
which LASTED for several minutes. Mr..
Bryan in responding paid a graceful
tribute to the English guests of the So
ciety. He said the highest compliment
he was able TO pay was that in look
ing over the tables he was unable to
distinguish the English from the Amer
Jean women present. He thanked the
British nation for the kindly forbear-
it had shown in receiving him
the protcctionists for letting him land
at all and the gold bugs for not having
doported him Immediately after his ar ;
rival. Mr.. Bryan said he had profited
exceedingly by his visit TO the Bank Of
England.
He wanted to call attention. however,
to the fact that the murderous attack
by an insane man with a revolver OF
Mr.. Kenneth Graham. the secretary OF
the bank, occurred the day before h, (
called.
Touching the theme of Thanksgiving5
day. Mr.. Bryan spoke eloquently on
natural and advantages
of the United States. for which the
people must return thanks to God, and
81 the ideals of liberty and progress,
which they must thank their Eng
fish progenitors. He urged the neces-
sity of h present generation be-
lucathing TO posterity some gift COM
mensurate with the blessings they had
received from their ancestors and sug-
that they becueath the ideal of
International amityssi4e1 which The
arbitration tribunal WIS a last
Ing monument. s@iieg
Hail to the nation.,h Concluded Mr..
whatever Hersnan1e. who leads
the world toward Ills Higher ideal for
the lasting good of all htfmanfty.s
silverman JasgfDfAasreed.
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