The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10
HIS IMPRESSIONS s6cRHr
Says He Wishes to Write Be
 fore He Talks.
Emphatically Against the Psopoai- ton to Hold the Democratic National Convention in tho
 yity of New York.

New York. Jan. 9.-Thc White Star steamer Celtic on which W. J. Bryan i3 a passenger. arrived to-day. Tho steafnor was mset at quarantine by Committed of prominent Democrats.
 The reception committee was headed by former United States Senator Charles A. Tovne. Melville Pallister. Justico Samuel seabury and Henry George. 1r.
 Mir. Bryan said Inc never felt better. Coming up the bay Mir. Bryan held general reception. He declined to talk specifically for pubIkcation on the ground that hsb intended to write of his exnef- fences. and did not desire all the ifi,- pressions he had gained to be told l,e- fore his own writings had achieved print He sai4 he visited ten capitals and part of Sweden. He spent fourteen hours with Count Tolstoi. He also saw Max Nordau and Mir. Crolxcr. He and hzTs Croker visited each other.
 Bryan ad Crol<er.
 What did you say about each othorTs
 T don't think we said anything of pub ltc fnteisest. You must remember that know less of what has been going on ifs this country during the last two mouths than in any two months of my iife
 Asked about the great men he had visited. Mir. Bryan said that he thought Mir. Ba;tfour. Engiand's premier. one ok the best: scholarly men he had ever met He spoke in terms of high praise ana great 6 tatitude of the manner In wizlcit he had been received and helped by Ann bassador Choate and all the Anerican represei ttatives to whom he had applied.
 T mstt President Loubet of Francf. Mfr. Bryan said. .and found him very pleasant ]. President Deucher of 6wilzar~ land is Ia very, genial man, with Gerfna3 chHract erfstics strongly marked. TNN Czar ois Russia also appeared to mo fa be very charrnipg. The crown prince ez penEnask is afrabIe and friendly. With the extssption of President Louft4 a5f tho visit to the Vatican and WeA pre- sented to ffye Pope hy Father Kezln&5s. the bead of the AEnAxicaN Collage fM Ronna The Pope did n0i ptAak MHaiIz was greatly impressed with the fzfsnsz ly feeling everywhere exhibited . <A9 American people, They seemed ko ike us."
 DO you agree with other trareIers that the people are really more rulers ln England than in this countrx7p he waN 1 asked.
 Where the Public Cotrols. ''In England. think Mir. Bryan said. public cipiniSn prevails more than in anF other ptacetI know, except perhaps France and Switzerland. Switzerland ie | LdE NuOt0 OeMOcFhLlC tlAO lu3 QALtF8H | States. { Public opinion controls thera more. quickly than anywhere I know
 Mir. Bryan said he was going tD CDn~ necticut Monday, and that he hopes t0 be able to go to Nebraska before the end of the coming week. Asked if ha favored holding the Democratic National Convention in New York. Mir. Bryan gave
 an emphatic negative answer. He said. eff you people have got as much money | al pfAsa e1uw hcvy of Fnr5 Ia so into the center of the country. You
 have been boosting about your wealth
 and can afford to spend a little of t. ! am opposed to any extreme point of tho country being taken for the convention"
 Mir. Bryan would not say where he would like the convention, but suggested somewhere in the center of the country.
 He would not talk about platforms. Ifa said he knew of nothing that should be taken out of the last platform and could not say what should be added. He re~
 fused to discuss the Panama situations saying he wanted to know more about it.
 A reception was given to Mir. Bryan at the Victoria Hotel by committee, among the members of which were Hamiin Gart~ land, Henry George. Edward M. drouts Judge W. J. Gaynor. Jacob A. CaHtors w. Bourke Cochran, John T.. Crosby, Martin w. Littleton, William M. Me< Adoo, William Sulzer, William R. Hearst and Charles F. Murphy. Judge Samslel Seabury welcomed Mir. Bryan who in re- spending said in part:
 HIT. Bryan Speaks.
 During my brief sojourn in other lands have had my eyes and my ears open and have sought to see and to hear and to learn. found much to interest mo and saw some things that think we might very well learn. But have not been in any land where would wish to live and work as here. There Is freedom of speech just as much as there Is here but was impressed with the idea that nowhere ia the world is there the same Opportunity for a man to make the most of hilneeiE no matter what his family or origin as there is here.
 'T wish to express my sense Of the courtesy shown me by Republican oGs fcers abroad. I carried with mo letter of introduction from the Secretary or State, but they said I did not need It. I could not have been treated more knd- ly if had been a Republican. As an evil | dence of good faith wish to make tho admission that this trip has relieved ma of one great anxiety had in ls9s. was afraid at that time that If should be defeated there might not be enough | competent men to represent the govern~ | ment in all posts of responsibility. Now my mind is greatly eased on this | subject. Beginning with AmbassadeF | Choate and all along my journey. met | a most admirable body of men represents ing their country. And they all acted as though they did not know was Dem ocrat or if they did know as If they dld not care. I want to say that helieva those representatives arc npholding the | honor and dignity of our country ahsoS lutely.
 All Are Courteous. Everywhere that went too, the f0rr eign officers whom met expressed their high appreciation of the American repre- sentatives and so far as myself re- eeived any attention from foreign ofFI- cers. I wish to say that do not think they were extended to mo personality | but because 1t was considered that