The Jersey City news., 1906-08-31
He Will Be Received In This
Gibraltar of Democracy In
a Royal Manner Will Be
Dined and He Will Then
Make Three Speeches,
GREAT OVATION In NEW YORK
NO PRIVATE AMERICAN CITIZEN
RETURNING FROM ABROAD IN
THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED
STATES HAS EVER BEEN AC-
CORDED SUCH HONOR.

citizens of this city appointed to meet
and welcome William Jennings Bryan to-
morrow has arranged the following pro-
gramme:-Mr. Bryan is to be met at the
Victoria Hotel at four o'clock in the af-
ternoon by the committee. He will be
escorted to the Carteret Club wrere he
viii be dined While he is being rendered
a big banquet organizations from every
part of Hudson County, which proved
his Gibralter under the leadership of
Robert Davis, in the last national cleo
ton. will form in the vicinity of the BAN
quet hall and will escort him down the
Mercer street viaduct to the southeast
corner of Jersey avenue and Montgomery
street, where a stand has been already
erected, from which the great Com
moner will make a speech. The great
crowd in the parade will follow him to
Elks' Hall, where he will make a speech
and then he will make another one at
st. Peters Hall.
Mr.. Bryan has been heard in this city
before in both his campaigns for the
Presidency of the United States In
both his campaigns he has been honored
by the stalwart Democrats by tremen
dous outpourings of the voters of this
cosmopolitan city He will be warmly
greeted. ~
He was warmly greeted in New York
yesterday and last night. In the vicini-
ty of Wall Street he was not. AT the
Battery he was and so at every point of
vantage along the route of parade from
the Battery 10 the Victoria Hotel In
the whole history of the United States
no American, as privae citizen, has
been given such magnificent o.ation
Many of those who opposed him in his
two campaigns for the Presidency turned
out to do him honor. Many Jerseyites
who voted against him iH two campaigns
went over the ferries I'D wave their hats
and do him honor. 1t must be remem-
bered that Mr.. Bryan is not a candidate
for the Presidency. The reception ac-
corded him was merely that Of private
citizen, who, alertly, travelling abroad,
studied conditions under monarchies. ar
riyes home.
One Of the first to greet him was Rob
ert Davis, the leader of Hudson Coun-
fy's Democracy of the State Oh New
sey. Mr.. Davis was accorded promnE
ent place in yesterdays parade in con-
nection with the New York reception and
at last nights meeting at the Madison
Square Garden. This was merely a vel
come home from an extensive trip
abroad, during which the great common
er of TIE United States had studied gov
ernmentaI conditions. Beaten twice for
the presidency of our nation he's ready
for a third fray against the individual
powers that menace the common people
who make up our nation. Tired, as well
as any human being might be after his
great experience, in a great speech at
Madison Square Garden last night he de-
clared that the obliteration I trusts is
the paramount issue in the coming ma
tioal campaign Ia also declared for
International Arbitration, Independence
for Filopenos, Popular Election of Unit
ed States Senators, an income tax, tariff
revision, sc ownership of railroads,
and public accounting of money sub
scribed for national and state elections.
One of the best things Mr.. Bryan
said at last nights speech in Maufson
Square Garden, was:-
The lIrst message that | bring from
the old country is a message of peace
The cause of arbitration is making real
progress in spite of the fact that the
nations most prominent i'll the estab-
hshment Of The Hague Tribunal have
themselves been engaged in wars since
that court was organized.
Il believe that if our nation would
propose to make with every other ma
tion treaty providing that all ques-
tions in dispute between the parties
should be submitted to the Hague court
or some other impartial international tri-
bunal for investigation and report before
any declaration Of war or commence
ment of hostility, it would find many
nations willing to enter into such a COM
pact. To take the lead in such a move
ment would establish our position as a
world power in the best sense of the
term.
II venture to suggest that we may not
only promote peace but also advance our
commercial interests by announcing as a
national policy that our navy will not
be used 4or the collection of private
debts. While protecting the lives Of our
citizens everywhere and guaranteeing the
personal safety of all who owe allegiance
to our flag, we should, in my Judgment,
announce that persons engaged in bust
ness and holding property IN other lands
for business purposes must be subject to
the laws Of the counties in which they
engage in business enterprises.