Show j N il BRYAN AN Distinguished Dist Nebraskan Arrived From Fr m Europ E ro eVe y on n the Celtic New Kea York Jan 9 The r e White Star St r ine inest steamer st r CeltiC OB on which William VUlia m J Bry Bryan Br Bran an Is la a passenger r V arrived today The steamer samer was met at t quarantine by a commute of prominent I D IaO rats who I i have amed a reception reet n to Air Mr Ir Bryan at the Victoria hotel Th The re reception committee Ommittee was headed heeded by former United Sta States es S Congressman Charles Charlee V A Aton ton Melvln G 11 Pallister Justice Sam Samul am ul Usi Seabury S ani an George Jr Mr lr Bryan said he Be sever felt better ASked what sort of ot a 11 had bad he said he believed it was a trip unique In TV win in inter ter tv transAtlantic travel There Thero were I two and half days of storm starting and a d five days of glorious weather we the almost dead calm and then thee the tile last couple of days very vry rough and very Vr seas Coming Comins v i 1 tile the bay bar Mr Bryan Br an had a general reception He declined to talk specifically for publication on the ground that he intended in to write of or his experiences canes and an dH no desire dt re all the impressions siesta he lie bad had pined gained to be old before his own writings had achieved print Mr Br Bryan aa said he visited ten capitals and a 9 part of Sweden weden He spent fourteen hours hour with Tolstoi ToI tol He also w Max Ma i and Mr lIr Croker He and nd Mr Croker visited each other he ho said Id What did you OU say to eich Ch ether was J s asked ked V 1 J dont dODt think Dk we Wf said Mid S anything of or pub public public lic lie interest Yia must remember that I know less lees of or what has beep been going on in inthis Inthia Inthis this thia country during the last two months than in Ip any jiny two Jr of my life JI Asked about the great men he had hadit visited it Mr Bryan said that he thought Mir Mr Balfour premier one of the most scholarly men mea me he be had ever met He Re spoke in terms term of high praise and gratitude of the manner perhaps France and Vand Switzerland Swi Switzerland is far more democratic than the t United States Public opinion controls there more quickly than any allY anywhere where here I know he said Mr Bryan ryan mid acrid he was going t to te Con Connecticut Conne COnnecticut ne on Monday and that he hopes to be able to go to Nebraska before the end of the coming week Asked if he be favored favo d the holding of oJ the Democratic national n al in New York Y rk Mr Bryan gave an em emphatic negative aner anWer He said sald If you people have hav as 55 much money as you say you have you can afford to go into the centre of the country You have been boasting about your wealth and can afford to sp nd a lit little littie tie tle of it I am apposed to any extreme point of the country being taken for forthe forthe forthe the convention Mr Bryan would not notay say ay where he would like IJ e the conven convention convention tion Lion but suggested somewhere in the centre of the country Q Mr lr Bryan would not talk about bout the pia platform He said Mid he of nothing that would be taken out of the last platform and could uld not say Sa y what would d be ad added added addad ded dad He Re e refused V to discuss the Pan Panama Panama Panama ama situation saying he wanted anted to know more about it V |