The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-25
SAVANNAH, GA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 1896

for fear you will hurt yourselves? CAP
plause).
Employers don't pay wages because
they like to; they pay wages because they
have to, and when there is greater de-
mand for labor there will be a better
price paid to labor than there will when
two men are looking for the same job
(Applause).
1.-The gold standard destroys the oppor-
tunity to work; the gold standard makes
men work half time, because there is no.
body able to buy the products of the fac
tories, and the farmer Is not able to sell
his crops for enough to pay taxes and in
terest There Is not spot over which
the American flag floats which cannot be
benefited by the restoration of the money
of the constitution. (Applause). There
is not a spot which will not be cursed by
the continuation of the gold standard"
(Applause).
Mr.. Bryan concluded with the advice he
has given frequently about voting the re-
publican ticket, If continuation of the
gold standard is desired, and an insist
ence that the silver cause was not a craze
Hartford, Conn, Sept A.-Mr Bryan's
trip from New Haven to Hartford was
without special incident, except for the
development of considerable feeling over
the disarrangement of the program at
Meriden. 1t had been announced that the
special car of the Connecticut state com
mittee would be shifted to a side track
there and remain over for forty minutes
until the express due at Hartford at $3.50
o'clock arrived. When Merden was
reached, however, the officials Of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford railroad
refused to allow the car to be detached.
Col Graves, a member of the democratic
aRfl fpaI n nd aEafr nm Of ,a
Hartford reception committee, explained
to the delegation fro1H'Mer eriden who had
boarded the train at Walingford that the
railroad officials based their decination
on the ground that the shifting process
might cause an accident in the big crowd
expected at the Meriden station, Col.
Graves said he had applied for a special
engine, but the use of this was also re-
fused, the officials claiming that an acci-
dent would be just as liable and a special
scedule would cause confusion in the train
service and make collision possible.
The Meriden committee expressed its
indignation forcibly, and the comment
was lively for awhile. Mr.. Bryan reached
Hartford ahead of his schedule The Mer-
iden reception was participated in by
great throng, several thousand strong.
Mr.. Bryan appeared on the rear platform
and was cheered. He had opportunity
to say a few words only when the train
moved out, leaving the chagrned Meriden
people wondering what he meant by leav-
ing them so soon
Short stops were made at Wallingford,
where Mr.. Bryan made few remarks
to an audience Of several hundred, and at
Berlin, where quite a large crowd cheered
him. Fsf4fse
Mr.. Bryan ended his Connecticut tour
tonight by making two speeches in Hart
ford. Both meetings were held in the
open air, the first in Capitol park, and
the other on Main street, in front of the
City hotel.
When Mr. Bryan reached Hartford from
New Haven at 6:2O o'clock, in company
with Col. Graves chairman of the Hart
ford committee, and Alex Troup, chairman
of the democratic state committee, he
found a great throng at the station, and
received many cheers His carriage was
followed to the Heublin hotel 10y crowd
of men and boys, many of them bearing
flaming candles Of red Greek light.
At 5 O'Clock he went to the Capitol park,
being accompanied by another Greek fire
escort and the members of the local re-
ception committee in carriages. The gath
erlng in the park was extremely large.
Around the speaking stand, erected a hun
dred feet from the capitol building, peo-
pie were massed by the thousands. They
formed a solid throng. two hundred feet
square, and numbered in the neighbor-
hood Of 1900; perhaps more. Mr. Bryan
stood upon table on the stand in order
that the crowd might see him better over
his head was big electric light, and this
with the bright moon and continuous glare
of red fire made HIS figure stand out in
picturesque relief against the black hu-
man figures packed soldly on every side
of him.
The formality of an introduction was
dispensed with and the candidate started
to talk as soon as the cheering which
marked his appearance was over.
The Capitol Park speech concluded, Mr.
Bryan was taken to the City hotel, where
he found another big assemblage smaller
however, than the other. Main street is
Hartford's broadest thoroughfare. 1t was
thronged from the buildings on the one
side to those on the opposite. Just across
from the City hotel is the home of the
republican club, and Mr. Bryan found
staring him in the face, during all the
time he talked the names of. Mckinley
and Hobart displayed in great electric
letters from the republican clubs bal
cony. He spoke from the portico, over
the main entrance of the hotel.