The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-30
WILL NOT DESERT THE SHIP
LOCAL DEMOCRATS TO RATIFY THE
 CHICAGO NOMINATIONS.

The Date of the Meeting is August D. George Fred Williams to be the Prinoi- pal speaker-Preli,ninary Meeting Last Evening-Austin B. Fuller Presided, and Speeches Were Made by Alexander TrOup and Ex-Judge Blydenburgh- Town Committee to be Augmented by Additions From Each Ward.
 The nominees and the platform of the democratic national convention will be ratified by many of the democratic vot- CTS of this city on the evening of We'd nesday, August 5. This announcement was made last evening by Alexander Troup, who is in receipt of a letter from George Fred Williams, in which that leader of the Bryan and Sewall forces in Massachusetts signified his willing ness to address the democrats of New Haven on the date mentioned
 In consequence of the rigors of the impending campaign, MT. Williams stated that it would be quite impossible for him to address an open-air meet ing. Therefore the meeting will be held inside, probably in the Hyperion thea ter.
 At the preliminary meeting to ar range for this event, held last evening in St. Aloysius hall, about 150 members of the party were gathered to perfect the details. The meeting was conspic- uous by the absence of men whose names have for years been inseparably associated with the history of local de- mocracy.
 At S:30 o'clock John F. Shannahan stepped upon the platform and said: "The first business of this meeting is to select a chairman. Gentlemen, will you nominate?''
 Joseph Manning, ex-member of the board of health, answered the question immediately by nominating Dr. Austin B. Fuller for chairman.
 It was a pleasure MT. Manning said, to nominate such man for chairman 8 man who had always been demo- crat
 There's Were some significant glances at the utterance of this remark of the x-commissioner, but they did not have any appreciable effect upon the men who had come to participate in the preparations for a Bryan and Sewall ratification meeting. Dr. Fuller was selected to preside over the delibera- tions of the meeting.
 Ex- City Clerk James B. Martin was elected secretary.
 MT. Fuller, in accepting the chair manship, said that the meeting was held in order that steps might be taken to hold a ratification meeting of the nominations of Bryan and Sewall q am not much acquainted with the way these meetings are run" he said, "and if there are any of the old war horses here, the chair would be glad to hear from them''
 At this suggestion of the presiding officer a hasty survey of the room re- minded every one that the meeting was conspicuous by the absence of the men referred to.
 ''The chair would like to hear from Mir. Troup'' continued the doctor.
 There was the first applause of the evening when the editor of the Union, fresh from the silver convention recent ly held in St. Louis, arose to address the meeting.
 He said, substantially: "I have been absent from this city for several weeks, but what have learned from the press, and from what information I have se- cured since returned, I take it that you have a town committee without a chairman, he having exercised his pre- rogative of leaving the committee. His successor was nominated, but he has not time to attend to the work
 sN5Tn.riplpf w uyithn1It a hop6 Such a condition of affairs necessitates meeting of this kind. It is needless for me to say that I am enthusiastic for the ticket We are on the eve of political revolution.
 "The feeling in the west is that the states in that section are safe, and that the war must be carried on in New England and New York. At the sug- gestion of the candidate for president the Madison Square Garden meeting was called. We will have MT. Bryan in New Haven, and he will also speak in Maine.
 s'The delegates to the national dem- ocratic convention went to Chicago to execute the order of the people, not to argue, not to confer. They said: You democrats of the east have directed the policy of the party too long already.'
 ''It was then that the eastern demo- crats refused to vote. It was then they said: We don't want to play in your yard any more find that certain gen. tlemen in New Haven are infected with the same malady The New Haven Register has bolted. What of it? That paper bolted Douglas in 1860, and sup ported Breckinridge.
 Its policy has been a bolting one ever since When it has not been truckled to it bolted. The Morning News has bolted. I understand it's principle owner is en route to Europe. He was recent convert to democracy. The office he now holds was bestowed upon him by democratic governor,
 Let these men go back where they belong. If were gold man l should vote for William Mckinley. I would be a republican, not an assistant one. The test of democracy to-day is loyalty to Bryan and Sewall. The currency issue is all there is of the campaign. One convention declared for gold. The policy of the other is bi-metailism.
 "In closing, I want. to make pre- diction, and that is that the Hyperion will hold all the democrats who will vote on the Sd of November for William Mckinley. Our republicans and gold democrats will say that the bolters nave taken with them the money. This
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