The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-23
PARTY LINES EFFAcED
A Magnificent 0utpouring of Elm City Citizens to Greet Chauncey M. Depew
 and Wallace Bruce.
THOUSANDS TURNED AWAY
THE HYPERION THRONGED WITH
 VOTERS OF BOTH PARTIES.

Greatest Political Demonstration in a De-
 cade-Patriotic Democrats Stand Side by
 Action in the Board of selectmen App
 plauded-Depew's Illustration of How
 Young Men May Succeed Chairman
 Macdonald Was One Page in the New
 York Assembly-Enthusiasm Finds Ere
 quent Expression.
 There has not for a decade been such political demonstration in this city, as was seen at the Depew-B Bruce re- publican rally in the Hyperion last evening Long before 7:30 o'clock, the time when it was exepected that the doors would open, Chapel street in the vicinity of the theater was thronged with eager men and women waiting for admission. A few minutes before the crowd was increased by an addi- tion of 800 Yale students who wished to hear two of Yale's favorite orators. The air was rent with the familiar cry z of old Yale followed by a mighty shout for seats.
 At 7:30 the doors of the big theater were opened and the scores of ushers and doorkeepers were kept busy seating the people who were fortunate enough ero;,, od,,iee;o, A steady stream of humanity poured in at the various entrances, and in a short time evecy available seat in the house was occupied, The aisles were filled. The enthusiasm has not been equalled at any time since the Blaine campaign; indeed it seemed more like one of the old wartime mass meetings, for the duties of the hour were felt to be ' as imperative as as those of tht time. < Hundreds of democrats were seen in the audience and on the stage attest ing their patriotism by their presence. When Chairman James H. Maedon- aid called the meeting to order he was met by the eyes of thousands of peo- pie, from the pit to the dome of the house. It was an eager. en- thusiastic crowd, $500 strong, more for 2 tunate than the 1,500 people who were 4 turned away from the doors When X the chairman spoke of the heroes and \ patriotic action of Selectman Farren \ yesterday in the board of registration 8 the applause was deafening and fo1 q several moments he was unable to in- N troduce the chairman of the meeting \ Dean Francis Wayland of Yale Law M school The dean said:
 M Ladies and gentlemen, fellow citi- # zens, democrats and republicans, who # have respect for established law, who X have a firm belief in the principles ol sound money, who decline to be led ir |N this campaign by preachers without M pulpits, lawyers without clients, poli- M ticians with unenviable regulations, by E ladies without experience, take pleas. E ure in introducing to you the Hon M Chauncey M. Depew
 E MT. Depew said:
 M "Fellow citizens, ladies-Eversince K was four years 8. citizen of New Ha. K ven, it has been my privilege to re. N turn here and discuss the issue of eacr E presidential election. Any man who
 has ever graduated at Yale college H comes back here to take up the thread N of life with the citizens of this mag. nificent city. One of the principles 0. the education I received at Yale col E lege was to put patriotism above al E things else.
 E As student in Yale college, I re
 member young man battling in tn E interest of his country. It was aimos
 single-handed fight. I came bacl ! here during the days of the civil war E and that man was still working for tn ! principles of freedom. To-day we fint
 him still in the harness. That man i
 your congressman, Hon. N. D. Sperry
 Prolonged applause.)
 'I have returned from a tour of tn
 west, not as Bryan came here to tn
 enemy's country, but because I though
 every part of the country was ever,
 mans. I found that the idea that w
 had of the central states being the cen
 ter of the free silver craze was ia
 from being true. I went to Indiana
 and they said we did have it, but it i
 gone. In Illinois it had gone to Michi
 gan, and when I reached the latte
 state, they said that the craze ha,
 vanished into Canada. Daughter.
 They had some silver fever out there
 but like the measles, or the scarle
 fever, it had it's period, and the dange
 is over.
 "This campaign differs from any on
 that we have seen since I left Nev
 Haven forty years ago.
 'We have a contest which overstep
 the constitution and laws, which at
 tempts to build new government un
 known to our fathers, and which w
 have repudiated. In all these contest
 college faculties and the press wer
 about evenly divided, but how stan'
 these men to-day? They stand for tn
 maintenance of the national honor
 The pulpit stands up for it almost to
 man, with an exception featherhea'
 preaching doctrine as old as Sanai
 (Thou shalt not steal.)
 Ut does seem that there would b
 no need of speechmaking, and the dis
 tribution of literature, but there ar
 philosophical theories at the bottom o
 these things. In times of financial de
 pression, the financial crank appears
 and he has but one remedy; that is tn