The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-13
SOUND MONEY MEN MEET
COLONEL FELLOWS AVID Ex-cON.
 GRESS1rAN SHERRY SPEAK.

CampH1gn--W1Jjam J. M1lIS Called tho Meeting to Order--Still Chairman of the Democratic Town Committee-phe Hy- perion Had a Large Crowd Last Evening. The sound money democrats of Con- | necticut fired their first gun yesterday evening in the Hyperion theater. The audience present to listen to what the gold men had to say in refutation of | the silver sophistries was large one. The Second Regiment band discoursed music and every one was as conlforta,- | ble as could be expected on a. night when the thermometer was coquetting | about the 90 point
 | The meeting was called to order by 1 William J. Mills, who said that he did so as chairman of the democratic town committee. He did not, however. act under instructions of the balance of the committee, as there had not been Q, meeting of the committee since May. The first speaker of the evening was ex- Congressman Sperry of Hartford, who took up the free silver ideas of the | Bryanites and handled them without 1 gloves.
 l Evidently from the number of inter- | ruptions from the audience while the ex congressman was speaking, there were many persons in the audience who were afflicted with the free silver ma nia. The first interruption came from dark k-complexioned man who sat a few seats down on the left of the house. He wanted to know the status of the Mexican dollar.
 l Another Interruption was when some one wished to know if MT. Sperry was corporation lawyer. So offensive did the misses and cat-calls become that 1 the speaker was obliged to cease talk l ing for a short time while Chairman Harrison restored order. Mr. Sperry's address was enthusiastically applaud ed at it's close, which indeed it deserved. as it was an able exposition- of the free I silver sophistry
 Colonel John R. Fellows of New York city followed Congressman Sperry with an eloquent arraignment of the plat from adopted at the Chicago conven- ton. The speaker said that were he to state in one sentence the reason why I he refused to acquiesce in the action 1 of the convention it would be that he was a democrat and that to do so would be treason to democracy. To him democracy was more than 8 name His I democracy was not an inherited one. l He had been reared in the tenets of 1 the whig faith. His early instruction in lpolitics was such as was calculated to make him think that to be a democrat was an unpardonable sin. s84
 The speaker denied the right of any set of men to assemble and strip from him the principles which had been cherished by him throughout a life- | time.
 He would go very far for the sake of regularity, but regularity had to do with method not principle. It was not regular for democratic convention to. denouce democratic principles. It was not within the power of any demo- cratic convention to put new principles in the party.
 | Colonel Fellows had not bo1ted, I Neither did he intend to bolt. What was the democracy of Connecticut last May? Had it lost any of it's strength 2 Had the summer sun withered it? Was not the democracy of to-day the de- mocracy of the fathers?
 The convention which began it's wora by repudiating the authority of the national committee and continued along the same line until 1t had unseated enough delegates to control the cons vention was not deserving of follows ing. The convention declared for un- limited issuance of paper money by the government. Colonel Fellows did nous believe that the government shOulu so into the banking business any more than 1t should go into the grocery busi- ness.
 The democracy of the Chicago con- vention was not that of Jefferson, Mad- ison Monroe and Tilden.
 The speaker advancing to the front sof the stage in a. burst of oratory exclain- ed: "So help me heaven l will not ga after such strange gods
 Speaking of the attack of the fed- eral courts made at the Chicago cons vention Colonel Fellows paid Q tribute to that branch of the government. He did not want to see the time when as contemplated by the Chicago conven- ton 1t shall become the football of the political parties.
 We have broad land, but there Is not room enough here except in tho dungeon or on the scaffold for those who assail the fabric of our law If it is necessary there are ten millions of men, native and adopted, that would march under arms at the order to exe- cute that mandate.
 In conclusion Colonel Fellows showed the inconsistencies of the cry heard in behalf of the masses and the debtor class. The creditor class, that so much had been said about, was composed of men and women of the middle classes who had saved of their earnings a com- potency through the means of the sav- ings bank. These were the people who
 would lose by the free coinage act.
 He did not believe that the American
 voter was ready to adopt the measures advocated by the Chicago convention.
 The depositor in the savings bank was not ready to receive his money from
 the bank at fifty cents OF the 100
 When Colonel Fellows had finished
 speaking George c. Woodruff of Litch- field, chairman of the committee con1-
 posed of w J. Mills. Henry Atwaters
 w. Nj Sparks, General D. B. Bradley
 Ezekiel Stoddard, G. J. Kirkham, ap-
 pointed at the beginning Of the meet.
 ing to select a set of delegates to the l.. It, 2-I