The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-29
WALLER'S FEARLESS WORDS
ADDRESSES ROBBERS FROM 4 NEW
 LONDON DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS.


 Clash of the Gold and Silver Elements "I am Democrat and n Bolter, and am Bolter Because I am n Democrat,' Said the Ex-Governor-He Addresses u Crowd of 1000 People in the Open Air,
 and Holds Its Rapt Attention-Dramatic Scenes at the Caucusl-Abstract of MT. Walters Speech.
 New London, Aug. 2S.-Perhaps the most exciting and dramatic democratic | caucus ever held within Connecticut's limits was called to order tonight in the court house by the chairman of the democratic town committee. The off, cers of the caucus the purpose of which was to elect delegates to the state convention, were nearly all silver men. Two calls had been printed. The l first call was addressed to "All who in- | tend to vote for Bryan and Sewall at the coming election" As a protest | against this invitation, an interview | was published by ex-Governor Waller, and as result the call was changed so that the invitation included all demo- crats, regardless of faction. The latter call was published but one day, instead of three, as the law requires, in ad- vance of the caucus.
 l Ex-Governor Waller went to the cau- GUS tonight and advocated that the committee be ordered to issue a new call and give proper notification to all | factions to take part in the doings of the caucus. Postmaster Mahan was one of the leaders in the opposition to the gold faction.
 l MT. Waller tried to make a speech, but the chair refused to recognize him. An attempt was made to appoint dele gates to the state convention, and a motion was made by Governor Waller against the further proceeding of the meeting. A vote was taken and the chair declared the motion lost. The yells on both sides seemed equally loud and long. A count of the vote was de- manded, but this was refused. The caucus then became riotous.
 | Speaking of the incident afterwards, | MT Waller said T became riotous l also, and asked all that agreed with me to leave the hall and I would make a speech to them in the open air. Most of them followed me, and I made a speech in Court House Square, near where the meeting was held, to one | thousand people during half an hour or more."
 | l The following Is an abstract from the argument which MT. Waller advanced: T am a democrat and a bolter. And I am a bolter because am a democrat l rejoice as much In the one designation 1 as I do In the other. For they are at this time both titles of devotion to the principles of Jefferson, of Jackson, of Seymour and of Tilden, the patron saints of the democracy of the past and of the democracy of the future.
 T was as you know, delegate to the late but not lamented Chicago con- vention. and I went as a democrat and I returned as went. In the state con- vention, in which my associates and myself were unanimously appointed, I pledged myself in public to oppose at Chicago repudiation for the sake of | lily pal " dlll lily COuHlTy--ISpuuld in whatever disguise 1t might appear and whatever form 1t might assume; and the misses and yells of infurated populists with which I was honored, and which, hope, I deserved, is the proof that I offer that I kept my pledge.
 "The representatives of the democra- cy of every town and city in Connecti- cut before they elected the delegation that did me the honor to make me its chairman, adopted, as instructions to that delegation, a series of resolutions in favor of gold as a standard and against repudiation: and these orders were implicitly obeyed by every mem- Der of the delegation. No Connecticut | delegate voted in favor of the Chicago platform or the Chicago candidate.
 But it is said that it was our duty to abide by the majority action of the convention of which we were members, whatever it might be- In support of this sort of doctrine they cannot call Bryan into court to testify. In Febru- ary, 1896, he said, in substance, that he would not remain with the democratic party if it adopted the gold standard,
 
 would bind him to do it.
 "I have as much respect for the rule of the majority as any man ought to have; but 1t is a rule having no appli- cation to matters of conscience or prin- ciple. To illustrate: Ecclesiastical so- cieties have frequently met in conven- ton to discuss matters of interest and to promote the faith. Now, if you were a lay delegate to a Presbyterian con- | vention you would of course abide by the action of the majority, if the ac. tion was consistent with the articles of the faith But suppose, if you can, that the convention should, by a storm of oratory, be swept away from it's moor ings and should substitute Ingersollism for Presbyterianism, atheism for relig- ion, would you not be a bolter, and if you were not a bolter could you be call ed a Presbyterian?
 "The comparison may be drastic, but it is not odious. The Chicago platform is as unlike democracy as Ingersollism is unlike Presbyterianism; as atheism is unlike the true faith.'
 After the gold men had bolted the caucus those remaining went on with the work for which the gathering had | been called.
 Two Republican Meetings.
 The Ninth Ward Mckinley club con- mittee on entertainment met last even- l !.