The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-25
THE PASSING OF MIR. BRYAN
CONCLUDES HIS TOUR OF C0NNECTI-
 cur AT THE STATE CAPITAL.


 Delivers Two Addresses-Many of His Auditors Express Their Disapprobation of His Utteranoes- Arguments Were of Defensive Character-Denies That He and His Followers Are the Foes of Order-Whnt He Advocates, He Says, Has Been Urged Many Times by Men Now High in the Councils of the Repub- lican Party.
 Hartford, Sept. 4.-Mr. Bryan ended his Connecticut tour tonight by mak- ing two speeches in Hartford 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 MT. Bryan reached Hartford from New Haven at 6:20 o'clock in com- pany with Colonel Graves, chairman of the Hartford committee, and Hon. Alexander Troup, chairman of the dem- ocratic state central committee, he found a great throng at the station and received many cheers. His carriage was followed to the Heublein hotel by crowd of men and boys, many of them bearing flaming candles of red Greek light. At o'clock he went to the Capitol park, being accompanied by another Greek fire escort and the members of the local reception commit tee in carriages.
 The gathering in the park was. ex- tremely large. Around the speaking stand, erected a hundred feet from the Capitol building, people were massed by the thousand. They formed a solid throng two hundred feet square, and numbered in the neighborhood of 12,O00, perhaps more. MT. Bryan stood upon a 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 the continu- ous glare of red fire, made his figure stand out in picturesque relief against the black human figures packed solidly 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, Mir. Bryan was taken to the City hotel, where he found another big assembly smaller, however, than the other. Main street is Hartford's broadest thorough fare It was thronged tonight from the buildings on one side to those oppo- site Just across from the City hotel is tie house of the Republican club and rfo ,ir1cr iy1 face during all the time he talked the names of Mckinley and Hobart dis played in great electric letters from the Republican clubs balcony. He spoke from the portico over the main entrance of the hotel.
 During his speech from the portico of the City hotel MT. Bryan was hissed by a segment of his audience. The misses came occasionally and seeming Iy from the same part of the crowd. To his audience at the Capitol MT. Bryan said:
 Ladies and gentlemen-I am glad to meet the people of this, the capital city of Connecticut. I know, when I come here, I come to meet many who not only are not in sympathy with the cause I represent, but that meet among you some who are too intoler- ant even to consider the merits Of the cause I represent. (Cheers) Error al- ways shuns the light of day, and those who are enjoying that wi 'ch is wrong are never willing the people should hear the right, lest they may be con- vinced by tine right. (Cheers) Your financiers sometimes assume that they understand a question like the money question. I want to read you what Senator Fessenden said about the knowledge of financiers on the money question. You will find it in a speech made at the time the legal tender laws were being discussed. He said
 Nobody knows much upon the question of finance, not even those who are most familiar with it; for, sir, I declare to-day that in the whole num- Der of learned financial men that I have consulted I never have found any two of them who agree, and therefore it is hardly worth while for us to plead any very remarkable degree of ignor- ance when nobody is competent to in- structs us; and yet, what is the fact? I can state to you, MT. President, that on one day I was advised very strong ly by a leading financial man at all events to oppose this legal tender clause; he exclaimed against it with all the bitterness in the world. On the very day I received a note from a friend of his telling me that we could not get along without it. I showed it to him, and he expressed his surprise. He went home and next day tele- graphed to me that he had changed his mind and now thought it was absolute ly necessary and his friends who wrote to me wrote again that he had charged his and they were two of the most emil nent financial men in the country
 There you find the testimony not of a western man, but an eastern senator, that even financiers did not seem to agree on the money question or on a financial question, and that two men advised him in different ways on the same day and on the next both changed their minds. I call your at tention to this because our f1nanciers speak with all the assurance of men who receive their knowledge direct from some higher source. The fact is the western farmer who has been pinched by the gold standard has a clearer conception of what the gold standard means than the man down here who has lived so as not to suffer