The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-16
WILLIAM J. BRYAN'S VISIT
STORE ON BIMBTALLISM AT THE
 HYPERION YESTERDAY.

Opera House Was Filled With an Audience
 ofNearly 5000 PeopIe-Luncheon at the
 Tontine-short Speeches by Prominent
 Democrats.
 When William Jennings Bryan walk ed upon the stage at the Hyperion theater yesterday afternoon at o'clock preparatory to delivering his address on "Bimetallism'' he was greeted with enthusiastic and prolonged cheering from the nearly 5000 people who filled every available seat in the house and nearly all the standing room. MT. Bryan was accompanied by Alexander Troup, chairman of the state demo- cratic central committee, James B. town committee, ex-Judge Joseph Shel- don, Homer Cummings of Stamford and Judge Blydenburgh.
 Alexander Troup was introduced as chairman of the meeting by James B. Martin. In taking charge of the meet ing MT. Troup had the scenery shifted back and invited those of the audience who were standing up to come to the stage and occupy the chairs which were set there. The invitation was &C., cepted and nearly everyone present was thereby enabled to obtain a seat.
 When MT. Bryan closed his address shortly before o'clock, hundreds of people crowded up to the stage and for about fifteen minutes MT. Bryan held an impromptu reception, being kept busy during that time shaking hands with his admirers, some of the time using both hands at once for that pur- pose. Among those noticed in the audi ence during the address were Mayor Farnsworth, who occupied a prominent position in one of the boxes; Represen- tative Frederick l.. Averill, General E. E. Bradley, ex-Judge $. A. York and < ''sBob'' Cook, the Yale coach. Mayor Farnsworth disappeared from view when MT. Bryan was half through the speech. Included in the audience was large number of ladies, among them Mrs. Alexander Troup and daughter, and all were enthusiastic with their applause during the course of the speech.
 MT. Bryan was introduced by Alexan- der Troup in brief but appropriate re- marks. In presenting MT. Bryan, MT. Troup said: T present to you Hon. William Jennings Bryan of the United States, the chosen executive of six mill lion, five hundred thousand free men," MT. Bryan said, in substance: Ladies and gentlemen-I have visited New Haven so often that I really begin to feel quite at home in this famous Con- 9necticut city and I always come with pleasure, in fact I hasten to New Eng land as physician hastens to the bed- side of a friend, sticken by a terrible dis ease. know that any person who is afflicted with disease of body or a po- litical malady is glad to have the dis order removed. I take it for granted that every citizen who is willing to come out on an occasion of this kind, if wrong in his ideas, is willing to be cured of the wrong.
 When I come to talk with you, think that you arc afflicted with politi- cal disease because I remember how you voted and that you were welded to the gold platform and I am willing to show you your error. I have such 8 high opinion of you that think you are willing to have me show you your error and believe tha you will then at once bring forth works meet for re- pentance.
 You may feel that some of you are 1.at ok fo orivy foh+ to receive it, but let me tell you that per- sons of less intelligence may point out to you your error if you have not studied one subject so much as you ought to and when I point out on one subject, I do not mean that I know more about everything than you. There was a time about eight years ago when I felt as many of you doubtless do. remember we'll when I regarded men as cranks who talked about money, but studied it because to me a ques- ton higher, deeper and broader than all others and the deeper because of the principle was involved. When come to New Haven I feel an additional pleasure as I am to talk to students, with whom I find more pleasure in talk ing than to other people. The stu dents of Yale college can do nothing to shake my interest in them as men.
 Getting into the subject of his ad- dress MT. Bryan then said: .The re- publican party as now organized is not the republican party that Abe Lincoln represented. (Applause). I can look through history and see but one great CT trial than that which the silver re- publicans went through last campaign. We read of a people who are compelled to bow down to worship the golden calf and afterwards went through the fire unscathed. So the silver republicans are commanded by the republican party to bow down to the golden calf which the party set up, but they went through the fire and were not burned They are fighting to-day for the same thing for which they fought in 1S96 few days ago I read in the first plat form of the republican party where they wanted to carry the people back to the time of Washington and Jeffer- son. The republican, party to-day never mentions Thomas Jefferson. It's a different party from what it was when it was organized.
 q deny the right of gold democrats to call themselves Jacksonian demo- crats, because Jackson was one of the greatest fighters against the national