The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-29
ANOTHER VIEW
Of the Case as Presented by a Promi-
 nent New Haven Republican.

The prophet of free silver and de- spair' as Charles Emory Smith called MT. Bryan, has been among us and de- :, parted. To say that the meeting at the armory was an enthusiastic success would be spinning a fairy tale
 The armory galleries were we'll filed, but down stairs the audience would only about twothirds fill the room. It was, as far as half the company down stairs was concerned, a constantly changing audience, many coming and going,
 The people there seemed to be im- pelled to come by variety of motives. Upon the platform with MT. Bryan were the leaders of the present party, but we failed to see a very conspicuous position given to Judge Bronson. We suppose he was in retreat doing pen ance for his recreant acts of four years since. MT Troup was conspicuously there, and close behind MT. Bryan as they all sat down was the Hon. Frank W. Foley, general democratic registrar, occupying the seat that by right of both seniority and loyalty belongs, above all others, to the Hon. William Henry Harrison Hewitt.
 
 awaited the arrival of MT. Bryan The camera tiend was in evidence, and for that matter, for aught we know, the graphophone also, to take fresh from the lips of the great discoverer the words of wisdom CD which he might utter.
 Briefly introduced as William J. Bry- an, the free silver prophet came out and at once launched into his theme, which was an attack upon the republi- can party in general.
 The phantom which first disturbed him was the fact that the republicans had discarded every issue which they started in with at the commencement of the campaign.
 Next the full dinner pair received his commiserations. He declared there were many other things the laboring man needed more than a full dinner pail"
 The workingman wanted and should have enough so that child labor should not be obliged to be resorted to in fac tories when the children should be in school!
 Evidently MT. Bryan is not familiar with the Connecticut laws regarding child labor and compulsory school at | tendance)
 1 Failing to awaken any enthusiasm against the full dinner pail, he branch ed bravely off into monopolies and trusts, declaring that they had an ice trust in Omaha which had been brok en up, and that the attorney general of Nebraska had brought more antitrust suits than the whole seventy-six Unit ed States district attorneys had done.
 (Evidently he forgot that in a former speech he had said that only under a constitutional change could congress take hold of this matter.)
 He charged the republicans with not | having tried to do anything in congress, but forgot to say that an antitrust | constitutional amendment was defeated | last June by the democrats Gall except | five) voting against the amendment.
 He made the broad statement that at | the present time monopolies were crowdng out of their shops skilled la bor and replacing the same with un- skilled and poorly paid labor. Perhaps | the skilled mechanics of the north will believe this, but I sincerely doubt it.
 The next chapter of his nightmare was militarism and again his audience did not warm up" Evidently they had read the law by which the army was increased and knew that by it's own provisions the regular army would drop to its old standard when Aguinal- do should cease looking for Bryans success and so stop his rebellion.
 The applause was neither oft-repeat- ed nor was it general Some one in- quired about free silver" just as he was about to sit down. This seemed to have a similar effect on him that the proverbial red rag had on the mad bull, and MT. Bryan started in on still fur ther tirade against the republican party and administration, but utterly failed to answer the question. In fact, he did not answer a single question that was put to him.
 The Hartford and up-country contin- gent, headed by Colonel E. M Graves, evidently did not care to listen to the talk, and so came in just 8 bout 1 D. m., when he was closing his  Some of the leaders were very free in Chairman Thayer for bring ing MT. Bryan to New Haven at this time. Certain it is if you could not call it ia frost" you were bound to admit that it was a "severe chill' that would injure any tender twigs that might happen to be around.
 Musings on w. J. B. My talk, my talk, it shall not lag My tongue-I love to hear 1t wag About the facts I do not care; want the presidential chair.'' 'Monopoly" dinner pail; And if both these issues fail, Militarism, tariffs, trusts, Till decent people he disgusts. Prosperity wrong to come, You know, while Bryan stay'd at home; Surely, could it not have waited Fill he as president was slated? Free silver" some one shouts discord To rouse; they know l cant afford, Down here. this matter to discuss, And the diff 'rence-'twixt you and us.
 &**-I No Early ntages.-"Things night have been different with me-"