Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-30
POLITICAL POINTERS.
WATERBURY DEMOCRATS HAVE
 ABIG DEMONSTRATIONS.

Short Street Parade by Local Demo
 crats. John H. Dillon Escort of New
 Haven and Bands of Music-Stores
 and Offices uluminated-Red t1re
 Burned-Speeches By Candidates at
 City Hall. ...- .,.,.s .,,-e-,,.--...-.
 Last nights democratic rally, though somewhat disappointing in one respeIt t
 was success away ana peSoHu 'h expectations of the management anu conveyed a pretty good idea or lne feeling of the electors of Waterbury on the political situation. Judge broh- son of New Haven and friends were due here at s o'clock. but owing to the buncling work of the Consolidated read the party did not arrive here untH about 10 o'clock. At $ o'clock 1t was practicalIy impossible to move through the principal streets, every aVallaole space being occupied clear out to the trolley rails As the hour grew later and the visitors had not been heard from. many who brought children ta see the parade went home quite dlS- pleased at being fooled as they eA- pressed it. but the bulk of the crowd remained and joined in the shouts or cSrItation that re-echOed all over town when the train pulled into the station.
 The delay in reaching here as planned was occasiOned by the rush of people to board the special at New Haven. After considerable Wrangllng fourteen cars loaded where one could hang on pulled out for Waterbury, put when they reached West Haven the
 a1, tn grade and another stop was made The train finally got here any how. and as soon as it was heard rclling in, Bank street from Grand street to the station was immediately illuminated as it never had been before, the street be- tween these points being lighted so brilliantly that one could see the mass of humanity swaying to and fro for distance of several hundred fleet. Once here it did not take Marshal EitZpat- rick long to start the procession and the line of march was gone over in short order. red fire blazing from all most every doorway. sby-rocketS dart ing heavcnward. and the vast multi tude cheering lustily for the different candidates. It was the most maGnlh- cent demonstration of the kind ever witnessed in Waterbury, and must have astOniShed people who have been telling us that there is no enthusiasm in the democratic party in Waterbury. The Old Guard band of New Haveh accompanied Judge Bronson and party and the American band rendered sey- eral selections during the evening and was heard to good advantage in the parade.
 City hall was crowded at g o'clock by people who wanted to make sure of good seat and after a long and patient wait for Judge Bronson and friends to put in an appearance. Chair man Strobel called the meeting to order and introduced Dr Croffut. who spoke for over an hour and a half and held the undivided attention of the audi ence until 10:30 o'clock. when he gave way to make room for the other speak CTS.
 pr Croffut is an entertaining speak CT and instructed and entertained those who had the pleasure of listening to him in a manner which pleased all. his remarks at times bringing forth ap- plause that lasted for several minutes He said it was the duty of the people to settle for good at this election whether this country is going to re- main republic or become q monarchy. After we have disposed of this ques- tion, he said, then we can attend to other matters, the money question in c1uded.
 We deny" said Dr Croffut. with great emphasis. that free silver is more dangerous than free slaughter. We deny that brotherly love can be fired out of the mouth of cannon. We refuse to stand by a candidate for the presidency whose hands are red with the blood of our fellow men in the Philippines and who seeks to hide in his library documents which give us the right to demand of him the ques- tion that was asked of Cain"'
 -. Referring to the South African war. Dr Croffut said: eve desire to re pudiate the conduct of the administra- tion during the Transvaal war, when England, the robber nation, wiped two sister republics from the map of the world with a sponge of blood What was the conduct of our representative arSCape Town, when brave old Cronje, afteA, fighting the flower of the British army,xwenty to one, for three weeks, surrendts.sd? The stars and stripes were hofeed side by side with the Brit ish flag at our representatives head quarters, and by order of the president, to show how deeply the people of this country sympathized with England's efforts to crush out of existence those two struggling republics!'
 Although Dr Croffut had been speaking for over an hour and half. he appeared to be becoming more and more popular when he was interrupted by the presence of the visitors. When the out of town guests entered the audience almost went wild, and the excitement was kept up until as many as could crowd onto the platform had taken their seats, after which Chair man Strobel introduced Judge Bron- Son amid tremendous cheering.
 Judge Bronson said in part: "It is now more than fifty years ago since I left the town of Waterbury, but yet find that after my departure the town has grown steadily and it has waxed great. As I came up twon to- night and noticed the condition of the streets and the appearance of your magnificent buildings was very forci- bly reminded of the changes that have Vaken place in Waterbury since I lived Aere last. The green in my day and time was nothing more than an ordi- 3ary pasture, with q great deep hole of ;&