Daily camera., 1900-02-07
Superior Coal 4, voolls.. 1 Browns.
BRyAN's CAMPAIGN.
Tho silver Loader Captures tho Affections
of New England.

The Silver Loader Captures tho Affections
of New England.
Bridgeport, Conn, Feb. 6-Colonel
Bryan ends his New England tour in a
blaze Of glory. The greatest crowd the
Park City theatre ever held sat for al
most three hours spellbound by the in
comparable eloquence of the Demo
cratic leader. Fully 5000 people throng
ed the theatre while almost as many
more besieged the doors vainly striving
to force an entrance. Prominent among
those who occupied seats upon the plat
form we're many Democrats. who boiled
Bryan's nomination four years ago.
Seemingly in response to the hearty
greetings of the crowd, he delivered ons
Of the longest addresses of his caleer.
He spoke for two hours and fifty minutes
and throughout his remarks were pune.
tuated with vociferous applause.
Many and telling we're his quotations
from Jefferson and Lincoln applied to
the phases of the questions touched up
on. When h. spoke of the Boer war
and expressed the wish that England
would never reach Ladysmith, the vast
throng arose to a man and cheered again
and again. The tendency OF the Re
publican party was toward a monarchial
form of government. There are more
people who believe in monarchlal gov
ernment in the Republican party today,
than there ever was before" said the
speaker.
Colonel Bryan told how Senator Hanna
after his return from abroad told the
papers that the British government was
as good a system Of government as our:
and perhaps better. He could not be-
lieve Mark Hanna had uttered such
words until he saw the interview IN a
Republican newspaper. Addressing
himself and especially to the Repuoll
cans present, Colonel Bryan said
Republicans. there was time wher
the chairman Of your national committee
would not dare to say the English gov
ernment was as good as ours"
Colonel Bryan dwelt at some length
upon the income tax proposition. which
be declared was a most Just and righteous
tax. England. he said. drew upon he
wealthy classes to maintain her policy o
Imperialism. The proposition of the Re
publican party was to establish imperial
ism and to draw not upon the wealthy
bu. upon the poor. not only for tn
sinews OF the army but for the funds t
maintain it. when dealing with mel
we have an Unlimited government, bu
one ,ha, is limited when we are dealin,
with wealth.
ain time of war 'he government Cal
draft the man but not the pocketbool
Why is this1 Because the Republican
party has made money more preciou
than blood"
Colonel Bryan stirred his hearers tim
and again. and when he had finished h
was forced to hold levee when hun
dreds paid homage to the great leader
The tide is turning in Bryan's favor il
the east and it was freely predicted to
night that he would carry Connccticu
by 10000 next fall
Mr. Bryan will leave tomorrow 70
New York. where he will speak in Carne
gle hall tomorrow night for the benef
of the relief fund of a Grand Army pos
an admission fee being charged
AS the train was about to pull out o
Hartford, gray-haired man nervousl
pushed his way through the train. vainl
searching for Mr. Bryan. Some one suR
geste1 tina, be might have entered tn
smoker, whereueon the patriarch clie'
out Indignantly: "Never. William Jen
nings Bryan Goes not smoke; he does NO
drink. and he INDUCES in no o,he
abomination. Thank God for that"
| A few moments later the old man ha,
reached his goal and fervently wrun
Mr. Bryan's hand.