The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25
THOUSANDS HEARD BRYAN

MUSIC HALL PICKED WITH AN EN.
 THUsIASTxC AUDIENCE. 4
 The Silver Leader Said That Ho Noticed Change in New Haven-He Discussed | the Money Question, Trusts and Im- | perfnlism Before an Interested Audi- ] cncc-His Belief in Latter Day Proph. ecy Shaken.
 The largest crowd that has ever as-
 sembled in Music hall crowded the
 place to the doors yesterday afternoon | to hear William Jennings Bryan, who
 spoke there at the request of some of
 his New Haven acquaintanoes. AL though MT. Bryan's visit was not mada
 under the auspices of the local demo- cratic organization, but simply at the request of few individuals, fully 25oo
 persons, actuated in great part un-
 doubtedly by motives of curiosity, oc-
 cupied every seat and every available
 inch of standing room in the hall, while
 hundreds of persons were unable to
 gain admission to the hall owing to the
 vast crowd. The place was devoid of
 decoration, save for a few potted palms
 set along the front of the stage. Not
 single American flag was displayed
 and when once in the course of his talk
 Mr. Bryan referred to the Stars and
 Stripes he raised his hand as though
 to point and looked up and around, as
 though to find flag, but was unable
 to do so.
 The leader of the silver democracy
 arrived in New Haven at 2.15 on an accommodation train from Stamford, He was accompanied by Philo s. Ben-
 nett of this city, Homer s. Cummings of Stamford and Messrs. Leech and McLane of the New York state demo- cratic committee. The party was met at the depot by ex-Judge Joseph Shell don and Alexander Troup, and went at once to the city hall, where MT. Bryan was introduced to the mayor and other city officials. After remaining in the mayors office about ten minutes he was conducted to Music hall, and when he appeared upon the platform there mighty storm of applause burst forth. On the platform were the vice presidents to the number of 15O. It is understood that after these vice presi- dents were selected by the gentleman or gentlemen who invited MT. Bryan to speak here, each one was requested to contribute $1 towards paying the expenses of the meeting, the regular democratic organization having nothing to do with the affair and furnishing no funds.
 Mayor Driscoll accompanied Mr. Bry- an to Music hall and occupied front seat on the platform there. Alexander Troup introduced MT. Bryan to the atl- dfence. In the course of his introduce tory remarks he said that the demo- crats in Connecticut were in 1900 as they were in 1896, they wefe for the Chicago platform and had no other choice than William Jennings Bryan. He said: The democratic party is again to-day in position to say that those not with us are against us, and we propose to meet them in the coming as in 1896, and we expect to place in the white house our distin- guished friend, Mr. Bryan" He then iAtlo loouCCu LlLc SPcdhST d6 Iue k10ll. William Jennings Bryan of the United States"
 As MT. Bryan stepped to the front of the platform long-continued applause greeted him and was only stopped when he raised his hand for silence. He spoke in part as follows:
 l am glad to come to you. I have been here before, and the oftener I come the better satisfied I am with the ap- pearance of things. If any one tells me that the world doesn't move tell them to come to New Haven and they will lind that there has been great change.
 It doesn't matter much to me or to you who occupies the presidential chair. Men don't count for much in this world, except as they help on something better han themselves. The republican party las no claims on the young man who is going to cast his vote for the first time It the coming election, and want to ake as my motto, 'Give the young man ! chance" He is not having the.chanoe lnder a republican policy. All the oung man needs Is a fair field, chance o work and no favor to any one against lim That is all he asks Jefferson rave us motto, Equal rights to all md special privileges to no one" Let he young man use his brain and his muscle, and guarantee to him & fair hare of the results of his toll.
 I have only time to apply this princi- lie of monopoly to three questions now efore the country. Sometimes men ask le which consider to be the prominent ssue, and I reply that men differ, but hat the republican party is all wrong n all three. Those three questions are he money question, the trust question nd the question of imperialism, with 1ilitarism as part of it.
 Some people say that the money ques- ion is dead. It is not dead, and if peo- le don't talk about 1t so much now 1t is ecause when mems minds are fixed on
 thing they don't talk 50 much about 1t s they do when they are fixing their linds. The people of this country have not dopted the gold standard. In 1896 six nd one-half millions voted for the dou- le standard against the single stand I'd, and yet the republican party is wing to force its gold standard on the 1untry. You were told it was great ictory for the gold standard in '96, and et the party couldn't get congress to