The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-12

Aoteu Aeu nete-shoFt speecN " A@- Bryan-Labor, Capital and Trusts-An Address by Governor Garvfn of Rhode IsIand-Other Speakers.
 Hon. William Jennings Bryan arrived | in this city at 10 o'clock yesterday
 morning as per schedule. He was es-
 corted to the New Haven house by a
 delegation from the Democratic club
 Mir. Bryan was accompanied by Charles
 D. Haines, member of congress from New York. After a short rest he went to the office os his attorneys, Newton
 Church & Hewitt. and remained with them most Of the time up to o'clock,
 He visited the probate court during that time and signed the recent inven-
 tory Of the Philo s. Bennett estate. At o'clock he held a reception in the spacious parlors of the New Haven house. Owing to the fact that a number
 of the guests were late in arriving the
 proposed conference of democrats was
 not held. and a general social time en-
 sued.
 4 large number O. people from vari-
 ous parts of the country visited the dis tinguished statesman during this time
 and paid their respects.
 Hon. Alexander Troup introduced
 those who were not acquainted with MT
 Bryan. Noticeable among those whc
 were present during the afternoon were
 Colonel Fred Plaisted, democratic na-
 tional committeeman from Maine; Con- | N T1AY 1f
 chairman of the Massachusetts state
 central cimmittee; ex-Mayor West of
 Meriden. Mayor Sullivan of Hartford
 Governor Garvin of Rhode Island. Colo nel A. c. Drinkwater of Braintree Mass; Congressman J. A. DeArmond oi
 Missouri, w. ]. Corcoran of Middletown
 ext Congressman Haines of New York
 ex-R Representative Edwin $. Thomas
 secretary Of the democratic state cen
 tral committee; Senator A. McNeil oi
 Bridgeport, Hon. Daniel N. Morgan oi ! Bridgeport, ex-United States treasurer;
 Sfata Senator John M. Ney of Hartford
 and ex-Sherfff Tcmlinson of Milford.
 Al 6:SO o'clock. headed by the Rosa ] Military band, the party proceeded tc Warner hall, where sunDtuous ban quet was served by Stewart.
 The invocation was pronounced by
 Rev. Frederick W. Persons of the Omit
 ed church.
 Seated at the head of the table with
 MT. Bryan were. J. J. Walsh, chairman
 of the democratic state committee;
 Governor Garvin. T, w. Plaisted. ex- Congressman Haines, E. s. Roberts oi | Canaan, Senator Kennedy of Nauga- tuck, Congressman DeArmond, Mayor 1 Sullivan, Senator McNeil, A. c. Drink water. Judge Sheldon Attorney Henry
 c. Newton, Hon. Alexander Troup, and
 W. H. H. Hewitt.
 At the conclusion of the banquet Mir
 Hewitt stated that owing to the illness ! of Dr. A. B. Fuller he himself had beer | deputed 10 act as toastmaster. i Mr. Hewitt then introduced the first I speaker as "A man who is known all
 over the world. William J. Bryan.'' I MT. Bryan said that he was very glad 1 to be back in time to take part in the
 Jackson celebration and do honor tc l the memory of so great a warrior and 1 statesman, Andrew Jackson.
 Continuing, he said that the weakest point in all governments was that part
 which gave capital power over human 1 rights.
 When we deal with the trust ques- tion, the labor problem, the money ques-
 ton or any other question, the only way I to fight them is not on a pecuniary, but on moral, basis.
 1T come back from the old world con- | fident that right will conquer and hon. esty prevail I believe tonight, my ] friends. that we can go forward with pie and in the end our earnestness will conquer.
 1 'The word campaign suggests war fare. We use terms with which we are familiar in physical struggles to de- scribe those political contests in which
 we appeal not to visible forces, but to i those invisible forces which are strong CT than the arm of man.
 Tt is good tactics to strike the enemy where it is weakest and to use the weapons which are most effective. The | weak point of every bad policy is that ii sacrifices human rights to selfish inter- ests, and to-day to prove system evil we only have to show that it violates that sense of justice that is satisfied with nothing less than equal rights to all and special privileges to none. The
 only appeal that is permanent in it's ef-
 fectiveness and enduring in its useful
 ness is the appeal to conscience, and while it may seem weakness to the brutal and folly to the sordid it arouses
 a response that 1t is at least irresist- ! able.
 "The conscience controls whenever il l is awakened, and it is only awakened 1 by voice from another conscience. "If we would touch the conscience oi others we must give evidence that oul consciences have been quickened. The great issue at this time is the issue be- 1 tween man and manlmon, between plu- tocracy and democracy. All surface questions of notion and policy, of taxa 1 ton and of regulation and of finance are l but phases of that century Hong. that worldwide struggle between the com
 mon people and organized wealth. Tc 1 say that it does not pay for a nation tc violate the rights of the people of anoth- CT nation involves so much of addition subtraction, multiplication and division that money got lost in a mass of math- 1 ematiCS but to say that tha wapaS of