Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-24
BRYAN IN NEW HAVEN.
The Dollar Dinner Was Held At the
 Elm City Last Night.

New Haven. Jan 24.--Democrats. re- pnblicans and socialists welcomed Will
 liam Jennings Bryant last night. at q
 banquet in Warner hall. There were
 about seventy-five present, including
 several women. The affair was il,
 charge of W. H. II. Hewitt. Owing to the short notice of Mir Bryan's coming to this city many of the leading poll. ticians of the state were not invited,
 as had been planned by Mir Hewitt. Shortly alter 6 o'clock the banquet l was served. Mir Hewitt presided and acted as toastmaster in an able and humorous manner. Among those pres
 cnt were Hon \. F. Tanner of New
 London. H. c. Dissell of East Hart. ford, Senator Kennedy of Naugatuck. John II. Barlow, Charles Spreyer. Fred
 Gay, Frank Gleason, Dr X. E. Fuller Henry Hewitt, Judge sheldon, Walter
 Leigh, E. Knight Sperry. Rev Alexan- der Irvine. henry q. Newton and
 George H. Hunter.
 On account of the editors banquet, Alexander Tr0up was unable to attend, but met Mr Bryan in the hall after the reception.
 Toastmaster Hewitt introduced as the first speaker of the evening Rev Alexander Irvine.
 Mir Bryan on being introduced said in part: "I feel as the very homely
 young lady did when her sweetheart said she was beautiful, she liked to
 have him think so but thanked Cod
 love was blind.
 ] ''I want to bring you message of good cheer. It is nothing unusual for | me to prophecy victory. do not fix the time. In 1S96 I was called the Moses. objected as Moses was allow
 cd to look in but never had a chance
 to enter the promised land. (Applausc. {,
 One pleasure got out of the cam paign, mot the result) was the chance
 had to be democrat under favorable 1 circumstances. I did not vote for NIT Cleveland in 1899. l was n candidate for congress n.lS.4. :, his year they
 wouldn't give me the nomination I : wanted and they gave me the candi-
 dacy did not want. We were defeat el. can admit that without any fear of contradiction. I never saw party 1 rally so quickly after defeat. The republican party did not gain as much as the democratic party lost. The les son taught was that the people are not satisfied with the hepuhlican party. The largest gain was with the most dadical parfy-ihc socialist party. l believe il was rebuke to the demo- cratic party.
 If you think it means the demo s,x .tss. G.,, lz. ine remind you of our earlier defeat when We won q great victory four years later. I believe VIC have q good ground for hope fnr q promising future For q quarter of q century the tid., has been away from the people. l ipeIicvc there is evidence to-day that the tide ha. changed
 The independent voter is the man to whom we must appeal The fact ! that so much Independence was shown ! by the democrats is good sign. It is a reflection cn any man to say h.. will { vote as some one tells him. l have many friends who won't vote the same as I. I admire an independent voter
 every time"
 In relation to independent voting Mr Bryan spoke of the election of Govern or Douglas of Massachusetts. He said: ] That shows people voted for tho man [ they ranfs1i-
 T have tsen sstnBisise-I st the signs Z have seen sins-- els--tisn- Wbaa i I went to the St Louis convention last year things came out to our advantsge without the least expectation It wiII be a long while before there will be another such convention in st Louis
 of any ether state.