The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-30
BRYAN DINED
 BY DEMOCRATS
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 ------------------- the present price, sl.5O, coming from such a large number was to relieve the financial stringency Two years ago, when MT. Bryan was here he had told Colonel Osborn that the $1 luncheon served was the best he had ever eaten and that he did not believe in paying more than dollar. Thereupon Colonel Osborn immediately invited the Ne-. braslkan to luncheon the next day. MT. Bryan brought along two friends for protection and Colonel Osborn took the same number the party paying fifty cents a head A week ago in Wash ington MT. Bryan was dined at s3. This too, might have been to relieve the money market, but at any rate' MT. Bryan had to pay for neither the s15o nor the $S dinner
 Going on Colonel osborn said that the best way out of present difficulties rather than to reform them from what they are, is to hark back to the con stitution, which has been neglected rather than lived up to. He spoke of stite strange Fascination of Theodore Roosevelt's character. But he said, the, mental operation through which he goes in straining the constitution would put even Hamilton to the blush
 Colonel Osborn expressed his confi- dence that Mayor Elect Martin would give the city a good administration, even under the present methods of running the city, methods which he called the marvellous product of fud- dled minds.
 Closing, Colonel Osborn said that the thing he had always admired about Mfr. Bryan-whether he ever holds of < fee or not-is his sincerity, his devo> !, tion to purpose, his integrity which qualities are now admitted by all and which were never more marked than when he swung around the interna- tional cycle
 It was in the middle of the next ad- dress that MT. Bryan entered for the second time during the evening. The dinner had commenced about [ and just before MT. Bryan had to go to Woolsey hall to address the students, ! When he entered the banquet hall, Homer s. Cummings of Stamford was in the midst of an address on Con necticut Democracy"
 MT. Cummings said that, while he was glad that President Roosevelt was rutting into practice the Democratic theories, f1e would rather see them ap- piled by some real Dernocrat,some one who was more consistent and less spasmodic who went about with less ] beating of drums, changing of cymbals to terrify the enemy and drive him tt l defeat. MT. Roosevelt, said M. Cum \ rnings, had shed more ink and les! blood than any warrior in recent years
 Tn the Democratic party, said MT Cummings we have leader worthy of service who asks nothing but th' opportunity to serve We followed hin in 1sSs when we were cheated out O the election and again in 1900. Tn 190 we will follow him wherever the roa( 1eads-in fight conducted along Amer scan ideals of justice between men.
 ''The Progressive Democracy" wa the subject of former Governor L. F C. Garvan of Rhole Island. MT Gar van spoke of the greater part money is playing each year in elections, & that now, by corrupt practices, it i possible to even change the result 0 an election. But in the past few years he said, there has been gradual ris ing of sentiment against this, partl. because of the insurance and othe investigations. Mir Garvan said tha he did not think the method adoptet by the president against the trust would be ultimately successful
 Alexander Troup, editor of the Nev Haven Union, was the next speaker taking as his subject 1908" MT. Trou said:
 ''The opposition press have said tha there was nothing Bryan in Connecti cut except Troup, but, though ther may not have been in the past, thi gathering here tonight shows tha there is plenty now. I am not goini to anticipate a great victory in 1s0 before the campaign has hardly com menced4 There is ro pie yet to be di yided. If this were u Republican meet ing you would see the Republicans u and yelling What belongs to me?' an &.When am I going to get it?' There a different feeling now in Connection