Connecticut western news., 1907-03-21
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In an address delivered In Boston, William ]. Bryan declared: "I am not afraid of the people The mistakes of government are not so much in the people us in those who from time to time speak for the people. I am in favor of making those changes that will bring the government back to the people" He declared that the ten dency today Is toward Il more strict control of corporations. "This means" declared Mir. Bryan, "that the natural man whom God made shall not al. ways be -frampled upon by the man made giant that the legislature has created" Mir. Bryan asserted that the trouble in 1896 was that the Demo crats stated truths before all the peo- pie comprehtndcd them. 'I think that if we had a'vote unpurchased and un- intimldated in 1896 would have been he said.
 The New York Press published an in- terestlng explanation of the recent pan ic in the New York stock market. It was to the effect that Edward II. liar riman has lost or will lose control of the Union Pacific. the Central Pacific, the Southern Pacific-the whole Union Pacific system. the greatest in the world-together with Reading and all his other seizures of high finance; that J. F. Morgan was the instrument of the Hartman overthrow, thus becom- ing the railroad Napoleon; that the whole result was due to President Roosevelt's hostility to Hartman.
 Four rifles belonging to Company B, Twenty-ffth infantry, were used in the Brownsville affray, if the ordnance de- partment of the army can substantiate reports seut to the senate committee on military affairs concerning the mi croscopic combinations of the thirty three shells picked up in the streets of the town on the morning following the shooting. The alleged confession of ID. w. Gray of Company B." which was printed In Galveston, duplicating the negro soldiers was denied in a tele- gram from Major Blockson at San An tonic.
 a.u,o.oe It was announced at
 the New York office of
 NND President Newman of GOVERNMENT the New York Central that the proposed conference between President Roosevelt and the heads of four great railroads would not take place. and that as n result of the meet ing of Messrs. McCrca. Hughltt, Mel. len and Newman an invitation would IaJ f. al Hu of tsaf1 Ha to meet and discuss the situation. At this meeting the subject of confer ence with President Roosevelt will. be taken m
 The retail prices of carriages and wagons are to be advanced nearly % per cent this spring unless conditions regarding raw material and transpor. tation change. This decis>pn was reached by the National Wagon Max. ers' association in session in Chicago.
 The federal court jury in New York in the case against the Lackawanna road, indicted on the charge of grant ing rebates to the sugar trust in vio lation of the Elkins law, reported that 1t could not agree and was discharged.
 There is said to be n possibility of a general legislative inquiry into the conduct of Connecticut insurance com panies with the end in view of n gen. eral insurance law.
 An Illinois boom for the presidential candidacy of Vice President Fairbanks was started at banquet rendered to MT. Fairbanks by the Irish Fellowship club of Chicago.
 Almost without moving rom an easy chair in his suit at Lakewood (N. J) hotel, J. Brandt Walker, a young Chi. cago broker, closed up a masterly raid on Wall street during the slump in stocks and dragged a $2,o00,000 for tune from the Stock Exchange. He conducted his operations by telephone and telegraph.
 Orders have been Issued by the Laclxawanna to its engineers between Binghamton and Hoboken that in or der to prevent accidents they must not under any circumstances endeavor to Ynol.a nm lost tima