Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-11-30
.HOPE FOR DEMOCRATS
William ]. Bryan Tells What the
 Next Platform Will Be.
Nebraskan Declares In New Haven That Old Party Principles Have Been
 vindieated and the Signs All Point
 to Great Support of Them.

vindieated and the Signs All Poin, to Great Support of Them.
 New Haven, Conn.,, Nov. 30. = VII liam Jennings Bryan received a warm welcome in many ways when be came here on a double mission of handing over to the city marble fountain erected through bequest in the will Of his friend, Philo $. Bennett, and of addressing the New England Progress i've Democratic league at its annual dinner. The welcome was not bit less hearty from the fact that he has many times spoken here, and each of his four addresses were we'll received by the audience, which in total num- bers went we'll into the thousands.
 In addressing the league at its busi- ness meeting Bryan expressed his great appreciation of the work of the league and said he believed that the time Is not far away when the mem- bers will meet to rejoice over victory won, and he hoped to be with them when they rejoiced.
 An Awakening of Conscience.
 Bryan said the leagues name was a good one, as it stood for action. In the Republican party there are the stand patters and the reformers. The former element is against progress The re. form element is the life of the organi- zation, and he had no doubt but that the reform element would win within the party just as it had won in the Democratie~purry. Of the reform in the Democratic party Bryan said that it was growing. He thought there was much hope for the Democrats in the future. Policies which heretofore had been called radical and dangerous were now indorsed by those who had opposed them. The president was in part responsible for this. He had re- vealed the great reform element in his own party.
 In the next campaign, he said, the Democratic platform would be pro- gressiye, definite, positive and one the people can read and understand. We have had in the past" he said, plat forms which read one way before cleo tion and another way after election. The people were betrayed. Now there is an awakening of conscience. We have not got to invent principles. Every situation can be met by the old principles. Everything the party stood for has been vindicated in q negative way at least by the party in power. The signs all point to a great support of these principles"
 Campaign Contributions.
 A resolution indorsing the movement for law compelling publicity of cam- paign contributions was passed after a suggestion by Mir Bryan that publicity shall be before election had been adopted. Mir. Garvin of Rhode Island offered resolution to the effect that members of the league in each state are requested to circulate petitions to their respective legislature for a con stitutional amendment which shall in effect provide that legal voters equal to 10 per cent of the total vote cast for governor may propose specific or par ticular amendments to state constitu- tions, filing the same before election, and if at a general election such shall be carried by the people the said amendment shall be- come part of the constitution of the state. The resolution was passed.
 The funds of the league, about 5000. by vote will be turned over to the par Y campaign fund at the proper time instead of being used to circulate liter iture of the league. This action was aken on motion of MT. Watson of Bos- on after Colonel Drinkwater had pro- posed spending the money for litera- ure.
 Bryan Presents Fountain. Officers were reelected as follows: President, Alexander Troup; secretary, 'ohn T. Cahill, Providence; treasurer, }. H. Quinn. Providence; vice presl- l Tents. Colonel A.C. Drinkwater. Mas | schusetts; A. E. Rich, Maine; ]. H. | Vermont; William Kennedy. l.. T. c. Garvin. Rhode | sland: executive committed, George | 'red Williams, Massachusetts, chair | nan: G. l.. Crockett. Maine: H. H. 'leason. Vermont; c. NJ. Wallace, few Haven: George w. Greene. woon- ocket. R. l.: \. ]. Dyer. Laconia, !. H.. and E. E. Reed. Manchester, [. H.
 The fountain. bearing the inscription Philo Sherman Bennett Gave This to be City and erected on the green lose by the old pump. q town land lark. was dedicated. The gift was ! rOyided for by the will of Mir. Ben cit, who was New York merchant nd the head of the firm of Bennett, loane & O.. but lifelong resident ere. His will was administered by Ir. Bryan. a close friend. who pre- ,nted the fountain to tlre city. Mayor ohn D. StudIey receiving the gift. Subsequently Mfr. Bryan spoke at IoOlsey hall to Yale students and at le dinner of the league. lt