The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-04-08
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES DISCUSSES
ROOSEVELTS POSSIBLE REELECTION

next election. Il lies in the complete
separation OF itself from the Republi.
can party. with which IT has grown
too intimate. And we cannot separate
from the Republican party until we
separate from the Republican Demo
Gratis who have led us into bad com
pam.
Let the fellows who do not believe
in the things for which Democracy
stands go away to some other party
Don't be afraiI to let them go. For
every man whe deserts the party OF
the people because it stands for the
people there will be found hundred
TO come in.
We are now compelled to separate
the democratic Democracy from the
putocratic Democracy, Oil and water
win not mix. The Democratic party
cannot any longer survive half-pluto.
cratic and half-Demooradc.
Need Of Reorganization.
It is high time for a reorganization
of parties in the republic, anyhow.
There are Democrats who ought to be
Republicans, and Republicans who
ought to be Democrats. Let these men
lnd their political level Let them
seek the camps to which they belong.
Don't be afraid Go where your con
gictions lead You. If you are not a
Democrat, don't bo false TO your po-
itical conscience, but go right on to
be Republican camp. If you are not
? Republican, and your interests lie
With the Democratic party. come right
10 the fellowship of your real faith
md your evident welfare. The curse
ll al parties Is the compulsory loyal
" that comes from environment or
lereaity. The democracy and plu.
ooracy have a great battle which
lust be fought out Let us fight II
oncstly and let us have no halfhoarr.
Il or luke warm followers in either
amp
There is no use to gel mad about
B. There is no way to drive the Re.
ublican Democrats ont Of the party.
he only thing to do is to commit the
arty to principles and platforms SO
ssentially Democratic that their fel
ows viii hGvo neither motive. nor ex-
u@e for remaining
We win never have real Demo.
ratio party representing the majori-
y Of the American voters until these
elbows go.
Wo can never sail into port until
We unload this ballast
Democracy Cannot Die.
have sometimes asked myself
whether the Democratic party must
lie before IL can be born again
| might find 1t easy to quote his
Dry to prove that no party so radi
ally divided as ours ever come into
Effective harmony again without bu
'al or revolution. 1t was so with
he Free Soil party. 1t was so with
he Democratic party which split into
fragments at the Charleston conven.
ion of 1860 and never came together
ntil a civil revolution had washed
way its antagonisms in blood.
But we cannot afford to die now.
Fhe South is held intact by the shad-
Nv Of a negro balance Of power, real
IT imaginary. The party at large is
'eld together by the fact that the real
Democracy is essential to individual
nd popular liberty and because no
'ther party of possible relief looms
'pon the horizon except in creeds so
'adical that the thought and Judgment
# the people is not ready to receive
Must Fight For Principle.
And we must not die now. The
Democratic party is worth fighting for
nd worth living fer. It's principles
an never die, ami it's organization
long normal and traditional lines is
20 vital TO the people and their inter
sts
Least Of all can we who love the
rand old party stand by and see it go
own To even temporary disintegra-
on without a brave and honest ef- /
)rt TO reform its broken lines, to re-
eem It's drift from the faith of the !
lthers, TO bring it back to the old f.
reeds OF the people. to rebuke its en-
mics within its ranks. and at the cost
{ all the truth, and all the courage. /
nd all The criticism which its errors