The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-21
WORD FROM ONE
ELECT THE OTHER. R,
Southern Orator Delivers Another
Remarkable and Thrilling Adj
dress, This Time Guest Of ssi
] Iroquois Club, in Chi
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John Temple Graves. of Atlanta Ga,
thus approached the conclusion ofhIs
speech tonight at tho s27th annual
banquet Of the 1roquois Club, on "The
Regeneration OF Parties" The address
keynote was the speakers assertion
that party lines in general had never,
held so lightly as to-day Mr.. Graves
spoke from the standpoint OF Demo-
crat. and declared: Il have never
been better Democrat than am to-
night. and l have never been more
hopeful of the ultimate success OF De-
mocracy." Following the tribute paid
to Mr.. Bryan and President Roosevelt.
the speaker said: "One word from Bry-i
an would send Roosevelt omnipotcnt
to the White House. One word from
Roosevelt would just as surely make
Bryan President and clothe him with
the power for reform
Colonel Graves's Address. IS
Mr.. Graves said In part:
If have spoken on another day be.
yond the limit of party orthodoxy 1t
Is because my eyes have been opened
to condition of affairs which 1 have
not known before. am looking now
with open eyes where have been ac-
customed to sropc in heredity and
tradition. i am seeing things, not In
the night time, but III the open day.
and should be less than
loyal and less than honest II
failed to express my convictions OF
my party's future and Of the peoples
veal. Let me add just this, that II you
do not do what l have counseled you
to do. cannot do 1t by myself. and II
you cannot go with me. 1 shall doubt
less without dogmatic obstinacy go
with you When the genera! council
IS concluded and when the roll OF the
rank is called shall be found fighting
as L have aways fought behind the
organization to which my fathers
pledged their faith and which, beyond
my Individual visionIof any present
opportunity and duty, carries the per.:
manent hope of the people and the best
construction OF the government. have
never been better Democrat than! ]. am
tonight. l have never been more hope
ful OF ultimate Democracy than l am
Tonight.
believe. however. In the ancient
essence rather than In the individual
construction OF the creed.
The Two Parties.
The rank and file OF the Republican
party, long since befuddled by Its
creeds, are In protest against Its ten
dencies and are only held in leash by
the heroic memories of the Civil War
and the prejudices which set them
against the section which formed the
opposite party's base.
The Democratic party, many times
misled and sometimes betrayed by Its
leaders. are barred as we'll by preju-
dice of section and held aloof from the
free expression of their civic con-
sciences by the shadowy memory 0f
the bloody shirt.
WI, a In both ranks the aSOirantS
for office, the candidates for station In
the higher lines and met and reinforc-
ed in selfish and unthinklng loyalty by
the Tom Smiths and Bill Johnsons,
who. with their eyes fixed on small
Jobs In the Federal stations or. IN tho
county offices OF the several States,
are filled with fear lest they shall dis
turb the pure party record that IDakea
them tlt for partisan selection and res
ward. ;ss4 SEtsst SsEts;
Beyond these Stands the great Har
selfish and unaspiring rank OF ptktzSH,
ship, anxious only for good gqySfn,i 4
ment and for prosperous laws. who kfn A
growing restless under the playttltuk3 4
which politicians are making ntSsthS
Dental year, ~
Times Have Changed.
Times have changed, and men have
changed with them.
The cheap newspapers and the rural
mail delivery have builded the clearest
and the most practical democracy In
the world. The people know more
than they have ever known before
They see clearer and they think more
individually than they ever thought
before.
In the shadow Of the past stands
the theoretical statesman. In the sun
light of the present lives and labors
the practical citizen.
The man who gets his mail from the
little box. placed by tho government in
front Of his gate, may read with In
terest the long -windad theories and
the passionate sprotestH. of men on
either side upon the perlls Of q. high
tariff and upon the necessity OF the
Federal iden, But when he has read
his paper he tlings it tgRHide and falls
10 thinking what are the best policies
10 bring better prices for his crops
and cheaper transportation for his
products to and from the farm? Tho
practical citizen in a practical age has
passed the possibility OF being put in
panic over the possible triumph OF
State ( rights or q central government,
He Is only vaguely conscious OF tho
pros and cons Of a protective tariff.
but what he does know or what he
does believe is that the trusts and the
corporations are robhing his pocket
book and corrupting his political cam
paigns, and that he Is for the man
and the policies that will halt ths
robber and re-establish equality in
trade and honesty among men,
The practical citizen-.and he is nina.
tsnths OF the republic--cares less than
he ever did before for names and theo.
rIes. He tsgless frightened and less
,tnspired than he ever was before ~
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