New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-22
PEACEMAKER GRAVES.

The recent peace conference in this city
missed a great opportunity when 1t overlooked
Graves John Temple Graves, of Georgia. There
is a man who is working for peace overtime.
He enjoys all the blessings Of the peaCemaker.
The dove of peace sits calmly on his unrufiled
brow. His beloved Georgia "laniers" sing
songs which take all the terror out of the hor-
rid front Of war He is ever for political dis
armament. No mere arbitration for him, but
a burial of the political tOmahawk! He is
mandatory of civilization" to abolish party
lines and compose the whole people into one
great party No Democrats and no Republi-
cans nothing hut the Peepul, This irenic doc
trine, we submit, is a compelling reason why
he should receive consideration for the Nobel
peace prize What is the man who strives 10
stop the warfare between nations compared to
the man who works to end the useless horrors
of politics? His hand would still the strident
note OF Faction. His counsel would hush the
battecry of Party. Peace, like charity, should
begin mt home. Why 90 10 The Hague while
the rude barbarities of party warfare rend the
land and faction works its internecine havoc?
Graves stays at home on a peace pilgrimage
Among the many candidates for the Nobel prize
thrust this year upon the attention of the Nor
wegian commission not the least will be- John
Temple Graves
The Republican party and the Democratic
party are practically split to pieces by the
"antagonistic elements which compose them
both Roosevelt and Hartman among the Re
'publcans are not more widely antagOnStic
than Bryan and Belmont among the Demo
Gratis. And yet where is the peacemaker who
lis 10 pull them togetherf' where is the
peacenaker:' asks his Atlanta Georgian" and
every "lanier" in Georgia Tits. John Temple
Graves :"
This peace pilgrim from the South IS not 10
be lightly rebuffed. II Mr.. Bryan In Chat
tanOoga rejected his irenicon, like true peace
maker he was not discouraged. II Mr. Bryan
will not nominate Mr. Roosevelt. why should
not Mr.. Roosevelt nominate Mr.. Bryan? Either
consImmatiOn would be in accordance with the
gospel Of political peace. The obligation is
even upon each" he says on his peace pilgrim
age 10 Chicago viii either rise 10 the great
height destiny has builded them? | do not
know, nor do you We only know that the
vast occasion waits. 1 have pointed my own
hero his opportunity. II he will not grasp H.
"let us hope the other may
1T makes one deplOre," he cries the spirit
of party to see Bryan and Roosevelt and La
Toilette and Folk and Watson and Hughes all
fighting under separate banners and in sec
"tiOnal camps when they ought in mutual and
well beseeming ranks 10 march all one way"
What glorious party 1t would be with all
these men and Graves In it, for not the least Is
Graves. the peacemaker the usher of the mil
lennium Both Mr. Bryan and Mr.. Roosevelt
must be moved by this appeal but they must
both see how inadequate is the alternative solu-
ton offered. When all get together in one great
party the only conceivable leader will be John
Temple Graves, of Georgia. II Mr.. Bryan Is
thinking Of nominating Mr.. Roosevelt or Mr.
Roosevelt of nominating Mr.. Bryan, let either
pause. Let them both nominate Graves John
Temple Graves is The Hague in brooches Let
us name him in the interests Of frenzy! We
need the word