The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-04-23
GRAVES SPEAKS IN CHICAGO.
The Atlanta Editor Lands Both Brs
an and Roosevelt-He Refers to
his Speech at the Chattanooga
Banquet.


and Roosevelt, the two greatest men
i'll all the world."
John Temple Graves, Of Atlanta,
Ga, thus approached the conclusion
rf his speech tonight at the 9th an
nnal banquet of the Iroquois Club OIL
"Thc Regeneration of Parties.''
The address Keynote was the speak
"r's assertion that party lines in gen
eral had never been so lightly con-
silcrcd as today. Mr.. Graves spoke
Gr"m the standpoint Of a Democrat,
and declared:
81 have never been better Demo-
crat than | am tonight, aNd I have
HHvcr been more hopeful Of the ulti-
mate success Of Democracy
Following The tribute paid to Mr..
Bryan and President Roosevelt the
speaker said:
Gone word from Bryan would send
Roosevelt omipotent to the White
House. One word from Roosevelt
would just as surely make Bryan
President and clothe him with the
power for rcform.'
Other speakers of the evening
were Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Of Oma-
ha; B. f .Snively, of South Bend,
Ind, and Edwin NJ. Grou:, of Brook
lyn.
Mr.. Graves spoke in part as fol-
lows:
eff | have spoken on another day
beyond the limit Of party orthodoxy
il is because NY eyes have been open
pl TO condition Of affairs which |
have not known before. | am look
in% now with opeA eyes. where | have
been accustomed to grope in herelity
and tradition. am seeing things,
not in the night time, Dut IN the open
day. and 7 should be less than loyal
and less than honest if failed to
express my convictions of my party's
future and of the peoples veal. Let
nc add just This. that if You do not
do what have counselled you to do,
| cannot do it by myself, and if yon
cannot go with me, [ shall doubtless
without dogmatic obstinacy go with
you. When the general council is
concluded and when the roll of the
rank is called / shall be found fight
ing, as have always fought, be-
hiad the organization to which my
fathers pledged their faith, and which
beyond my individual vision of any
present opportunity and duty, car
rics the permanent hope Of the peo-
pie and the best construction of the
Government. I have never been a
better Democrat than T am tonight. l
}lavc never bccH more hopeful OF
ultimate Democracy than am to-
night"
x * m *
"The practical citizen--and he is
ninc-tenths of the Republic-cares
less than he ever did before for
names and theries. He is less fright
ened and less inspired than he ever
was before by shibboleths and organ
izations. What he fears is not os-
tracism, but practical damage to
what he produces. What he wants is
good government without regard to
Names
y * \
"Party names arc nothing, thipr
policies arc everything. Party ira
ditions are interesting: their results
Grc all essential. Parties arc to be
measured, not by their fair leaves Of
"r"miSc, but by the fruit Of fine full
fillmpnt.
"From the stalwart ranks Of eth
CT party. from the opposite sides Of
the Republic, from the rich and fin
ishhd East, and from the militant
and virile West, there have risen and
grown and broadencd two great men
who. more than all others, are pre-
vailinG now to dethronc the partisan
and to uplift the patriot. They are
great because they )arc above the
partisan.
"Mr. Bryan is great because in all
his life he has never feared or hesi-
tated to champion his convictions
against his party, and to put them in
balance against his personal inter-
est.
"Hc is the first Democrat Of the