The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-11
John Temple Graves De
livers Address in Face
of Protest
HE WAS AT FIRST
DENIED UTTERANCE
Editor Left Banquet Hall
But Was Later Induced
to Return.
PAYS HIGH TRIBUTE TO DEMO
CRATIC LEADER BUT VIGOROUS.
LY EXPRESSES OPINION THAT
DEMOCRATS SHOULD UNITE
WITH REPUBLICANS AND MAKE
NOMINATION OF ROOSEVELT
UNANIMOUS.
DIV Associated Press.

Chattanooga, Apr. I0.-Editor John
Temple Graves's suggestion that Will
liam j. Bryan nominate TheOdore
Roosevelt, which the Atlanta editor
elucidated in his speech at the Bryan
banquet tonight was at first denied
uterance. John Tomlinson, the toast
master, requested the omission on the
ground of improperly in view of Mr..
Bryan's presence. Mr.. Graves de
= clined to subject his speech to CEN
Ssofship and remaining at the banquet
but short whine, he left for Atlanta.
Before leaving Mr.. Graves addressed
letter to President Hood, of the
Chattanooga Bryan club, in which he
defended his position and said it ap-
peared to him as only fair and honest
TO speak his convictions in a full
democratic council. IN this belief
the speech had been sent in advance
to the newspapers or the country.
There seems nothing left to me
save 10 withhold my speech from the
Bryan banquet" he said although l
cannot consistently ask the news
papers, to which has already been
given, to refrain from such use as
they see fit 10 make of ii"
Mr.. Graves was later induced to
return to the banquet hall where he
delivered his address, which was as
follows:
MIR. GraVes's Address
A gathering of Democrats in this
strenuous era may be always feast
of fellowship, but it should be not
less an occasion for serious counsel
and fearless elaboration.
The festival occasions of our mod
ern Democracy have in the main
~ hut fhnU have
very rareIy been followed oy any de-
cisive flow of the ballots in succeeu-
ing national campai rs.
We have always been right, but we
have rarely been preSident-only once
in forty years. We bring out of the
turbulent years behind us record oil
high purposes, and hollow results, OF
heroic advocates and unavailing cam
paigns, of splendid enthusiaSms and
few victories, OF radiant reforms and
unrealiZed expectations, of unfailins
Royalties anu lamentable lack of the
number of ballots sufficient TO en-
trench us in the administration of the
government.
The Democratic organization is
still one of the two great parties oil
the republic. Its meaning was never
clearer, its mission never more bene
UCltul, DuL ats DiOSRCS(o hAV 90 uAA
certain as they have ever been since
Thomas jefferson brought home from
France the shibboleths of popular lib
erty on which il sprung To life
We have had no balance of thC
books and no roll-call of the faithful
since the last campaign left us IL
the lowlands of an unparalleled de
feat. 1t is difficult TO understand
even now how far our factions arr
divided and how fast and how firml!
IL may be possible to bring them int
harmony. Whether Bryan and Cleve
land may lie down in peace together
or whether Hearst and Belmont ma,
be brought to embrace each other ar
questions which no man has the te
merity 10 assume or the REASONABLE
right TO answer.
We only know that the Fundamental
principles upon which We rest ar
right. and that the heroic stock o
statesmanship from which we com
is by no means exhausted for tn
present or the future. We may as
sert. without fulsome eulogy an
without fiambOyant hope, that W
have within our ranks names tina
still stand stainless in the histoT
of the times and characters and abil
ties that are equally as At 10 rule
republic as TO grace a throne.
Eloquent Tribute to Bryan.
We stand here tonight with tina
great and stainless gentleman VIII
has carried the heart and hope
our Democracy for the decade i
which we live. We have yet thl
white plume of Navarro to rally GU
scattered legions and to lead ID
faithful followers of Democracy wit
equal temper in victory OF defea
Whatever else these years OF glool
have borne US, however successiv
the tides OF disaster, which have 70
lowed our campaigns, whatever II
fortunes of the legislative forum c
OF the four.year battles upon who
We have staked our hopes, 1t IS Vt
our glory that out OF our faith an
order has forged TO the fore OF histor
and 10 the front of international r