Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-04-25
GRAVES HAS PLAN
PAYS ELOQUENT TRIBUTE TO
ROOSEVELT AND BRYAN.
ARE TWO GREATEST MEN
Says a Word from Either Would
Make the Other Pres
ident.

Chicago, April 21-"Bryan ana
Roosevelt, the two greatest men In
all the world"
Ga, thus approached the conclusion
OF his speech here last night at the
twenty-seventh annual banquet of the
lroquois club, on 1.-THE Regeneration
of Parties"
1t was an address of which the
keynote was the speakers assertion
that party lines in general had never
held so lightly as today. Mr.. Graves
spoke from the standpoint Of demo-
crat ami delivered the following:
Il have never beea a better demo
crat than | am tonight AMI l have
never been more hopeful of the until
mate success of democracy"
Following the tribute paid to Mr.
Bryan and President Roosevelt, the
speaker said:
"One word from Bryan would send
Roosevelt to the White house. Ons
word from Roosevelt would just a.
surely make Bryan president and
clothe him with the power fer re-
FORM"
Mr.. Graves tribute to the two
great political leaders was received
by the banqueterS with loud and pro-
longed applause. He said in part:
From the stalwart rank Of either
party, from the opposite sides Of the
republic, from the rich and finished
east, and from the virtile and militant
west there have risen and grown and
icroadened two great men who, more
than all others, are prevailing now
to dethrone the partisan and to up
lift the patriot. They are great be-
cause they are 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
tie balance against his personal la
terest. He is the first democrat OF
the world today.
"Mr. Roosevelt has grown great be-
cause he. too, has risen above the
partisan. Born and prosrered in the
camps Of privilege, he came with
brave heart and an open mind to
Washington. He followed orthodox
In the wake Of his party and In the
path Of his predecessor. But one
William R. Hearst flung at his feet an
array of unanswerable statistics to
prove the itaneful existence and In.
iqudty of the trusts. The challenge
rang against brave mans shield
and Theodore Roosevelt was never
the same man again. He buchled on
his sword and went forth to war
with the merger of those northern
railroads under Hill and Hartman.
He has never sheathed since then the
blade he barred In our democratic
battle against corporate greed and
profit.
There they are, these two men,
the two greatest men in all the world.
BY the record they stand each for
righteousness and justice everywhere.
They are the unmatched champions
of the people In the supremest crisis
of the peoples need. Democrat re-
publican or republican democrat, Il
matters not. They are American
statesmen and ratriots in every pulse.
One or the other of these men should
establish order and justice In this
crisis Of our economic life. One or
the other should he the president and
pilot of the people in these tremen-
dous times. Either is worthy. IL IL
was never true before In all our his
tory it is true today that these two
men. leading opposite factions. have
on their lips the power to change the
face Of parties and to regenarate the
republics life. One word from BRYAN
would send Roosevelt omnipotent to
the White house. One word from
Roosevelt would just as surely make
Bryan president and clothe him with
the power for reform. Roosevelt
could elect Bryan almost as easily as
Bryan could elect the president.
Never was such power, never was
such opportunities and never such re-
sponsibility in four Americas hands
before.
"The obligation Is ever upon each.
will either rise to the great height
which destiny has builded them?
do not know, nor do you. We only
know that the vast occasion waits