The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-21

John Temple Graves the PrinCi-
pal Speaker at Banquet of
IroquoiS Club in Chicago.
PARTY TIES SET LIGHTLY
PENDULUM COULD BE EASILY
SWUNG.

Chicago. April 2o.-John Temple
Graves of Atlanta, Ca, speaking to-
night at the annual banquet of the Iro-
quois club on THE Regeneration of
Parties" said:
Party ties in general have never
held so lightly as today. North and
south, in Republican and in Democrat
&c ranks. loyalty hangs by hair. The
Republican party, formed upon the
federalist idea and reborn and pros
pered upon the tides of abolition, has
progressed beyond the federalist theory
TO privilege, and beyond the anti-slav-
cry agitation to graft.
THE Democratic party has been re-
cruited so rapidly from the ranks of
the mighty in trade that it's platforms
have truckled, and in the last cam
paign it nominated a candidate whose
actual spoken commentator was based
upon the bald and infamous confession,
He was not offensive to the trusts
Times and Men Change.
But times have changed and men
have changed with them. The cheap
newspaper and the rural mail delivery
has builded the clearest and most prae-
teal democracy in the world.
The practical citiZen-and he Is
nine-tenths of the republic-wants good
government without regard to names.
What conservative Democrat save
Alton b. Parker with his confeFees has
been strong enough to put Bryan to in
dignity and Hearst TO shame2 What
Republican is strong enough to reduce
the irrepressible Roosevelt to the ranks
of the orthodox in privilege? And what
Republican save Roosevelt can cOerce
the thrOnged magnate of the trusts to
a proper humility?
From the stalwart ranks of either
party, from the opposite sides of the
republic, from the rich and finished east
and from the virile and militant west,
there have risen two great men who,
more than all others are prevailing here
TO dethrOne the partisan, and to split
the patriot
Bryan and Roosevelt.
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 interest.
He is the first Democrat of the world.
Mr.. Roosevelt has grown great be-
cuase he, too, has risen above the parti-
san Born and prospered in the camps
of privilege, he came with a brave
heart and an open mind to Washington.
He followed with the orthodox in the
wake of his party and in the path of
his predecessor. But one day William
r. Hearst flung at his feet an array of
unanswerable statistics to prove the
iniquity of the trusts. The challenge
rang against brave mans shield, and
Theodore Roosevelt was never the
same man again. He buckied on his
sword and went forth TO war with the
merger of those northern railroads I'M
der Hill and Hartman. He has never
sheathed since then the blade he barred
in cur Democratic battle against cor
pOTate greed and profit.
One Should Be President.
There they are-these two great men
the two greatest men in all the world.
They are American statesmen and
patriots in every pulse. One or the
other should be the president and pilot
of the people in these tremendous
times. If ii was ever true before in all
our history, i is true today that these
two men, leading opposite factions,
have on their lips the power to change
the face of parties and to regenerate
the republics life. One word from
Bryan would send Roosevelt omni-
potent to the White House. One word
from Roosevelt would just as surely
make Bryan president and clOthe him
with power for reform. Roosevelt
could elect Bryan almost as easily as
Bryan could re-elect the president.
Never was such poweT-never such op-
pOrtunities-an never such response
bility in four American hands before.
IF Bryan from defeat viii not re-
Irvine the laurel upon RoOsevelts con-
quering brow. then from the great
height Of victory let Roosevelt reach
down TO lift the patriotic Bryan up to
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