Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-09-11
INDEPENDENTS
SEEK VOTES
IN SOUTH
HIS6EN AND GRAVES
INVADE VIRGINIA
Brilliant Georgian Advises the
SouthernerS to Quit Truck
ling to Conditions Long
Since Dead,

l lby Morning journal SpeclNi Ieased NifeI
Richmond. Va. Sept. 10.-Assailing
both of the great political parties, the
| republicans as the cloak of protection
and friends of the trusts, and the dem
ocrats as unfaithful successors to for
mer greatness shifting with every wind
! from radicalism to conservatism. three
orators for the independence party ad-
dressed a large Richmond audience
| tonight,
Perhaps the universal applause of
all classes met the statement made in
differing form by two speakers that
/ in following the dictates of democracy
| the people of the south were not vot-
ing their own convictions, but follow
ing the footsteps of unworthy leaders.
| The speakers were Thomas L. Hisgen.
of Massachusetts, candidate for presi-
dent; John Temple Graves, of Atlanta,
| Ga, candidate for vice president and
Clarence j. Shean, of New York. in
| troduced as the first attorney general
of the independence party
| 81 have hitherto voted the demo-
Ncratic ticket" said Mr. Hisgen II
voted for Bryan twice and I'm not GO
! ing to vote for him a third time. I'm
not going to bring up my children to
vote for him, as they may have an
opportunity to do They declare that
| this is not the same old Bryan. They
are right. He used to spurn such men
as Roger Sullivan and Tom Taggart
and Charlie Murphy and hold up to
scorn such money magnates as Ryan
and Belmont and Whitney, but he has
changed and instead of the men he
Pdenounced coming over to him. he has
gone over to them
John Temple Graves was introduced
as the first southerner to be named for
so high an office by any great party.
He said;
| II am southerner and don't need
here, or in the north, to speak for the
! loyalty to the south pledged on every
/ battlefield this country has seen. But
challenge the honesty Of the south
when for twelve years the people have
been rallying to leaders in whom they
/ did not believe and who were forced
upon you by conditions, long since
gone. 1t has been the expression Of a
policy not your own. The south
lshould have broader platform and
quit trucking to conditions that are
dead, For thirty years you have troop
ed to the polls and voted, not convic-
tions, but the dictates of leaders whc
have not thrown a abone, nay, not ever
the shadow of a bone has fallen to the
faithful legions of the solid south.
| Conditions have changed and en-
vironments have altered other sec
tions of the country have changed
with them, but we alone have troop
ed unlearned and unprOgressive, be-
hind leaders i'm whom we had no con
fidence. The south remains wrapped
i'm its traditions while the nation has
settled the tremendous problems of a
tremendous age.
"The independence party does not
Eevade the issues" said Mr. Graves.
1T goes straight and clear to the
heart of every question. 1t is loyal Ia
labor 1t protects the honest interests
Of capital and holds out a hand Of
help to the farmer. 1t holds up the
best and safest system Of finance with
out a wildcat scheme beneath II that
the country has ever seen. II calls for
a navy large enough to protect both
shores of the country. There is enough
OF honesty in the south to break down
our traditions. Let us be honest with
ourselves and not denounce privately
and vote publicly for the man whom
we have in our minds doomed to de-
/, struction."