Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-09-11
graves uslEs INDEPENDENCE
Independence Party Candidates for
President and Vice President Asks
Southcrners to Abandon Worn Out
Traditions and Vote According to
Their Convictions.
lny Associated Pressl

| RiCHMONE, VA, Stpt. lV.--NS
sailing both of the great political par
| ties of the country. the Republicans
! as the cloak Of protection and the
! friend of the trust. aud the Democrats
as the unfaithful successors to for
mer greatness. shifting with every
wind from radicalism to 'conserva'
| tism. three orators for the 1ndepcn-
derce party addressed representa-
! tive Richmond audience at the Jeffer.
son auditorium tonight.
Perhaps the most universal APP
| plaus from all classes met the state
ment made in differing forms by two
sneakers that in following the die
tates of Democracy the people of the
South were not voting their own con-
, victions. but following the footsteps
of unworthy leaders.
The speakers were Honorable
| Thomas l.. Iiisgen. of Massachusetts.
candidate for President; Honorable
John Temple Graves. OF Atlanta, Ga,
! candidate for vice-president, and
, Clarence J. Shearn, of New York. In
troduced as the first Encouragement
! of the Independence party.
| Criticism Of Bryan's Associates.
While making no pretense to ora
tory. MIR. Hisgen struck square from
the shoulder. telling In his opening
remarks of his ten year fight with
the STANDARD Oil Company and lik-
/ ening himself 10 the mouse tnat
crawled mp tie, trunk OF the elephant
and drove the beast TO his death.
| Il have hitherto voted the Demo
| cratic ticket" said the nominee. -
voted for Bryan twice. but I'm not
| going TO vote for him a third time.
II am not bringing 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 he
held w to scorn such money mag
mates as Ryan and belmont and
Whitney. But he Is a changed Bryan
now, and instead of the men he de-
nounced coming over to him, he has
gone over to them
Honorable John Temple Graves was
introduced as the first Sou'herner TO
be named for so high an once by any
great patty. He said:
Il am a Sou,herner ard I do not
need here OF in the North to speak
for the loyalty of 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
LADDERS in whom they did not believe.
and who we're forced on you by con-
ditions long since gone. II has been
the expression of a policy not your
own. The South should have a broad
| cr platform and quit truckling TO con
dit ions that are dead. Prejudice and
passion should pass away. The time
has passed when We need the solid
| arity Of the South. For thirty years
YOU have troop d to the polls and
voted not convictions, hut the die
' ,a,cs Of leaders who have rot thrown
a !,one. nay not even the second bone
has fallen to the faithful icgions OF
The solid South. Appiausep.
| South Still Wrapped IN Traditions
Conditions have changed and en-
vironments have altered. Other sec
lions o; the country have changed
| with them. Tut We alone have troop,
: Cd unIcarncd and unpTocrcssivc be-
Find leaders in whom We had n"
/ confidence. OfRcr holding has held
back some under conditions that arc
gon" ard has deferred others. ana
tr~ Sngiih remains wrapped in iis
tradition. while tho nation l. settling
Tho TREMENDOUS problems Of a 'rt'-
mcndous age Washington AMI Cal
houn wore statesmen who followed
parties when they m-t with their
convictions kIc1and"r Stevens did
no. hesitate io dare public opinion.
Patrick Hrnry asked for lii.riy or
death. ard Thomas JcrcrSon. n he
lived today. would not recognize The