The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-12
HEARST AND HISGEN ALSb
 ADDRESS THE GATHERING
Graves and Hearst Both Make Bitter Attacks Upon Bryan and Strike Some Hard Blows at Plat
 forms of Old Parties.


 sand persons listened to the formal notification of John Temple Graves as nominee of the independence party for Vice President of the United States at the Casino theatre tonight. Presiden- tial Nominee Hisgen, w. R. Hearst and | a score of others prominent in the party were on the platform while MT. Graves was given an ovation. Cheer after cheer and hand -cla pping gave MT. Hearst, MT. Hisgen and MT. Graves welcome.
 The party's candidate for governor, W. Yancey Carter, was unable to at tend the opening of the campaign in 1 Georgia through illness. Edward E. | Clapp opened the meeting, introducing
 Clarence J. Shearn of New York.
 Shearn's Speech. MT Shearn spoke as follows: Tt has seemed to me ever since ths l birth of the independence movement ] that of all parts of our country the
 south would give the warmest welcome | to the independence party when it's
 leaders became better known and its aims and principles understood. The l iSdSOuS WHy the QemOcratiC party
 should no longer command the allegi-
 ance of the south are both economic and political.
 The four great subjects constructing
 what may properly be called national
 policies have been for many years past
 the tariff and banking, national ex- pansion and our naval policy. It :s l well known that during the building up of the new south during this period | of marvellous financial and industrial | development the southern states have
 never really wanted the democratic
 policy of purely revenue tariff The | south may hurrah loudly for demo- | cratic tickets and for revenue tariff
 platforms, but nevertheless Louisiana
 demands a tariff on sugar. Tennessee
 on steel and iron, South Carolina on | cotton, Virginia and North Carolina ofi 1 tobacco"
 | National Issues. | Mir Shearn then took up each of the
 national issues In turn in an endeavor
 to show why the south should not vote for the democratic ticket and could l not support the republican policies
 and concluded as follows: | Tt was in recognition of these con | ditions, as protest against their con | tinuance and an invitation to the south | to resume its old time potency in the | nations councils that led the independ-
 ence party to select as one of it's stan | dard bearers in its first national cam
 paign man of the south, one who un- 1 derstands her needs, reveres her tradi- | tions and glories In her achievements,
 John Temple Graves of Georgia"
 MT. Shearn, In the course of his | speech, took occasion to criticize Joseph l M Brown, nominee for governor Of Georgia. with a resulting 50 seconds ! oh eering.
 | The mention of Hearst's name in all
 the speeches caused repeated cheering. l The mention of Hisgen's name was
 given similar reception. When the
 name of Yancey Carter, independence
 league candidate for governor, came | into the speech, there was more cheer | ing, the climax coming with the men
 tion of Col. Graves. While the band l played Dixie" the 200O persons in and | about the hall cheered until Graves
 stopped them by raising his hand for l quiet.
 Address of Graves. MT. Graves said:
 | MT. Shearn and Gentlemen of the Com- | mittee:
 | Tt is a pleasing personal coincidence l eiA"N 'iAc oeiiAc ciOQutnt NOlce Wnlcn pldce0 me in nomination at Chicago should con- Vey to me here the official notice that
 nave been named by the national inde- pendence party as its candidate for vice president of the United States. May I add that the voice so potent to persuade the convention brings to this 1 dear Atlanta an even greater capacity 1 to delight the individual addressed. "The time Is surely and swiftly coming | when it will be reckoned an honor suf- l ficient unto the largest ambition to have l been the first choice of the national in dependence party for the second office in | the republic
 ! For the present the responsibility shall l evoke my serious and devoted toi Beyond all personal considerations I | rejoice in the courage and catholic pa- | triotism which sends the independence | party for candidate to the central south. | Platitudes have been sprinkled thick upon | the conventions and protestatons of fra | ternity have plastered the platforms of | the older parties, but the independence | party, with the sincerity which is it's rec l ord and with the directness which is it's 1 policy, cuts through the wind of words 1 and the mockery of profession and comes | for its second candidate straight to the
 heart and capital of Dixie. Tribute to Hiseen. | Let me here commend to the people l of the south that noble gentleman of Maj | sachusetts who Is the chosen leader of | the independence cause. High I hold l the civil courage and character of my fel- | low citizens, I am free to say that we l have nothing braver or better in the cit l izenshp of Georgia than this rugged and l dauntless man who has lived life of | unblernished honor among his own people, | and Is hailed now everywhere as the only | merchant in America who has fought to | standstill the Standard Oil-behemoth of monopolies. The section-joining ticket of the independence party placed upon the soundest and most American platform | that the half century has produced, con- stitutes an urgent call to the independent thought and action of the solid south. Tt is time for the breaking up of