The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-12
HEARST MEN
 IN ATLANTA Colonel Graves Gets
 Notification. LETS LOOSE ELOQUENT PLEA Candidate Hisgen and New Yorker
 Talk. Editor Hearst Scores Two old Parties and Says Bryan solicited His
 Support Four Months

Atlanta. Ga. Sept. 1.-Two thous- and persons listened to the formal mo- tification of John Temple Graves as nominee of the Independence Party for Vice-President of the United States at the Casino Theatre tonight.
 Presidential Nominee Hisgen. Will liam Randolph Hearst, and score of other political leaders of the party were on the platform while MT Graves was given an ovation.
 Cheer after cheer and hand-clapping gave MT. Hearst. Mir Hisgen and MT Graves a welcome.
 The party's candidate for Governor. W. Yancey Carter, was unable to speak at the opening of the campaign in Georgia, through illness.
 Edward E. Clapp opened the meet ing. introducing Clarence J. Shearn of New York, who formally notified Colonel Graves of his nomination.
 Mir. Shearn, in the course of his speech. took occasion to criticize Joseph M Brown, nominee for Gov ernor of Georgia. with resulting nifty seconds cheering.
 The mention of Hearst's name in all the speeches caused repeated cheer ing. The mention of Hisgen's name was given similar reception. When the name of Yancey Carter, lndepend- ence League candidate for Governor, came into the speech, there was more cheering, the climax coming with the mention of Colonel Graves. While the band played Dixie" the 2,O00 per. sons in and about the hall cheered until Colonel Graves stopped them by raising his hand for quiet.
 Colonel Graves Speaks.
 Colonel Graves said in part:
 "Mr, Shearn and Gentlemen of the Committee:
 dence that the same eloquent voice which placed me in nomination at Chi go should convey to me the official notice that 1 have been named py the National Independence Party as It's candidate for Vice-President of the United States. .f,t @ g-=--t '-
 May add that the voice so po- tent to persuade the convention brings to this dear Atlanta an even greater capacity to delight the individual ad- dressed?
 The time is surely and swiftly coming when It will be reckoned an honor sufficient unto the largest am bition to have been the first choice of the National Independence Party for the second office in the republic.
 For the present, the responsibility
  toll.
 Beyond all personal considerations. I rejoice In the courage and catholic patriotism which sends the Independ- ence Party for candidate to the Central South. Platitudes have been sprinkled thick upon the conventions and protestations of fraternity have plastered the platform of the older parties, but the Independence party. with the sincerity which Is it's record and with the directness which Is its policy, through the winds of words and the mockery of profession, comes for its second candidate straight to the heart and capital of Dixie. COmmends Hisgen.
 Let me here commend to the people of the South that noble gentleman of Massachusetts, who Is the chosen lead CT of the Independence cause. High as I hold the civil courage and char acter of my fellow citizens, l am free to say that we have nothing braver or better in the citizenship of Georgia than this rugged and dauntless man. who has lived a life of unblemished d honor among his own people. and is hailed now everywhere as the only | merchant in America who has fou gh t to d standstill the Standard oil Behe- | moth of monopolies.
 Tho section joining ticket of the l Independence Party placed upon the soundest and most American platform that the half-century has produced. constitutes an urgent call to the inde- pendent thought and action of the Solid South.
 "It Is time for the breaking up of prejudice and tradition and for re- alignment around conviction and | reality.
 "I challenge the honest conscience of the South with the assertion that for twelve years past thousands of it's gallant people have been voting for | platforms and leaders in whose sin cerity they did not believe.
 If the South of reconstruction owes any debt to the Democratic party, God knows we have paid fully. For thirty years its solid legions have marched to the polls, bearing two thirds of the ballots which have borne its spoils- men across the line to ofice And never yet in a national convention has a bone-even the second bone been flung to the faithful and unex- l pecting of the Solid South. "Conditions have changed. economic surroundings have altered other sec. tions have followed their convictions to new political expressions, but the l patient South has followed docile and | obedient in the wake of the leaders | has voted more than once for the vel. low dog that wore the party label
 The democracy has failed. It has failed because it has been unfaithful It has failed because 1t has trimmed and hesitated and struggled. It has gone after the fullness of syndica te' 1 and the fat of corporations. It is a party of pure opportunism. famishde fol success and hungry for the spells ot office, It's motto Is anything to win It nominates first conservative, then a radical, then again a radical and il can never escape the ignomity of the last election in which 1t sacrificed every principle of its party and shame lessly nominated a candidate upon the monstrous plea that He was not ob- tectionable to the trusts
 Spawn of Federalism.
 But the Republican party Is tho spawn of federalism, born of an idea more arristocratic than democratic more monarchical than Republican The party of spoils and privilege. tho party of sectionalism and the parent of the robber tariff which is the moth CT of the trust. It has held the re public asunder for a quarter of q century and with dissension in it'