Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-08-25

speech-maker The popularity OF
Mr.. Hsgen throughout his own adopt
ed state coupled with his excellent
showing Of votes, placed him at once
in the running for the presidential
nomination Of the party that was tc
be.
Mr.. Hisgen is not quite fifty years
of age. He was born at Petersburg
Ind, received a common school edu.
cation, removed to Albany in hi
youth and clerked in a dry good.
store until, at the age Of thirty, hi.
ability to appreciate a good thing
when he saw it caused him to go into
the axle grease business. Mr.. His.
gen is married and has three children
What the independence Party Platform
Demands.
Direct nominations, initiative an6
referendum and right of recall.
Legislation against corrupt prac.
tices and use Of money at elections
Cessation of over capitalization
and other corporation frauds.
No injunctions in labor cases be.
fore trial and jury trial in contempt
cases.
Removal of organizations of farm.
ers and workers from operation OF
Sherman antitrust law.
Eight hour day for government EN-.
ployees.
Law to prevent blacklisting of EN-,
ployees.
Better protection for lives ant
health of workers.
State and federal inspection of rail
roads for safety.
Employers liability law.
Prohibition of child labor.
Prohibition of competition of con.
vict labor.
Creation of a department of labor
including mines and mining.
All money to be issued by govern
ment through central bank.
Tariff revision by friends of the
people.
Better supervision of railroads anC
physical valuation Of their property
An effective antitrust law carry
ing a prison penalty.
Government ownership of railroad:
as soon as practicable and immediate
government ownership of telegraphs
Parcels post and postal saving:
banks.
Good roads.
Statehood for Arizona and New
Mexico.
Court review of postal censorship
and rulings.
Prohibition of fictitious sales OF
farm products for future delivery
and suppression of bucket shops
A national health bureau.
Exclusion Of Asiatic cheap labor
A greater navy.
Extension of inland waterways and
conservation of natural resources.
Protection of American citizen:
abroad.
Popular election of United States
senator's and state and federal judges
A graduated income tax
WeI-Known Orator.
John Temple Graves is counted
upon to do the whirlwind campaign
ing for the Independence ticket. He
is an orator of national renown. Now
in his fifty-second year, for twenty
five years he has been a noted south
ern editor. His journalistic career
began on the Daily Union at Jack
sonville, Fla, in 1881. He founded
the Atlanta Journal in 1887 and fol
many years was editor in chief and
editorial writer. Mr.. Graves has
represented both Florida and Geor-
gia as a delegate to Democratic ma
tional conventions. He has been the
chief speaker at many important din
ners in New England, the east and
the south. The mantle Of the late
Henry w. Grady as editor, orator
and representative Of the new south
is popularity said to have fallen upon
the shoulders of Mr. Graves.
Mr. Graves is a southerner Of the
radical type. He believes thoroughly
its potentialities for future develop
ment, but there is none of the old
time sectionalism in his utterances
Some of his most eloquent addresses
have had to do with the heroism of
the old south and the hardihood of
the new. In his own state, in other
southern states, in Philadelphia and
New York and New England he has
preached the doctrine of reunited
Union moving ever forward to a
glorius destiny.
Believer In Change.
This vice presidential nominee has
striking personality. He has been
aggressive and radical always. He
believes in change. Conservatism has
no place in his category. But he is a
radical of a different sort from John
c. Calhoun, whose brother was the
grandfather of Mr.. Graves. Like Cal
houn, Graves was born in the Able
vile district of South Carolina. Will
lington Church, Abbeville county,
was the place of his birth. General
James Porterfield Graves was his
father. Katherine Calhoun, his moth
er, was a daughter of William CAL
houn, eldest brother of the famous
South Carolina statesman.
Mr.. Graves was graduated in 1875
from the university of Georgia. From
early youth he has been a student of
history, politics and literature He is
the author of a history of Florida, of
a volume of lectures and of many
magazine articles. One of his books
is on the subject of the negro. In
contributions to various periodicals
he has advocated the separation of
the white and the black races. In a
speech not long ago Mr.. Graves advo-
Gated lynching for certain heinous
crimes.
Student and Lecturer.
As a lecturer on the Chautauqua