Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-10-23
BRYAN'S CALL TO
KY. DEMOCRATS
ELOQUENT SPEECH DELIVERED
IN LOUISVILLE AFTER MAKING
ADDRESSES IN OTHER CITIES.
UPHOLD THE PRESIDENT
BY ELECTlNG BECkHAM
Bryan Advises To Sustain President
Wilson by Eiecting Democratic State
Ticket-President Must Have Sup.
port Of House and Senate in Great
Work He is Doing.

Louisville, Ky-(Special.)- Achieve.
ments of the Democratic party since
its succession in power in fulfllment
of pledges made prior to 1912, were
described by William Jennings Bryan
Secretary of State, following a one.
day tour of the state, at meeting held
here Thursday night. He reviewed
the work of President Wilson and
made an earnest plea for the election
in November of Mr. Beckham and Mr.
Camden and the Democratic nominees
for the House.
Mr.. Bryan said in part:
Ladies and Gentlemen-It is very
pleasant TO return to your great city
under circumstances so favorable. The
only embarrassment that find in com
ing is a natural embarrassment, be.
cause we are prone, in civil life as well
as in military life, to overestimate the
part of those who lead and under
estimate the work of the nameless
| multitude without whom a leader
would be powerless. | have been try
ing for eighteen years to unload a
large part of the credit that generous
friends have been willing to bestow
upon me. Because in three campaigns
l occupied a position Of leadership
and carried the standard of the party,
these friends, learning to know my
name and not knowing the names of
those for whom l stood. gave me the
glory that belongs to all.
Two years ago ! visited South Amer.
lea, and climbing up the Andes stopped
for a day at Iraquipa The rainfall is
so small there and the sky so clear
that Harvard University has estab.
lished an observatory from which to
photograph the stars. And they tell
me that one night they turned their
when they examined the plate they
found not one star, as they had
thought, but more than 1000 stars. and
when they examined the heavens the
stars appeared as one. And when hear
of that, l thought that 1t described just
what we are prone to do in politics,
and it fitted my case exactly, and /
have been glad to tell these enthu-
siastic friends that that, which for
many years they have been describing
as Organism, was not anything for
which l was especially responsible, but
was the sentiment, the heartfelt SEN
timent of six and a half million Of
Democrats, of whom was only one.
Kentucky's Stars.
And many of the stars that have
helped to make up the light have been
Kentucky stars. AS look back to the
convention of 1896, in which this great
reform began, or, rather, not in which
it began, for that convention itself was
the result of a struggle that lasted for
something like a year-but as l look
back to that convention, as l see my
self again standing before that mag
nificent audience, | recall two faces
that l shall not forget, for they seem
to represent the enthusiasm of that
body.
They were the faces of two stalwart
there in that convention, and when
that convention rose to applaud, thes,
faces seemed to stand out more
strongly than the rest. The man owe
here was Gov. Hogg, of Texas, one o.
the greatest men that that state ha
produced. And the man over here wa
Ollie James, of Kentucky. That wa
his entrance into politics, and he ha
remained, he has grown until he ha
become one of the great figures in ou
National Senate.
| never think of that audience tina
addressed on that day without see
ing his face-his boyish face-agaiL
And as | have come into Kentucky,
have met your people from time to
time and learned to know them, anC
one of those / have learned to know
well is one who, after the fourth OF
March, will stand by the side of Sen
ator James in the United States Sen
ate, and | am down here in this state