The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1914-10-28
BRYAN'S CALL TO
KY. DEMOCRATS
ELOQUENT SPEECH DELIVERED
IN LOUISVILLE AFTER MAKING
ADDRESSES IN OTHER CITIES.
UPHOLD THE PRESIDENT
BY ELECTING BECKHAM
Bryan Advises To Sustain President
Wilson by Electing 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 fulhllment
of pledges made prior to 1912, were
described by William Jennings Bryan,
Secretary of State, following a one
day tour of the state, at a 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 l 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
would be powerless. 1 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
1 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 1 stood, gave me the
glory that belongs to all
Two years ago 1 visited South Amer
lea, and climbing up the Andes stopped
for 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
great telescope on a distant star, and
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
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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 I was especially responsible, but
was the sentiment, the heartfelt sen
ltiment of six and a half million of
democrats, of whom I was only one.
Kentucky's Stars.
And many of the stars that have
helped to make up the light have been
lKentucky stars. As look back to the
lconvention 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 I see my
self again standing before that mag
nifcent audience, I recall two faces
that I shall not forget, for they seem
to represent the enthusiasm of that
body.
They were the faces of two stalwart
men. One sat over here and one over
there in that convention, and when
that convention rose to applaud, these
faces seemed to stand out more
strongly than the rest. The man over
here was Gov. Hogg, of Texas, one Of
the greatest men that that state has
produced. And the man over here was
Ollie James, OF Kentucky. That was
his entrance into politics, and he has
remained, he has grown until he has
become one of the great figures in our
National Senate
never think of that audience that
1 addressed on that day without see
ing his face-his boyish face-again.
And as I have come into Kentucky,
have met your people from time to
time and learned to know them, and
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
to-day, not because I doubt the result
d lulS GleCNlOus Jul AOI the uOuD4e
purpose of increasing, if can, the
majority for your tive candidates for
the Senate, Mr.. Camden for the short
term and Mr.. Beckham for the long
term, and the return Of all the men,
bers OF Congress in whose districts
have appeared to speak.
have been in several districts to-
day, and I am glad that / close the
day in the district Of Mr.. Sherley. a
man who has gradually forged to the
front until he stands to-day as one OF
the leaders of the Democratic House
standing back of the President.
What a change has come since we
began this fight AS has been sug-
gested by Gov. Beckham, it has been
a long struggle, but it has been a de-
ilightful struggle. 1 know nothing that
gives a man more real satisfaction
than to feel that he stands for a cause
that can not die Yes, it has been
: long struggle, tiresome at times and
tedious, but a reward we have won.
I thought was happy two years ago.
did not think could be happier than
! was then Then I had a chance to
do something for Republicans that
had never been called upon to do be-
fore. I then Endorsed the veracity OF
two Republicans who told the truth
about each other, and thought was
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