Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-10-27
ELOQUENT SPEECH DELIVERED
AIN LOUISVILLE AFTER MAKING
- ADDRESSES IN OTHER CITIES.
UPHOLD THE PRESIDENT
BY ELECTING BECkHAM
Bryan Advises To Sustain President
Wilson by EleetIng Democratic State
:. Ticket--President Must Have Sup
port Of. House and Senate In Great
Work He Is Doing.

its succession in power, in fulfillment
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 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
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
I 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 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
of that, / thought that it 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 was especially responsible, but
was the sentiment, the heartfelt SEN
timent of six and a half million of
Democrats, of whom | was only one.
kentuekys 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
1t began, for that convention itself was
the result of a struggle that lasted for
something like year-but as | look
back to that convention, as | see my
self again standing before that mag
nifcent audience, / recall two faces
that 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
addressed on that day without see.
ing his face-his boyish face-again.
And as / 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
we'll 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 doubt the result
OF this election. but for the double
purpose of increasing. II can. the
majority for your two candidates for
the Senate, Mr.. Camden for the short
term and Mr.. Beckham for the long
term, and the return OF all the mem
bers of Congress In whose districts
have appeared TO speak.
have been In several districts to-
day. and l am glad that l close the
day In the district Of Mr.. Sherley. a
man who has gradually forged to the
front until he stands today as one OF
the leaders OF the Democratic House
sta,dino hack of the President.