Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-26
COPLETE TEXT OF SENAT TOR HARRLSONSKEY NOTE ADDRES

We will lay bare campaign bribery
and punish election frauds.
We will go to the relief of dis
tressed agriculture and adopt such
policies and pass such laws as will
restore permanently the purchasing
power Of the farmers dollar ara
again place it on a par with that Of
other industries.
We will remove from the admin
istration Of the civil service every
influence of fraud and inaugurats
efficiency in government.
We will put a stop to Republican
procrastination and adopt progress
siVe reclamation policy.
Recognizing our obligations as a
great humane power, we will assume
in manly fashion our responsibility
ties to the word.
We will pursue the same high
course that has ever inspired the
leaders Of Democracy, unterrified by
those, who threaten to destroy and
unmoved by those VINO seek selfish
ly to control.
Neither the cries Of radicalism or
the threats of conservatism will
swerve us from our fixed purpose.
Democracy is the right way. 1T is
the party that offers the safe middle
course, patronizing no isms and pay
ing tribute to no extremes.
1t is the party that never bartered
it's brithright to serve the hour nor
allowed eXpediency to dominate
where right was involved.
1t will wage war for the protec-
ton Of the rights Of property as zeal'
ously as it will battle against the
guarantees of special privilege. At
every cost it will defend the liber-
ties and the constitutional rights Of (
the citizen in the same sturdy way
as it will assail bureaucracy and
centralized government.
These principles are just as prec-
ious today as when they were pro-
! claimed at Runnymede, revivified by
| the immortal Jefferson in the inn
perishable parchment of our Declara.
ton Of independence, and indeHbly
written in everlasting terms into the
Constitution of the United States.
Victory Is Within Grasp
Ladies and gentlemen of the con-
vention, may l say in closing that
this is a Democratic year Victory
is within our grasp if we but reach
out for it. Let us remember that
too much is at stake for the hideous
form of friction to frown upon this
convention. Our guns and all our
guns against the common enemy.
Nothing must happen here to divide
our councils or dampen our ardor.
The fires of Democracy must not
flicker. The hope of the people lies
| in the action of this convention.
There must be no sllulking there can
be no mutiny. Winning is not wick
ed. Strategy is no sin. Far better
| is it for the American people and
the future of the Democratic party
that in this convention we deny to
ourselves some vaunted expression
or surrender some temporary advan-
tage that we may succeed in this
campaign than tenaciously to per-
sist and lose.
A great duty and "a high RESPONSE
bility rests upon us in this solemn
and critical hour of the nations life.
! Every impulse of decency, of human
| sympathy, of fair dealing, cries out
! and urges us on to action-militant,
| aggressive action. With struggling
millions of men and women through
out the country calling upon us and
humanity everywhere evorting US
onward, the great army Of Demo-
cratic men and women will not re-
| treat before the enemy upon the
great battlefield of this campaign.
| We shall not fail.
No matter who may be the choice
of this convention, we will rally
around our leader. clad in the arnior
OF righteous cause, attracting to
our standard all the forces of right
until the flag of Democracy waves
triumphantly from every rampant
fthe government. And as we fight
this great battle there will accom-
pany us the invisible presence of
| the fathers of Democracy. 1t would
seem now we can hear the soft voice t
of sweet reasonabeness coming to
us from Monticello, the voice OF
odd Hickory" coming across the
Blue Ridge from the Hermitage, and
from that historic crypt at st. Adams
we hear the mighty voice of Wood
row Wilson, wistfully calling to us:
To You, from failing hands. we
throw the torch Hold it high"
Hold it high Garry on. carry
on; keep the faith, keep the faith!"