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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANL> NEWS. Till ItSliAl, A l 'll I 1. 11. I 1 .*' I FULL TEXT OF SPEECH OF JOHN TEMPLE GRA VES AT THE BRYAN DINNER GATHERING of Democrats In (his strenuous era may be al ways a feast of fellowship, but L should be not less an occasion for serious counsel and fearless delibera tion. 1 , ' The lestlval occasions of our modern Democracy have In the main been feasts of reason, but they have very rarely been followed by any decisive flow of the ballots In succeeding na tional campaigns. We have always been right, but we have rarely been president—only once In forty years. tVe bring out of the turbulent years behind us a record of high purposes, and hollow results, of heroic advocacies and unavailing cam- irilgns. <>f splendid enthusiasms and . ' n -.1 -L.aisa od vmllanl rafnema firtrl A GATHERING or Democrats In us In the future, there deserves to live this strenuous era may be al- and there will be lef, to live no name ways a feast of fellowship, but more honored, no charadter more re vered, no leadership more trusted, and no personality more beloved, than Wil liam j. Bryan, of Nebraska. Tivfee he has fought his good fight, always he has kept the faith, but that he has finished his .course no man who reads history or trusts the people can for a moment think. If the Democracy had in Its power to choose, the vast and swelling majority of Its ranks would bear William J. Bryan upon its shoulders to the presidency of the United States. For my own part. I believe, and I am sure you too believe, that we shall yet see his Illustrious and useful years crown ed with the Illustrious station whose duties he will adorn, and whose powers and responsibilities he will nobly meet. The question to us in these serious and honest hours la whether this Is the time to commit once more to the fortunes of the battle the platform of our principles, and to force once more to the front the man whom our Demo cratic mass dellghteth to honor. The Democratic party In Its history and In Its traditions Is a pdrty of the people. It was set for the welfare and the safety of the plain people of Amer. lea. It was established for the aboli tion of privilege, the dethronement if aristocracy, the rebuke of corruption, the destruction of concentrated power. It was formed for the enthronement of liberty and the economic and personal prosperity of the people. The Demo cratic party Is not held now and never must be held for the exploitation of Individual ambitions and for the rap ture of ofllces to be distributed among Its followers at the polls. Men who believe In certain princi ples and in certain great theories of government, band themselves together in an organized movement to secure which mm rest ars the triumph of these theories at the right,"and “that Ute^hero'Ic Sk"? ^ ri f from which we come Is government. When parties el- vlctorles, of radiant reforms and unrealized expectations, of unfailing loyalties and a lamentable lack of the number of ballots sufficient to entrench us In the administration of the gov ernment, . 'cl The Democratic organization is still „ne of the two great parties of the re public. Its meaning was never clear er its mission never more beneficent, hut Its prospects are as uncertain as they have ever been since Thomas Jef ferson brought home from France the shibboleths of popular liberty on which It sprung to-life. We have had no balance of the books nml no roll-call of the faithful since the last campaign left us in the lowlands of an unparalclled defeat. It Is difficult tn understand even'now how far our factions arc divided and how fast and how firmly It may be possible to bring them Into harmony. Whether Bryan and Cleveland may lie down In peace to gether, or whether Hearst and Belmont may lie brought to embrace each other are questions which no man has the temerity to assume or the reasonable right to answer. ■ We only know that the fundamental SALE OF FRAMED PICTURES 48c statesmanship from which we come Is by no means exhausted for tlio present or the future. We may assert, with out fulsome eulogy and without flam boyant hope, that we have within our ranks names that still stand stainless In the history of tho times and charac ters and abilities that are equally as fit to rule a republic as to grace a throne. We stand here tonight with that greet and stainless gentleman who has carried the heart end hope of our De mocracy for the decade in which we live. We have yet this white plume of Navarre to rally our scattered legions end to lead the faithful followers of Democracy with equal temper In victo ry nr defeat. Whatever else these years of gloom have borne us, however sue- irsslvc the tides of disaster, which have followed our campaigns, whatever the fortunes of the legislative forum or of the four-year battles upon which we have staked our hopes, it Is yet our glory that out of our faith and order has forged to the fore of history and to the front of International repute the one great commoner of our later times.. Wo are yet rich In the beautiful history, In the consistent Democracy ond In the unstained Integrity of the eloquent and well beloved chief of all our clan. The heart of Democracy will he his until the end of the chapter. Amongethose who have led us In the past, and among those who are to lead parties __ ther forget their principles or project the ambitions of their leaders or the selfish aspirations of their office-hold ers to the subordination of the great principles which drew them together, then parties have prostituted their faith, failed In their mission and for felted the' bbllgatlon to Individual loy alty among their followers. Whenever Democracy reaches the time wfien it Is not willing to sacrifice men, however dear and honored, or power, however great and desirable. In order to accom plish those great and splendid ends for which the fathers consecrated It, then Democracy Is no longer a party of the people, but has become a conspiracy of spoilsmen, or a mob of selfish grafters In the republic's Ufe. Mr. Chairman, we have fought for forty years for that triumph at the polls which would give our theories their due course to be glorified In tho administration of the government. We have failed for forty years, with one exception. We found once a strong man from New York who was willing to go down with the principle of tariff reform In the.full brave faith of Its ulti mate triumph. The absence of a legis lative majority to reinforce executive patriotism tied the hands of our only Democratic president and crippled his grand capacity for the vindication »f Democratic Ideals, But we have left us Heads by Harrison Fisher, little Japs by Esther Hunt, Gainsbor ough heads, and many other reproductions of artistic water color and crayon sketches. All oval frames, 10 by 12 inches and 8 by 10 inches. Frames in gilt, black and mahogany. The frames alone would cost you double the money if you took a picture to be framed. If these subjects do not appeal to you, the frames can be used for photographs, magazine pictures, or any other pictures you may wish to frame yourself. The oval frames are well made and extremely attractive. 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This is your “surety against shoddy.” 01)AY is opportune to take a tour through the "Rig Store” and acquaint yourself with the thorough de- pcndableness of their various stocks. You will see cor rect style—modish fashioning—superb finishing. OTT w ill see the greatest range of fashionable fabrics and exclusive color effects, and the best tailored garments made taxing the cleverest skill of the custom tailor to duplicate. Your Spring Suit bought at Eiseman Bros, will Bupplv that little “spice” to life that always re flects in the appearance of the well dressed man. EISEMAN BROS., 11-13-15-17 Whitehall St. ATLANTA. Washington, D. C. E I the record of n great name and an hon cat. administration under Grover Cleye land, of New York. We are fronted now with conditions In thlz republic which .few men could have foreseen and which no man ten yearn ago would have .had the temerity to itredlct. Out of the camps of the enemy, out of the seat* of the acornful, out of the Fretorlan Guard of privilege and monopoly, there has come an un expected and potential convert to the creed* and theorie* of Democracy. And whether we find the school master who haz taught him In the eloquent and Irrealztlble evangel* of Bryan, In the thunder which ha* boomed perslatently from the eight great gun* of the In' domltable Hearst, or whether that Providence which shape* the destinies of nations and of men has dropped the scale* from hi* partisan eyes, the tact remain* that Theodore Roosevelt ha* learned hi* Democratic lesson well. We may a* well acknowledge fairly wha: hlatory will fearlessly affirm, that ho has become the foremost and most ef fective executor of Democratic policies and the most practical champion of popular rights which these two genera, tlpna of the republic have produced. The things for which we have fougnt for forty years he has been putting In’.o fearless and effective execution. Since William Jl. Hearst Hung at his feet the i c I tllenge to reform In that Incompar- ' - l . a array of statistics which proved the existence and the Iniquity of the trusts, the strenuous president of the United States has not failed or faltered in his discreet and fenrleas way to find a remedy. Since William J. Bryan fashioned the eloquent evangels which went forth from the garden meeting in Madison Square, the president at Washington tins not hesitated to .to forward with redoubled zeal and ener gy In the prosecution of Ills work. Avoiding the extremes which might have halted and destroyed his mission, with a conservatism ns firm as the times required, and with a radicalism Sts fearless as the people’* rights de manded. he has gone slowly, steadily, discreetly and yet definitely toward the dethronement of the privileged Iniqui ties that were robbing the government. He Is putting Into execution the things which Democratic platforms have thundered for twenty years. What our propaganda have preached and what our platitudes of popular liberty hare plead he has framed In part in stat utes, until today as an honest party, representative of on honest people \ve can do no less than recognize his pa triotism and applaud his transcendent service. He has grappled the Iniquities of the meat trust which was spreading virus through the physical veins of the republic. He has put hi* probe Into the putrid politics of the insurance com panies and purged them of the pus that was poison to politics and trade. He has gripped by the throat the almost omnipotent power Of the transporta tion magnates, and he has today at his feet and asking clemency at his hands the tallest anti most tremendous figures of the tyrant railway systems of the land. And In doing this he hss vindicated every principle for which Bryan hss plead and Hearst has thundered and has proven himself a publicist who 1* a patriot, a president who Is a populist and a Democratic Republican, who de serves to rank In achievement with the best and bravest In the annals of our immortal party? We ask ourselves the question here, whether any man born of our Demo cratic women could have done more than this Republican president at Washington has done. We ask ourselves here face to face with each other and the facts If with the historic distrust of capital, with the prestige of sustains 1 defeat, with only the commission of the plain people behind us. If there Is any one among us set In power who could have so gripped and grasped the ma chinery of reform, could have so com- lielled the respect of politicians and the surrender of , syndicates as this Republican Democrat, who fresh from the ranks of the privileged and with tho prestige of dauntless courage and achievement, has coerced by the sheer power of his personality those whom the weight of his reason had failed to convince? We ask ourselves further, standing face to face In this fine high counsel of Democracy, whether any man whom we could place In power now would be able under necessarily Inferior equip ment, to carry to the lofty chair of execution that pfestlgq. that experience, that grasp of present affairs, that personality of achievement which would hold In continuous check these predatory hordes of privilege and prosecute to their great and Indispens able conclusion the reforms which The odore Roosevelt ha* set on foot? Let us ask and answer In out own hearts tonight whether any man, com ing new and fresh from the ranks with out u Senate and House of his own faith behind him, untrained yin executive paths, unglorlfled by executive achieve ments. could muster within his equip ment the force and the fallowing to car ry to their conclusion In government the things which the president has pressed to their present promising and satisfactory state? If Theodore Roosevelt should lay down tomorrow the rein of government which he has demonstrated beyond all cavil or question his mighty power to hold. I* there uny man at the head of a new party, unless every branch of the government was solid anti united be hind him. Who could give lo the re public the (veil founded hope of a tri umphant conclusion of the reforms umplmnt conclusion of the essential reforms which are now progressing to nn Inevitable victory In Theodore Roosevelt's strenuous and undaunted hands? Mr. Chairman, and my fellow Demo- oral*. It seems to me the lime Is ripe for an expression of the reality of Dem ocratic principle, anti of the real majesty of Democratic leadership which will startle hlslory and Inspire the re- public to a better life. There are op- portunltle* which the Almighty aends at rare Intervals to parties and to In dividuals. And It seems to me In hon est and fearless frankness that such a time ha* come to u*. We stand for the people here. What the people want Is principles, not men. What the people need Is results, not shibboleths. What the people clamor for I* not party name*, but equal pop- ular rights and established liberty. i If the Democratic party lias been sincere through all these year* In .the splendid platforms and In the splendid platitudes which have consecrated Its faith and fortunes to the cause of the people—tf wo have fought In faith and not. In selfish expectation for the grent things which We wish to see embod ied In the government—If we have been consecrated to the righting of popular wrongs, to the relaxing of the grip of graft and privilege from the throat of the people—If we have been really hon est In our professions of supreme con cern for the whole people rather than for party profit and for personal glory —wc seem to have an Immortal opportunity lo prove It now. There has come lo us a time when the Democratic parly can Illustrate nn unselfish partrlotlsm and a surpassing principle that will glorify every profession of Its prntlous history and plant It upon a foundation of en during honor in the republic's future life. There seennt to huv* come to us In the providence of God and In the rapid trend of events one great and splendid chance to prove that, In a rep resentative government even In this age reputed selfish, patriotism can rise VISIT HAVANA NOW on tho “BEE LINE’S” S. S. 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