Atlanta Georgian and news. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1912, April 11, 1907, Image 5
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANL> NEWS.
Till ItSliAl, A l 'll I 1. 11. I 1 .*'
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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
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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
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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
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