Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1907 — Temple Graves Wants Roosevelt Again. [ARTICLE]

Temple Graves Wants Roosevelt Again.

John Temple Graves, of Atlanta, Ga., the celebrated southern lecturer, editor and orator and al ways a Democrat, advocated the nomination of Roosevelt by the Democrats next year, in a speech Tuesday night, at a banquet given to W. J Bryan, at Chattanooga, Tenu. In remark after the banquet he thus explained his reasons;

“i came to Chattanooga, yielding to bo ODe in my profound and affectionate re ard for Mr. Bry au and for the Democratic party and its principles In the course of my speech i tried to make that plain in as warm and glowing sentences as my heart could fashion. I am profouudlv couvinced that in this period of tremendous economic crises the only man who can carry to.s'iccesful conclusion the reforms instituted in behalf cf the people is the man who is already intrenched in the power and prestige of dauntless courage and conspicuous success in the executive office. “I have endeavored in my speech to give my conviction, and these convictions are so earnest and sincere that I cannot change them unless better reasons are given than have been present to me up to the present time. My reason lor stat ing this conviction at a Bryan banquet, with Mr. Bryan piesent, was because I considered it the manly and democratic thing to do. Mr. Graves’ views are entirely sound, and liae him we favor Mr. Roosevelt’s nomination by the Democrats, but we want the Republicans to “beat them to it” and nominate him first. Not that it would spoil him as the best possible Republican candidate if the Demo crats did get the inside track and nominate him first.