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The Dawson News
Dawson, Terrell County, Georgia
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John Temple Graves spoke at the Gulf States Merchant Marine convention in New Orleans, calling on Southerners to overcome inherited partisan divisions, embrace the benefits of the Panama Canal, and support government aid for the merchant marine.
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Is What John Temple Graves, Former Georgian, Tells His Used-To-Be Neighbors.
NEW ORLEANS.- "I hope my fellow-citizens of the southland soon will be getting rid of narrow partisan lines." John Temple Graves, formerly of Atlanta, now editor of the New York American, declared in addressing the Gulf States Merchant Marine convention this afternoon.
"Too long have they been trameled by the views of their fathers. They must begin to realize that different conditions, different environments, different issues are coming up which served to becloud and belittle the issues and tenets, political and otherwise, which were rigidly held by their forefathers.
"There is no part of the country which will be more benefited than the south through the completion of the Panama canal; yet, for reasons of party politics there is an apathy which causes blind opposition to what should be their best interests."
Mr. Graves then entered into an argument in support of government aid of the merchants marine.
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John Temple Graves, formerly of Atlanta, now editor of the New York American, addressed the Gulf States Merchant Marine convention, urging Southern citizens to abandon narrow partisan lines inherited from their fathers, recognize changing conditions, support the Panama canal for Southern benefit despite political opposition, and argued for government aid to the merchant marine.