The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-09-12
TAFT IN KENTUCKY
The Secretary Tries to Show
the Southern People they
Vote Their Prejudice in Place
Of their Principle.

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The most striking feature OF Mr.
Iaft's Lexington speech is his state
ment that the South has pesmitlci
the shadow OF an issue race aues
tom TO bind IL 10 the democrats
party. no matter what principles o
candidates that party adopts Con
tinuing Mr.. Taft says
IF only under the influence O
President Recseyelt's administrator
some OF the Southern states, lnclad
ing Kentucky. could he led into III,
republican column In accordance
with the real sympathies of the vot
ers OF those states, It would be 4
cruwning glory of his administration,
IL viii nut necessarily work for tn,
benefit OF the republican party IN tho
end because of the closeness with
/ which the southern states have unit
ed In support Of democratic candi
dates has introduced similar cohe
sion among the northern states. an
We might expect more independents,
OF voting at the North II the voter
were not confronted with the solid
arlty OF the South. AS an American
citizen, and lover OF my country,
long for the time when the Soati
shall be received again In the cnun
ellis 'oi the nation, and when the peo
pie OF that section shall resume To,
influence 10 which they are entitled
and which they deny themselves b,
being frightened at mere ghost o.
the past "
With these few woIds the presi
dents candidate for president insults
and loses the solid South he hopes tc
break, and helps 10 break the solid
North he assumes IL won. For the
South 10 be told that she has sup.
ported party regardless OF its can
didates or principles, that her states.
man have not had part In the
councils OF the nation: for the north
TO he told that her lack OF independ.
ence in voting : due 10 the solldar-
ity Of the South. would even be In
suit enough were II true. Ii Is ionb.
ly an insult In that 1t is absolutely
false.
IL comes with peculiarly bad grace
from the spokesman and legatee II
the Roosevelt administration TO slur
the part southern statesmanship Is
playing in the councils OF tile nation
II is bad grace because the Roosevelt
administration has drawn the major.
ity OF it's most effective and popular
measures from democratic platforms
drafted In part by southern states
men. IL is doubly Ia bad grace he.
cause when republicans we're lighting
the presidents policy he had TO APP.
peal 70 a Tiliman OF South Carolina,
a Culbefson and Bailey Of Texas. and
To other southern statesmen TO chani-
pi0n his measures and save them
from defeat at the hands nf his own
fellow paItisans, Even then had the
president stood by his southern allies
who SO brilliantly fought on the bat.
tletield republicans had deserted. his
rate bill would have been far more
effeciiye measure than It now Is. IL
Is indeed a great insult TO voters
North and south TO he toll 4 that In.
stead OF deciding questions fairly In
their merits. they have on one hand
let the Dugatoo Of race differences,
aud ON the other the solidarity OF
the south. interfere with their judg.
ment and convictions.
In the hard fighting Gays Of 1886
was fortunate enough TO be In fact,
though not IN name, the political ed
itor Of the New York Journal--noa
the American. Mr. Hearst, It's own.
er and real editor, though al no time
sympathetic with the silver move
ment did believe In the general tone
OF the Bryan campaign. He had then
hut two papers. the san Francisco
Examiner and the New York journal
Ito ne entirely accurate | should add
"a these German paper Ia New
York. At the request OF the demo.
cratic national committee be permit.
ted me 10 get out once a week a cam
paign extra which was made up from
type saved from the daily paper, and
issued Friday lights after the Satur.
day paper bad gone 20 press. Some
millions Of these were sent to state
and national committeeman and the
work that Mr.. Hearst did with them
vas Of un6oubted political value.