Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-19

not only in the present campaign, but
will mark the beginning of the real
political awakening of the South. He
has also been told that real hopes are
entertained of carrying Kentucky and
North Carolina and that Republican
sentiment is gaining ground rapidly in
Tennessee.
| At Greensboro Judge Taft made again
the points he yesterday brought out at
| Chattanooga: IF the South wants po-
| litical influence she has got to exercise
intelligence in the discharge of her po-
litical duty"
He followed this declaration by indcat-
ing the kind of intelligence he meant
ASK yourselves where would be your
cotton manufacturers. your tobacco in
dustry, and your furniture factories, if
the Republican policy of protection were
departed FROM
How is it," he pressed, that our
| Democratic friends can go on voting one
way and hoping to God that something
will happen to make their votes count for
| nothing? There comes time when YOU
can run adherence to traditions into the
| ground, and ] think that time has come
now"
| brief stop was made at Reedville
before the expedition reached the state Of
Virginia and the city of Danville. Here
| a large crowd waited at the station and
Judge Taft addressed them from the rear
| of his car.
| The audience evidenced a decided lik-
ing for Bryan, by shouting with great
vigor when his name was mentioned. The
candidate took advantage of the entnus-
asm to make this point:
Il am delighted that l have so many
Bryan men here that 1 can take a little
| sense into. l would like to ask whether
they are in favor today of the free COIN
age of silver. No, not one, and yet the
chief of their party recommended that
for eight years for three Presidential
campaigns. Are they in favor of the
Wilson bill? Are they in favor
of the government ownership of rail-
roads? Are they in favor of guarantee
of bank accounts? CA voice said 'yesD
Yes, 1 have no doubt you are, because
you are committed to Bryanism. What
you are in favor of is this: You are in
favor of any man opening a bank with
$4,000, and then going to his neighbors
| and saying: Give me 100000 deposits SO
that I may speculate with it, because
Robinson, who has got a bank up here
mas 100000 deposits, and he is responsible
for every dollar of my deposits That is
a fine kind of proposition. That is Bryan
esque. That appeals to my friend right
there. That illustrates just the charac-
ter of business men that Mr.. Bryan and
| his followers are. and that shows how
much confidence you will get by putting
MI. Bryan into the White House."
| The Richmond meeting was held in
the Horse Show building at Odlewood,
i'll the outskirts of the city. The build
| Ing was occupied with an immense all-
dience and the candidate, who had Civ
| en- himself some rest during the after
noon, was in good form.
Senator William Alden Smith, VINO
followed Mr.. Taft, took occasion to
comment on the general effect OF the
Southern trip of the candidate In that
connection he had this to say:
| THE campaign of Judge Taft in the
South is in many respects the most
remarkable campaign conducted by a
Republican candidate and in my opin-
ion he has established a precedent
which will be followed every four years
as long as the Republicans shall stand
Fhe crowds which have greeted him,
the enthusiasm with which he has
been received, the interest the people
have manifested in his personality and
the favor which the Republican nrin-
clples have met leave no doubt what
ever in my mind that all territory
South OF the Ohio river and embracing
the states OF Kentucky, West Virginia.
|
nave at one time or another given
| their votes to the Republicans have
nearly lost interest in the Democratic
leaders who have sought to control
| them by reckless disregard Of those
well recognized principles of govern
nient once held dear by the Southern
people,