The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-17
CLAD TO SEE TAFT
j. ElwOod Cox Welcomes Him
With Open Arms.
viii Help His Campaign for
Governor of North Carolina.

Salisbury, N. c.. Oct. 17.-Judge Taft
today put much courage in the breasts
of j. Elwood Cox, banker and manu-
facturer of High Point and nominee
for governor on the Republican ticket,
and C. F. Toms, of Hendersonville,
nominee for lieutenant governor.
Your visit to North Carolina gives
me the firm belief that not only will
you carry the state, but that the state
ticket will be elected" was what Mr..
Cox told Judge Taft as he and his run
ming mate Joined the Taft special.
we are sure of electing two and
there is a possibility of electing one
more Republican congressman" he
ADDED. In outlining the situation to
Mr.. Taft, Mr.. Cox said that he was
nominated unanimously and that he
nao maze campaign Of the state,
making business the strict ISSUE
The negro question has been elm
mated, he added, 'by an amendment to
the state constitution which, it is esti-
mated, will limit the negro vote to 5000
in the state" This was the action of
the democrats, who declared they were
not disfranchizing the negro by en-
franchizing the whites. This informa-
ton caused Judge Taft to add an ex-
preston of satisfaction that he had
| taken his southern swing. He spoke
briefly at Statesville and at this place
and during the day and evening will
address meetings at High Point and
Greensboro. in this state, and at Dan
vile and Richmond. Va.
| Taft Shakes Hands With Engineer.
| Greensboro, n. c., Oct. 17.-At High
Point Mr.. Taft after his speech went
forward to the engine and shook hands
| with the engineer H. G. Elmore, who
! Is the ReDuhliPan nominee for
| alton commissioner and with the con-
| ductor who is the Republican nominee
| for the Legislature.
What Judge Taft is saying in North
| Carolina is illustrated by the follow
ing extracts from his speeches at
| Statesville, and Salisbury. His saluta-
! ton to the state was this:
| Il am glad to come into the state OF
| North Carolina this beautiful October
| morning and to receive the cordial re-
ception. Complaint is very often heard
| on the part of your people that North
Carolina is not given her part in the
administration of the government. She
| is not. She has able men. but as long
as you are going to vote for the Demo
cratic ticket and the Republican party
is in power, I do not see how those
gentlemen who do the voting can expect
| to share in the power. In other words
let them vote as they think and then
we will wipe out sectional lines"
At Salisbury the candidate addressed
a meeting in the opera house while
Leslie M. Shaw spoke to an open-alr
gathering. OF the industries Of the
state Judge Taft remarked: You are
second in rank in the manufacture OF
tobacco; you are third in the manu-
facture of lumber and timber
products. You make in one of your
cities in this state nearly as much
furniture as they make in Grand Rap
ids, Mich. I am giving you these fig
ures merely to point out that unless we
continue to have a protective tariff
most of these industries will be de-
stroyed and the wealth that you have
| accumulated has been accumulated by
reason of the policy insisted upon by
the Republican party in respect to the
tariff.
"And yet how many electoral votes
have you cast in North Carolina fol
the Republican party? Somebody
may have better memory than have
but don't recollect a single one. They
| are an enterpriSing, progressive people
in everything but politics, and think
it is time that they began in politics
to show the same enterprise that they
do in manufacturing furniture and in
reaching out to develop the enormous
wealth of North Carolina"
Mr.. Bryan was not overlooked al
Salisbury. The candidate had this tc
| say: 81 have not words of enmity
or criticism for Mr.. Bryan except !
find myself never agreeing with him
on any economic theory and an
bound to say that his experiments fol
the last 16 years have been such thai
it has not taken more than four year:
generally TO demonstrate that at the
end of these four years nobody agree:
, with his economic theories at ALL
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