The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-10-22
The Distinguished Visitor
Greeted by Large and
Enthusiastic Audiences.
SPEECHES MADE
IN SIX TOWNS

Hon. William III. Taft Has Triumph.
ant Tour Through North Carolina
Greeted by Tremendous Crowds at
StatesvilIe, Salisbury, Lexington.
High Point and Greensboro
States Industries Would be Badly
Hurt Without Protective Tariff, He
Says in Salisbury Speech-People
Urged to Vote as They Think So
As to Wipe Out Sectional Lines.
Hon. j. Elwood Cox and Big Party
of Republicans Accompany the Dis
tinguished Visitor Through the
State-Secretary Shaw at Green's
bOrO.
Hon. William H. Taft, the Repub-
lican candidate for President, made
several speeches in North Carolina
last Saturday and was greeted by
large and enthusiastic crowds all
along the line. He spoke at States
Co1 Chn
Point, Greensboro, and Reidsville,
the principal speeches of the day
being at Salisbury and Greensboro.
Mr. Taft and his party travelled on
a special train over the Southern's
road, and while in this State, the
conductor Of the train was Mr.. T. j.
Roseman, Republican candidate for
the Legislature in Rowan County.
and the engineer was Mr.. Harry FL
more, Republican candidate for Cor
poration Commissioner. The Taft
special came into North Carolina
from Bristol, Tennessee, the first
stop in this State being at States
Vile at 7.3O Saturday morning,
where he was introduced by Hon. j.
Elwood Cox, Republican candidate
for Governor. Notwithstanding the
speaking was at an unusually early
hour, Mr.. Taft was greeted by a
large and enthusiastic audience who
paid strict attention to his speech.
Speech at Salisbury.
At Salisbury where Secretary Taft
was introduced by Mr.. A. H. Price,
he said:
Ladies and gentlemen: You will
excuse me if I use a conversational
tone. 1 have not any more to give
you. I have been talking so long
and so far that my voice is spread
out and very thin, and II some or
the notes go up above the usual reg
lister, hope you will pardon me.
1T is a great pleasure to come
into North Carolina. I have stud
led the statistics of North Carolina
and her marvellous growth with in
tense interest. I know good many
of your North Carolinians, and every
time a man from North Carolina
came into my Office in Washington
when l was Secretary of War, ne
had not been there more than hve
minutes before he put his hand In
his pocket pulled out a paper and
began to read, and what he read was
the statistics of the growth of busi-
ness of North Carolina, so that II
impressed itself upon me. For In
stance, your factory products II
1900 were $85,O0O,0O0. In five years
they had increased, in 1905, tt
$142, 100000. In 1905 you had EN-
ployed $4,000 persons in your cottor
mills. Your cotton manufacture
had increased from $9,000,0OO II
1890 to s2S,OO0,O00 in 1900, tt
s47,OOO,0O0 in 1905; also that yo'
are second in rank Of manufacture
of tobacco; you are third in the ranl
of manufacturers of lumber ant
timber products. You make in on
of your cities in this State nearly a
much as they make in Grand Rap
ids, Mich, in furniture. l am CIV
ing you these figures merely to po1n
out that unless we continue to haV
a protective tariff, most of these in
dustries will be destroyed, and tn
wealth that you have accumulate
has been accumulated by reaso
of the policy insisted upon by tn
Republican party in respect to tn
tariff. And yet how many electora
votes have you cast in North Care
lima for the Republican party
Somebody may have a better men
ory than 1 have, but 1 don't reca
a single one. ask you, my friends
whether there is any reason unde
the existing circumstances why,
you believe in Republican policie
you ought not to vote the Republ
can ticket? You have State tick'
and a Congressional ticket that
unexceptional. I am not going
speak about the national ticket b.
cause I have a personal relation
1t. But the national ticket is a r
publican ticket and pledged to carr
out Republican policies. I subm