The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-17
Makes Appeal to Democrats
 In Tennessee
HE IS KINDLY RECEIVED
Says Southern People Should Join the Republican Party To Get Some of loaVes and Fishes of Fed
 eraI Bounty.

Bristol, Tenn, October 16.-Judge Will liam H. Tafts keynote for Tennessee and the south was struck by the candidate al Chattanooga this morning. Throughout the day. which was spent in traversing the state. he followed the line of argu- ment and met with the same hearty re- sponse.
 With verbal ampifcatons Judge Taft emphasized this argument
 With the material interests of the south dependent upon the continuance of the republican policies. with nothing but historic tradition demanding that the people vote the democratic ticket, praying meanwhile for the success of the repub- lcanism, with southern democracy noth- ing but tail to northern democracy s kite, then why not now take the first po- litical cold plunge, go politically where the material interests in this country de- mand and vote the republican ticket' So great was the demand for the candi- date that his itinerary of four stops in the state was increased to H. He spoke during the day and evening at Chatta- nooga, Cleveland Athens, Sweetwater, Louden, Lenoir City, Knoxville, Norris town, Greenville, Johnson City and Bris- tol With an all night run he will reach Salisbury, N. C., tomorrow morning and reach Virginia tomorrow night. Chattanooga, Knoxville and Bristol gave the candidate the big demonstrations of the day. He reached Knoxville at l o'clock and remained an hour Tonight at Bristol he addressed a large audience at the Chautauqua tabernacle. l In Tennessee, as in other states, the 1 candidate has traversed, he received the l cordial backing of all factions of the party.
 At Chattanooga. At Chattanooga MT. Taft spoke in part as follows:
 "One of the things that brought the north and the south closely together was l the Spanish war. There for the first time after the civil war we were able to demon- strate how close our hearts were across the Ohio river, and the Mason and Dixon line by rush to uphold the flag of our country in freeing Cuba and in maintain ing the authority of that flag the country l over
 l My feeling always has been-perhaps l have misconstrued the people of the | south-but my feeling always has been that the sympathies and interests of 1 south were largely with the republican l party in regard to Cuba in regard to l Porto Rico and in regard to the Philip pines. My personal experience in the l Philippines makes me think that there l was as great an interest in the success l of that experiment in the south as there l was in the north.
 l Tt is true that there was great deal of eloquence hurled at us from the floor 1 of the Senate and the House as to the awful things we were doing in the Philip. l pines and the liberty we were sacrificing 1 but when we called upon the south to ] furnish her quota of men who were tc ] fight the country's battles over there who were to make part of the efficient l government over there we did not find 1 tn south wanting. and l am glad to be able to say that in the service of the | Philippines and in the selection of men l to represent America there in that gov 1 ernment we never paid the slightest heed | to state lines.
 
 i We have as many democrats in the I Philippine service today we have re- | publicans, and we have as many south ern men as we have northern men. | Your own General Wright of Tennessee was governor and made a fine governor there The present Governor Smith, is | a democrat from California Governor Ides and l. are on the other side and are re- publicans. but we did not know any diff ference out there and the pleasure of dealing was one in which there was no difference of dealing and no sectional lines recognized l long for similar condition in this country.
 Are you going to vote the same way that you have heretofore and pray for republican success, or are you going to assume some sort of responsibility with reference to the national government {? voice: Vote for Taft"). That is an in- terruption that somehow doesn't ruffle me.
 Senator Daniels and Senator Bacon, both distinguished senators on the floor of that body, deplored the fact that the south has had no influence in the last % or 30 years in the councils of the gov ernment. Well. I think that is true, and I join with them in it, but perhaps we might differ as to the reason for it.
 
 reason for it is that heretofore the south by this historic tradition that has ex- hausted it's reasons altogether, has in- sisted on voting one way and praying the other and then making itself an instru- inent of the northern democracy no mat ter to what excess in economic doctrine that democracy may go. They have been the tail to the northern democratic kite and when you are carried in the pocket of man and make no uncomfortable dis turbance in that pocket you are not going to exercise very much influence with the gentleman that carries you: that furn- ishing no electoral votes and substantial ly but little congressional support to a republican administration 1t is not human nature that your leading men should have influence with the republican admins trations. What I am hopeful is that these gentlemen who really sympathize CONTINUED ON PAGE s)