The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-16
Kentucky Hears a Republican Presidential Candidate for First Time in His
 tory,
CROWDS ARE HOSPITABLE E
Lexington, Louisville and the Rest Show Enthusiastic Interest," Helps to Unite Hostile
 Factions.

Louisville, Ky, Oct. 15.--Actlng on his declaration that the south is a part of the union and as such entitled to be considered In the presidential cam paign, "Wlliam II, Taft spent the day speaking in the towns and cities of Kentucky.
 He Is the first Republican presiden- tial campagner to campaign in the blue grass state, and he will be the first Republican presidential candidate 10 carry his campaign Into Tennes- sec, North Carolina and Virginia, which he proposes to visit in the next two days, His reception has proved one ol proverbial southern hospitality The crowds which greeted him at the dog en places In which he spoke today were large and evinced every phase of po- litical enthusiasm Tho attention he re- ceived while expounding Republican doctrines was such as to indicate more than passing interest Evidently im- pressed by his cordial reception, the candidate made many references to it during the day, At Lexington, where he addressed an immense audience which filled the largest theater in the city he said,
 "It is a great pleasure to talk 10 Kentucky republican audience. We entered Kentucky at Ashland this morning and we have every evidence that Kentucky Is awake to the im- portance of placing herself in the re- | th1tgop gO1nt,,,, nf vember next I don't feel like putting Kentucky in the solid south oI! talk ing 10 her citizens in the train which may well be adopted towards the citl- zens of tho states further south.
 'I was born within sight of Ken ] tucky's hills. The sacred soil was just across the river from where l spent my boyhood days. I feel as If Ken lucky had largely placed herself in a position where we have a right to l come to her and treat her as if she were A republican state. She has a republican governor. She has a re- publican senator and she has mum ber of republican congressman, and hope she will have more. Assuming. therefore that the prejudices and the traditions which affect states further south have but little weight here, I want to Invite your attention to the 1 question which presents itself to the unprejudiced voter in the next Novem- ber election"
 For the second time since his work on the stump began. Mir. Taft today made reference to the government guaranty of bank deposits, which MT Bryan is engaged In urging in the west, On that subject, at Lexington he paid his respects 10 his opponent as follows:
 'Mr. Bryan has another proposition that Is going 10 be the panacea for ev. erything, and that Is the guaranty ot bank deposits. By that proposition ht
 Is going to make every respectable
 honest banker become the security o
 anybody that desires to go into tht
 banking business with the idea of get ting large line of deposits with
 very small capital and the result O
 that, don't think 1t takes yer,
 clear headed business man long to see "In oklahoma. which ls the plac,
 that they try out these experiments they are now finding that banks ar
 being organized with a capital of ter
 thousand dollars by people who hav
 failed in the banking business before by men that are under charges of em , bezslement, but who arc able to ge lappcIta l,tt otsI tn IT
 A good fellow and want you to help m
 out Put your money in my bank be
 cause this million dollar bank up her
 of MT Smiths is my security that vol , will get your deposits back
 That Judge Taft will not permit an
 tagonistlc partisan interruptions whi
 addressing an audience was illustrate l at shelbyvllle, where the special ar lived just after dark He spoke fin
 hall which was crowded, and as he pro : ceeded there was persistent cries q e Bryan" The candidate referred to th a Interruption pleasantly at first bu e when it was continued he declared wit emphasis; "It Is just such instance as this which show why f Is that tn % democratic party never gets control o i, the government, II has clements in which lack the slightest sense of re . sponsibIlltY decency or courtesv" e A feature of tho Kentucky trip wa
 the presence during the day on th
 Taft special of Senator Bradley, repre- sentlng one faction of the republica { congressman In the state, and to-nIgh q the presence of Governor Wilson. Th |, demonstration of energy and union o purpose behind the national ticket WI 8 declared one of tho renl benefits deriv e ed from tho invasion of Kentucky |
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