The San Francisco call., 1908-10-17
TAFT IS ROYALTY
RECEIVED IN SOUTH
Tells People to Cast Aside Ira
ditions and Vote the Re-
publican Ticket
Says Material Interests of the
Country Demand Continuance
of Present Policies

BRISTOL. Tenn, Oct. 16.-Judge Will
liam H. Taft's keynote for Tennessee
and the south was struck by the can
didate at Chattanooga this morning.
Throughout the day. which was spent in
traversing the state, he followed the
same line of argument, and met with
the same hearty response
With verbal amplifcauons. Judge
Taft emphasized this argument:
with the material interests of the
south dependent upon continuance of
republican policies; with nothing but
historic tradition demanding its peo-
pie to vote the democratic ticket-pray
ing meanwhile for the success of repub-
licanism - with southern democracy
nothing but a tail to northern democ-
racy's kite, then why not now take the
first political plunge, go politically
where the material interests of the
country demand and vote the republican
ticket?"
TAFT IN GREAT DEMAND
So great was the demand for the can
didate that his itinerary of four stops
in the state was increased to II. He
spoke during the day and evening at
Chattanooga, Cleveland, Athens, Sweet
water, Loudon, Lenoir City, Knoxville,
Morristown, Greenville, Johnson City
and Bristol. With an all night run he
will reach Salisbury, n. G., tomorrow
morning and Richmond, Va, tomorrow
night.
Chattanooga Knoxville and Bristol
gave the candidate the big demonstra-
tions of the day. He reached Knox
VILE at l o'clock and remained an
hour Tonight at Bristol he addressed
a. large audience in the ChautauQua tab
ernacle.
In Tennessee, as in other states the
candidate has traversed. he received
the cordial backing of all factions of
the party.
At Chattanooga Taft said: "One of
the things that brought the north and
south closely together was 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
maintaining the authority of the flag
the country over
MY feeling always has been-per-
haps | have misconstrued the people of
the south-but my feelings always have
been that the sympathies and the in
terest of the south were largely with
the republican policy in regard to Cuba
in regard to Porto Rico, and in regard
to the Philippines.
SOUTH RESPONDS READILY
MY personal experience in the Philip
pines makes me think that there was
as great. an interest in the success of
that experiment in the south as there
was in the north. 1t is true that there
was a great deal of eloquence hurled
at us from the floor of the senate and
house as to the awful things we were
doing in the Philippines and the liberty
we were sacrificing; but when we called
upon the south to furnish her quota of
men who were TO fight the country's
battles over there, who were to make
part of the efficient government over
there, we did not find the south want
ing, and I am glad to be able to say
that in the service in the Philippines
and in the selection of men to repre-
sent America there in that govern
ment, we never paid the slightest heed
to state lines.
we have as many democrats in the
Philippine service today as we have
republicans, and we have as many
southern men as we have orthern 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
Ide and I are on the other side and
are republicans, but we did not know
any difference out there, and the pleas
ure of dealing with a government in
which there was no difference and in
nized is what makes me long for a
similar condition in this country
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