Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-16
TAFT CAMPAIGNS
IN SOLID SOUTH
CARRIES POLITICAL WAR INTO
KENTUCKY
FIRST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
so DARING
Tells Bluegrass Republicans They Are
Better Than other Kind Be
cause They Had to
Fight
rRu Assoclated Press.l

r oTrTsvITIE. KY. Oct. 15.-Acting
on his declaration that the south
- 10 a. mart of the Union and as sucn
entitled TO be considered in the natlonai
election" Mr.. Taft spent the day taih-
ing in towns and cities in KENTUCKY:
He is the first Republican presidential
candidate who came to the Blue Grass
state. .,ao,,+io1
candidate to carry his campalgn liieo ,so
North Carolina and Virginia, Wnleh lie
Intends visiting in the next two days
His reception has been typlcal oI
southern hospitality. The attention ne
received while eXpounding RepuplIcdii
doctrines was such as to indicate more
than passing interest .-oa
The candidate made many references
to his reception during the Gay -.
The forty-second time since ms WoIh
reference to the government guarantees
of hank deposits, which Mr.. Bryan Is
ensa eed in urging in the west. On thaI
subject at Lexington he paid his re-
spects to his opponent as foiloWs'
Bank Guarantees
.Mr BRYAN has another proposition
that is going to be the panacea for
everything. That is the guaranty OF
hank deposits. BY that proposition ne
is going to make every respectapIe'
honest banker be the security or every
body that desires to go into the panK-
ing business with the idea OF getuhg d
large line of depositors with very
small capital, and the result OF that l
don't think it takes very clear-heaueo
business man to see.
"In Oklahoma, the place where they
try out the experiment, they now hnd
that banks organized with capltal Oh
$4,000 by persons that have 1alled III
the banking business before, by men
that are under charge of empezzleIlent |,
but who are able to get deposits py
saying to depositors, i am goou lei
low and want you to help me out. tut
your money in my bank, because TINS
million dollar bank up here of Smith
is my security that you will get your
deposits back 80,
fThat is not a joke; that is real
genuine statement of the condition that
is to be produced by that guarantee or
bank deposits proposition"
Kentucky Republicans
The work of the day for Mr. Taft was
begun early at Huntington, w. va,
where he was taken from the train TO
rink and heard by thousands. Then
came his advent into Kentucky.
At Ashland the crowd was big ana
the cheers OF the WnOopluS variety
At East Kentucky Junction he told
the crowd that he believed Kentucky
Republicans were almost better than
other Republicans because they had to
fight for their doctrine.
At Olive Hill he was again met by an
enthusiastic crowd. To his Morehead
audience he said: 'I wish L had a voice
as strong as my hand, and s strong
as the muscles of my arm, because !
would like to have you all hear me. l
would like to shake the hand OF >each
one of you, because l know thrill OF
Republicanism would run to your back
bone from mine and back again. All l
can say is that l am grateful to you
for coming here and giving us the
courage to believe that Republicanism
is again to sweep south of the Ohio
river and to give the south the position
she ought to have in this government -
At Salt Lick the candidate told his
audience he had been looking through
the crowd and felt both pleasure and
pride at his reception from such men,
and then added;
1.-THE Republicanism of Kentucky is
tried and true. 1t took something to
be a Republican in the past