Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-16
Same Wonderful Recep-
lions Given Mr.. Taft.
Thousands Of People Pledge
MIN Votes and Support.
Ex.eov. Durham Says Indiana Will
Give Taft 5000 to 10000.

Louisville, KY, Oct. 15.-Acting on
his declaration THAT the South is a
mart of the Union, and as such entitled
10 be considered in the Presidential
campaign William H. Taft spent the
day speaking in the towns and cities
OF Kentucky.
He is the first Republican Presi-
Dental candidate to campaign the Blue
Grass state and he will De the first
Republican Presidential candidate to
carry his campaign into Tennessee,
North Carolina and Virginia. which he
proposes to visit in the next two days.
His reception has proved one of prov
erbial Southern hospitality. The
crowds which greeted him at the dozen
places in which he spoke today, were
large and evidenced every phase Of DO
liticaI enthusiasm. The attention he
received while expounding Republican
doctrines was such as 10 indicate more
than passing interest.
Evidently impressed by his cordial
reception, the candidate made many
references to it during the day. At
Lexington, where he addressed an i'm
mense audience which crowded the
largest theater in the city he said:
1T is a great pleasure to talk to a
Kentucky Republican audience. We
entered Kentucky at Ashland this
morning and we have every evidence
that Kentucky is awake 10 the import
ance of placing herself in the Republi-
can column on the third of November
next ] don't feel like putting Ken
lucky in the solid South or talking to
her citizens in the strain which may
well be adopted toward the citizens of
the states further South.
Il was born within sight of Ken
tucky's hills The sacred soil was jus.
across the river from where | spent
my boyhood days. | feel as il Ken
lucky had largely placed herself in a
position where we have n right to come
to her and treat her as if she We're q
Republican state. She has Republi-
can governor She has a Republican
senator and she has number of Re-
publican congressman
For the second time since his work
on the stump began. Mr.. Taft today
made reference to the government
guaranty Of bank DEPOSITS, which Mr..
Bryan is engaged in urging in the
West. On that subject at Lexington he
pau his Respects 10 ms bppOl'tItt DIS
follows:
'.Mr. Bryan has another proposition
that is going to be the panacea for ev-
erything, and that is the guaranty of
bank deposits. BY that proposition, he
is going to make every respectable.
honest banker become the security Of
anybody that desires to go into the
banking business with the idea Of
getting a large line of deposits with
very small capital and the result of
that don't think it takes very clear
headed business man to see.
"In Oklahoma. which is the place
that they try out these experiments,
they are now finding that banks are
being organized with capital Of $10.-
900, by people who have failed in the
banking business before, by men that
under charges of embezzlement, but
are able to get deposits by saying to
depositors I am a good fellow and
want you to help me out. Put your
money in my bank because this million
dollar bank up here Of Mr.. Smiths Is
my security that you will get your
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