The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-04
WANTS LOVE;
 ALSO VOTES PRESIDENT RECALLS THAT THE SOUTH CHEERS HIM, BUT REMAINS DEMOCRATIC. Lauds This Section for its Love of Tradition But Urges 1t to Grow
 More in Unity With the
 Whole Nation.

dent Taft brought his twenty hours stay in Birmingham to a close this afternoon and at 4:10 D. m. left for Macon. Ga. He stopped tonight for a short while at Opeika, Ala, and Columbus, Ga.
 In his principal Birmingham ad- dress, delivered at Capital Park this afternoon to an immense and an un- usually demonstnatfve crowd. the president expressed again his good will toward the south While doing so, an old gray bearded man in the crowd called out:
 God bless you, we all love you"
 A broad grin came over the presi- dents face as he turned and replied:
 That reminds me of the old quota. ton, It may be all right to dissem- ble your love. but why did you kick me iownstairs?'
 But have no fault to find on that score added the president
 
 "The fact that you had so little to do with putting me where am makes me appreciate the warmth and sheer ity of your reception all the more."
 Turning from these pleasantries, the president urged support, in and out, of the Roosevelt policies to bring about better conditions of honesty and Integrity in business and public affairs without regard to party lines. The president referred during his speech to the proposition to amend the state constitution by providing in it for an indefinite continuance of statewide prohibition. He was promptly asked how he stood on the uestion.
 T am not an Alabamian." he replied amid laughter. and I a min some what the position of Brother Fox. who. when he was called upon to decide a case between lion and some other ferocious beast, protested that he had bad cold and entirely lost his sense of smell"
 The president had an exceptionally pleasant day. He motored to the country club for breakfast, participat- ed in and reviewed military and civic parade, had luncheon at the Southern Clu band made an address in Capital Park.
 Birmingham" said the president at Capital Park, because of her cosmo- politan character and because she is becoming more and more aware of LOW close she is to the north and how close she is to the entire coun- try in a business way. is influencing the south, as the north is influenced toward her, to believe that this coun- try is ceasing to have sections-not ceasing to have traditions. And there is a distinction l would like to make as emphatic as possible
 ''I would not have the south give up a single one of her noble traditions. l would not have her abate a single bit of the deep pride she feels in all her great heroes that represented her in that awful struggle between the north and south; but I would have the whole country know. as I believe the south Is growing herself to know, that 1t is possible to preserve all the traditions intact and have a warm and deeply loyal love of the old flag to which she has come back and to know that the north respects her for these traditions she preserves, and does not ask her to discard one; but only wishes to unite with her in the benefits of common country, and of a sympathy and association between the peoples of the two sections that will certainly lead us on to a greater and greater future''
 One of the prettiest incidents of the day occurred as the president was leaving the luncheon. The way from the club house to the waiting automo-