The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-03
MAKING FRIENDS IIl.S..
II IN sunny SOUTH
O.poation Of Birmingham Peo-
NH Me Call Upon President
Elect at Augusta.
,prECH OF GEN. RH0ADES
TAFT AFRAID ENTHUSIASM
~ ,.,oN-T LAST FOUR YEARS.

,,r..,a. Ga. Jan. 2.-President-eieet
-, agreed to visit Birmingham,
and Athens. Ga, and to address
~ ,sopIe of Augusta from the same
corner al which they once listened
resident Mckinley.
~ taft said today that his caoiaet
~ NOT be- completed until March l.
,sei5 ne should not consider foreign
a.,i1fnents until his cabinet was
.npiete.
Rhosdes Has Switched"
..-srsI EufYs y. Rhoades, editor of
pi-miueham News. spoke for the
bingham delegation that called on
n Taft today
NJ TAFT ne said, Il am going TO
edvautace of this opportunity to
~ Won that if you knew the heart
he head Of the men of the south,
"a nartieularIy Of Birmingham, you
Ia know that they regard the result
P, ~ last election as a benediction
~, Cod Almighty himself TO the peo-
re rho south over their own protest.
Democrat. most of the gentle
are democrats. but we all welcome
I'M advent into the south because you
80 come here, sir, indicating TO us
-. Won want the south once again to
Ia her Mace in the councils in the ma
I've really feel that you could do q
mi work along the lines you have in
7.ited more at Birmingham, possibly,
IAN anv other point In the country
we all want YOU. but that you may
.,,s there and-though a Democrat,
md lifelong Democrat, ! am willing 10
gr it-belp us strike off our hands the
ssackles of an ignorant political sys-
..v fiat does not do the most 70 de
lion our resources or to safeguard our
r1nniness. We promise you a good time,
bg. we promise you more than that
-ssl genuine. tangible results for the
greatness and TIE glory Of the coun-
Mr.. Taft's Speech.
Sir. Taft replied;
Gentlemen. the first thought that
comes to me after hearing what quite
freely admit is very sweet music to me
Is a sort of trembling fear that after
four years such meeting as this and
such expressions Of good Will may b.
inposeible-that ] shall be like the man
who went into office with majority
and went out with uHanimity.
"Of course. 7 ala deeply touched Dy
the very eloquent words that have beer
adressed To me by General RhOades, a.
an evidence Of there being in the soutf
TODAY among the influential men al
earnest hope not that the south is e
take one political complexion OF an
other but that it Is 10 become q place
whtre politics viii be as they are II
tie rest " the countryZa subject o
u~ccftsinty-a subject Cor independence
NJ action.
u shall visit your city. II il be pos
sible I shall go there on my return fron
Panama. This is very uncertain, how
ever. but 81 Is uncertain how long
shall have 10 stay there.
"Bu,. iu any event, ! am coming
thr Suutn early in my administration
and coming 20 the important cities c
The south.
Does Not Misunderstand.
Il hope you will not think that I hav
misunderstood your coming; that I al
misied into suppOsing that this mean
IN extreme movement on the one hanC
NJ that 10 is merely an extension of hos
pitality 90 the other. / hope you wi
not thnk 7 think il indicates a gres
Icvu's.on or a landslide of party pol
tics What I welcome is an agitatio
which means Independence of action
and that i all If il were to happe
that the party Of which I am the reT
resentative was to succeed in control
ing two or tire states in the south,
would by no means necessarily inure I
he benefit of that party, for the res
son that the solidity of the south hs
made number of the states in II
north solid. It is not working for
party purpose therefore TO hope, eith'
on your part OF on my part, that n
solid south shall be broken up. 1t on
means the hope that there shall not
0iItically q south. or a north, OF a
east or west. or any sectional polite