Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-21

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continued In such a way as to seem to
perpetuate the lines which were made
during the war, but even those lines
are disappearing and 1T is the duty of
all of US with respect to political par
tisanship to wipe out those lines as
far as we can and to see far as we may
that in each state the tolerance OF
opinion shall continue until there shall
be respectable parties on both sides
of the line
Il am anxious Of course, speaking
from a partisan standpoint, that the
Republican party of North Carolina
should be strengthened merely to have
good fight every election and of
course in SO far as 1 may legitimately
do So should be glad to build up the
Republican party. Now I understand
that some of my Republican friends
think that l have lost sight of the Re-
publican party in putting into office in
North Carolina a gentleman now upon
the supreme bench Of the state, a law
yer of the highest eminence and learn
ing and integrity. but a Democrat"
He explained that he had promised,
after he was President elect, to the
South that he would do the best he
could to wipe out the feeling that the
central government was government
alien to the Southland and had pointed
out that the only way by which the
Executive could cure that feeling, was
to put into Office men in whom the
community at large, without regard to
nc rf hnv no L.
dence.
Now | am trying to do that and I
am going to appoint Republicans and
l am going to appoint Democrats,
striving in each case to get a man who
will commend himself to the community
in which he lives" -
He pleaded as a justification for his
course the act of las thorough a Re-
publican .as ever filled the Executive
chair and man than whom there new
er was President who did so much
to maintain the standard of the fed
eral diciary"-Benjamin Harrison,
who put one Democrat on the supreme
bench and two on circuit courts of ap-
peals
i''The federal Judiciary said Presi-
dent Taft. lis the strongest bulwark
that we have to protect ultimately our
institutions of civic liberty and those
things in the federal Constitution that
we must love and must hug to our
bosom if we are to continue this civ
ilization. Therefore there is no more
sacred duty that the Executive has
than in the selection of men whose ap-
polntment and service on the bench
will strengthen it with all the people
at large.
Il do not think that we are at point
in the South. I never had such a.
dream. But I believe we are on the
eve of such condition that there shall
be complete tolerance of opinion, and
that there shall grow into respectable
power an opposition in each state
which shall tend to the betterment Of
the government as it exists in the state
which shall give us occasionally Re-
publican in crowd of Democrats in
order that we may have represented
in Congress your views without re-
gard to the ghost of an issue that real
ly ought not to influence you in en-
forcing the particular economic views
that you really entertain"
To the colored students at Biddle
University the President said in part:
II thank God that those troublesome
times through Which your fathers and
mothers lived are passing away. The
proper place for you to look is forward
and not backward. There is growing
over the entire South a feeling due to
economic conditions that you will be
necessity for the prosperity of the
South if you will only do what you
ought to do to make your race happy.
You can demonstrate to the white men
of the South, by making yourselves
members of the community, that it is
as much to their interest to treat you
well as it is to your interest to have
them treat you WE'LL
The President ridiculed the idea that
the two races cannot live amicably in
the same country.
1.-THE time is coming in my judg-
ment," he said, when the business
men of the South are going to recog-
nize much more fully than they do to-
day. the great advantage the South
has in your presence on the soil. Your
race is adapted to be a race of farmers,
first, last and all the time. You are go
ing to do more than you ever have done
in that direction as a result of the ed
ucation which the industrial schools
are giving you.''