The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-01-22
VETERANS CALL
ON JUDGE TAFT
OLD coNFEDERATEs WANT AID
IN REFUNDING The COT
TON TAX.
TALKS ABOUT CONSTITUTION
President-EIeet Says He Has No Quar-.
rel With His Political
Opponents.

AUGUSTA, Ca. Jan. l4-One hun
dred and eighty men, who said they
were Democrats, citizens OF Anderson,
5. c., visited the President-elect today.
They left the radiance OF the Taft
smile after delivering and receiving a
speech OF cordially. enthusiastic in
the behalf that THEN town is to be
placed on the Southern itinerary Of
Mr.. Taft when he travels next fall.
Six men from Thomson. Ga, all of
them Confederate veterans, called
about the cotton tax thar was levied
on several Southern States after the
war and collected 10 the total Of $685.
100000 The Supreme Court declared
the tax unconstitutional, and although
Congress has been asked ever since to
refund the money. it has not done so.
Mr. Taft's interest in the matter was
petitioned One of the veterans Incl
dentally remarked that he had been
the husband of four wives, was the
father of nineteen children and had
lost all count Of his grandchildren and
great-grandchildren but Just as a sam
pie, he added, one of his grandchildren
was the father Of seven.
The negro Y. NJ. c. \. of this city
Will De addressed By Mr.. Taft next
Sunday afternoon, according to ar.
- :, tpJoy-
/ There are to be TAFT speeches dis
tributed freely between here and At
lanta tomorrow, when the President
( elect goes to that city BIZ special train,
and under escort of an enthusiastic
committee. He has consented to do
rear platform work wherever the
committee may care to stop the train,
and a number Of stops will be made,
including Thomson, Charlottesville,
Greensboro, Madison, Social Circle,
Covineton and Decatur
Mrs. Taft left here for New Haven,
Conn, today She will join Mr.. Taft
either here on the 22d or at Charles
ton, S. c.. when he goes to that city
TO embark for Panama.
Every city, town, village and ham,
let on the New England coast wants
to be the summer home of the Tafts,
at least such is indicated by the ava
lanche of letters which is coming here
daily on the subject Mr., Taft said
today that no negotiations had been
opened with any one on the subject
and that the matter would not receive
his attention for months.
Mayor G. L. Sherard, of Anderson,
was the spokesman for the $50 men
from that town After saying they
came as Democrats, but as loyal Amer
leans. he declared:
I'VE believe that YOU will be Pres
ident of all cur people knowing no
sectional differences. and manifesting
no shirt of partially In your admin
istration of the Nations affairs.
Mr.. Taft valued the expressions OF
cordially. referred TO the growing
prosperity of the South, under which
we are willing to let by-gones be by
cones. and to forget everything of the
mast that we ought to forget He
had no quarrel because his callers
were Democrats, remarking that I'M
der our form of Government parties
were necessary machines" for max
ing effective the public will. All
that we can hope for" he added "ali
that we ought to ask, is that the peo-
ME Of all sections shall make up their
minds in an independent way ana
then vote for the principles they Ia
vor."