The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-19

Quet Which IS SAID 10 have Been the
Most Ambitious Event of the Kind
the City Has Ever Undertaken
(By the Associated Press.)
Atlanta, Ga, Jan. 15.-President-
elect VIM. II. Taft has been in the
cordial and hospitable embrace OF
Georgia all day. Recognizing the eli
max of the varied and continuous
demonstrations in the brilliant and I'M
posing scene presented at the BAN
quet hall tonight he exclaimed with
evidences of great feeling:
Il had not hoped to win the South
but the South has won me-
The banquet was the most ambitious
| event of its Kind the city has ever un-
dertaken. Though participated in by
more than 500 of the city'S representa-
tive men, it was gloried in by the en-
tire population. 1t and the preceding
~eloquence of welcome extended to Mr..
Taft in his reception at the capital
and at the Piedmont Hotel, where he
was sought by thousands, constitute q
brilliant chapter in his record OF
achievements south OF Mason ana
! DiXon'S line.
Talking through Georgia" is a lit
eral description of his trip today from
Augusta to Atlanta. And wherever the
special rain, which Atlanta praElded,
came to 4 halt, there We're cheering
crowds evidencing their cordiality by
Ilol u ~ 1IIVSLo, - IN 'NAN
speeches. in which the P~resident-elect
was, told hat he was respected, ad-
mired, loved.
A little bunch of violets plucked
from the grave of Alexander Ste
phens and presented by a grand niece
of the distinguished Georgian touched
a tender chord and brought forth q
warm tribute to the memory of Ste
phens at Charlottesville The young
men of Emory College We're cheered
on their way at C~OVington and girl stu
dents at Agnes Scott Institute at De-
catur We're addressed as My girl
friends and talked to pleasantly.
"A Term of Eight Years"
When Mayor Butler, of Madison,
| predicted "a term of eight years for
: Taft the big Ohioan responded by
saying he hoped the mayor was a true
prophet.
5 Atlanta's welcome to Mr.. Taft began
!, in the railroad yards. where all loco
: motives tied open their whistles and
!, ceased only when he had retired for
I the night at the hote. Thousands
t We're at the station me Thousands fol-
lowed him through the streets as he
, was drawn by four cream colOred
5 horses to the Capitol.
: Received by Governor Smith.
? Governor Smith and a committee OF
seventy gave him q formal reception,
2 after which the Governor presented
- illI1l TO TIE lItIIltlIutuS tiONd III VI
!, Taft once more voiced his reciprocity
5 OF cordiality and good feeling at his
: reception. He was at once escorted by
+ a SQUAD of mounted police to the
Piedmont Hotel, whore he was ten
dered a reception by the Chamber of
V Commerce. the Ohio Society and Yale
; Alumni.
Governor-elect Brown came with
n Mr.. Taft, Governor Smith received
/ him and the officials of the city and
State generally participated in his
welcome.
: Speaks to Negroes Today.
Mr.. Taft Will speak to the negroes
. here in the morning, go to Athens &c
make ar address at the State CniVer-
! sity and return for the reception Of
= the Capital City Club tomorrow night
.'Talkino Through Georgia."
On his trip here he made speeches
! at Thomson, Crawfordsville Green's
boro. Madison, Social Circle and De-
catur.
L Judge Taft had given care TO the
preparation of his banquet speech, re
garding it as his important utteranct
> Of the day, and in it's delivery he fol
lowed his manuscript closely.
He had come South for rest to tree
nerves after a pOlitica
campaign, he began, but when he
L realized he had fallen into the lands
or strenuous Aria1rans ne pEgan U
realize that his rest was to be serious
- ~ DIOicI.
Mr.. Taft said, with feeling, that h
was proud to have been the first Re
publican candidate for the Presidenc!
II who had carried his canvass South 0
Mason and Dixon'S line.
II Taft's Banquet Speech.
I'm the presence of Democrats an
% Republicans here at a non-partisal
= banquet expressing the welcome OF tn
y whole community it would neither b.
[ courteous nor appropriate for me t
- y ,n+n n ~ tJISn, y, dJS6l1ScIOD ~
Taft continued. II can only refer u
to the fact with qualification and con
q graduation that today the eXpresslo,
of any political view in the Souti
/ is possible without involving Soclal os
tracism or any of the penalties wit!
q which it might have been visited II
n earlier times. Ten years AVE mad
le a great difference in the attltud'
which the controlling people OF tn
g South occupy towards the North an
the government
= Causes of the Change.
The President-elect then summar
;zed the causes which had worked
and were effecting this change-th
Spanish war; the attitude of Mckln
lev his lovable character and tn
nrincipIes he stood for in his cam
paiens; the succession of Roosevelt
with his Georgia mother; n flnali'
the wonderful business development
of the South.
LII u 49,
fully the great advantage to tn
q country of having a Democratf
s party sufficiently powerful at times t
win the presidential elections and al
ways to put the Republican part.
n when in control, in fear of a possi
: bic, or probable. defeat. And so II
- he South no one can deny the al
vantage that will arise in local an
State governments when there IS
substantial and intelligent minorlt.
which may become a successful ma
Ct iority in punishment Of the abuse
- that are likely to grow out of the lon:
= continued and undiSputed control o
- one party. Added to that the un
&c certainty which may attend the re
suit of national elections in a Stat
is. certain to give it additional i'm
portance in the councils Of the Ma
q ton.
Il observe that among some proml
s nent of Congress there is
i disposition to charge me with an at