The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-11-02
| RAISE FOR
I HE SOU II
Taft Wiling to Accept
Jefferson Davis as
a Hero

Columbus. Miss, Nov. president
Taft received a joyous welcome here
! today when he came to visit the birth
| place OF Secretary of War Dickinson
and brought the secretary with him.
MI Taft held a reception at the old
| homo of General Stephen D. Lee. ot
the Confederate forces, as the guests
| OF the son of the house, Blewett Lee,
/, Later he made an address from
| stand erected on Main street and, be"
fore leaving at 230 p. m. for Biz
mingham. attended his first barbecue
| of the trip at the Girls Industrial
school The President took occasion
| here TO pay tribute. TO Secretary Dick
inson. In fact ever since he has en-
tered Mississippi. Mr.. Taft has lost
no opportunity TO give evidence OF
his high regard for the secretary of
war. In the course OF his midnight
speech at Jackson last night the
President said OF Secretary Dlckin.
J son.
| Now ! have got Mac Dickinson III
! the cabinet He did not come because
} he wanted to- He came because he
J knew why | wanted him. ! wanted
him because | wanted 10 give an
earnest example to the South of the
! truth OF my declaration that | was
anxious to bring you closer to tho
! government al Washington and l also
! took him because | wanted one OF the
ablest men of the country, | wanted
! that Panama canal built and knew II
he took hold of It, IL would so.
"One of our great heroes OF Missis-
slppi is Jefferson Davis and / am glad
! the administration at Washington has
wiped out the evidence of that eX'
treme partisan bitterness OF Cabin
John Bridge and that his name Is re-
stored there and / am glad because
| know and can testify from my eX-
perience in the South. that the same
| joy that they experienced at that act
on the part of the administration is
the Joy of a common country and
loyalty TO a common flag.
Il cannot pass from these walls
without testifying to the gratitude l
feel toward all of Mississippi for this
| most cordial welcome, | am glad TO
believe that you would cordially re-
ceive the President of the United
States under any circumstances, but |
am also glad to believe your reception
is In some degree warmer because
YOU believe | value that reception
most highly as an evidence that we
are coming closer and closer togeth'
er and that VIC are one country, with
the same ideals, the same aspirations
and the same determination to make
us all better and to raise the stand
ard of our citizenship beyond anything
that heretofore has been seen"
En- route to Columbus today the
President made brief car-end speeches
at Kosclusko, Ackerman, StarkVille
and West Point. At each place he
was greeted by an enthusiastic throng
the negroes on one Side OF the trach
and the whites on the other. At KOS
ciuSko, the President gave further ut
terance to his desire TO bring the peo
pic OF the South closer to the other
states He said:
u have been glad TO be here be
cause | think this state. as nearly as
any. represents the opinion and type
of the South and am anxious to come
as closely In contact with the South
ern people and explain to them as
sincerely and sympathetically as | car
my desire to unite them and brlng
them closer to all the other states.
1T is not that we want TO make yol
Republicans, OF that We want to be
come Democrats. We all have ou
views and our tastes in that regard
but 1t Is that We shall bring you and
that you shall come. TO believe tina
you are as near 10 the heart of thu
central government, as now admins
tered, as any other people in the un
ION"