The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-05-27
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SOUTH .
! =
is welded TO ITS IDOLS AND
/, CAN NOT BE WON. .,i.,.IIz
President Taft Chasing a Rainbow
In Endeavoring to; Break solid
South for the Republican Party.
(By James Cuibert Campbell.

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(By James Cuibert Campbell IN
Washington, D.. C., May 26A
When charaoterizing the devefS
ment of policies and progres&
President Taft's Observation-Disclosures
far as it has gone, one oftenlsssSs !
the expression that great ksSs;s -
move slowly" AS -compareh = !
swift pace to which we ,ha
years, become accustomed
feels that he has suddenly T6f
great gale into a dead calm 2ssIsa
mot1onless sea. Its long way back
to the fourth Of March, said one man
who appeared to have been keeping
pace with the progress of affairs
since the present administration as
sumed control. If, continued he.
there have been any great changes
or Importance or the DEVELOPMENT OF
new policies, they havn't been visit
ole to the naked eye. This view.
however, is not shared by all stu-
dents of political affairs, because
PRESIDENT Taft's administration has
certainly made progress; and to those
VINO Will lend careful eye, it will
be observed that, the apparent slow
ness of the present administration ia
perhaps noticed only because of the
swiftness of another it follows. Again
the Taft administration has gone~a
long way in the development OF poli-
cies. ,.,...
One of the most important mill
GIGS with which the present head ne
the nation, may be credited Ia that
with respect'to the south. President
-Iaft has lnaugurated a policy or
winning the south. In other words
,he desires to see the solid south =
broken up, and the establishment of
q great and powerful Republican,
party IN this section. He Is working
'hard to inject Republicanism into the
political arteries OF Dixie. To ac-
compl1sh this commensurate ;. tash
resident Taft, It may be said, Der
r, # this country knew the ouston,
.ol presidents, summing, the titfs or
name or rulers who have |preceded
them, President Taft when he came
INTO office might have, with proprie-
w. proclaimed Observation-Disclosures
End, because. with respect to bis
poiicles towards the south he seems
TO have gone back to that great ru1-
err.
winning the south, establisbina
hepWDl1canism in its political lif.
ooiiteratlng sectional feeling and ef-
racing race friction Is indeed a great
ana laudable cause and worthy NJ
those who undertake 1t, but in the
hsht or present conditions, II Is the
opinion Of many people in this land
mat the effort with its methods ia p
d task, and that President
1att Will be rewarded with as much
success In the end as was bis he
!oVed predecessor, President McKin-
ley. AN'N>'''-
president Taft is not appealing to
people OF the north, who have never
oeen known to boast of and adhere
elaVlshly to sectional sentiment or
sectional institutions. He Ia not ad-
dressing himself to portion of tho
country where ideas, customs and
hao1ts change rapidly. The great
crowds at Petersburg, Charlotte and
otner points in the south that, some
te" days ago, heard his mastery adj
4'eSs on what his southern policy Ia
were not those representing a section
VI the land where the commercia1
spir1t Is dominant, and where every
thlnS Is subordinate to a large ex-
tent to this idea of commerce. The
nouhta1ns the southern policies Of
Mr.. Taft must level before bIe
nope may be realized are: southern
sentiment which ia older and strong
Or than the government, and obeyed
"ore slavishly than it's laws; hostile
southern institutions and southern
tradition; deep seated sectioanl
naIred born out OF the death OF slav-
cry and baptised with the blood NJ
her sons, and perhaps highest Of all
tne south has her race prejudice and
the negro. There Is not one NJ
.pese elements which does not bitter
~ oppose policies which have been
credited to the present administra-
ZION. In fact, with a determined and
extraordinary people like those
upon whom these policies are expect
cd to operate, there is not one OF
these elements which does not seem
TO defy policies of Republicanism and
all 1T implies.
The ''bete noir" for both the Tay,
southern policy and the south ia the
colored man. There will hardly me
a great Republican party in the south
as long as Republication is broao
enough to include a colored man
with an atom of political rights" In
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