The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-05-21
MADE ADDRESS
At CHARLOTTE
REITERATED HIS FORMER STATE
MENTs CONCERNING SOUTH
ERN APPOINTMENTS.
Said He Would Endeavor to Appoint
Officials Who Were Satisfactory to
the Public-Rain lnterfered With
Exercises.

Charlotte. n. G., May 2O.-President
TAFT policy TO award the south. as
announced in the presidents speech
today commemorating the MecllIen-
burg declaration of independence. VIII
be to name as federal office holders
in all sections men best liked and
those fitted for the position President
Taft said the appointments would be
without regard to political facts and
dsclaimed any intention of winning
over the south for the republican
party.
In his speech. Mr. Taft said. II
never INDUCED such dreams. 1 do
believe the south is on the eve of
complete tolerance of opinion and
that there shall he a respect of power
by the intelligent fighting opposition
of my party in each state of the coun-
try"
Presidents Presence Lends Interest.
President Taft's presence in Char
lotte today lends notable interest to
the annual celebration of the signing
of the Mecklenburg declaration of
Independence, which. 1t is claimed,
was the first step toward liberty taken
by the American colonists The pres
idents participation marks the culmt-
nation of the three days celebration.
The Mecklenburg declaration long
has been the subject of stubborn con-
troYersy 1t is declared by its sup
porters to have antedated the famous
declaration Of July 4. 1916. and has
been denounced as a myth in diff
serences between tic apholdafs d! the
Mecklenburg document and rs fas
long have been considered irrecol ciia-
bic. il was with great elation, how
aver that the people OF North Care
Ina secured iL4 2ptance OF Presf
dent Taft to attend the festivities of
the closing day of tie celebration Of
1909
President Warmly Greeted.
The president, upon his arrival here,
shortly before II O'Clock, was met at
the railway station By an imposing
committee of citizens, and escorted
at once to the Selwyn hotel. AS tie
regular Southern railway train bear-
ing the presidents car crossed tlla
city limits, the presidential salute os
twenty -one guns was fired by tbs
Charlotte artillery.
Arriving at the hotel, the presidett
held a reception for one hour at
noon. With scores of Union and Coz
federate veterans for mis- escorts. ac-
companied by Mrs. Stonewali Jackson.
he proceeded to the reviewing stand
from which he witnessed the passing
OF probably the most notable parade
ever held in this city.
A storm broke out during the morn
ing and charged electric wire fall
ing about hundred yards from the
reviewing stand injured number of
people, but none seriously
Unique Parade.
The military escort to the president
during mis- stay in Charlotte consists
OF Troop + of the Eleventh United
states cavalry. battalion of Seven
teenth United States infantry and
Seventeenth infantry band. A de-
tachment Of regulars headed the mil
tary division of the parade.
Altogether, there were eight divis-
ions to the pageant as follows: Mill
tary, industrial, floral, colonial. eaues
TRAN. farmers, fraternal societies and
secret orders, automobiles and the fire
department. Large detachments of the
national guard of North and South
Carolina We're in line The Industrial.
colonial and floral divisions were made
up of handsomely decorated floats.
Over 200 farmers were In line or
on horseback, many accompanied by
their wives and children in colonial
costume.