The Cairo bulletin., 1909-11-03
TAFT RECEIVED
WITH CHEERING
PRESIDENTS CAMPAIGN FOR
WINNING THE SOUTH" IN
FULL SWING.
NOT PLAYING POLITICS
In Speech at Columbus, Miss, Taft
Says South is as Close to Ad.
mlnistration as Any
Other Section.

Birmingham, Ala. NOV. 2sresi.
dent Tafts campaign sor winning
! the south to a c,oser un.Gn WITH the
, Estates of the north" was in full swing
| when he reached here tonight at
the various STOPS IN Mississippi. eul.
lminating at Columbus, tho od hone
|of Dickinson, the president called cut
cheers ty declarations that lis Wis t
was without political significance.
1T is not that ve want to make
iyou Republicans said the president
"or that we want to become Demo
icrats. We all hatc our views AMI
tastes. 1t is that ycd shall come to
/ believe that you are as near the
Iheart Of the central government. ais
aow administered. as any other peo-
lple in the union.
/ The rebel yell was heard al Colum.
lkus as the president spoke as 1t has
mot been heard in years. The town
was jammed with exeursionists. Near
lly every sentence of Taft's address
| from the stand on Main street was
nunctuated with cheers. Taft de
clared that his reception convinced
| him that the southern people were
lwilling to come more than ha'f way
lin encouragement of the sentiment to
Hiring the southern, northern and
western people closer together.
Dickinson, in speech at Columbus
declared that the president in the
lsouthern friendship hal no such
cheap, raltry purpose as gaining
| votes.
The president will be the guest Of
birmingham until O'Clock tomorrow
laftenoon. The entertainment began
tonight with an elaborate banquet
presded over by Senator Johnson
Taft was met at the station here
by the mayor and a committee Of citi.
lzens. The streets .eading TO the hotel
We're thronged Tomorrow the presi
dent will review parade and make
Ian address
The president spoke of marriage
Ia0a woman's suffrage when surround
ell at Columbus on the campus Of the
Mississippi Girls Industrial Institute
| by 500 pretty girls, who afterwards
helped serve the first barbecue of the
presidential tour Said he.
Il wish every woman In the world
was So situated that she should not
think it necessary for her to marry
| If she did not want to. The best
legacy left to a young man is a gool
education, good character by training
IN the family to good moral standards
and nothing else.
The same thing is true with re-
speech to the young woman. The great
Itrouble has been that we have not
given the woman fair show. We
Ihave not opened all the avenues to
livelihood they are quite as well able
to fiji, AMI in certain respects better
able to fill than we are,
r am not a rabid suffragst. am
not in favor Of suffrage for woman
until convinced that all women de-
sire it. When they desire it, | am
in favor of giving it to them. When
Ithey desire it, they will get it too.
But | believe one Of the advantages
Iof giving that kind of influence will
be more certain to open the avenr es
of self.support to them than hereto
tore has been done
! II will be glad that | will not have
lany property to leave to my two boys
but only good character and pride in
themselves and good education but
. for nv daughter ! am going To scrape
4 together as much as can to give her
, land as good an education as | can.
] $50 she will take in the lesson which
first sought to announce as the text
text of my discourse. that she may
Imarry only when she chooses and not
because of circumstance"
In his other address at Columbrs.
Taft said Il am glad to be in the
lefty of General Lee and especially
sorry not to be able TO talk TO him in
regard to the relations of the south.
because he represented the spirit
(which I would invoke on the part of
Ieyery southerner with respect to the
whole country,
I'm order to understand the south
ern people with respect to the war
tissues and their present position. one
Imust know that your hearts emotions
are broad enough 20 entertain loyalty
TO the issues OF the past, which yon
fought nobly to sustain, and entire
loyalty to the present government,
flor which you would he willing to lay
down your lives II occasion required.
ask you to uphold the hands OF the
administration that is not seeking
your votes. cherish your cordial re-
ception the more because you had 50
little to do toward putting me where
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