The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-15
VISITORS TO TAFT
DEMOCRATS OF ANDERSON, s. C.
 ARE RECEIvED. =.
Presfdeat-eieet Delivers an Address te Them--Wiil Leave Today fer
 Atlauta--Mrn. Taft Goes East,


 Augusta, Ga, Jan. l4.--One hundred and eighty men. who said they were Democrats. citizens of Anderson. s. C., visited the President elect today.
 They left the radiance of the Taft smile. after delivering and receiving speech or dordiality, enthusiastic Tn the belief that their town is to be placed on the Southern itinerary Of Mr. Taft. when he travels next fall.
 Six men from Thomson, Ga. all of them Confederate Veterans. called about the cotton tax that was levied on several Southern States after the war and collected to the total of s6s.o0o.00o. The Supreme Court declared the tax unconstitutional but although Con- gress has been asked ever since to refund the money. 1t has not done so.
 Mir. Tafts interest in the matter was petitioned. one of the veterans in- citeutally remarked that he had been the husband of four wives. was the father of nineteen children, and had lost all count of his grandchildren. and great grandchildren, but just as q sample, he added, one of his grand chil- children was the father of sevens
 The negro Y. M. c. A. of this city will be addressed by Mir. Taft next Sunday afternoon. according to ar- engagements made today.
  tributed freely here and Atlanta to- morrow, when the President-eleet goes to that city by special train. and un- der escort of an~ enthusiastic commit tee. He has consented to do rear platform work" wherever the commit tee may care to stop the train. and 8 number of stops will be made, inciud- ing Thomson. Charlottesville, Greens .boro. Madison, Social Circle. Covington and Decatur. .e.
 Mrs. Taft left here for New Haven, Conn.,. today. She will join Mir. Taft either here on the 22nd or at Charles ton. s. C., when he goes to that city to embark for Panama.
 Every city, town. village and ham let on the New England coast wants to be the summer home of the Tafts, lanche of letters which Is coming here daily on the subject. MT. Taft said today that no negotiations had been opened with any one on the subject, and that the matter would not receive his attention for months.
 Mayor c. L. Sherard of Anderson was the spokesman for the hundred ter saying they came as Democrats, but also as loyal Americans. he de- clared:
 We believe that you will be Presi- dent of all our people, knowing no sectional difference and manifesting no spirit of partiality in your admin istratton of the nations affalrs."
 Mfr. Taft valued the expressions of oordiaiity, referred to the growing we are willing to let bygones be by zones .and to forget everything of the past that we ought to forget. :"
 He had no quarrel, because his call CTS were Democrats. remarking that under our form of Government, parties were necessary, machines" for mak- ing effective the public will. "All that we can hope for" he added, "all that we ought to ask. Is that the people of all sections make up their minds, in an independent way, and then vote for the principles they favor.''
 Asserting his position regarding the effectiveness of the Constitution to meet the needs Of a developing cipili- zation. Mir. Taft said:
 T know that sometimes the Consti- tuition seems to be in the way of di- our system. by which the central Gov ernment IS limited to certain things, and the State Governments carry on other things, sometimes seems to work against the rapid carrying out of some of the reforms. as for Instance, the conservation Of our natural resources, and. perhaps, the regulation of rail- roads, and the suppression of those abuses which have crept in with cur marvellous progress is the combina- ton of capital,
 And yet. gentlemen. that Constltu- tion, simple, clear and comprehensive, has in the past been capable of such fair conservatism as to meet in a mar vellous way. the developments and emergencies of our country, which could not have been anticipated by those who framed it, in any detail at all, and I am very certain that the same Constitution will meet the emer-- . gencies which may come on in the fu- ture.
 What we look to in the South is to have the support of those institutions from the people who believe in them, and are willing to maintain them, and to fight for them if 1t be necessary"