The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-24
ASKS DIXIE TO
 ASSIST TAFT Secretary of War Dick inson Speaks. E0s POLITICAL QUESTION General Grant Also Speaks At Ten
 nessee Fair. Cabinet Man Calls Upon south to wer~ With President for Return
 of Harme,y ana Pros-
 perity.

immense crowds turned out to oo non- or to the Secretary of War.
 This afternoon General Frederick D. Grant. who is the guest of the Fair. re- viewed a uniformed regiment of Con federate soldiers in front of the grand stand. himself appearing in fuH uni- form of general of the United states army. General Grant will return to Chicago tonight.
 dress at the fair this afternoon. Gen. eral Grant also made a few remarks and Colonel George w .Goethals. Chair man of the Panama Canal Commission. had something to say regarding the great American entei prise.
 Referring at length and Tn comph- mentary terms to President Taft, Sec retary of War Dickinson discussed the political situation throughout the south.
 President Taft" said MT. Dickinson. "has gone further than any Republt- can President to meet the wishes of the South in establishing policy lock- ing to the promotion of peace within her borders. In this he has not re- sponded to any demand either of his party or the people of the North. A leader of thought, knowing the con- dittons he periodically and courage ously does what he be lieves is best. trusting to results for his vindication. The great hoId he has upon the confi- dence of the country at least holds judgment in abeyance. If 1t does not at once gain entire approval. His vindication will depend mainly upon the wisdom. self control and conserva. ton manifested by the Southern people. It would be a calamity if his efforts should be nullified and his good will alienated. If a man of his character. position and patriotism fail, then 1t will be long before another will follow In his footsteps. No question of the South giving him political support is involved. The South can cooperate with him in his great work of con- ciliation and promoting peace and har- mony. and yet cast every one of its electoral votes against him if he should become candidate for reelection. am confident that no thought of win- hing its votes has influenced his course toward the South, and that even if he expected to become a candidate to suc- eeed himself he would, though conft- lent that the South would vote against him, do exactly what he as done. 'ieem- Ing 1t sufficient reward if he brings peace where discord prevailed, and establishes a sounder basis for dealing politically with e@conditions that af- Feet tAe relations between the races in the South"
 Mr. Dickinson spoke of the honesty, energetic application to public affairs. courage and patriotism. as characteris- tics of former President Grover Cleve- ! land, and declared that these same characteristics were manifest in every thing said and done by President Taft
 '.rhe country is richly blessed in having 8 chief executive of such high ideal and endowed with the courage and firmness to carry them out" he said.
 .The South is doubtly blessed" he continued. flor her sectional attitude was such that successful man of nar- row views, personal vanity. resentful mind. and pseudo-Patriotism that did not embrace the entire country might have been out of sympathy with her and repeIiant. if not actively Rntagonistic.
 president Taft has attained to his high office through a novitiate unsur- passed by any of his predecessors. As Bamual. even as a child began the training for the high place which he was to fill, so while youth the future father, breathed the atmosphere of large affairs. came into familiar con- tact with the great men of that day. and received the inspiration which urged him on to cultivate his talents and broaden his faculties for future stateamanship- His education. at one of the most democratic of our univer- stiles. was liberal He acquired in the contests at the bar self-control, initia- tive and aggressiveness. In the off, flee of Solicitor General he got broad knowledge of governmental affairs, national and international and before the Supreme Court. the great crucihle of final analysis. he received the forensic discipline that sharpens the taa- .frzo mind to find incontrovertible basic principles. His long experience as pre- siding judge in the Court of Appeals of the Sixth Circuit necessarily gave him & vast fund of information, not only of the law. but as to the practical af- fairs which constitute the life of the people His temperament and training make him eminently judicial. He knows the constitutional rights of the States and of the United States and respects their limitations"
 The judicial work of the President he declared, extending over Kentucky and Tennessee gave him intimate knowledge of their conditions and those that effect other Southern states should not be forgotten. he said, that while he was sympathetic with the South and the unfortunate conditions peculiar to 1t, he was a Republican and a Northern man. For that reason. 1t should not be expected that he would accept in its entirety the southern view. He had appreciated the extent of the Irritation that had come from appointing negroes to office in the South.
 "He understands," he added, sthat this is a broad. deep.seated race ques- tion that cannot be ignored or argued out of existence. and that for the peace of both races it is the part of wisdom that such appointments should not be made, and he has publicly declared this to be his policy and has carried it out He holds with his distin guished predecessor, who declared in his famous speech made In New York be- fore the Loyal Legion, that "the purity of the races must be maintained" While he is thus mitigating the diff culties of our situation, we should do our part to sustain him and make this burden of his office as easy to bear as the exigencies of the conditions will admit
 If the white people assert the right to govern, then the government should be one of fairness and justice, gov ernment of law and not of passion. The courts, and not mobs, should punish lawbreakers. Negroes should be protected in their property rights settled with justly, and governed by the constituted authorities. Those who established fha Comrnou vua alth oR Tan