The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-18
TAYLOR SAYS PARTY
 IS ON SOUND BASIS
Tennessee Conditions Better
 Than in Many Years
STALWARTS ARE UNITED
With House and Senate Democratic He Says the Great Old State Will Soon Reclaim Itself From
 the Recent Outcome

Speaking of political conditions in his home state. United States Senator Rob- ert l.. Taylor of Tennessee, who was re- gently defeated while trying to reclaim the state from the republicans, said the conditions were now excellent and that more had been won than was admitted by the opposition party. Senator Taylor was here last night for the purpose of delivering one of his noted lectures When he arrived in Birmingham and was occupying his room at the Florence hotel, he was overrun with former friends here who called to pay their respects and talk over old times with him. Senator Tay- Tor quickly remembered persons not seen before in many years, and recalled in- cidents told him by many prominent peo- pie here who knew him in the old days in Tennessee.
 Senator Taylor did not hesitate
 nient in talking politics. He gave tailed account to several friends struggle he made and the causes | led up to his taking hold of thir ll Tennessee and accepting the nomii e for governor. He pointed out tha a democrats at least elected the sostt
 
 sentatives, and said that with the two
 branches of the general assembly dem
 ocratic the organization would be main | tsined. He said that democracy was | upon the brink of a yawning precipice
 when he entered the fray and with .
 few faithful followers snatched the party back to terra firma
 1 ''The sweetest memory of the late elec- l ton to me is the fidelity of those brave
 souls who went down in defeat with
 me- said Senator Taylor we met the | double Hanks of the organized enemy with only three weeks of battle I went | home and looked a the situation. saw at glance that conditions were bad. We called a convention when the l democrats were fleeing. as if before the wrath of an approaching affliction. When | it met they told me that I must lead if | by running for governor. As anyone can tell the Senate was more to my liking. However, they insisted and I went in. In three weeks I made 99 speeches and split their solid phalanx into smither- | eens.
 | Tt is true that I was defeated, but if affairs now remain tranquil it will | be seen that old Tennessee has a dem | ocratic house and senate. With that we can hold democratic principles in line | At this moment democracy. as we have | learned to love and revere 1t, Is on | more solid founeation than in many years | in Tennessee. We gave the rally yell
 to the faithful and, believe me. the true l hearted Tennesseans answered the battle cry and came to the fore.
 | From this time on the democratic party will have a solid foundation upon which to work. And 1t cannot be doubt | ed that the ebb will change and wait into | the higher offices those who remember with an unblurred vision the truer ideals and principles of rock-ribbed democracy" Senator Taylor said he was pleased | beyond expression to be in Birmingham and was happy in the thought that the city had grown so solidly and well dur ing the past few years. He said he was very proud that the south possessed a place where progress was so evident ard hoped every good measure would be the inheritance of this city He spoke enthusiastically of the tidal wave that overturned the republican the vision was upon those of the other faith. He said the time would soon como in the business world when the demo- crats would be recognized as the true friends of every righteous undertaking and that from such would spring the greatest developments of this country. Senator Taylor was accompanied by an old friend, Judge John c. Eyster of De- catur, who has been with him in some of his most notable undertakings.