Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-13

Washington, Nov 12.-A greater opportunity to give the south feeling of ownership" in the government will be given the Woodrow Wilson admin istration than was accorded the pres ent republican regime, President Taft tonight told the United Daughters of the Confederacy, at the opening ses- sion of their annual convention here. Easier for Democrats than Republicans
 The president declared that "cir- cumstances have rendered it more diff ficult for a republican administration than for a democratic one to give our southern brothers and sisters the feel ing of close relationship and ownership in the government of the United States" Activity of sOutherners in official life consequent to democratic control of the government, he said, would give the south feeling of part nership in the conduct of the country's affairs that would do much toward eliminating sectional feeling.
 A great crowd of the Daughters gathered at the opening welcome ses- sion" of the convention to hear the president. Mrs. Marion Butler, presi- dent of the District of Columbia di- vision of the Daughters. presided.
 Sectional Line Disappearing.
 President Taft said the occasion that brought the Daughters together was not the mourning at the bier of a lost cause" but that they met to cele- brate the heroism, courage and sacri- flee of the men of the south. He declared north and south alike should rejoice in the common heritage of courage" left by the war and that while the greater horrors of the war which visited the south made it more difficult for the feeling of hostility to die out there than in the north, the sectional line was at last entirely dis appearing.
 South Has Not Had Full Share of
 Prosperity.
 Until within recent decades" the president said, prosperity has not shed her boon of comfort upon the south with so generous a hand as up- on the north. Hence those of us in the north who have been sometimes impatient at a little flash now and then of the old sectional antagonism, are unreasonable in our failure to al- low for these marked differences. For years after the war, the re- publican party, which had carried the | nation through the war to it's success Iul COncluSlOn, was m COntfOl or the administration of the government, and it was impossible for the southerners to escape the feeling that he was link ed in his allegiance to an allen na- ton.
 Good May Come of Democratic Ad- ministration.
 T think I speak for my immediate republican predecessors in office when I say they all labored to bring the sections more closely together l am sure that l can say that, so far as in me has lain. I have left nothing undone to reduce the sectional feeling and to make the divisions of this our country geographical only. But 1 am free to admit that circumstances have rem dered 1t more difficult for a republican | administration than for a democratic administration to give to our southern brothers and sisters the feeling of close relationship and ownership in the government of the United States. Therefore, in solving the mystery of that previdential dispensation which now brings on a democratic adminis- tration to succeed this, we must ad- init the good that will come to the whole country in a more confirmed sense of partnership in this govern ment which our brothers and sisters of the southland will enjoy in an | administration in which southern opinion will naturally have greater