The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1912-11-20
NORTH AND SOUTH
UNITE UNDER WILSON

President Taft Says the South will
Occupy more Prominent Position
in the Nation as Result Of the Will
son Victory.
Washington, Nov. 12.-Greater op-
portunity to give the South a feel
ing Of ownership" In the government
will be given the Woodrow Wilson ad-
ministration than was accorded the
present Republican regime, President
Confederacy at the opening session
of their annual conventio nhere to-
night.
The president declared that cir
cumstances have rendered 1t more diff
ficult for Republican administration
than for Democratic one to give our
Southern brothers and sisters the feel
ing Of close relationship and owner
ship in the government of the United
States"
Activity Of the Southerners in Of
fetal life consequent to Democratic
control Of the government, he said,
would give the South feeling of
partnership in the conduct OF the
country's affairs that would do much
toward eliminating sectional feeling.
President Taft said the occasion
that brought the daughters together
was not the mourning at the bier Of
lost cause" they met to celebrate
the heroism, courage and sacrifice of
the men Of the South. He declared
North and South alike should rejoice
In the common heritage" left by the
war. and that while the greater hor-
rors 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 disappearing.
Conditions Changed.
Until within recent decades" the
president said, prosperity has not
shed her boon of comfort upon the
South with so generous a hand as
upon the North. Hence those Of us in
impatient at a little flash now and
then OF the old sectional antagonism,
are unreasonably in our failure to ap-
prectate these marked differences.
For years after the war the Re
publican party which had carried the
nation through the war 20 its success
full conclusion was in control of the
administration of the government and
1t was impossible for the Southerner
to escape the feeling that he was
linked in his allegiance to an alien ma
ton and one with whose destiny he
found it difficult to identify himself
Time the Cure.
Time, however, cures much, and
after while there came Demo-
cratic administration of four years
and then another one of four years
Southerners We're called to federal Of
hes; they came to have more and
more influence in the halls of congress
and in the senate and the RESPONSE
Dility of the government brought with
1t sense of closer relationship.
Il speak for my Republican prede-
cessors in office when I say that they
all labored to bring the sections more
closely together. | am sure I can say
that so far as in me has lain, | have
left nothing undone to reduce the sec
tional feeling and TO make the di-
visions of our country geographical
only. But ] am free to admit that
circumstances have rendered it more
ditficult for Republican administra-
tion than for Democratic admins
tration to give to our Southern broth
ers and sisters the feeling of closer re-
lationship and ownership in the gov
ernment of the United States.
Good Will Come.
Thus in solving the mystery OF
that providential dispensation which
now brings on Democratic admins
tration to succeed this, we must admit
the good that will come to the whole
country in more conformed sense. of
partnership in this government which
our brothers and sisters of the South
land Will enjoy in an administration
iii which Southern opinion will ma
turally have greater influence and the
South greater proportionate repre-
sentation in the cabinet. in congress
and in other high official stations.