Show I TAfT GIVES HIS 1181 MESSA E TO TOn r n E SOUT CHEER WILDLY WHEN HE OUTLINES POLICY I I 4 Is Presented With a aToy aToy I Toy Billy Which Will Succeed the Teddy Bear 1 Atlanta Ga lan Jan The brain o otho of the tho new now south was vas gathered In the tho Atlanta Auditorium lust night when Taft raft the guest of or hon honor honor honor or at the chamber of oC commerce ban banquet banquet an electrified his hearers and en them with his message to the tho fouth which contained declarations far fai more welcome to this section than some sonic of oC those present had anticipated From the tumultuous cheering that tha greeted his words It is safe safo to say that no act of any president no dec declaration of oC any an president or of any has over met with such hearty henrt approval of oC the people of the south as Mr Tafts announcement touching the tho policy which he proposes to lo pursue in making o of oC officials in that section Frankly admitting that in many in instances instances stances S federal fedor l administrations have ha vo acted toward the south as to 0 an alien country or dependent territory Mr Ir Taft Tatt declared with emphasis that the thel keynote l of his policy pOC would be bo to treat trea treathe the lie south a as an Integral part of the country and to lo extend to It equal and exact justice in all matters When the declared that he proposed to select for fedora federal offices o in the south as well vell as in other sections of the country countr those whose character and reputation and standing in the tho community commend them to their fellow citizens as persons quail qualified fled fied to discharge their duties well and aud whose presence In Important positions will remove If it any such thing ts the sense of oC in the tho govern government ment Taunt which they represent the ban of leading lending citizens from every state south of Mason anc and DIxons line Jumped to their feet and for several minutes It was impossible for Taft to proceed p eOll Mr Taft was not only introduced to I possum and tatters a dish far famed fumed in the South since inco the days de do wall wali but bitt the banquet mark maric marked marked ed the birth of a new American toy toj to which bids fair to displace the far famed Teddy bear Billy Possum first lost suggested by Cartoonist Gregg Gregs of the th Atlanta Constitution The Phe first firs successors to the little bear bOar which the tho children of ot America have been won wont to play pIa with since the advent adent of oC Pros Pres President ident Roosevelt was presented to lo the tho and when the Taft smile met the Iho possum grin tho the apex of or the most brilliant and at tho the same time lime most unique banquet perhaps ever given a national figure fi ure was reached When the tho time for the serving o othe of the course of possum and Haters and Simmons beer was waR reached the orchestra screened by br fern and pot potted potted ted tell plants In the gallery gallory struck up the I strains of Sousas Georgia I Camp Meeting while down the tho cen con conler ler aisle and headed beaded directly for Judge raft Taft there came a waiter who fairly under tho the weight of o the lite choicest possum of the very choice one hundred dressed whole and prop properly erly erl garnished with rich golden goldon Geor Georgia Georgia Georgia gia yams rams and followed jy j y another walter waiter with a of ol o persimmon hoer boor b or hoerUp orUp Up to the speakers ers table marched tho the grinning amid an uproar of o laughter In which tho the president elect Joined until his face aco was flooded with color It Ii was at this juncture that President dent Chandler of the chamber of corn com merce presented the toy lOY possum with appropriate verso verse appended Mr Taft in referring to a letter he had received only yesterday from Irom Chicago warning him not only anI for lor your jour our sake salce and the but lor for Gods sake not to eat cat any possum and referring him him to a chapter in the tho I Iho ho Bible Mr Mi 11 Taft said saidI I guess I will have to say sa with Lowell in the tho papers when Governor Soar who was a candidate I Ifor for foi that office in Massachusetts was importuned not to do a cortan thing and an was referred to a certain chapter In tho Bible Biblo read It and anti replied Well theY thoy tit or dont know everything In Judo Julle Judea I enjoyed that course courso es especially I y Preceding Mr Ir Tafts speech prominent ent eat ministers and Jurists lent l nt their talent to the entertainment of tho the guest of honor There wore were songs and sermons Germans that were relics of o days lays all of oC which appeal appealed cd ed to the tho and antE caused causel Ms lila sides to shake shale with laughter When tho the baud band struck up America the audience arose as ns ono one man and with Judge Tafts bass voice leading there went swelling through inc uie banquet zoom room tho the rising notes notch of the national air mf Judge Tafts program for today In Includes Includes eludes an automobile ride about the tho an address to the students of ot the Georgia School of Technology and an address to tho the negroes at Big Dig Bethel Dothel church at noon for lor Athens aboard a special train where he will address the students of oC the University of Georgia returning to lo Atlanta to tonight tonight tonight night as the guest of tho the Capital City club clu |