Show a 1 TAFTS TAFTS IRIDESCENT DREAM There Thera Is something amusing to one oneo onen n i who o knows the south In any serious I discussion of Mr r Tafts notion that he her heI I r 1 i can reclaim to Republicanism the states south of ot Mason Iason and DIxons line Une What I r r f 1 makes mak s it more ridiculous Is the Uon of ot the Taft propagandists that the theIs rj is a highly moral affair a af 1 I i f f sort of missionary effort in behalf of beIt be beT It T bighted heathen an altruistic endeavor l to t r save the political souls of some mil millions mili i 1 lions of ot people who have hae been wander wandering J 4 14 I ing I g in to darkness t t The south Is undoubtedly in need of ift In a political way It Is sun suit the thc custom down there to elect men to rep represent 1 t resent s nt them because they have ability t f Whether he th er millionaire or poor man the tho thor i r J I southern officeholder is almost Invariably invariably 4 bly bly JY a n man of ot ability of ot high Integrity 4 and 1 fine floe sense of oC responsibility i i Tho I Platts and De pews the t and Paynes and Dalzells have hav to so far fart farK f 1 t K f t f fj found nd no counterpart In the south l j 1 of oC Itself Is ample evidence that r I 1 1 f d lr the southern people ople are far behind the I times and need enlightenment r t 4 t If It we remember aright no southern s 1 nf t ting possibly New sew Orleans Orl 1 I f f T i in Is unique u has over ever offered for t f edification edl tho uplifting i 1 j t flo em h of or a Philadelphia aSan o n San an Francisco Francisco t l or oS i a New York In the wholesale wholesale rob robbery robi i i berg bery lter of o a municipality oh on 01 the modern modem 1 ri f j plan It Is plain that the titles of oC the he 1 f 1 south need instruction and tha the the Introduction of a few Republicans say sa f from tho the home Cincin Cincinnati 1 y nati would do much toward giving r lf Il 1 then them standing glancing in the th eyes ores of or the tho Taft ii f missionaries l 1 t f Still further proof pro f of ot the uncivilized od j s ih status of the south is the fact that a aro ratan ro maa n who wh betrays betT I his Ills constituents ji gals bleats als from tho the public is actually ln r rt rI re regarded t I with contempt and and ostracised I I socially To one familiar with with north northern a I ern rn methods this is enough of o of itself to toy y show how that the southern standard Stamford is anti antiquated t a quoted a relic of the dark ages aes when f t s public public office was a public trust to be administered as such I Indeed the south couth is so benighted that ive ie e doubt whether tho the Taft program t willever ever get beyond the highly honor honorable It Itt t able gentlemen who represent the Re Republican Rep Ret ReI t I publican p party part there thore and deliver quad quadi i r for a consideration of ot course j the colored delegates to national con eon conventions L q v Miens t Possibly also the movement I may lay Include those thol e New England En land phil who have moved moed their cot cott t n mill pill machinery Into the south so 10 thO may have hac the blessings of child ti labor laVor and escape factory laws which j protect prot et In dangerous oo supa hour Beyond those these there thero will be b no Republican south so EO long as New Eng England Enga a land and t fe solidly Republican and the I privilege I ge of oC plundering tho the people by b bJ government J favor faor is limited to tho the pro profited prop prot p t t d interests of ot tho the north affiliated V t h lt hj h ri lH Mississippi 01 o Instance e i tote iOta the Republican ticket any Rny more than 2 Iowa or Pennsylvania should go goU Democratic U What Is there more moret t solid about Alabama ami and Georgia I C than qian there Is about Vermont and New I Hampshire What hs h s the Republican party rt ever done in to legislative or t or executive 1 fi f t tive tle action that has been in tho the least I tJ i friendly r rt to the south Muth or Its Us Interests l Of f all aU the iridescent dreams that Pier ever ev r deluded a fat man in his fi Tafts vision of a Republican south ik B the most extravagant has the least I foundation in historical probability He Het Hei t i even get the negroes ne s or of Atlanta t to agree among themselves on a pro prot t tai p in which he was to appear and had d to abandon the Idea of oC addressing t I much less land enough white men mento menY ment Y to t torm Corm even een a respectable minority party would tand stand for Cor anything nn r r 1 but the hope of oC office and a life Ute of case 4 at a government gov expense I |