Show MR R. R TAI TAFT IN IX TIlE THE SOUTH Some Democrats mn may feel Inclined to nn and disposed to lI lightsome Jest because of or tho the letters let let- to Candidate ato Taft raft from prominent Democrats of ot the South Those letters tell him they aro for tor him hm will vote for Cor him and give Sl their influence to the cause causo of or the tho Republican party In the present campaign campaign and und through h tho the election An Any gleeful jokes jokeR In Democratic papers touching touching touching touch touch- ing that incident are aro palpably in tho the nature of ot graveyard whistling It will trill take talco o very little defection defection tion In Southern states to carry them for the Republican Republican Re Re- pul publican ticket Old Virginia West est Virginia Virginia- the latter already a n. moru moro than doubtful state a 4 Georgia and Alabama and Texas are arc all 11 liable t to tobe tobe be bo lost to the tho Solid South And thero there Is ever every reason for tor the action of or th the Southerners If Bryan Is elected the tho the only rc result s so far as nl the they are arc affected in the national con consideration Idera tion is a u. continuance of tho the a old age old c-old Isolation o otheir ot of their section Its refusal al to t l take e a proper hand 1 In Inthe inthe the management of tho the nation In which they areso are ar arso so important a part It will be another Cleveland term In iii which tho Democracy quarrels and does doc nothing fulfills nono none pf pt Its promises and proves prove I only onh that Its leaders never Intended to keep th the i pledges made to the tho people Any time limo two or three of ot tho the Southern states slate Republican electors thc they have stepped stopped forward forward forward for for- ward an nn incalculable distance Whey They have havo put the past far behind them instead of oC hugging It to the their bosoms as so many of their leaders In the pas past have havo done as the llio Democracy of or the he North wants them to continuo continue doing In spite of or the handicap of or a bad had political condition condition con con- Northern men and mone money have In the pas past few tew years done clone much for Cor tho the development of ot tho the splendid resources of or the tho South That is recognized recognized and the tho people of or that section want tho the bettering process to continue It can continue thou though h sluggishly while tho thin South remains bound to 10 tradition It will be bo accelerated b by tho breaking break break- Ing tig of the fetish which has so lon long been worshipped there which has been so profitable to the tho Democracy Democracy Demo Demo- cracy of tho the Northern states Whatever Whatever- pro progress re s tho the South has gained has been In of or the tho Democratic party part When hen Southern men declare independence of that organization when tho they thoy enlist in the tho ranks ranIs of or a progressive J e an and capable and effective Republicanism they know the they wilt will bo be very greatly the gainers gainer And thc they are likely to do it this year Letters Loiters from rom long life-long Democrats of the South promising support of or tho the Republican national ticket arc are j significant They mean tho emancipation of or tho Ithe white while race there and its investment with powers such as have havo not been enjoyed since tho the civil war was ended They mean the elevation to power in inthe tho the nation of or tho the biggest men of n a mighty might section Instead of or their confinement within the tho smaller small r limits of their states AVe We 0 loot look for Cor the Solid South to bo be broken this year ear b by Taft Tart and Sherman |