Show TAFT AF ANI AlD THE rilE SOUTH Oklahoma Oklahoma CI City Times That Mr Taft TaC will ill ol make mak toiling Inroads upon the Solid Sold South Is 11 becoming more nore and moro more evident as tho the days das go by hy Within the past few tw years carR thero there has been an awakening in hi the South The typical Southerner of or antebellum days Is fast passing and In his place cornea the tho man of of advanced arl business methods rapid thinking and carl early action There I Is u a I new South springing up It I comes to o tako take alongside the tho rigorous North orth hen hen- n. n and tradition aro are b being supplanted b by modem modern modern mod mod- methods and aggressive ern em Improvement Tho The South has awakened al ened under a Republican administration The Democracy of ot the South is not the Democracy rac racy of or Bryan The Southerner of o today pays PUS more attention to hu business than he hc does docs to politics yet ct at the tho same fame time he resents being Ignored aa as a he has been b by the tho Bryan Dran party part Tile The Bryan party has ha never paid any an attention to the Sold Solid South That part of ot the tho United States has come to the concu Mon Ion that the on only wa way to get recognition o of Its Is commercial commercial com coin mercial enterprise Is through political ton lon and that recognition must come conlo through tho the Republican par party parly A committee of Virginians recently called caled upon Mr Ir Taft and gave savo him assurance that ho would carry carl that state as won well as Georgia and North orth Caro- Caro lina Ina Without l knowing no what assurance of or success s th tim the Virginians had to offer ofer to Judge Taft Tar there seems eem to be good indication that tho people of or the tho South arc are ready to break brcak awn away from Democracy at lent least t tho hoso o In tho the three states named in none nono of of which Bryan Is particularly popular Benjamin Harrison came within 1539 votes otes of of carrying Virginia VIrginia Cleveland had a majority of In Iii 1892 Bryans Bryan's Brans majority was 1934 In 1896 and ad 7 In 1900 while Parkers Parker's was wan as on a a. remarkably light vote Yole North Carolina gave n ga Bryan Uran a a. a majority of ot In 1896 and four tour years ears later wh when n the Democratic candidate for governor Io had a majority of or Parker had nearly nearby on a R l light h vote Bryan Blan ran behind the Georgia candidate for tor governor go twelve telve years ago and ant ono behind eight years a ago o. o The Te defeat of Governor Go Hoke Smith for or recently indicates that the Geor Georgians I ns are arc tired tred of ot radicals and might bo ho expected to got set into the Taft TaCt column if i the matter mater Is presented to them properly |